Morels: The Hunt 2, an intensely chill game about gathering mushrooms and taking pictures of animals, is my unexpected new obsession

To put it politely, I was a little dubious when I received an email for the upcoming launch of Morels: The Hunt 2. A game about hunting... mushrooms? Seriously? And a sequel at that, indicating that somebody had done this once already and then decided for some reason it was worth making another one? Really?

But I was also curious—the whole premise was so bizarre that I couldn't help myself—and I quickly discovered that not only is Morels: The Hunt 2 not a joke, it's actually pretty damn good.