With gaming often bringing me into a really depressive headspace sometimes with how the markets are developing, whats a game you can always go to and just be lost in, or just be happy with?
Personally i would go for advance wars 1 and 2 on the gba (there is no remake and never will be)
the artstyle, the music, the game-play is just simple, yet effective, a sublime experience of very fun times.
Whats yours?
Depends on my mood, Stardew Valley is high on my list if I need a calm game to relax. Hotline Miami 1 & 2 if I need to get all my anger out, and Racing Sims like Assetto Corsa and iRacing for if I want to clear my mind driving cool cars around.
I saw Hotline Miami at a glance (before reading) and though “good lord who would find that comforting.”
Glad you use it for anger relief instead, that makes so much more sense lol
I mean not just that, there is something to it to just letting yourself be driven my the music, ripping a floor full of enemies apart.
Of course the right answer will alway be Roller Coaster Tycoon! Combined with this: https://openrct2.org/ … calm and peaceful bliss.
The Way of the Hunter and theHunter: Call of the Wild. Starting a podcast and then slowly walk through beautiful nature and taking in the ambience. Or free roam in Firewatch. Next best to actually going outside 🙃.
Then Sailwind (sailing around delivering cargo with navigation as challenge). Also, Call of the Wild: The Angler and Fishing: North Atlantic.
Lake is also a beautiful game — delivering packages and enjoying the story.
I think you get the theme 🙃.
The good old Flight Simulators (MSFS 2020, X-Plane, DCS World) — problem here is to first get use to the many keys again after a longer break.
Surprised to be the first one to name it: Europa Universalis 4. Nothing better than to paint the map listening to either the EU4 soundtracks or your playlists.
For me it’s Stardew Valley, Hollow Knight and Rollercoaster 1. Just building up my farm and getting to know every NPC in stardew is fun and I haven’t played a game that let me feel progress and level ups as much as this game. Hollow knight is just so chill, the music is awesome and even though the setting seems depressing it spark so much hope for me with every new NPC. And Rollercoaster is just the dream of a child building an amusement park.
super Mario galaxy for sure
When I was very young I had something wrong with my nose and I couldn’t breathe so I had to get surgery
When I left the hospital my parents said I could get a game to play while I couldn’t go to school for a week and I chose super Mario galaxy
I played the shit out of that game and it just has such a calming positive vibe, like everything is gonna be ok
That game is a part of me, I love it so much
… that or left 4 dead 2
Oh yes! SMG was the game we bought the day we bought our Wii back then and it is a masterpiece. It is also the only Mario Game I ever “finished” (all Stars with Mario, not Luigi tough). We loved everything in this game. The Music, Level Design, Controls… and whenever we thought that we have seen all, they came up with a new game mechanic that surprised us and was super fun. It was truly a fantastic and memorable experience.
My personal ones:
- Euro Truck Simulator 2, with some heavy country music blasting on the radio
- Gnome Mahjongg
- Dorfromantik
- On my arcade machine lately VS Dr Mario and Tapper
Dorfromantik is great, I need to get back to it!
Deep Rock Galactic and (believe it or not) Crusader Kings
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Minecraft
I have several comfort games to put my mind at ease sometimes.
At least once a year it is Skyrim with mods to improve the scenery.
But I love playing the Atelier series too. Crafting and optimizing stuff in these games is great.
And then there are puzzle games like Baba is You where I often just close the game and think about solving the problems for a long time. Helps to keep your mind occupied.
I recently heard that a Skyrim was a comfy game and I’m one to agree. Now I haven’t picked up the game in months, but I know I can go back and pick it up again knowing that I’ll be able to get lost in the world of the Dragonborn.
Another one for me is Stardew Valley, and I’ve also started to play Veloren bit which could also go up there as a cozy game.
Veloren looks really nice, never heard of it before.
Over the past years I’ve played a lot of relaxing indie- and open source games. The ones that really stuck with me were Eqilinox (Steam), Endless Sky (homepage, open source) and Veloren (homepage, open source).
Bonus game which just came to my mind: Slime Rancher (Steam) was a really fun, too!
Slime Rancher is great. My 4 year old loves it, Slime Rancher 2 is out on early access and is just as great.
Ooh, I didn’t even know about Slime Rancher 2, thanks for the tip!
I’ve never tried Veloren, is it pretty enjoyable to play as it is now?
It has developed a LOT during the past 1 or 2 years, to the point that you can easily spend hundreds even thousands of hours in this game without it getting boring. Veloren is slowly becoming one of my favourite games of all time. So… yeah, it is. Be aware that it is still an alpha though and the learning courve is quite steep. But you can always get help on the Veloren Discord Server.
XCOM 2 on the lowest difficulty. Sacrilege, I know, but there’s just no better feeling than waltzing through some aliens with my whole squad intact at the end while feeling like a tactical genius. And even the weird Chimera Squad is just fun at times for a bit of a changeup.
I am taking this as my permission to play on rookie!
You play however is the most fun to you! Gaming can become so much more fun when you realize that different difficulty levels are there to serve you and your enjoyment of the game, not the other way around!
Play however you want my dude, as long as you have fun
That’s the spirit!
I’m playing The Big Con at the moment and it’s loads of fun! I love the quirky graphics and witty humor.
My classic go-to is The Witcher 3 - honestly I beat this game like 4 times at least. The story (apart from the main quest which is a bit lacking to me) is absolutely amazing. The music, setup and dialogues really help you to sink in the world.
Oh! And GTA San Andreas - always a blast!
Never heard about The Big Con. What’s it about?
Puzzle adventure game heavily relying on the plot so I won’t be spoiling anything. But it’s on Gamepass, it’s pretty short - definitely recommend for like a chill couple of summer days
Sounds interesting. Thanks for your reply.
Final Fantasy 15 in the beginning for the bro-adtrip and RDR2
