I like mini motorways and stardew valley. What about you ?
Just Cause 3, but I’m honestly a bit tired of it now. I love just wingsuiting around the place and I’ve never found anything else that gives me that same level of catharsis.
I do switch to JC4 occasionally just for a change of scenery, but the wingsuit feels too… floaty? In that one. Idk, just doesn’t feel the same.
I am desperately open to suggestions for something similar in terms of brain off flow state gaming.
Teardown is good if you are playing for the destruction aspect. If you’re a fan of nice open world movement than the spiderman games are good if you ignore the copganda. And honestly I really enjoy death stranding for a game to relax too. It gets action packed sometimes but not too often
Teardown is on my wishlist! Might pull the trigger this weekend and try it out. I did enjoy Spiderman, but death stranding was waaay too slow for me lol
Teardown is a really solid game under the technical gimmick. It plays more like a puzzle game, but way more open ended.
Yeah, I was surprised how much fun I had with that. Was on PSPlus a month or two back.
It’s a bit hit and miss in places, but overall it’s pretty solid.
I kinda liked the wingsuit in 4 tbh. I loved actually flying around with the jetpack. But it has nothing on the jetpack in 3, with the rocket launcher and all.
I guess Stormworks, but it can also be frustrating at times when I got tough nuts to crack in my grand designs. Still haven’t found an engineering game of the same caliber.
Powerwashing simulator on quest vr, this is true zen, im getting lost for hours after a stressing work day
Mining stars and talking nonsense on Old School RuneScape. It’s got an activity for any mood
IMO Mini Metro quickly becomes super stressful. I assume Motorways is the same.
Instead I would say Islanders is quite relaxing. Super minimal city building.
What I’d really like though is something for Steam Deck with a good flow state. Any suggestions? Lonely Mountains Downhill looks pretty good maybe. Someone else mentioned Superflight which is great but maybe too minimal.
Brotato
Who’s out there down voting brotato lol
Game is a gem and potato’s are objectively the best thing
Terratech.
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The Dark Mod - absolute incompatible with stress
Factorio’s a great one for this, as is RimWorld, but specifically on the modes where there’s no combat in the former and “base builder” difficulty on the latter. Lately, Palworld has been filling this slot for me. Just build stuff, occasionally tackle enemies, and listen to podcasts while you do it.
“Build making” roguelites like Hades etc. These days I’ve been playing far too much Magicraft while trying to keep sane.
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Honestly I find Stardew Valley quite stressful, with it’s short daily time and so much to do.
I like anything turn based or pausable. FTL and Into the Breach are good. Slay the Spire is fun too. But I am kinda missing a chill game tbh
Slay the Spire is super chill and has a ton of replay value.
Stardiew Valley with mods
Honestly I find Stardew Valley quite stressful, with it’s short daily time and so much to do.
Sounds too much like real life to me :/
Old school FPS games. Doom, Quake, Unreal, etc. They’re just simple, cathartic stress relief.
Same. But I have found OpenArena (based on the Quake III code) to be an update with a decent amount of online players.
In the same cathartic relief idea i also remember finishing both god of wars on ps2 as a kid. Worked great as anger management too. I feel like doom as a very similar energy in that regards.
Soviet Republic and Transport Fever 2.
