Marvel Puzzle Quest Might Just Be My Forever Game

If there's a bright side to be wrung out of this year's Thanksgiving holiday weekend, it's that four days of enforced solitude have never met a better companion than two brand-new video game consoles. On the PlayStation 5, I continued my exploits as Miles Morales, and my wife and I got some co-op time with Sackboy, the newest title in the Little Big Planet franchise; on the Xbox Series X, I dove into Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War's campaign. It was an endless sensory buffet of ray-tracing, 4K quality, new controller smell, and minimal load times--with no lines, no distractions, and no sneeze guard necessary. Yet, even with this massive digital cornucopia at my fingertips, why did I still spend so much goddamn time playing a free match-3 game on my phone? Here's the truth of it: Since first downloading it 466 days ago, there's nothing I've played more, or enjoyed more, than Marvel Puzzle Quest.