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?

RandomVideos,

I like playing on the minecraft server “diamondfire”. You can make minigames and play minigames made by other players

flop_leash_973,

Hitman: World of Assassination is what I usually go to when I just want to chill and not think much.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

This is probably one of the worst things you can say about a Hitman game.

Outsider9042,

DOTA2 turbo mode, done in 20-30 minutes, and the try bards that take the mode serious are hilarious

PraiseTheSoup,

Why are there so many suggestions of Zelda BotW over TotK imo this thread? I’ve only played the latter but my understanding is it’s pretty much the same game with more to do. And since Nintendo games rarely go on sale you are probably looking at a very similar price tag.

cjsolx,

Maybe everyone’s a completionist and would rather play the games in order rather than jump into the story halfway through ¯_(ツ)_/¯

PraiseTheSoup,

TotK is literally the only Zelda game I’ve ever completed and I understood the story perfectly fine.

cjsolx,

Well yeah you can understand most stories without reading/hearing the first part and it’s not like Legend of Zelda is exactly Moby Dick.

randombullet,

Since everyone has already said more well known games, here are my Indie/small games

Islanders

Race the Sun

Skye

Superflight

Presi300,
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Warframe, it’s my “no thought, head empty, just shoot things” game

CluelessDude,

As a veteran of the game I keep coming back to it from time to time it’s a really nice way to relax.

Presi300,
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What MR are you?

CluelessDude,

I stopped at L1, I play on and off nowadays.

Presi300,
@Presi300@lemmy.world avatar

Damn, how many hours didit take you to reach LR1?

CluelessDude,

Well I’ve been playing since closed beta so like 10y and something at this point, but you can definitely go over my MR fairly easily, MR is about collecting things not really skill related, of course there’s still some time invested.

Presi300,
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Damn, I’ve been playing semi-consistently since 2021 and just cannot bring myself to rank MR above 16 lol

CluelessDude,

Easiest way would be to go to your codex, select a category, melee for example and make and level up every single weapon there, sentinels, warframes you get the idea, anything you can level up gives mastery, even completing the star chart by unlocking every mission, somethings will be harder or expensive to get or behind multiple days of farm aka most of stuff in open world but that’s how everyone does it.

diemartin,

Basically Loopy in Simon Tatham’s Puzzles, available on Linux, Windows, and Android (F-Droid), when I don’t want to be stressed.

Otherwise I just play some retro/old school games like Final Fantasy (started IV a few days ago), (Free)Doom, AssaultCube or Cave Story when on my laptop.

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

AgentGrimstone,

I can’t name a specific game because they all get old, boring, and unsatisfying after a while. However in terms of genre, it tends to be roguelites and poker.

x2XS2L0U,

Brotato

fromaj_debite,

It is a chill drug

Fedizen,

slay the spire

reverendsteveii,

burnout paradise. I’ll just put on a podcast and drive around. Sometimes I’m seeking out races, or new best times on roads. Sometimes I’m just driving around more or less obeying traffic laws like a reasonable citizen.

ShitOnABrick, (edited )
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Love to sit down and smash shit up in beamng also play around in beamng mutitplayer mod kissmp acrynom for keep it simple stupid I would love to give beammp a proper go my but beammp is woefully unoptmised and I’ve got some already pretty low end hardware

swordsmanluke,

No Man’s Sky.

After the mildly stressful intro (which isn’t bad, just uses more sticks than carrots in the tutorial section), you basically just pick a direction and go.

If you wanna quest, there are quests available in (almost) every system.

If you wanna farm, pick a nice planet and get to building.

If you wanna fight, go find a planet with hostile Sentinel presence.

There’s always something interesting to do, but you can also just find a nice view on some planet, build a couch and just watch the iridescent grass blow in the wind for a bit.

DashboTreeFrog,

The more I hear about No Man’s Sky now the more I’m thinking that perhaps this will be one of the games I can chill out to. I generally love space games, and the idea of just kinda flying around doing random stuff is already appealing.

GenesisJones,

Its a vastly game than it was at launch. It’s on my list to play.

ICastFist,
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As someone with almost 500h in NMS, get in fully aware that things get repetitive fast. Once you get off planet and can visit other stars the first time, it’ll likely take 2 hours to see all different kinds of planets.

Unlocking (“learning”) the 3 aliens’ languages is the absolute worst slog in the whole game.

Another ultra tedious chore is doing the daily missions for Quicksilver (special currency) to unlock some nifty cosmetics.

Also, combat sucks. It just plain sucks. The most annoying thing to me is: if you don’t fire your weapon for 1 or 2 seconds, your dude will put it down, which will create a small time window where you’ll have a significant delay between pressing the fire button and actually firing, because of the animation.

b0gl,

I play Tibia. It’s an old 2d MMORPG with endless grinding. Loads of quests and a playerbase where the average age is like 28.

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