Euro Truck Simulator 2 / American Truck Simulator for me.
Spending a week installing Skyrim mods and playing the actual game for a week before running into a game-breaking bug that I cannot get around.
Banished
Yeah! So cozy, that is a delightful comfort game that I forgot about til now
Not sure about comfort… but I always find myself picking rocket league up on my steam deck for a few matches. Probably because it’s a bit mindless and lets my brain take a break by only reacting in the moment.
Oldschool runescape
Hell yeah. I wish the Lemmy community was bigger for osrs.
The Sly Cooper Trilogy. I still have them on PS2
League of Legends.
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!
so brave
Factorio
The factory must grow.
I turn off biters and play on 100x research because it’s calming.
I like games with beautiful open world environments I can just roam around in so Witcher 3, RDR 2, Far Cry 4, Subnautica. I also like games I can quickly jump in play a little and quit, so playing a few quick matches in Dead By Daylight is comforting
Dwarf Fortress
Toy Story 2 on the PS1
Hell Divers 2. Used to be Mario Kart kind of, although I do get competitive there. Also Muse Dash.
Alpha Centauri.
I know I’m aging myself, but there has never been anything else like it. The depth, the narrative, the way the gameplay evolves. It’s a masterpiece.
Nice, and I fully agree: The best turn based 4x Civ I have played so far. Music, fractions and the story are all perfect. The factions play quite different and allow for diverse strategies to win. Surprised that there are not more copy-cats that try to pull it off.
I’d have to say Dark Souls, honestly any of them. Once you know what you are doing, where you’re going, it’s easy to just get lost in playing
Shame on me, never finished even Dark Souls 1, but damn I had a lot of fun failing and dying. :-)
No shame at all, they’re very flawed games and the problems they have do drive some people away. The latter half of DS1 is extremely rough, honestly.
Yeah, for DS1, I totally respect the artistic vision and that they simply created a game against the trends (back then) … at the same time I made it trough the swamp under the Orc-City w/o the ring which allows immunity to the swamp poison. When I looked up how to get this ring (back to the Asylum) I was just like: WTF, I have a real life, how should I have figured this out by myself? … this turned me away, although I still have a lot of respect and love for DS1!
Blighttown is an area that turns away a lot of players haha, the lower portion isn’t too bad. The poison water slows you, but if you roll through it you can navigate it pretty fast, and there’s a merchant that sells an item that cures poison, that you can find right before you enter the depths. There’s no shame whatsoever in looking up help online in dark souls.
Ds1 just flows so well. I still get happy when a new run gets the black knight halberd
Minecraft is the one I keep coming back to year after year. Throw in a massive automation based mod pack and I’m set for months until the save lags to the point of unplayability.
To help with lag for me I ran a server on a separate computer with some extra performance mods then played on my PC. It helps a little but still will eventually lag
For the last two years it’s been BG3.
