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[NightmareFarm]

What games do you find you can just jump into to at any time when you're bored? Where you can just turn your brain off and have fun.

My top two picks for this currently would be Splitgate and Smite. They arent even really my favourites but you can easily kill hours just casually fucking around playing some matches online and they're pretty fun. I have always preferred to play fighting games online but I take them a lot more seriously(in terms of rank, training, etc), they require a lot more mental investment not really the type of games I play casually just to unwind.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Don't usually eat when gaming but when theres a ton of cinematics/cutscenes I guess peanuts in paprika crust.

 

[Kuranghi]

Anchovies in oil or olives

 

[Sleepwalker]

FIFA, its stupid and mindless.

Edit: this thread is a great barometer to see who reads the body of the thread or just the title.

 

[ReBurn]

I always go back to Mass Effect trilogy. I'm actually replaying it on Steam Deck now. Escaping to space and all.

 

[IFireflyl]

Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy X, Halo Infinite (campaign), or Rocket League.

 

[Topher]

Always....

 

[GermanZepp]

We need another term to express 'Comfort food'
Edit:

This

 

[nikos]

Turning your brain off in competitive games?

Sounds like most of the teammates I get.

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

Ultima Online, Diablo, Diablo II, Morrowind, Mario 3, Mario 64, Goldeneye..

 

[BouncyFrag]

Kingdom Come Deliverance. The villages, the music, and the ever affable, Henry. My favorite village tune:

 

[Laieon]

Vampire Survivors
Portal 2
Age of Empires (any of them)/Mythology
WoW

 

[NightmareFarm]

Turning your brain off in competitive games?

Sounds like most of the teammates I get.

They can be played competitively but I play most online non-fighting games casually.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Halo. Apex Legends. These are the days of our lives.

 

[Nydius]

Mass Effect Trilogy
Any of the Street Fighter games from the 90's (Offline mode, ofc; God bless the 30th Anniversary Collection).
Arcade racers, generally but currently Forza Horizon 4 or 5.
Tetris Effect
Diablo 3 (Switch, if I'm out of the house)

These are all games I can turn on and just turn my brain off with. Mass Effect mostly because I've played it so many times that I know what's going to happen. I swear if they had ported the ME3 multiplayer with the Legendary Edition, I'd still hop into that regularly.

 

[ShirAhava]

The OG SSX

 

[Crayon]

Usually a non-active fighting game alone. Either practice mode in one I know well or arcade mode in one I don't. That or gran turismo.

 

[violence]

It used to be CounterStrike. Now it's whatever the current battlefield is. 2042 is great imo. Rocket League is turning into that kind of game too.

 

[KingXtreme81]

Stardew Valley. The warm cuddle of video games.

 

[londontko]

Super Mario World
Super Punch Out
Metal Gear Solid

 

[Dacvak]

Easily Mario 64. I’ve beaten that game well over 1000, maybe 2000 times. Though a vast, vast majority are 16-star runs. Not exactly speedrunning the game, but basically getting 15 stars of my choosing, then beating Bowser with Mips clip and BLJs.

I used to beat that game every morning in college just to help wake me up. Then I’d play through it again before falling asleep. I have never, and presumably will never, get tired of playing it.

I even became the second person in the world to beat it using a drum kit as a controller about a month ago. It was so much fun. Damn I love that game.

My boy.

 

[Edmund]

Street Fighter 6 and eventually Tekken 8. I'm lucky to have so many friends who love fighting games as well and I can hop on to discord with them and talk and play together.

 

[Sushi_Combo]

Perfect Dark. I can always fire up this game and forget about all my problems, never gets old.

 

[POKEYCLYDE]

Slay the spire daily runs are nice to pick up and sink 30 mins into.
Also been playing Backpack Battles Demo on steam.

 

[Stratostar]

Batman Arkham and Donkey Kong Country games come to mind.
Started my yearly playthrough of Arkham Origins and Tropical Freeze this month, such cozy games to play.

 

[Archaic101]

Joust, Street Fighter 2: CE, Halo Reach, Spiderman PS4, Superhot, Tetris Effect

 

[Mondai]

Enter The Gungeon
Astral Ascent
Binding of Isaac

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Kingdom Come Deliverance. The villages, the music, and the ever affable, Henry. My favorite village tune:

The protagonist imagines me as the silly manchild of the family.

 

[BouncyFrag]

The protagonist imagines me as the silly manchild of the family.

He really is at the beginning of the game.

 

[Trunx81]

International Karate Advance (GBA)

Captures the gameplay of the original. And after a while not playing, you got the learning curve again, like playing it for the first time.

 

[salva]

The fken GOAT, infinite SP replayabiltiy:

 

[struggler_guts]

Rocket league

Spoiler

and mini wheats

 

[mortal]

Atm it's Fall Guys.

 

[Robb]

Mario Kart maybe.

 

[R6Rider]

Hitman. Nothing like it.

 

[El Muerto]

Not so much a game but Antstream Arcade. Such a cool service. Every game on there is great to jump in and play since it is mainly arcade titles. Love beating peoples high scores.

 

[tusharngf]

 

[IFireflyl]

Always....

I have owned this game for about a decade, and I have still never played it...

 

[hououinkyouma00]

Persona 4/Golden
Gravity Rush 1/2

 

[AJUMP23]

Rocket league or Mario kart.

 

[Arsic]

Diablo 2.

The perfect chill game.

 

[MagiusNecros]

Deep Rock Galactic.

 

[Topher]

I have owned this game for about a decade, and I have still never played it...

My all-time favorite. I don't play the campaign anymore. I just set up maps with matches on maps with 5-7 other NPC armies.

Not sure how well it is aged for others though. Remastered version definitely helps.

 

[jonnyp]

Civ 5
X-Com Terror From The Deep
Transport Tycoon

 

[YukiOnna]

FF14

Easy to jump into and find something to do for a couple of hours, or just idle since I find it calming.

 

[Shadowstar39]

Homm3, Battle Bros, Civ5, Dead Cells, Brotato, Vagante, Cities Skylines 1 or 2, Dredge , Vampire Survivors, Sacred 2, Splinter cell , Quake 1 and 2.
Probably more but these are what I think of off hand. A mix of old classics and new games.

 

[Magic Carpet]

PS360 Generation
Castle Crashers
Geometry Wars
Super Stardust HD

PSSnoreBone Generation
Resogun
Peggle 2
Cuphead

Current Gen ain’t got nothing worth replaying Yet.

 

[GooseMan69]

Uncharted series. Ultimate comfort games.

 

[Pelao]

Tetris, racing games and rhythm games.

 

[adamsapple]

OG RE4.

The village fight always brings me back to 2005.