What game do you play to just chill?

Nowadays I find a lot of games feel like too much work and/or anxiety when I just want to relax for like, 30 minutes to an hour after a long day. On the other hand, the games specifically designed to help you unwind just feel boring imo.

In the past I’ve felt like Outer Wilds scratched this itch, cause the whole experience was engaging but generally relaxed. There was a mystery that kept me hooked and the exploration and movement was fun in and of itself. I also felt like Subnautica filled this role since it was very much at my own pace, with anxiety producing portions which could for the most part be avoided or minimized, and also there was a clear objective to fulfill, get off the planet.

So what games do you play when you just wanna relax?

hitagi,

RimWorld. It’s so fun watching your colonists at work, peacefully farming, and suddenly one of them gets hit by a chunk of steel followed by a hundred bear raid.

Very relaxing.

HappycamperNZ,

War crime simulator is apparently quite relaxing.

ShitOnABrick,
@ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world avatar

What’s not relaxing about war crimes and organ harvesting

HappycamperNZ,

You forgot drug dealing and slavery

ShitOnABrick,
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Ah sounds like a soild bit of fun with the lads

HappycamperNZ,

Its not multi-player:(

ShitOnABrick,
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Isn’t there a mutitplayer mod in development

needthosepylons, (edited )
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Yes, and provided you look at the mod compatibility sheet, it’s a blast!

ShitOnABrick,
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If I ever get rimworld I will be sure to give it ago then it’s been in my wishlist for a while now

MurphysPaw,

You can also play in builder mode where there are no raids (or very little challenge to them i cant remember exactly)

jacktherippah,

Good ol’ vanilla survival Minecraft. Very fun with friends.

ShitOnABrick,
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I miss old. Old vanilla minecraft on the xbox 360 some Good memories

TotallyNotAMurderer, (edited )

BeamNG

Car/truck driving simulator with the best crash physics you’ll ever see. Great to just drive, off-rod, modify cars, race or just smash cars up. The game is only limited by your imagination.

ShitOnABrick, (edited )
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Same here. I’ve got almost 300 hours in beamng

kemsat, (edited )

Diablo 4. I usually turn on Futurama when I play.

Daxtron2,

I liked the earlier diablo games but have heard lots of negatives about 4. I know 3 had a lot of issues on launch but I really enjoy it now. Would you recommend it for someone who doesn’t really have an interest in constantly running endgame content?

kemsat,

It’s Diablo. The complaints came from the people that finished the campaign in a day, and got to 100 in a week. It perfectly fine if you’re a normal person that plays less than 10-20 hours a week.

Daxtron2,

Cool, I will try to pick it up on sale then. Thanks

griefreeze,

I believe it’s on sale now actually, if you didn’t know. The latest season (launched mid Oct) added lots of QoL and something like an endgame loop that isn’t terribly mind numbing.

LinkOpensChest_wav,

Skyrim was my chill game for years, but now I’d say Elder Scrolls Online. Everyone I know who plays ESO is super non-competitive and chill. It’s just got a great vibe.

Arsinoe,

This was my vote, too. There are so many things to do that don’t involve combat/mechanics/etc., you’re bound to find something that sounds fun. Some days I log in and just work on surveys or treasure maps or antiquities with a cocktail and a podcast on in the background.

Buffaloaf,

Kerbal Space Program

knexcar,

Wouldn’t that be a bit complex to learn/hard to spend just 30 minutes a day playing? I haven’t played, but from what I can tell it’s basically rocket science the game.

KeenFlame,

That’s what’s chill, you have no stakes and just build and fail over and over until you succeed and it’s pretty hard so when you do succeed it’s an awesome payoff

Kata1yst,
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Sure, but once you know how it's very chill.

Poringo,

Roguelikes.

I played Rogue Legacy 1 and 2 for the longest time. Some dead cells. Enter the gungeon, and currently testing the humble roguelikes bundle, really digging Wall World.

ragica,
@ragica@lemmy.ml avatar

Could someone please cure me of my Dredmor addiction? 12 years later and I’m still rolling random builds. Diggles are my only friends.

balderdash9,

I’m just getting into Enter the Gungeon. I heard it was good but I had no idea

RogueBanana,

Are roguelikes chill? I haven’t played much in that genre but hades made me situp and focus every time.

KeenFlame,

Hades is an action game most roguelikes aren’t

ace_garp, (edited )
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Yes, Shattered Pixel Dungeon is chill.

Once you learn to surprise attack from behind doors and kite the mobs, it is pretty much on rails.

Calm and Zen.

f-droid.org/…/com.shatteredpixel.shatteredpixeldu…

Bishma, (edited )
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Oxygen Not Included. - !oxygennotincluded

Just started a new colony yesterday because an update was released with new tools and content. The colony I was playing up until that point was almost 3000 cycles old.

DashboTreeFrog,

It’s on sale on Steam in my region, I’ve heard a lot of good things before so gonna check it out!

Bishma,
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Nice.

ONI’s one of those games with a lot of layers of game mechanics. Expect your first few colonies to go bad while you get a handle on things.

I’m lurking in the lemmy.world community I linked to above, and I’ll be happy to help you out there if you get stuck on something.

Here’s your first tip: Geyzers and Vents are one of the main sources of renewable resources in the game. They all have to be “tamed” in some way before you can collect their goodies. They also all have the same Achilles Heel that will keep them from erupting while you’re building around them; if there’s a natural tile 2 rows from the bottom and 2 rows from left it will always think its over-pressure and eruptions will be suppressed.

Untamed natural gas geyzer

penquin,

Genshin impact on PC is a masterpiece. The colors on my 4k monitor are just out of this world. I don’t even do hard missions, I just go around the wild collect foods and stuff. So relaxing.

davidgro,

And even more casual than that is their latest game, Honkai: Star Rail. The combat is turn based, so you can just look away and come back later as you wish and don’t need gamer reflexes at all*

I love it.

(* There’s one minor exception - an Ultimate move can be launched after your turn, but before the enemy’s turn or between two enemies’ turns, which does require some speed. It’s not usually important though.)

penquin,

They have another game? Damn, I’ll need to check it out. Thanks for bringing it up.

TheMinions,

What would you define as a hard mission?

penquin,

Man, those “into the frey” fights where you have 45 seconds to defeat 69474783748 creatures are so stressful. Also, those big ass monsters are very hard to beat. That’s stressful. That’s why I just go around the wild to collect foods and stuff. Lol

davidgro,

They could be low level. I certainly remember when a Ruin Guard was a big scary monster that could kill my whole party.

And later when I was playing pretty seriously I still stayed out of Abyss Floor 12 because it wasn’t worth the effort (literally - I never got enough stars to get a reward from it even when I technically defeated it)

penquin,

There are challenges where you have like 45 seconds to defeat a bunch of creatures to just open a chest. I hate those

dansity,

OpenTTD

msage,

Hey, this is a classic.

Just turn off vehicle breakdowns, as they can cause huge congestions everywhere. And that’s very stressful.

I love trains

Nunya,

You should check out Stardew Valley. Super chill game that evolves at your own pace.

Don’t like to fish on the game? Don’t fish.

Don’t like to go in the mines and fight stuff? Don’t go in the caves.

Play on a PC and want to spend hours just modding the hell out of the game? Go for it.

solivine,
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Stardew valley is way too stressful to me, I have to make the most of each day and if I’m not I’m wasting it

nieceandtows,

I couldn’t get into it. Felt very stressful to me. Like I had to do something productive every day before night. It’s probably more my fault than the game’s fault though.

slazer2au,

The game is like that for the first game month. When you get to summer you tend to relax a bit more so after your tool upgrades.

Quetzalcutlass,

I 100% agree. There’s just so much to do and too much of your day is spent as a time tax maintaining what you already have. There are several unlocks to reduce this, but they come far too late in a playthrough in my opinion.

I find a time control/clock-stopping on demand mod almost mandatory for me to be able to play without stressing, especially when playing with expansion mods that more than double the amount of content in the game.

PandaPikachu,

I love these types of games, and I’ve tried to get into it multiple times… But everything feels like it’s on such a strict timer. I just want to chill and farm/explore/talk to people without worrying if I spent too much time enjoying myself doing any one particular thing. If it had some kind of sandbox mode or if you could slow down the time, I’d give it another go.

Pr0v3n,

You should defs try My Time At Sandrock then, with friends or the story alone. Absolutely great for exactly what you want, without the overbearing timer having really any effect on gameplay.

DashboTreeFrog,

I get like this in any sort of “real time passes” games, with some exceptions. If you have a limited amount of time to do a limited amount of things in game, my mind starts min/maxing what I should be doing every moment in game. In Outer Wilds the passage of time matters less cause you always start back at zero, what you gain each run is just knowledge, you don’t lose out and fall behind on any resources, points or whatever cause you didn’t do certain things that day.

kratoz29,

You mentioned things you might not like to do, I wonder what you like to do in Stardew Valley (my knowledge on that game is very little).

kugel7c,
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Apart from trackmania which was already named it’s certainly slay the spire. I often do both TTD and the daily in sts. If I didn’t always end up trying to go for sub 35min points it’d actually be relaxing probably.

DrSleepless,

I put a playlist on in the background and play Slay the Spire for a couple runs a day.

EldVrangr,

The latest Zelda games for me, I just wander around aimlessly and it helps me relax.

DashboTreeFrog,

I’m reminded that I used to do exactly this in Ocarina of Time back when I was a kid. Maybe it’s time to relive those days.

EldVrangr,

I’m way overdue for an Ocarina of Time replay, thanks for the reminder!

cyberpunk007,

Same. One of my fav ways to spend an evening.

Popsip,
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That game has a lot of peaceful moments when not in combat. One time I was playing while tired from work and I was gliding from a high place towards the direction of one of those symbols that’s etched on the land. I wound up microsleeping mid-glide because of how peaceful it was up there with the rain and the sound of the air gently moving. Had woke up when the air got louder and noticed that I didn’t have any more stamina.

tetris11,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

Check out Jacob Gellar’s YouTube review about it

GRENADE_MAGNET,

I’m going to go with Satisfactory.

DashboTreeFrog,

I hear a lot about this one and it does interest me, but whenever I look at the Steam page I just don’t end up feeling it. What is it about the game that keeps you personally coming back to it?

JAWNEHBOY,

It’s all about how you play in my experience. If you want to get a basic factory up and go slug hunting, super chill. If you want to sink your spreadsheet teeth into optimizing every resource available and build a non-spaghettified factory, plenty of room to go hard core.

Also the graphics are fantastic for all the massive machinery

Floufym,
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On this kind of games, I have a preference to Factorio (and the game is released, not in beta). They propose a free demo. So you can rest and see if you have the good feeling. It is definitely not a game for everyone, but it is one of my favourite.

BastingChemina, (edited )

Factorio for me, the interesting part is that I usually want tonlay the game after a day of mindless tasks at work.

On the other hand if I’ve been busy at work and had to solve a lot of issues I’m prefer other games.

It’s my brain gym

257m,

Blast some bots in Quake 3.

tryptaminev,

A man of culture

flambonkscious,

I’ve been enjoying unreal tournament, too

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