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[azertydu91]

Neon Abyss
The binding of Isaac
Enter The Gungeon
I played a lor of Resogun too.

 

[synchronicity]

 

[balls of snow]

Mass effect trilogy. Just flying around in the Normandy and talking to the crew. Maybe do some mining for minerals.

 

[Reality Czar]

Rocket League

Just pure gaming. No menus. No inventory. No quests. I could probably watch a movie while playing this. It is frictionless and joyful.

Tetris 99 could be up there too but it's a bit too hardcore to be a relaxing game.

 

[Warnen]

Destiny 2 strikes, just lets me zone out and relax. Any looter shooter will do this for me but hasn’t been a better for a long time.

 

[DGrayson]

Wind mutha fucking waker

 

[Havoc2049]

Destiny 2 strikes, just lets me zone out and relax. Any looter shooter will do this for me but hasn’t been a better for a long time.

Good one. Once the sweatiness of a new strike in Destiny/Destiny 2 wares off and your character levels up, the strikes do become a rather fun and chill grind with friends. I've had tons of great conversations during the course of strikes.

My current go to chill game is fishing in the Sea of Thieves. If you're on a chill server, just the act of sailing around and doing emissary mission grinds for rep and gold is chill as well.

 

[BusierDonkey]

Racing games, JRPGs and open world games I can take at my own pace are my jam. Animal Crossing too, but that's almost cheating.

I recently started the Far Cry games for the first time and I've been having a great time just farting around the map looking for hidden shit in Far Cry 3.

 

[Aenima]

Lately has been Genshin Impact. When im done with the daily quests or events i usually end up just roaming the world for the beauty of it from time to time.

 

[22:22:22]

Just played some Rez VR and after my cigarette im going to drive a Toyato Supra on a Japanese highway <3

Miles708 Dreams is almost finished downloading. I'm stoked. <3

 

[Beer Baelly]

 

[Dr. Suchong]

Polybius, via psvr, after sinking 20 red bulls.

 

[kyussman]

Assassin's Creed.....people moan about the endless side content,but I love just riding around the worlds in these games.The enviroments are so detailed these days I get really immersed and can side quest for hours on end.

 

[Agent_Nobody]

Right now Disco Elysium, when I want to totally veg out I usually prefer something that’s mainly about story with no major gameplay effort involved. Seems like I’m a bit of an oddball in that sense though since it seems a lot of people prefer pure gameplay with little to no story for their veg out game.

 

[bosnianpie]

I would say Cities Skylines in the recent past. You can put on some music and just play in your own pace, build big and small and feel no pressure to 'complete' it. Various walking simulators are also recommended.

 

[Aion002]

Collecting, hunting, fishing and shooting griefers in RDR 2 Online.

I have been playing since launch and I will probably keep playing it until RDR3 is released.

 

[SSfox]

Red Dead Online

 

[ValiantTraveler]

I love me an old Pokémon game, between gens 3 and 5.

 

[SSfox]

Collecting, hunting, fishing and shooting griefers in RDR 2 Online.

I have been playing since launch and I will probably keep playing it until RDR3 is released.

Wah for real bru, same even tho i took some months break times to times when there new games that has my interest, like when MK11 release, then FF7, and RE3, ect but, playing it since beta, i'm lvl 570, it's my shilling game lol, the more i play it the more i realize the gap between Rock and the other when it comes to open world, it may have my favorite map in any open world (but still need Mexico tho)

 

[Entroyp]

Astro’s playroom, Rescue mission or Mario games.

 

[Elder Legend]

Fall Guys

 

[SleepySlippy]

 

[EverydayBeast]

You shouldn’t relax for games you should engage them.

 

[poodaddy]

Playing through Chrono Trigger for the umpteenth time is like going to see an old friend who's always happy to see me, no matter how long it's been or how I've changed.

So I guess Chrono Trigger.

 

[Hoppa]

Tetris 99. Instant, satisfying and requires minimal brain power

 

[Ogbert]

Dark Souls or World of Warcraft.

 

[chaseroni]

GT Sport Home Screen, just have it in the background and you get your moment of Zen.

This but GT5 Prologue for me. Those rendered environments are fantastic

 

[DrumNBassDanTTV]

Euro truck sim 2 and wow.

 

[Null Persp]

City building and 4x games. Another one is Elite Dangerous.

 

[Animagic]

There are certain games that are just right right for this.

Spoiler: Spoilers

Age of Empires 2 DE skirmish against AI. - Just turtling up and building a civilization across half the map.

Stronghold/Stronghold Crusader - Building a sprawling castle in the economy or skirmish settings.

Anno 1404/1800 - Building a settlement.

Zeus Master of Olympus - See above.

Emperor Rise of the Middle Kingdom - Ditto.

Ocarina of Time - Going fishing.

Twilight Princess - Even more so. Later Zelda games could have used fishing holes like the one here.

Breath of the WIld - Just going in a random direction and seeing what happens.

A-Train
Farming Simulator
Chill titles like that

 

[lem0n]

Elder Scrolls Oblivion. Takes me away to another world

 

[JLB]

Cheated Sim City 4

 

[Miles708]

Cheated Sim City 4

Ooh yes this is good. Cheating in games (single player, don't jump at me) is so relaxing.
Especially in management/strategy games, but a bit everywhere really. Having god-mode/unlimited resources/noclip mode etc. just puts you in a relaxing, low effort, just-the-ride mood that I love very much in certain cases.

Miles708 Dreams is almost finished downloading. I'm stoked. <3

The story mode is good too
Also, do the tutorials, you'll be grateful later, and they're funnier if you just over-shoot at them.
If you're stuck at something (and you don't want to open a thread) hit me up, I'm not a guru but I can try to help or at least I could point you to some youtube tutorials

 

[TLZ]

The Lego games.

Currently playing Lego DC Super Villains and it's quite fun. Good fun.

 

[MiguelItUp]

Lately it's been Binding of Isaac: Repentance, believe it or not. I understand the game came be stressful, I mean, it's practically a bullet hell at times. But something about it being so... straight forward just makes it easier to digest and play.

 

[IBoAKeYdERiDAygi]

Tetris Effect, Factorio.

 

[MasterDerico]

Rhythm games, old beat'em ups, neogeo games...

 

[Bert Big Balls]

SWTOR. That's a game I can just jump on and chill for ages. Just doing random quests, exploring etc.

Divinity Original Sin 2. Tried playing it twice and it just wasn't doing it for me. Picked it up a third time and started over, and something clicked. I'm enjoying just taking my time in Fort Joy and trying to complete all the quests there before moving on.

 

[WoodyStare]

Any of the Forza Horizon games. Love just driving around aimlessly and listening to the variety of music they have.

 

[Randall365]

Secret of Monkey Island or something like that - just play through - beautiful.

 

[Aguero9320]

At the moment for me it’s Forza Horizon 4 - love just driving around…

 

[BennyBlanco]

MTG arena. Just fucking around with the deck builder and taking weird frankenstein decks into ranks is a zen like experience for me.

 

[Putonahappyface]

 

[Sealord of Braavos]

Sea of Thieves. Visuals and sound (what is it about the creaking ropes in your rigging that is so damned relaxing?) with the movement of your ship....just lovely.

Just have to keep an eye on the horizon occasionally for other parties that might want to impede on my relaxation session.

 

[SnapShot]

very stress relieving game, ngl

 

[DevilMayFlyForAWhiteGuy]

If I feel like relaxing I think the AssCreed games, and stuff like Skyrim and Bethesda games in general are pretty good in that regard. I don’t play them for the challenge but to explore and take my time. They’re not really demanding. Either that or I’ll go into practice mode in whatever fighting game I’m into at the time.

 

[TexMex]

 

[Danjin44]

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Playing this in first person mode is the ultimate in relaxation.

 

[amigastar]

Currently playing Heroes of Might & Magic V. Relaxing like most turn based strategy games.