Heavily modded Kerbal Space Program. It's so relaxing building rockets and going on complex interplanetary missions for science
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City skylines and factorio.
Satisfactory
Stardew valley, minecraft and sometimes mass effect 3 multiplayer. I'm still impressed I can regularly find matches in such an old game.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on the switch.
Pokemon Silver/Gold.
Recently, Path of Titans as well.
Sexy Parodius
It's super fun to get drunk and play through. Fantastic music! Gotta MAME it, though. Unless you actually have a Sexy Parodius machine.
Factorio
i love factorio, but I cannot see it as a comfort game.
I've got so many things to do, i need to massively increase processing on novice, gleba is a wrek, all my space platforms suck, everything needs to be reworked, and I won't have the tech to fix fulgira or vulkanus until after I ve beat the game.
very stressful.
#2 most hours of any game on steam.
The Guardian Legend, for the nes, played on my pc using fceux because my preferred controller is a keyboard.
if I'm feeling bad, it makes me feel ok.
Minecraft.
If I'm feeling particularly antisocial I'll play Angband or Umoria.
Sudoku, Picross, and the solitaire from Shenzhen IO
Binding of Issac
OR
Hades
minecraft (playing around with mods is very fun, too)
Therapy 💚
Noita.
I know that might seem like I'm being facetious but Noita is so difficult and so punishing I find it impossible to take it too seriously. Pretty much every time I've died I've just gone "haha that's what I get" and boom, back at the entrance to the mines.
I'm not particularly zen about things in general either, it's just that my objective is always "screw around until the inevitable happens" because anything else seems like pure hubris.
Alto's Odyssey with youtube on my TV, or No Man's Sky with youtube on my phone
I haven't been playing it much, but Chuzzle Deluxe and Mahjong (the match 2 tiles, clear board version).
I don't know the exact specific version of Mahjong my grandma used to have on her laptop because it's generic and has 3 trillion different clones/versions of it, but the reason I haven't gotten rid of the KDE version on my laptop is because it reminds me, in a way, of a long time ago when I'd spend time with her. Same with Chuzzle.
I had a pretty good time earlier on my laptop just spending a little bit of time in the zen chuzzle mode and it was great. 10/10 would recommend.
I also learned earlier today that there was a Christmas skinned version and there's a non-EA Chuzzle 2 mobile game out, but as of now the Christmas version isn't available ( as of May 15, 2025 ) unless you pirate it.
Project zomboid: walk around, bash heads in, gather stuff for a base you will never build.
I play with infection disabled though - so not to restart after one bite
This is kind of my answer too. 7 days to die with the difficulty turned down, dying light, last stand aftermath. Still looking for my white whale, someone please come make a non-scam version of The Day Before!
Balatro
So easy to get a round or two in, on the couch, isn't it? Can be picked up and put down at a moment's notice, too. Not really a "casual" game as you get up in the stakes, but so damn good.
Super Mario World. It was the first one to really unlock gaming for me. I go back and play it fairly often.
Overwatch is the weird one. The game just clicks for me, and when I'm in the zone, doing call outs and nailing upcoming enemy ults or pushes just feels so good.
Guild Wars 2, it can be extremely cozy in places. Beautiful environments, it lets you run around and just stumble across something to do, and you can get in a groove doing a map meta with a series of events leading to a big boss fight with 50+ people all participating and then you can just run off later harvesting leeks or whatever. I can just zone out watching a show on my other monitor while working on a collection or an achievement or getting flax or something.
Gemcraft
i miss gemcraft, which one is your favorite? i really got into chasing shadows, but couldn't get into frostborn wrath.
Oh I'm currently playing Frostborn and am enjoying it. I will say it just sort of puts you in the game with no tutorial for a lot of things it should tell you.
I always end up going back to Chasing Shadows at some point though, nostalgic fun!
Lawn mowing simulator.
One more vote for the original Doom, running in a modern engine with some of the colossal WADs released over the years.
It loads instantly, gets you fighting in no time. You know the rules, yet you still get surprised by one of these guys with a machine gun.
Compare that to a modern game, where you have to wait for it to update, compile shaders, the studio logo video, the proprietary launcher and the main menu before you are allowed to do anything.
Factorio, GregTech: New Horizons, Oxygen Not Included, RimWorld and lately Obenseuer and Vintage Story
Og doom, Duke nukem 3d and Unreal tournament
It's buggy but it's mine, pillars of eternity 2 deadfire
I never really got into the one character party hardest mode min/maxing, but everything else about it is pretty much what I want from an RPG
- Super Metroid
- A Hat in Time
- Portal
Anything Zelda. Stardew Valley. Civ 6. RDR2.
OG Doom and some random WADs.
I've played more Team Fortress 2 than anything else. I can always go back to community servers there.
Man I really wish there was a version of TF2 with all the cosmetics and weapon unlocks disabled.
Anno 1800 👍
Rimworld. It's like having a fishtank, but with really sociopathic fish. Only game I can think of where the #1 enemy you struggle with, that which shapes your core strategy and approach to every problem, is its single threaded performance.
Super Metroid, especially on a dark and rainy day
For now it’s Oblivion Remastered.
Once that’s done I have no idea, probably back to Skyrim.
Morrowind.
Kerbal Space Program. I mostly just make fighter jets using the procedural wings and BDArmory mods now.
Chrono Trigger. Beaten hundreds of times on tens of devices. Short, sweet, doesn’t outstay its welcome but is always, always good.
beamNG.
There is no sadness. Only smashed cars and bent metal.
Creaper world. I like putting it on random and listening to audiobooks. It's great for destress.
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