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?
- Forcide ( @forcide@lemmit.xyz ) 33•11 months ago
I haven’t seen anyone mentioning this gem:
Vampire Survivors
- paorzz ( @paorzz@lemmy.world ) 29•11 months ago
Minecraft. It’s just a nice game to get lost in.
- simonthefoxsays ( @simonthefoxsays@sh.itjust.works ) 24•11 months ago
Outer wilds. The music is so pretty, and going back to it after you’ve explored it all feels like being on your childhood playground again. Sometimes now I just go out into space and watch how the planets move.
- kamin ( @kamin@lemmy.kghorvath.com ) 22•11 months ago
OpenTTD is my happy space. It’s relaxing to just hop in and start building some railroads.
- strudel6242 ( @strudel6242@beehaw.org ) 21•11 months ago
Bloons TD 6. Just so incredibly addicting, and there’s depth to the different monkeys and how they interact, especially when you think about all the upgrades.
- Fox ( @FoxFairline@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 20•11 months ago
It is still Guild Wars 2 for me.
It is very chill to play and only explore and it also has more challenging content if i feel like it. Best MMO out there. At least for me personally.
If anyone can show me the way to a guild wars 2 community here i would be grateful btw.
- _finger_ ( @_finger_@lemmy.world ) 18•11 months ago
Star Wars: Racer - I know every track by heart at this point, have it on my Switch and still play quite a bit. Amazing flow state game.
Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 - absolute classic and the nostalgia I get from playing is unmatched
Age of Empires 2 - the music is just muah
KotoR - Best Star Wars game ever made next to Dark Forces 2 and Jedi Outcast
- CybrRunnr ( @CybrRunnr@lemmy.ml ) 17•11 months ago
Stardew Valley is my go-to. I found Firewatch really easy to get lost in too.
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) 17•11 months ago
Try not to have an overly rosy retrospection about this. There were plenty of crappy, cash-grabby games in decades past. We just don’t remember them because they were crappy, cash-grabby, and not worth remembering. They hadn’t invented microtransactions yet, but that’s just one more flavor of crappiness.
- UnderlyingLogic ( @UnderlyingLogic@beehaw.org ) 17•11 months ago
Stardew Valley is amazing for this. Minecraft was it for years and years, but Stardew is just like a nice hug. I adore it.
Hogwarts Legacy has also fallen into this category for me now.
- lckdscl [they/them] ( @lckdscl@whiskers.bim.boats ) English16•11 months ago
Stardew Valley comes to mind right away, but I think it applies to all titles after you get the hang of it, with the exception of heavily RNG-based games like Risk of Rain 2, Hades, Dead Cells where you have to be alert almost all the time. Currently I’m enjoying playing Red Dead Redemption 2. Definitely a comfort game just riding your horse around.
- RedditRefugeeTom ( @RedditRefugeeTom@lemmy.world ) 16•11 months ago
Anyone of my simulation/management games. Whether it’s running a hospital, creating an auto manufacturing assembly line or helping some brave adventurers find oxygen I’m always more at peace with a single player goal driven experience.
- Wingy ( @Wingy@lemmy.ml ) 15•11 months ago
Portal. I’ve played through it enough times that I can complete it in a little under 20 minutes. I’m not very good at games but there are a lot of fun and easy tricks to run through it quickly. Playing it a bunch of times is relaxing and fun for me.
- themagicteeth ( @themagicteeth@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 14•11 months ago
Power wash simulator. Feels good to clean.
- overload ( @overload@sopuli.xyz ) 14•11 months ago
Im gonna be “that guy” and say dark souls 1. Subsequent playthroughs of the game are surprisingly relaxing, when you know where everything is and you’re just putting together a build and steamrolling bosses.