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Slay the Spire and the digital version of Ascension, solo play. I guess I like deckbulders. Ascension especially is so comforting for me, chill gameplay, no time pressure and I can put it down anytime and resume later on. Or not and just start a new one instead.
Or Isaac if I am in the mood for some action. plop plop plop plop.
Kerbal Space Program and Rain World
Oddly enough I go through phases where I just level up a character on WoW. It's mindless for me and I can just zone out and watch TV while playing.
Through the years the one game I keep going back to when I just need a place to lose time
Elder Scrolls Online
Man I wish I had better tastes
Every now and then I play Endless Space 2, and I find it pretty comforting. Great music, ambience, etc.
It's a browser game, not a video game per se, but Flight Rising. I play it when I need to do something with my hands or distract myself.
It's very short, but if you need a small (big) dosage of weirdness - try The Good Time Garden. It's an experience that I like to go back to from time to time, always gets some chuckles out of me!
Black Ops Zombies games.... at least until I found out every game has very well known hacks that allow for remote code execution of your PC. Yikes! Not touching those games anymore sadly
Not so much any one game, as a genre: action adventure games. Games like Tomb Raider, God of War, stuff like that. I love playing through a really immersive, well-told story.
Haven't put any time into it for a little while, but TF2 (the one with the hats) has always been my go-to.
Microsoft Flight Simulator. Flying Cessna around my town.
Ori and the Blind Forest
I found gaming exacerbated my feelings of loneliness after many years of gaming daily. I also found the FOMO nature of a lot of games I was playing really took the enjoyment out of gaming.
Took a break in April (To watch lots of Star Trek) and only recently have had a few urges.
Hunt: Showdown may get picked up again and there are a couple of games coming that could be fun but we shall see.
Bloons td 6
For me it's the binding of isaac, I'm not sure that it woukd work for everyone, but the game is just so large that it never gets old. 1500hrs, 100% the game and I still find myself diving into it after a stressful day.
Believe it or not, Warcraft 2. There are three scenarios I like to play through. They are pretty mindless, have varying degrees of challenge, and are very low stress.
Portal (and 2). Replayed them so many times.
Streets of Rogue.. I don't know what it is about that game, but I always find myself picking back up and getting lost in all the different ways you can play. I can't wait for the sequel, definitely, the game I am anticipating the most.
Valheim and Stardew Valley. Both make me forget time exists.
Lately, mine has been Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour on the GameCube.
Knytt Underground
You play as a little Sprite with two fairy companions. You're left to explore 1000 rooms of a sprawling underground labyrinth, discovering all sorts of secrets that humanity left behind.
Every few months, I will do a randomizer run of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. I've played it so much that it's like taking a relaxing walk through a familiar neighborhood. It also has a great soundtrack.
Probably World of Warcraft for. Feels like pulling on a pair of worn comfortable jeans when you haven't touched it in ages.
A great deal of SNES games do this for me. Super Mario RPG, Mega Man X, Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2, Chrono Trigger, even the Mario All-Star games to a point. It's all likely because it's such a great system and developers really hit their stride with what they could do with 16-bit gaming on that console.
Just cruising around some cars listening to the radio in Forza Horizon. Fishing in Shadowprey Village in World of Warcraft. Improving flow of traffic in City Skylines or Transport Fever 2.
Im barely on Reddit anyway but when I do replys always feel like they take ages
So this is a pleasent surprise already here on the lemmyverse
Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley, and puzzle games like Myst, Riven, or The Witness. I love these escape-type games.
I get the headspace thing. It's been really hard for me to devote my mental energy and time to playing games recently. I've picked up the new Zelda game and have barely touched it.
A Short Hike had that effect on me, the re-playability isn't really there though, but for a one-off burst of peace and quite it will do.
Picking some goofy off-role champ in a /muteall draft game of League can also work, but the experience is highly rng based.
Edit: I forgot Trackmania both the latest polished release with its whimsical environments and the historical custom madness that was/is Trackmania: nation. I genuinely hate grinding (be it mmorpgs or soullike) but once I start a track in those I'm hooked for a couple of hours mesmerized by the smooth effect of my growing skills.