Euro Truck Simulator 2 / American Truck Simulator for me.
Hearts of Iron III
The binding of isaac
Factorio
The factory must grow.
Dwarf Fortress and Settler 2. It’s quite comforting seeing everything working and the dwarfs/romans going forth and Back.
Also Kingdoms and Castles works here well too.
I like the “Wuselfaktor” like they say in german
Slay the Spire
City skylines and factorio.
Heavily modded Kerbal Space Program. It’s so relaxing building rockets and going on complex interplanetary missions for science
Satisfactory
Stardew valley, minecraft and sometimes mass effect 3 multiplayer. I’m still impressed I can regularly find matches in such an old game.
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.
I got 355 hours in the game and haven’t launched a rocket yet. I just built my first silo like an hour ago. I thought I was like minutes away from doing it. Nope. I have a whole new fucking chain to learn. Oh well. I love it. It’s not stressful at all to me. This is the type of shit I live for. My OG answer to this question is SimCity 4. The endless replay value and modding in that game got me well over 5k hours of play. Factorio is the only game since then that has come even close to that feeling.
Minecraft.
If I’m feeling particularly antisocial I’ll play Angband or Umoria.
Id say Long Drive. It’s fun to drive and listen to the radio, find weird stuff, and laugh at the hilarious glitches
League of Legends.
so brave
Holy carp you do. Once I hit about level 20 the culture of that community just went crazy. Everyone was just a complete shithead and cared so much.
I wish I could have capped myself at about level 10 and hung around with the other casuals forever, but instead I quit once I got enough counseling to put down the mouse and stop running bottom route sup.
The problem is 9 out of 10 games are just misserable… but than that one game hits and it hits different, so good you forget the other 9 games and makes you crave more.
But I’m clean now… since January I got my League fix only from the eSports…
I hear that. It’s been over a decade (or so) since I’ve played and I still remember a few of the games very specifically. The rest are a blur with a general feeling of annoyance left over.
Since I never spent the hours of learning how to min/max my build against every conceivable combination of enemies and teammates, I never could do well at the higher levels. The net result was mediocrity in my style and huge waves of anger from the random people I was teamed with.
To be able to compete you have to invest huge efforts into learning the builds and styles to match. I just didn’t care enough, but with the XP system always climbing (by sheer games played), I was pinched out just because the system has room room for casual play.
The spikes of reward from the mid level games were quickly dwarfed by the constance negative experiences as I was forced to level up.
High five as fellow recovering ex-LoL players!
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.
minecraft (playing around with mods is very fun, too)
Therapy 💚
