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One more vote for the original Doom, running in a modern engine with some of the colossal WADs released over the years.
It loads instantly, gets you fighting in no time. You know the rules, yet you still get surprised by one of these guys with a machine gun.
Compare that to a modern game, where you have to wait for it to update, compile shaders, the studio logo video, the proprietary launcher and the main menu before you are allowed to do anything.
Binding of Issac
OR
Hades
Any Fromsoft Soulsborne.
Unlike a Jedi, my anger doesn't lead to suffering and death. It leads to a zen-like flow state. Which I suppose does still lead to suffering and death for the enemies in the game... 🤔
World of Warcraft Classic and Stardew Valley.
Half-Life 2 and the Bungie era Halo games. I normally replay them all at least once a year. Steam workshop support for both of them has also been great.
Balatro
So easy to get a round or two in, on the couch, isn't it? Can be picked up and put down at a moment's notice, too. Not really a "casual" game as you get up in the stakes, but so damn good.
Oh shoot i lost my 45min run, time to queue up another!
Hotline Miami, specifically 1 but also 2 every now and then. Not sure if there's been a 6 month period of my life within the past decade where I didn't boot it up at least once
Minecraft.
If I'm feeling particularly antisocial I'll play Angband or Umoria.
Creaper world. I like putting it on random and listening to audiobooks. It's great for destress.
Dark Souls 3.
The Binding of Isaac. I've been playing it off and on for about a decade. Something about it just lets me zone out and forget the world while I play.
I don't think I really do comfort games...I'm very much a "I'm done with this, on to the next thing" person when it comes to games. But maybe vampire survivors or FTL. Or JRPGs as a comfort genre.
SkiFree
Factorio, GregTech: New Horizons, Oxygen Not Included, RimWorld and lately Obenseuer and Vintage Story
Anno 1800 👍
Sudoku, Picross, and the solitaire from Shenzhen IO
3rd gen Pokémon, but it only works in the spring
Contra, Mario 3, and Planetary Annihilation.
The common thread seems to be one you have the basics and have gotten past the ego-based need to "accomplish" something like beating the game, it becomes more about enjoying the process, regardless of outcome.
Maybe not a bad idea in general.
Snowrunner. Similar concept, much slower.
I second that, sat me the goal to 100 percent that game.... With seasons.. With about half an hour playtime a week...
So i am finished when i am retiring
Ha! You’re not wrong there. 400 hours in and I’m up to Ursk.
Helldivers 2, difficultly 4. Gonna roam around and shoot some bugs.
Steam World Dig 2 and The Wandering Village
Rimworld with the difficulty turned way down. And lately, running shipping missions in Endless Sky.
Warframe, doing low-mid level stuff and chill stuff like syndicate quests, fishing, mining etc. And then it's my non-comfort game too, with many of the other things. And then it's everything else too...
I play it too much, but I'm having a great time so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Monkey Island 1 to 4.
Victoria 3. Start as a small nation, out-compete your neighbours. Sell cars to the french. Profit.
Splatoon
Rocket League, believe it or not. It's one of the more toxic games out there, and the amount of bugs is staggering at this point, known shit too. But I keep playing, hours every week. Been doing so for ten years now, can't stop.
The Guardian Legend, for the nes, played on my pc using fceux because my preferred controller is a keyboard.
if I'm feeling bad, it makes me feel ok.
For a while it was ets2/ats, but now it's usually BeamNG because I can just go around doing nothing and stop whenever I want instead of feeling like I have to finish the job
Slay the Spire, on ascension 20, I lose most runs... I think I enjoy torturing myself
You're better than I for even getting that high up. I gave up somewhere around A7. Now, I enjoy watching streamers play StS, but almost never play it anymore, myself.
Stellaris
Elden Ring. Somehow failing my way forward helps. Also, going back and slaughtering creatures that used to one shot me
Id say Long Drive. It's fun to drive and listen to the radio, find weird stuff, and laugh at the hilarious glitches
Mining on a planet/moon in Star Citizen. Very chill, you get some beautiful views and monkey brain can see balance go up.
Am I allowed to have more than one?
The games I go back to when I want to just have some peace of mind would be Rimworld and Crusader Kings 2 (specifically the Game of Thrones mod).
beamNG.
There is no sadness. Only smashed cars and bent metal.
Alto's Odyssey with youtube on my TV, or No Man's Sky with youtube on my phone
Lawn mowing simulator.
