After Work Gaming: What games do you enjoy mostly after a day of work?

I am not a regular gamer, but once or twice in the week I am indulging in some after work gaming. Mostly I enjoy games that are either story rich to put different thoughts in my mind or games with a simple, but enjoyable gameplay (not too much micromanagement).

Here are my favorites for an after work gaming spree:

What about you, what do you play after work (even occasionally) to get your mind off or do you have any suggestions in general?

EthicalDogMeat,

I don’t have any specific games to play after work. I just play whatever I’m enjoying most. Currently, that game is baldurs gate 3. I haven’t played anything else since Thursday. Before that, it was Spiritfall. It’s a roguelite with brawlhalla/smashbros type combat fused with hades’ blessings power ups. It’s still in early access but it’s pretty polished, and a lot of fun. I was also playing risk of rain 2 from time to time but boy does it take a while to get good at that game…

Aquagrunt,

It’s really whatever is new or whatever game I’m interested in for the month. The only staples I cine back to would be battlefield and FFXIV. Although the latest iteration of BF wasn’t that good

sneezymrmilo,

Right now I’m hard addicted to Remnant 2. Been playing it pretty much every day after work this week. Phenomenal game.

Aquagrunt,

Same, been having a blast with engineer so far

CustodialTeapot,

Against The Storm, still in early access but very regular updates and fantastic team behind it.

Very fresh feeling take on rts/micromanagment game. Feels very unique in its game play loop.

bcron,

I got hooked on Pillars of Eternity (the original vanilla game), might be worth a look if you’re into top-down ‘Baldur’s Gate’ type RPGs. Big huge map, non-linear storyline, lots of things to find. Stats, items, classes, dialogue options that are often dependent on stats and choices affect the storyline. You can add NPCs/hirelings to your party - play through by unlocking and adding the regular NPCs and wind up with a conventional group (dude with shield, healer, damage dealers), or try to get through as a Rogue with a bunch of ranged damage dealer Cipher hirelings to snipe the hard targets. Play through choosing ‘evil’ dialogue options, or try to get through solo without adding anyone else to your party (there are achievements and one of them is to run through solo, some others are playing through without main character dying, or playing through with a lot of UI targetting helpers and tooltips disabled).

My last playthrough I was running through to try to get the Triple Crown Solo achieve (solo/no dying/‘hard mode’ toggled) and had a second playthrough without ‘no dying’ toggled, so I’d crawl through the story a little on the ‘dying allowed’ file until I was confident I could advance a bit on the triple crown save, then jump to that file and advance the story. Ultimate time waster.

I’ve played through it a half a dozen times easily, each time it plays out different and I wind up discovering a lot of things I must’ve missed in prior playthroughs. It’s the kind of game you can dive into until you’re kind of bored with it, then weeks/months later you’re looking through your Steam library, glance at it, think of maybe trying to get through as a Paladin, and next thing you know you’re hours into yet another playthrough.

CoolBeance,
@CoolBeance@lemmy.world avatar

For me, it feels great to do a few laps in a racing sim like Assetto Corsa Competizione after a long day. Even something more arcade-y like Forza feels good to me.

If I don’t feel like like driving at the end of my day though I’d probably hop on Monster Hunter or a story-based single player game.

malchior,

Currently doing a second playtrhough of Pathfinder WoTR.

Braydox_ofAstroya,

Any game really. Currently going through ratchet and clank rift in time since it just came out on pc. Other is legacy of the duelist and ace Attorney trilogy

duffman,

Between Xbox and steam deck:

Recently I finished it takes two with my daughter, looking for new couch coops to play with her. For my own gaming time, getting bored of Diablo IV, Dave the diver was fun for a while but I’m ready for something else, maybe will get back into valheim.

CustodialTeapot,

DYO is a great free couch coop puzzle game on steam.

If you can play in seperate rooms, the We Were Here series is outstanding. As well as Escape Academy, which is much more child friendly.

Side scroller wise on the same machine. Ibb and Obb or Unravel 1 and 2 are fantastic couch coop games.

Yes, I love coop games. Just wish there were more. Feel I’ve.played them all already.

duffman,

Awesome, thanks for the suggestions! Unravel (2) was one of the first games we played together, it was the the perfect game to introduce her to because asymmetrical skill doesn’t hurt the game at all, actually it even helps.

I agree with you on the limited local co-op games out there. I feel like I’ve played them all. Online co-op will be an option when I fix my PC, but the couch experience is hard to beat.

Rindel,

My jam is an indie game called Warsim! It’s got a delightful arena battle minigame that you can bet on, complete with audience interference, a spike pit, and goblin streakers. After that, you can have a pint of various drinks in one of dozens of unique taverns, and round out the evening by presiding over the royal court and issuing decrees, proclamations, and dropping unruly petitioners through my personal trapdoor.

Ethalis,

It’s been a few months since I played it, and I remember I really enjoyed it at the time but ended up feeling a bit limited in what I could do: after the truly magical first few hours, everything seemed to devolve into a game all about numbers and lacking actual depth. Has there been interesting updates since?

Rindel,

Oh, most definitely! They added a ton of random encounters, throne room encounters, and a crap-ton of other content. It’s got waaay more stuff, including QoL stuff like the ability to invade more than once. Highly recommend another look!

nugget359,

Lately it’s been Persona 4 Golden on the Vita and Zelda ToTK.

Zelda because you can change your play style easily, sometimes I just want to build stuff, other times I want to explore the map, fight monsters, or do side quests. Sometimes I’ll sit there and spend a bunch of time preparing meals for a future play sessions.

Persona 4 I keep coming back to for the story and overall experience - music, voice acting, and even just navigating menus is so stylistic and top notch. I started my playthrough in 2019 though and am barely picking it back up.

On days I have more energy I’ve been playing Freedom Planet 2 for some action platforming as well.

wildwhitehorses,

Always was, always will be, Sid Meyer and his Civillisations.

cone_zombie,

On turn 658 you realise it’s 3AM and you have work in 4 hours

wildwhitehorses,

And you still will play just 1 more turn

Hazzul,

Just a perfect mix of 80s-90s rock, some weed and Diablo IV. Really hits the spot.

pylohn,

Lately ive been bouncing between my usual dailies on final fantasy 14 or a few round of battlebit remastered. Battle bit has been really great at capturing that battlefield feel

harry_assman,
@harry_assman@lemmy.world avatar

Wow… did not expect that many responses! I have strolled through all of them. There are a lot of really nice suggestions of games. I have bookmarked some of them.

Love the Lemmy energy, except those 1-2 hardcore ‘redditiers’ commenting here in their usual way : ).

Thx to all of you!

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