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I recently got a Steamdeck and was wondering if anyone had any recommendations of games that take almost 0 brainpower to play so that I can focus on listening to audiobooks.

For me that means no dialogue and no text to read. Games that have worked for me so far are:

  • Rocket League (difficult to play on Steamdeck)
  • Vampire Survivors (once I learned what each item does)
  • Peggle

Games that I've had trouble with include

  • Sifu
  • Brotato (gotta read to learn the items)
  • Factorio
  • Baba is You

Games I have yet to really try:

  • Elite Dangerous
  • Elden Ring
  • Dorf Romantik (this is promising)
  • Powerwash Simulator (also promising)
  • RollerDrome
  • Halo: MCC online (is Halo 3 online viable on steamdeck?)
  • Risk of Rain 2
  • Hades

Anyone have any suggestions? I'm running out of ideas and may end up just forgoing this hole idea in favor of keeping gaming and books separate

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Elite Dangerous is an excellent choice for any audiobook or show, especially if you're exploring the black or doing trade loops.

I completed a few anime shows on my way to the galactic center.

[–] wirelesswire@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

No Man's Sky would be good for the same reasons.

[–] vpzom@dev.narwhal.city 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

maybe one of the Truck Simulators?

[–] Stampela@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Seconded. Between American Truck Simulator and Snowrunner I went through… I think Star Trek Voyager, Charmed and unavoidably something else too. Both games run well on the Deck (ATS has a Linux version: pick the Windows one, it’s far more optimized)

Edit: and Forza Horizon! Can’t forget that.

[–] wirelesswire@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago

Minecraft or any number of the farming/life sim games out there. I've dug countless tunnels in Minecraft while listening to various things.

[–] QuantumEyetanglement@lemdro.id 6 points 2 months ago

No man's sky might be good for this!

[–] treeofnik@discuss.online 6 points 2 months ago

Definitely farming simulator or euro truck simulator.

[–] Antagnostic@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Satisfactory with animal aggro turned off.

Viscera Cleanup Detail

[–] dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Exo one
POOLS

Basically anything that's just exploration and atmospheric will do.

[–] jwiggler@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Hell yeah. Exo one was kinda what I had in mind, something with stupidly simple mechanics. But I am definitely intrigued by POOLS. Looks spooky. Thanks!

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago
[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago
[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 3 points 2 months ago

I was going to say Vampire Survivors but looks like you’ve already mentioned that.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2420510/HoloCure__Save_the_Fans/ - more Vampire Survivors (Dare I say better.)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1535560/Farmer_Against_Potatoes_Idle/ - I apologize in advanced if you get hooked on this.

Both are free.

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

For me it's definitely Viscera Cleanup Detail. Super chill and satisfying cleaning game that I often boot up when I just want to shoot the shit with someone. There's also quite a few custom maps after you get through the official ones.

Also Cities Skylines (the first one). Sometimes I just spend a couple hours watching my trains go around with a first person vehicle mod while I watch videos.

[–] jay@mbin.zerojay.com 3 points 2 months ago

I'm kind of mindlessly grinding levels in the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters right now.

[–] capably8341@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Admittedly, some of the games I'm about to mention take time to get good enough at to turn your brain off, but here's some of my favorites for listening to audiobooks.

Bloons TD6

Any roguelite - currently I'm loving balatro and spelunky 2

Backpack battles

Tetris Effect

Mario sports games

Mini Metro

Kingdom

In general, I find it helpful to tell yourself that it's totally okay to "lose." When you are listening to an audiobook, you should be spending most of your attention on that. You don't need to take the game seriously.

[–] forrgott@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Suzy Cube - it's a 3d platformer, to me kinda has Super Mario 3d Land/World vibes

[–] santo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I’m very bad at multitasking but thanks for the recommendations! I wish we had Peggle 2 on Steam, that actually sounds great to play listening to something.

[–] black_lugia@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Voices of the void

a lone scientist in a satelite array scanning for signals, processing them, repairing the servers, sending codes, trying to maintain a sleep schedule. Scientist things.

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Games that I actually played while listening to an audiobook:

Farming Simulator, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, Minecraft

Games that I wouldn't recommend based on my experience:

Civilisation, Portal and any game that you're not familiar with

[–] the16bitgamer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate, while I love the games music, it’s not necessary since it’s a tower defence game.

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I do this with massive open Ubisoft worlds like Ghost Recon and Far Cry. In-between missions and story stuff is far too much crap to clear out and do, if you like covering every square inch.

[–] solberg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

GTA V/Online. Just drive around

[–] Rakenclaw@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

graphicaudio.net has great full cast audio productions of book novels and comic books.

[–] Elkenders@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

I'm doing this with TOTK at the moment but it does mean I'm kind of ignoring the story aspects.