I know studies take a lot of time and often don’t leave much freetime, but maybe it’s still worth to try an online TTRPG platform with your group? I am playing regularly with a group on a selfhosted Foundry TTRPG server and also on Roll20. It works well and we’re sometimes even on different continents.
Anyway, I wish you the best luck, either with the same or with another group :D
I looked at the picture and thought for a straight minute that this is a tiger… Like, photographed from further away