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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!
Black Ops Zombies games.... at least until I found out every game has very well known hacks that allow for remote code execution of your PC. Yikes! Not touching those games anymore sadly
Nostalgia helps, but I guess any Mario or even a Street Fighter would work on my end. Easy to pick, nothing to remember really. I bought an arcade cab recently with Batocera, and that’s the perfect solution to have a good moment (especially with my kids).
A great deal of SNES games do this for me. Super Mario RPG, Mega Man X, Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2, Chrono Trigger, even the Mario All-Star games to a point. It's all likely because it's such a great system and developers really hit their stride with what they could do with 16-bit gaming on that console.
Chrono Trigger was the first game I owned and to this day triggers crazy strong nostalgia in me.
I have had a rough week, so I bought poly bridge 3. In 2 days I have over 6 hours, which for me is a lot!
There is something about this chill guitar music in the background that just keeps me going, trying to build the most efficient bridge.
I play Minecraft almost exclusively in creative, just building or terraforming. There's something really contemplative about it, and man is it pretty sometimes. I just turn on a podcast or something and make something beautiful.
Vintage Story.
Its basically what minecraft survival mode could have been if they went in a slower paced and realism inspired direction.
Its very relaxing to hammer out some tools, make some clay pottery, liaten to your windmill grind away at some grain, etc.
Wow! This sounds incredible, and just what I'm looking for!! Thanks so much, I'm going to have to give this a look.
Football Manager is weirdly comforting to me, there's just something about losing hours upon hours to what is really just a very good spreadsheet.
For Me, Minecraft and Diablo
Minecraft - creative mode is like so therapeutic, you just create and create and create, then also the adventure mode is so fun because you can just roam and roam and be surprised at what you find. there is no goal really aside from staying alive, so there is no stress whatsoever (if you disregard the endgame goal).
Diablo, - like Minecraft adventure mode. If you skip the campaign, there is literally no goal, you can just roam and roam and smash enemies, and you can even lower the difficulty so you can smash those enemies HARD!, It's just so satisfying, and then you get surprise loot as a side benefit.
For me it's Tribes 2. I can spend hours bouncing around with bots on some old favorite maps, and there's something weirdly serene about being able to just leave the map on a grav cycle and keep going because the terrain repeats.
I could (and have) spent hours in Valhiem just noodling around surviving as a Viking