- Street Fighter II in basically any edition. Was my entry point in fighting games and to this day it just feels 'right'
- Street Fighter III, 3rd Strike (It is that good and to this day one of the highlights)
- Slay the Spire
- Contra (NES)
- Super Mario Brothers (NES) (What an utterly brilliant game)
- Castlevania 3 (NES)
- Vampyre Survivors (Ok, maybe just pure dopamine addiction)
- Sudoku
- Final Fantasy 1 Pixel Remaster
- XCOM
- Open X-COM
- Olli Olli
- rogue
- Tetris
- Into the breach ... and Quake
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The Sly Cooper Trilogy. I still have them on PS2
Mechwarrior Online
Brotato
Kingdom hearts, any one of them really. But 358/2 days is my favorite
Alpha Centauri.
I know I’m aging myself, but there has never been anything else like it. The depth, the narrative, the way the gameplay evolves. It’s a masterpiece.
Nice, and I fully agree: The best turn based 4x Civ I have played so far. Music, fractions and the story are all perfect. The factions play quite different and allow for diverse strategies to win. Surprised that there are not more copy-cats that try to pull it off.
Whenever I’m depressed and have a hard time enjoying a game, I usually go to RDR2 or Coffee Talk.
Skyrim
Valheim
USED to be Destiny, but after 10 years, I'm just done with it now
Squarez Deluxe
It is the best shape-packing game ever in my opinion, or at the top of the podium with the greats. In Extreme Mode I can get lost for hours and hours
A great player needs to have a solid understanding of the core mechanics, because a tremendous amount of creativity necessary. Player needs to conceive and continually rebalance a multi-faceted plan for managing the playfield. By necessity, you'll almost be setting up Rube Goldberg-ian contraptions using the various action blocks, which leads to extremely satisfying moments when you finally get that "one piece" you've been hungering for 30 minutes.
Best of all, the original developer made Squarez Deluxe Freeware! So grab DOSBox and have a crack!
Angry Birds
I'd have to say Dark Souls, honestly any of them. Once you know what you are doing, where you're going, it's easy to just get lost in playing
Shame on me, never finished even Dark Souls 1, but damn I had a lot of fun failing and dying. :-)
No shame at all, they're very flawed games and the problems they have do drive some people away. The latter half of DS1 is extremely rough, honestly.
Yeah, for DS1, I totally respect the artistic vision and that they simply created a game against the trends (back then) ... at the same time I made it trough the swamp under the Orc-City w/o the ring which allows immunity to the swamp poison. When I looked up how to get this ring (back to the Asylum) I was just like: WTF, I have a real life, how should I have figured this out by myself? ... this turned me away, although I still have a lot of respect and love for DS1!
Blighttown is an area that turns away a lot of players haha, the lower portion isn't too bad. The poison water slows you, but if you roll through it you can navigate it pretty fast, and there's a merchant that sells an item that cures poison, that you can find right before you enter the depths. There's no shame whatsoever in looking up help online in dark souls.
Ds1 just flows so well. I still get happy when a new run gets the black knight halberd
Either Pikmin or Tears Of The Kingdom! Both are such good games!
Minecraft is the one I keep coming back to year after year. Throw in a massive automation based mod pack and I'm set for months until the save lags to the point of unplayability.
To help with lag for me I ran a server on a separate computer with some extra performance mods then played on my PC. It helps a little but still will eventually lag
Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age.
Oh my god I love these games so much. Even bought a snap on bt controller for my phone specifically to play those on the go
Sometimes slowroads is pretty chill. Sometimes subway surfers. Idk
I guess Overwatch. Im one of those fans.
I think most of all the history of passionate stories drew me in and kept me. But most of all I like these games to challenge me to stay focused on the current game and what I can do and keeping my tilt in check.
Honestly feels like a mental practice to stay chill even in the most frustrating losing streaks.
But to super chillout maybe sims 4 or stardew valley. :)
Factorio
I turn off biters and play on 100x research because it's calming.
The factory must grow.
Train Sim World, currently 5 but TSW updates are like FIFA or Madden so its not that different from previous versions. At least it was a free update.
Just driving a train around, especially if its somewhere I know is really relaxing. Really looking forward to the first Japanese route dropping sometime this year (hopefully).
I do like that you can chose to enable safety systems or not depending on if you want to play on easy mode or very easy mode. It has even less pressure than your average relaxed building game if you ignore the clock.
Downsides, steam engines are pretty bad in the game, I just don't bother with them. Dovetail are pretty useless. Brand new routes are usually overpriced. Some of the routes are bad, really bad, or just plain boring. Very important to read reviews. Everything is DLC.
Upsides, there are frequent sales so if you stay away from the latest content it can be pretty cheap in comparison. If you get a route you like it has a fair amount of repeatability. Some of the DLC overlays nicely with other DLC.
It was Ark for awhile. Anything in the souls series hits for me. But LATELY, it's been wolfenstein 2.
Slay the Spire
Scrolled too far down to find one of my favorite comfort games... bought it multiple times so I can play it on every device I own. Works perfectly on everything from my smartphone over my netbook, laptop to my SteamDeck. Just brilliant game design and I am looking forward to part 2! :-)
Hearts of Iron III
Dwarf Fortress and Settler 2. It's quite comforting seeing everything working and the dwarfs/romans going forth and Back.
Also Kingdoms and Castles works here well too.
I like the "Wuselfaktor" like they say in german
Do you know widelands.org ? Should be right up your alley.
I know it. But never got a grip like Settlers 2. But maybe i'll give it another try.
Thanks for the reminder :)
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