To answer my own question, I haven’t played all the games yet, and I’m biased towards parser games, but I loved To Sea In A Sieve and I think it’s a contender for winner. Quirky writing (which seems to be a popular trait among past winners), strong setting, and challenging puzzles. Only possible downside is that the puzzles might be a little too challenging? 🤔

I accidentally lost my progress in Assembly and haven’t gotten up to replaying, but what I saw was super promising too.

Python. It’s the only one I know :(

I’ve been trying to learn C# too but object-oriented programming just slides right off my smooth brain lol.