My go-to is Vampire Survivors! Default runs are 30 minutes long but you can make them as short as 15 iirc all the way to endless. Mindless enough that you can zone out but you can get more involved if you want.
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Slay the Spire
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Also on android and those I phones
Vampire Survivor and Brotato.
The Binding of Isaac.
Pixross.
Tetris Effect.
Gunfire Reborn.
Spin Rhythm XD.
Bloons TD 6.
I second Brotato.
+1 Vampire Survivors
Brotato and Vampire Survivor are the best time wasters.
Instead of Tetris, I've gotten into PolyCube. Definitely my go-to "mindless" game.
I have been playing way too much of Isaac since getting the Deck. A perfect game, my brain is rotting and I want all the unlocks. Please help
Honestly solitaire https://github.com/TobiasBielefeld/Simple-Solitaire
Or frozen bubble's https://github.com/videogameboy76/frozenbubbleandroid
Both of these have been my jam for months now.
Backpack hero and Peglin are ones I do for any amounts of time!
Since you like driving games, Beam NG is great fun for 2-5 minutes of random crashing, or over an hour of fiddling with things to do 2-5 minutes of random crashing.
Should also check out Art of Rally for a smaller scale driving game
- Turmoil, you can play either a campaign or a one-off match
- lowkey Rimworld, if you play on the easier difficulties just for colony building
- Forager is pretty mindless
- Vampire Survivors, very VERY fun, and games are either 30 minutes or 15 minutes (you have to unlock this), or earlier if you die
- Hidden Folks if you want a where's waldo type game
- Terraria, mostly the mining, or trying to grind for rare items
I definitely recommend Dave the Diver, easy to pick up and play for 5 minutes or for hours.
+1 on dave the diver. This game has a comfortable vibe, and great characters. You can either take things easy by diving only in the shallows or go really deep into the dark depths of the ocean, and then to top it off there's a "sushi cooking" game to cook up what you found. It's a fantastic game, and great for steam deck since one "level" is 10-20 minutes.
Luck Be a Landlord and Peglin are both neat roguelite games that are easy to pick up and put down, but are still interesting enough to play for long periods, too.
Peglin looks fun but I've been waiting on a good sale now for months.
I managed to snag it for 20% off in February. Normally I don't go in on games until they're out of early access, but it's been fun seeing lots of new relics, orbs, and random events get added each patch.
Any "survivors" type game - Brotato, Vampire/Soulstone Survivors, Nordic Ashes, etc.
Roguelikes (I like Noita these days).
Card based games - Slay the Spire, Monster Train, Guild of Dungeoneering, ...
Darkest Dungeon.
I've played noita for probably 6 hours and still have no clue what's happening. Cool game though
Honestly the beauty of the stream deck imo is that a lot of games become great for short play sessions when you have a convenient sleep function.
I love the goddamn sleep function I wish PCs had it by default
Snow Runner!
Truck through mud and deliver crazy shit
And get stuck. So you rescue the first truck. But the second truck ran out of fuel so you grab another...
It's so good
My current strategy is to tether two trucks together and then pull something so that I’ve got two motors pulling things through the mud 😎
I like playing 2048 if I need to kill time, though I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for.
Hot Wheels unleashed for driving.
I like problem solving games. Stray was amazing. I really loved Figment and enjoying Inside right now
Factorio. Once you get a hand of it you can work in small chunks here and there, or pour in hours and hours of time.
I love Factorio so much. I find it's pretty mindless with a few settings changed, like biters not being aggressive. But nuclear energy always makes my head hurt so I avoid it for as long as I can
I've been enjoying "Everything" for very mindless playing. It even has an "autoplay" feature - let the controls go and it will continue to play for you while you scroll the Fediverse! Not to mention all the amazing Alan Watts quotes that occasionally pop in.
Dead Cells, Vampire Survivor, Loop Hero, Devil Daggers/Hyper Demon (more m+k games though), FTL, Into the Breach, Shovel Knight, VA11HAllA (or whatever, the cyberpunk bartender one), really any rogue like...
Chronicon is good but being an ARPG you'll have sit down from time to time to update your build.
It's basically vampire surivors with long-term progression, except more active. My endgame was binding all skills to one button and bumrushing every area at like 6x speed, addictive enough I grinded for 100%
For 5 minutes or an hour
Rocket league
I've been enjoying Peglin for when I only have 5-10 minutes between work meetings. If you have any fond memories of playing Peggle on XBLA then definitely check it out!
I solve sudokus while commuting to work. It's a great feeling after 100 puzzles when you can solve a hard one you couldn't for a long time.
GBA Emulator and the world of retro games is yours
- American Truck Simulator
- Coffee Talk: Lo-fi visual novel with a lot of dialogue
Cult of the Lamb can kinda fill this, although you would have to pause mid level. And the base building is more indepth and takes thought.
2-5 seems super short for anything haha so I am guessing you want to play something where you don't have to think too much. Very chill games where it is easy to just pause and then get back fast to where you left off.
- stardeew valley - you can be super efficient or just super chill about it, the game won't punish you
- I haven't tried bloons td 6 on steam deck because I had finished it before I got my deck (exist as app too) but that would be pretty perfect fit too.
- Cozy grove is exactly maybe 5-15 min per day. It is a bit too slow for my taste because of that. It is a very chill puzzle like game.
- Death doors, very easy to just pause mid game and very nice visual and story. The game is maybe 5 h long if you try to get all of the achievements. But it is a great game none the less
- Moon lighter - rouge like and store management, very chill and all days are pretty much the same so you don't have to be efficient
- monster sanctuary - pokemon but 2d platformer
- Pyre - can pause pretty easy before every challenge. I wouldn't pause mid challenge tho. But you can. Great story and great strategy game
- Ring of pain - rouge like but with cards. Easy to die so one session can be very short if unlucky or maybe that is lucky? 😂
- Spirit farer - great story and can be paused very easily mid game and you can take your time in everything or do it quick and dirty
- Vampire survivors - like others have said
- West of death - rouge like, easy to pause and a pretty brain dead game (not in a bad way)
- the final station - very very easy to jump in and out of. Most station is pretty short so this can be played easily with weeks going by and still just jump in and play. The story is very easy to follow
- katana zero - platformer, very cool and easy to jump in and out of. Short missions so if you don't want a perfect score could you do many bellow 5 min maybe even in 2 min. Pretty short game tho story wise
- legend of keepers - rouge defense. every wave is pretty fast to go through if you have put up your traps and monsters correctly/good enough
- Nitro kid - rouge like but turned based. This one can be both fast and slow depending on your choices
Haha, I just came to post this! :)
Here are my go tos if I want to just let my mind wander and not think about what i do:
bullet hells
- vampire survivors
- brotato
- soulstone survivors
- 20 minutes till dawn
- bounty of one
emulated:
- pokemon leaf green/fire red
- zelda BOTW (small chunks possible. Do one shrine, explore a bit. Search for some koroks.) runs beautifully on yuzu
RPG:
- Dark souls 1 Remastered(Because the game practically saves every second or two you are not in any way committed to play a long time)
Vampire Survivors * 1000
dawg i was literally going to take that username but u beat me by like a few minutes that's crazy
Ahahahahah perfect
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