It’s too bad banished always turns into a hectic click management game once the community gets to a self supporting size. Migrants show up and you expand for them… And then you get to run through the same operations every season, setting fields for plant and harvest, prioritizing workers and resources. It gets repetitive and the reward for getting bigger is just more clicking and more management.
Dynasty Warriors (and its many, many spinoffs). I know they’re not objectively good, but man does it feel great to kill 1,000 enemies just by mashing Square and Triangle.
The older entries also had endearingly bad English voice acting.
Oh man I used to be a major dynasty warriors fan. Specifically of the empires spinoffs. I wish they were more accessible on PC (specifically 7 empires, or the samurai warrior empires games).
For me, Mini Metro. I can just zone out on it. I get that with Tetris and similar games (rymdkapsul is another, Civilization to an extent but not in the same way) - there's that thing of, 'this will end at some point, but before it ends just focus on the now' which puts the mind at ease. But Mini Metro has a more relaxing theme and art style for me than Tetris.
Borderlands 2, there’s just something about it. I’ve put so many hours into it on various platforms, and it never gets old. The story is so good and I just love the play style. It’s super easy to restart the campaign or there’s always some farming / grinding to do, depending on the vibe for the day
Slay The Spire, I’ve accumulated over 2000 hours over 3 different platforms since it launched, I’ve 100%ed it and I’ve even played some of the mods (which I never ever do for any game) and I never get sick of it, whenever I have an hour and can’t be bothered with doing something new I play a run.
Surviving Mars, taming an hostile environment always does the trick for me. Also some games from childhood (for example, I recently played Tomba! and Tomba! 2 again)
The Tomba games are great! I was thinking of replaying them this year, actually, probably for my Halloween gaming season (it's not horror, I know, but there's a lot in the games that was just creepy to me as a kid)
I’ve been an avid fan of NBA 2K since the early 2000’s. I absolutely hate how money hungry the game has gotten; that being said, the core offline gameplay is still extremely strong. I’ll pop in and play a few offline games just to decompress. It’s gotten to the point where I’ll put on music or a podcast and find myself idly playing through four quarters of basketball.
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