"Cool.  I have Shinies and Yours, Weeper as things that stand out in this genre?  Ooh, and Excelsior is a pretty good co-op co-ord game, if the puzzles don't pan out; I wasn't thinking of it because it's kind of neither puzzles nor party."

"I guess based solely on the titles I am most curious about what the heck Yours, Weeper could be about?"

"Well, first off, do you have a game called Minesweeper where you're from?"

"- ah, yes, I get the idea now."

"It's funky, though!  You like, play a run of games until you lose, and you collect a bunch of power-ups along the way that make this easier, like, a really common early one is one that doesn't let your first blind click hit a bomb, if it would, it just flags them until you find a piece of normal ground.  And a later one is like an EMP that deactivates all the bombs within a certain radius, but it has to be your last move on a field otherwise you instantly lose, because it like, shakes the ground.  And the art is really nice; the animations are all really swooshy, and there are like, characters, with honestly pretty good plot.  ....I have some qualms with some of the plot but like.  Overall."

"Co-op minesweeper with plot. Where does the co-op part come in?"

"It's not actually supposed to be co-op but it's not timed - or like, there's an IGT for speedrunners but you don't have to pay attention to it - but I lose most of my runs to carelessness so I think it benefits from like, having someone to discuss moves with."

"Huh. Worth a try."

Setup setup setup.  "Not carelessness carelessness - okay sometimes carelessness carelessness - but like, not being super patient about taking ten minutes to think out all the implications of a single move, y'know?  For multiple moves in a row.  I don't have time for that!  Except for this week when I definitely definitely have time for that."

"A fact which I appreciate."

"Mhm!  I mean, thank my uncle."  Her laptop is now projecting to the TV as a second screen.  Vwoop here's the game.  "Do you want a new save file or do you think you won't be able to pay attention to the plot anyway?"

"I think I can probably pay attention to the plot if you're explaining it to me, I won't be able to absorb it direct."

"Does that count me reading the lines or do you need, like, summaries?"

"I think reading the lines will work?"