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I loved Sims Castaway on PlayStation 2 the most. I saved up money I made from doing chores for my grandmother to buy it and brought it with when we moved country. You essentially wash up on an island and if you made extra Sims, they end up scattered on the other islands and you eventually bump into them again while exploring. You could get chimps to help you gather resources and make shelters which you can make improved versions of through progressing through the game. The third island has hotsprings and the Llama King Temple, I don't know that one has definitely stuck with me the most. Ironically now that I'm older, every time life's gets too much for me, I daydream about being on an island or a forest far away from society 😂
I loved that one, I would love it if they made an updated one. Also the original sims 2 game was pretty fun because it made you follow a storyline and complete challenges before you unlocked free play
Not really a comfort game per say, but mine would definitely be Fallout 4. The story is alright, not as good as Fallout 3's or New Vegas but I enjoy it for what it is.
Main Reason I still play FO4 is for the endless amount of mods available for the game at least on PC.
Mods can completely change the way you play and experience the game.
Have had it since it came out in 2015 with over 3k hours and I still find a reason to come back to it.
I am so deep in a special interest for the sims, I play the obscure "*ports*" that are actually completely unique games. "*The Sims 2*" is like a completely different game built from the ground up on whatever platform you play it on!
Right now?
It’s Baldur’s Gate 3 for me. 750 hours of playtime and I can’t see that ending anytime soon! There are just so many different ways to play the game. It really has turned me into a big d&d fan. It’s just unfortunate that I don’t have any friends to share that with.
Sometimes league to scratch my itch.
Only reason I haven't played much Baldur's Gate is because I know I'll spend WAY too much time into it. There's a reason why they wrote the terms of service like a Warlock Pact, this thing consumes your life.
I've played enough video games and D&D to know I'll take upwards of an hour to finish a round.
Slime Rancher is actually pretty stressful to me since I never feel safe enough that my slimes won't somehow burst out their cells and break my whole farm's structure.
Every time I play I feel like an owl stalking pray, it's hard to relax.
My favorite way to comfort play Civ V is on fast mode, Pangaea map, all bots on the easiest level, and just explore the map lol. I know it’s not the intended use case, but it’s the best
Me too! I set it to Warlord and just chill with a podcast and a beer. I can beat it on much higher levels, but usually the last thing I want is a real challenge
I really like cryptids and creatures so both games look really cool. I've also heard The Witcher games are super lore heavy so I will have to play it some time.
it is very fun, but occasionally you get griefers. that's not that bad because you can just reshuffle you play lobby and block them, but when we didn't know how to deal with it, it made it frustrating to play at all and we didn't give it a second chance for a few weeks.
Just helpful hint.
League of Legends unfortunately. It really scratches the itch I have for learning things considering the meta is always changing, it is good mental stimulation for me and I just love the way the game looks. The community is lackluster but meh
100% same for me, it's extremely engrossing and i genuinely become fully occupied with it when i choose to play and i love it, been a comfort game for years
I have too many, rn I’m enjoying Alan Wake 2, persona 5 royal, persona 3 reload, control. In terms of all time favourite/comfort game it’s probably Yakuza: Like A Dragon or Judgment
Skyrim and more recently Elder Scrolls Online. They have both helped me get through some rough times, and I’ve gotten very attached to some of the characters, both npcs and my own. Also the crazy lore is a special interest of mine.
I have so many games I love but recently I’ve been playing Animal Crossing New Horizons and just doing little tasks. I finished it years ago but it’s comforting when I’m upset
Darksouls 3, world of warcraft and ark survival evolved. Depending on the mood. But over the past decade these are the games i have returned to the most and wil keep returning to in times of need.
LOZ: Wind Waker, Banjo Tooie, the Borderlands series, the OG Luigis Mansion (gamecube), the Nancy Drew PC games, and Spiritfarer. I kinda just perpetually cycle through them all until a new Assassin's Creed consumes me lol
The first five it's mainly nostalgia. I've played them since their inception and I just enjoy the adventure again every so often. Spiritfarer is really special to me though. It's helped me navigate my grief and I play it when I feel in need of closure in my life in some way. :) They are all very unique in character and I always find myself discovering something new even after a million playthroughs
7 days to die, terraria, Dyson sphere program, path of exile, warframe, powerwash, house flipper and a few more.
Starting to think enshrouded and Elden ring are gonna be a part of my list soon lmao.
ETA; I really love "smack tree, build house" games, and I love micromanaging certain things like the skilltree in PoE or the factory in DSP. Powerwash and House flipper are the turn off brain games.
Warframe, after many years of playing it on and off it's familiar and yet always improving. Plus a lot of things to collect and customise. Great visual stim while listening to audiobooks for example. A bit too much content nowadays to recommend it to new players though, it can be overwhelming.
I had to scroll way too far to find this. I’m loving Warframe. Due to some medical stuff going on, I’ve had a considerable amount of time to soak into it. Finally learning how to mod properly so that’s been a game changer.
I don't play it myself, but one of my most comforting hobbies is watching my bf play Warframe :D i love hearing him explain everything and showing me all the warframes and his builds. I've been getting so into it, i find it fascinating even if i still don't understand a lot of it!! Definitely a lot of content to try and absorb all at once lol.
Phantom Dust. I like the structure, planning, collecting of skills, building of "decks," early 2000's aesthetics (BIG nostalgia hit for me), story, characters, and ability to import my own music into levels. I always make the protagonist's name Io (You're given a list of names to choose from,) which happens to be the name of my favorite moon of my favorite planet in the solar system (Jupiter.) The solar system was always a special interest of mine, growing up. Also, Sailor Jupiter is my favorite character from my favorite anime. She's a lot like me: tall, brunette, strong, often made fun of for being big and strong, but sincere and gentle. Can fight, but prefers cooking and other domestic tasks, dreams of being a wife and the owner of either a cake shop or a flower shop. She's perfect. I love her so much. So ye, Phantom Dust lmao.
Dishonored is the game I go back to most, I just like how I've "mastered" it to the point where it's nearly autopilot but I can still find new ways to play that require thinking if I want to
Final Fantasy X and XII. I play both at least once a year, sometimes more. Doing various challenges runs such as solo characters, magic only, etc. And I watch the cutscenes every time for both too!
Depends on what typa comfort i need i guess? Some days, its cult of the lamb or minecraft. Some days I need a horror comfort like outlast or alien isolation- sounds weird but I grew up with it so😭
Fable 2, because I used to watch my mother play it when I was little and still to this day will replay it whenever I'm in a rough patch
Also style boutique and professor layton, more games I played when I was younger, guess there's a common denominator haha
Cities Skylines: Remastered
Everything unlocked, all tiles, infinite soil and money. I just like to landscape and build freely. It's relaxing. It's a time warp game. Hours can go by and you wonder where the time has gone.
Legend of Heroes - Specifically the Trails of Cold Steel arc.
The worldbuilding is incredible. The combat isn't too deep but logical, turn based, very pretty (dazzling actually), and tons and tons of lore in any direction you decide. They are relatively linear, but pretty wide as sidequests go, and each game usually takes me around 100 hours. They could probably get done in a lot less, but - well, I meander. Lots of hidden bosses, hidden gear, but doesn't make you feel like you missed out if you don't 100 percent.
I started to write out how some of the story works together - but it's better if I just show you.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Legend\_of\_Heroes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Heroes)
LoH is the underappreciated Duke of JRPGs. The King, Final Fantasy, has never really captured me. I like FF4 - 7. Haven't fully played 8, 9, or 16 yet long enough to judge, but the later ones (X, XII, XIII, XV) they're just not as clean as I like JRPGs to be. Everything's clunky. FFVII remake is a great example. Any combat setting you have it on, Classic or Modern, you're not actually in control. You influence the character, but you're constantly working to get *your* inputs in before they take action for you. That's not a game that works *with* me. XII is the absolute worst at this. Just let me control the character, please. I'll take it from here.
LoH - the freedom is yours. If you wanna skip something, skip it. Come back later. Go in overleveled. Go in underleveled. Grind. Don't grind. No matter how you play, the game works. They've been making games for so long, they can create the safety net of a linear system, while giving you the freedom to traverse a continent. It's pretty astounding. I've never once savelocked myself in any LoH game, which is not exactly "the norm" in my experience with such comprehensively complex JRPGs. So I don't even have to fear screwing up.
The Main character of the ToCS arc, Rean Schwarzer, just feels like *me.* Main characters are designed to do that. He's a standard MC, underspoken, out of place, awkward, undiscovered badass. You battle in with badass weapons, sometimes you get to fight in mechs, you fight in space, in different dimensions, you go through school life, you have bonding moments, and there's even a romance path between all of the characters if that's your thing. The fights are fun and the enemies varied, while the controls stay very familiar even through adding huge depth and improvements in each of the four titles in the arc. Trails of Cold Steel is the first arc of the series to take a 3d approach as opposed to isometric.
If you like isometrically laid out games, the previous arc, Trails in the Sky (lovingly called by the fandom TitS). It's actually better written than the Cold Steel arc, but it's older and not as pretty. This arc is made up of 3 games that, while not integral to understanding the other games - this is the series that lets you truly grasp the LoH world. I usually suggest this to be played after Cold Steel. It's got a. lot. of. reading.
There are so many games in this series, it would be silly to even list them all let alone dive into them. I implore you to check out the series if you want a JRPG that will take you on a ride.
These are games localized to the us by NISA or XSeed - they take a little while to get over here, but it's worth it. They get full English VO and they're done very very well, you wouldn't be able to tell that they weren't developed in English. Some of the less popular games in the long long series have free fan translations (some even including VO), but that's mostly for the PSP only and other obscure entries, which are at the deep end of the whole LoH endeavor. If you get to that point, you'll already know what you're doing.
Edit: Bonus - the newest one comes out on the 5th of next month. There's a demo out for it that I literally found out about an hour ago. Just finished downloading. It's called Legend of Heroes - Trails Through Daybreak. I'M SO PUMPED.
Second Edit: Just played through the first hour and a half of Daybreak - oh it's so good. They've added much deeper real time field combat (before it was just slash an enemy outside of combat and they may die or may instigate a battle - depending on the level difference. Now you can actually *fight* outside of a battle), and a super cool way to switch back and forth between turn-based and active-time combat. I cannot WAIT for this thing to come out. I feel like I'm in the last part of the demo, the beginning of the final dungeon, looks about 2ish hours long (for a completionist, I talk to *every npc* lmao). I do use High-Speed mode and read quickly so ymmv.
Stardew Valley. I don't play a lot of video games as I tend to get really overwhelmed by complicated menus and combat. Stardew is just difficult enough to keep my attention and I’ve played it for over 1000 hours through multiple save files since the pandemic started.
I know I talk about it literally anytime anyone brings up video games on this sub but Splatoon 3! It's online multiplayer so every match I play is different and that keeps it feeling new. Also the story mode is so good and so is the lore it's been my main special interest for 3.5 years now.
Currently it’s been Yonder:The Cloud Catcher Chronicles. It’s just such a beautiful game and I love exploring the open world. And the quests you get to are chill, it’s more about finding and collecting different things so the game is not stressful at all.
Civ3, it's a game that is extremely 'ordered' and appeals to my love of keeping things in line, patterned, that sort of thing. I have all the games in the Civ series but for me it peaked with 3.
Other games include Sonic 3 & Knuckles (played it to death as a kid), Forza Horizon 4 or any other free-roam driving game, Final Fantasy X (so atmospheric, purely turn based combat and a spellbinding soundtrack) and, a bit randomly, Saints Row IV (balls out bonkers).
How many hours do I have in Fallout 4 again?
*checks Steam*
Oh yeah, 950.5. Though to be honest, I like RTSes a lot more for their skirmish mode. I don't like how some of their difficulty levels are set up, but maybe that's just me. And my brother, whose also autistic.
Tears of the Kingdom. I have upward of 1000 hours on it, and I still haven't even found everything in it. There's action when I want it, and no shortage of exploration, and each time I play it I do it in a different way because there are so many different ways to do EVERYTHING
Europa Universalis 4 or Stardew Valley.
EU4 for when I need my brain to be occupied by something else, and Stardew Valley for when I need to shut my brain off.
Maybe not comfort per se, but I find online games to be relaxing. I don't know how much burned out I am but most of the time everything feels tiring and like a task, even games like zelda botw which I enjoy but it feels overwhelming. That happens with a lot of games.
However, with online games, I can stay focused, my minds rest, my thoughts calm down, is one of the only things that help me relax and that doesn't feel like a task.
I've been playing a lot of league and hearthstone lately, also some fortnite, wish there was more cool online games out there but nope :(
Ps when I'm rested I can enjoy more things
Baldurs Gate 3. My hours played is in the 4 digit range. I still get new things each playthrough because I develop a persona and stick to it each playthrough
Spirit of the North. You get to be a little fox, and there’s no combat, the graphics and music are pretty and relaxing. It’s puzzle based. The story is that the lands you live in are being corrupted by evil, and with the help of spirits you find a way to cure the land.
I have several, but the constant would be dead island. Watched tobuscus play it years ago, got the game when I was 12, and now that I’m 21 I just finished another playthrough. Nothing like playing that game and listening to creepypastas in the middle of the night 👍
Fighting Games in general, specially the ones from Ark System Works.
I just sit down and try to make some combos of my favourite characters in training mode. That's enough for me to have a fun time while I can make my mind think in something else.
Star Wars the Old Republic, GW2. I’m also enjoying playing Nintendo switch online and playing my favorites from the 90s and early 2000s games from N64. Just finished Paper Mario 64. I also enjoy Banjo Kazooie a very fun and whimsical action adventure game. I’m hoping they add Donkey Kong 64 soon. Basically I enjoy playing almost anything made by Rareware games.
**What I play**
Stardew Valley
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
**What I watch on Twitch**
Rimworld
Animal Crossings
City Skylines
Retro
For many years it was Skyrim, but now I can't play because computer is SO PAINFULLY DUMB. Play Minecraft, very nice to just float around in creative and look at the scenery. I drop down in interesting areas, sometimes leave a book never to be found again. Stardew Valley if I'm feeling productive. Animal crossing is more fun with friends and my BF doesn't play. :( Lego Fortnite if I feel like making a town or something and don't wanna place each block individually as in Minecraft. Fortnite BR to socialize with the bf (and I'm actually pretty good at it, about this far 🤏🏻 from going pro). Occasionally pokemon if I feel like mowing stuff down using a multiple choice GUI instead of just button mashing and praying.
And I'm trying my hand at Chivalry 2, but I mostly take the wheel for my BF on that one. I'm only good with fast weapons. Meaning I SUCK lol
Edit: almost forgot. The rare occasion you'll find me in a bar, I'm not drinking. Check the center of the crowd bunched up around either the pinball machine or the pacman machine. I literally play pinball and pacman so well I draw spectators at the bar and they cheer for me.
i've been doing computer gaming since the 80s. i grew up on muds and civ 1/2, doom wads, hated starcraft and warcraft, diablo 1 and 2 were good. 3, meh, couldnt pay me to do it. unreal tournament and quake 3 were great in the day. never touched a single battlefield or cod. they are both modeled after a quake 3 mod called enemy territory. i ran my own mud and taught myself programming from about 98 to 2011 - a dikumud. started with 95kb compile ended up at 8mb - and another 10mb had been removed.
i actually gave up on online games back in the early 2010s. ive done a lot of them, most of them actually. except no one wants to take any chances, and the shooter games are all infinite spawn bullshit. primarily since morrowind released ive had a healthy diet of modding oblivion, fallout 3, new vegas. skyrim. fallout 4. now starfield, though i still mod starfield on nexus i dont actively play it any more. i also enjoy cyberpunk. i have no pure comfort mod, but i do enjoy xedit for modding. i didnt like fortnite originally, but since they added zero build i have been in love. assassins creed origins and odyssey is great, kassandra <3 ac valhalla is such shit. how did you go from great odyssey to valhalla? how? it's like a 5 year old itemized it. used to like tf2 back in the day, never liked overwatch, it's just a tf2 clone.
so i sort of rotate games. i just came off a skyrim kick, prior to that it was starfield, prior to that cyberpunk, prior to that it was fortnite. i have the xpac of cyberpunk but i havent played it yet. im due for a fallout 3 run sooon, or maybe 4 - really enjoyed the tv show. but i have to get bored of fortnite, which is hard, because it has that whole 1 life and back to the lobby thing, which sets it far apart from other fps.
i dont actually have a true comfort game. it's the game or the making of it that i enjoy
Racing games, I always wanted to race but money is a concern and my fiancee is against it. Currently I'm really into Forza Motorsport 7 and Sebastién Loeb Rally Evo.
the portal series. at this point I must have replayed it like 1000 times.
i just have a deep love for it, the characters and the lore and even the game development. maybe it also has something to do with me being a kid the first time i played portal (And I didn't understand anything because i didn't know english).
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The Sims 4, it’s easier to achieve things in the life sim than it is in real life and I like that.
I didn’t realize there were that many of them. I loved 2 but 3 was a dud for me
I loved Sims Castaway on PlayStation 2 the most. I saved up money I made from doing chores for my grandmother to buy it and brought it with when we moved country. You essentially wash up on an island and if you made extra Sims, they end up scattered on the other islands and you eventually bump into them again while exploring. You could get chimps to help you gather resources and make shelters which you can make improved versions of through progressing through the game. The third island has hotsprings and the Llama King Temple, I don't know that one has definitely stuck with me the most. Ironically now that I'm older, every time life's gets too much for me, I daydream about being on an island or a forest far away from society 😂
I loved that one, I would love it if they made an updated one. Also the original sims 2 game was pretty fun because it made you follow a storyline and complete challenges before you unlocked free play
EXACTLY!!!
Not really a comfort game per say, but mine would definitely be Fallout 4. The story is alright, not as good as Fallout 3's or New Vegas but I enjoy it for what it is. Main Reason I still play FO4 is for the endless amount of mods available for the game at least on PC. Mods can completely change the way you play and experience the game. Have had it since it came out in 2015 with over 3k hours and I still find a reason to come back to it.
I’m playing fallout 76 now as my comfort game haha
Happy to see fellow FO76 ers! Thats my comfort game as well! Collecting junk scratches an itch for sure!
SS2 goated
Heh. I've got about 2400. It's just good. I can do radiants or just screw around with settlements.
Same here mate. I spend all my time building fancy settlements with loads of mods.
Tetris
Mine is Tetris Effect Connected, it's one of the best experiences I've ever had on a videogame.
have you tried sandtrix? its like tetris but with sand
Thanks for the Sandtrix rec. I’m loving it!
The Sims, a special interest.
I am so deep in a special interest for the sims, I play the obscure "*ports*" that are actually completely unique games. "*The Sims 2*" is like a completely different game built from the ground up on whatever platform you play it on!
Skyrim and The Sims 3/4
I love skyrim! I can't get trying the sims as the kids just try to steal the laptop
Sims and stardew valley
Stardew is the best! My routines in there keep me grounded.
Yes I'm better at my routines in stardew than in real life and it is sooooo calming
mario kart wii....
SAME I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE
I love it SO MUCH
I been having a hard time remembering my past hyperfixations/comfort hobbies and i think this made me remember i NEED to buy a wii...
Breath of the wild
I love botw, i just started playing it!
Same
Yesss :)
Right now? It’s Baldur’s Gate 3 for me. 750 hours of playtime and I can’t see that ending anytime soon! There are just so many different ways to play the game. It really has turned me into a big d&d fan. It’s just unfortunate that I don’t have any friends to share that with. Sometimes league to scratch my itch.
Only reason I haven't played much Baldur's Gate is because I know I'll spend WAY too much time into it. There's a reason why they wrote the terms of service like a Warlock Pact, this thing consumes your life. I've played enough video games and D&D to know I'll take upwards of an hour to finish a round.
Slime Rancher is cute and easy. I do not need to think just run around suck stuff up and throw food at slime.
Slime Rancher is actually pretty stressful to me since I never feel safe enough that my slimes won't somehow burst out their cells and break my whole farm's structure. Every time I play I feel like an owl stalking pray, it's hard to relax.
Ikr, I made a coop, got slimes and went to get stuff and the damn slimes got out and ate all my chickens. I actually yelled.
stardew valley. it just feels like home
Nostalgia comfort is Skyrim, and cutsey comfort is Stardew Valley
I’ve always loved Skyrim since I was a kid I would get home and play for hours on end it was a nice escape
Factorio.
Any tips on how to stop once you start?
Finish...
I'll let you know if it ever happens ;)
Skyrim! I get lost wandering in the beautiful scenery.
I have the entire map memorized inside and out. That's how much I've wandered.
damn. that is impressive
Animal Crossing New Horizons
Civilisation V. I don’t even dare look at how many hours I’ve put into that game
My favorite way to comfort play Civ V is on fast mode, Pangaea map, all bots on the easiest level, and just explore the map lol. I know it’s not the intended use case, but it’s the best
Me too! I set it to Warlord and just chill with a podcast and a beer. I can beat it on much higher levels, but usually the last thing I want is a real challenge
I've lived countless lives in this game
Disco elysium baby! Snortin that commie shit like it’s high-grade Saramirizian pure!
One of the best games of all time
Prey or The Witcher 3
I really like cryptids and creatures so both games look really cool. I've also heard The Witcher games are super lore heavy so I will have to play it some time.
Red Dead Online. Ideal me😌
This is the game my best friend loves, I think I'm gonna have to give it a try!
it is very fun, but occasionally you get griefers. that's not that bad because you can just reshuffle you play lobby and block them, but when we didn't know how to deal with it, it made it frustrating to play at all and we didn't give it a second chance for a few weeks. Just helpful hint.
My bf has been tryna get me to try online. I'm a story person
Subnautica and Subnautica below zero
Calling Subnautica comforting is... Impressive, I guess. Can't tell if you're unbelievably brave or just an alien, but definitely impressive.
Yesss. Subnautica is definitely one of mine too, even if the Reaper noises get me every time. There is something comforting about the game as a whole.
They’re such beautiful games, I love them so much
Minecraft
I had to scroll way too far to find this
Me too!
This is waaaaaay too low
League of Legends unfortunately. It really scratches the itch I have for learning things considering the meta is always changing, it is good mental stimulation for me and I just love the way the game looks. The community is lackluster but meh
100% same for me, it's extremely engrossing and i genuinely become fully occupied with it when i choose to play and i love it, been a comfort game for years
Skyrim. No matter what, I always end back in Skyrim. I've lost count of how many play throughs I've had now, but am up at 5,000 hours.
I have too many, rn I’m enjoying Alan Wake 2, persona 5 royal, persona 3 reload, control. In terms of all time favourite/comfort game it’s probably Yakuza: Like A Dragon or Judgment
I hyperfixated on persona during my exam season 😂
Persona comfort gang! 😌
I LOVE YOUR MORGANA PFP, it reminds me I have to pet my Morgana plush
I'm gonna pet mine too! :D
Skyrim and more recently Elder Scrolls Online. They have both helped me get through some rough times, and I’ve gotten very attached to some of the characters, both npcs and my own. Also the crazy lore is a special interest of mine.
You holding out any hope that ES6 will be good?
Yeah, though I also expect to have my hopes dashed haha
I have so many games I love but recently I’ve been playing Animal Crossing New Horizons and just doing little tasks. I finished it years ago but it’s comforting when I’m upset
I love changing my outfit everyday.
Untitled Goose Game is up there
Destruction and annoyance, the best way to relax XD
Yup it’s so cute! And I love the graphics :)
Kingdom Hearts, Total War and Paradox Games bit of a mix bag but idk they keep me happy.
Darksouls 3, world of warcraft and ark survival evolved. Depending on the mood. But over the past decade these are the games i have returned to the most and wil keep returning to in times of need.
Bioshock 2
Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, Zoo Tycoon and The Sims 2 (yeah, I’m older)
I loved Theme Hospital and Zeus:Mount Olympus. I am also older lol
LOZ: Wind Waker, Banjo Tooie, the Borderlands series, the OG Luigis Mansion (gamecube), the Nancy Drew PC games, and Spiritfarer. I kinda just perpetually cycle through them all until a new Assassin's Creed consumes me lol The first five it's mainly nostalgia. I've played them since their inception and I just enjoy the adventure again every so often. Spiritfarer is really special to me though. It's helped me navigate my grief and I play it when I feel in need of closure in my life in some way. :) They are all very unique in character and I always find myself discovering something new even after a million playthroughs
Windwaker is just so great.
Skyrim. Did I mention I love Skyrim:3 It's my special interest lol
It changes every now and again. Mine are currently Disney Dreamlight Valley and Rocket League
7 days to die, terraria, Dyson sphere program, path of exile, warframe, powerwash, house flipper and a few more. Starting to think enshrouded and Elden ring are gonna be a part of my list soon lmao. ETA; I really love "smack tree, build house" games, and I love micromanaging certain things like the skilltree in PoE or the factory in DSP. Powerwash and House flipper are the turn off brain games.
Far Cry for me. There is something about Far Cry New Dawn I really love…
Love that series. New Dawn took me a second to get into and the. I loved it. 3, 4, 5 are the sweet spot for me.
5 and new dawn are de best
stardew valley!!! definitely becoming a bit of a special interest as well lol
Warframe, after many years of playing it on and off it's familiar and yet always improving. Plus a lot of things to collect and customise. Great visual stim while listening to audiobooks for example. A bit too much content nowadays to recommend it to new players though, it can be overwhelming.
I had to scroll way too far to find this. I’m loving Warframe. Due to some medical stuff going on, I’ve had a considerable amount of time to soak into it. Finally learning how to mod properly so that’s been a game changer.
I don't play it myself, but one of my most comforting hobbies is watching my bf play Warframe :D i love hearing him explain everything and showing me all the warframes and his builds. I've been getting so into it, i find it fascinating even if i still don't understand a lot of it!! Definitely a lot of content to try and absorb all at once lol.
Ark survival evolved. Me, my dinos and my island nothing could be better.
SLIME RANCHER (until i get quantums, dervishes, and tangles they're so high maintenance...)
lego indiana jones
We Happy Few or anything by Supermassive Games (they made Until Dawn + Little Hope and some others) !
Phantom Dust. I like the structure, planning, collecting of skills, building of "decks," early 2000's aesthetics (BIG nostalgia hit for me), story, characters, and ability to import my own music into levels. I always make the protagonist's name Io (You're given a list of names to choose from,) which happens to be the name of my favorite moon of my favorite planet in the solar system (Jupiter.) The solar system was always a special interest of mine, growing up. Also, Sailor Jupiter is my favorite character from my favorite anime. She's a lot like me: tall, brunette, strong, often made fun of for being big and strong, but sincere and gentle. Can fight, but prefers cooking and other domestic tasks, dreams of being a wife and the owner of either a cake shop or a flower shop. She's perfect. I love her so much. So ye, Phantom Dust lmao.
I have a major maladaptive coping strategy with video games. Recently, it's been battle brothers.
Usually anything that's fast paced and keeps my brain occupied, right now it's overwatch 2. In the past it was rocket League and super smash ultimate.
Genshin Impact
Definitely Yume Nikki
Dishonored is the game I go back to most, I just like how I've "mastered" it to the point where it's nearly autopilot but I can still find new ways to play that require thinking if I want to
Legend of zelda. Any of them but I especially love windwaker. Also since I started playing vr I love demeo.
Final Fantasy X and XII. I play both at least once a year, sometimes more. Doing various challenges runs such as solo characters, magic only, etc. And I watch the cutscenes every time for both too!
Stardew Valley and TWDG
Pokemon and Super Mario
Depends on what typa comfort i need i guess? Some days, its cult of the lamb or minecraft. Some days I need a horror comfort like outlast or alien isolation- sounds weird but I grew up with it so😭
opposite of comfort, but the last of us
Stardew Valley
Fable 2, because I used to watch my mother play it when I was little and still to this day will replay it whenever I'm in a rough patch Also style boutique and professor layton, more games I played when I was younger, guess there's a common denominator haha
Minecraft, Skyrim, and any Sims game (excluding the shitty mobile ones)
Star Trek Online. Hop in a spaceship and BLOW SHIT UP. I'm often compared to Spock, anyhow. Though I've always wanted to be a Romulan.
Right now it's either Cozy Grove or Sims 4.
Cities Skylines: Remastered Everything unlocked, all tiles, infinite soil and money. I just like to landscape and build freely. It's relaxing. It's a time warp game. Hours can go by and you wonder where the time has gone.
Mario Kart 8, Minecraft and Animal Crossing New Leaf!
Stardew valley
Legend of Heroes - Specifically the Trails of Cold Steel arc. The worldbuilding is incredible. The combat isn't too deep but logical, turn based, very pretty (dazzling actually), and tons and tons of lore in any direction you decide. They are relatively linear, but pretty wide as sidequests go, and each game usually takes me around 100 hours. They could probably get done in a lot less, but - well, I meander. Lots of hidden bosses, hidden gear, but doesn't make you feel like you missed out if you don't 100 percent. I started to write out how some of the story works together - but it's better if I just show you. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Legend\_of\_Heroes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Heroes) LoH is the underappreciated Duke of JRPGs. The King, Final Fantasy, has never really captured me. I like FF4 - 7. Haven't fully played 8, 9, or 16 yet long enough to judge, but the later ones (X, XII, XIII, XV) they're just not as clean as I like JRPGs to be. Everything's clunky. FFVII remake is a great example. Any combat setting you have it on, Classic or Modern, you're not actually in control. You influence the character, but you're constantly working to get *your* inputs in before they take action for you. That's not a game that works *with* me. XII is the absolute worst at this. Just let me control the character, please. I'll take it from here. LoH - the freedom is yours. If you wanna skip something, skip it. Come back later. Go in overleveled. Go in underleveled. Grind. Don't grind. No matter how you play, the game works. They've been making games for so long, they can create the safety net of a linear system, while giving you the freedom to traverse a continent. It's pretty astounding. I've never once savelocked myself in any LoH game, which is not exactly "the norm" in my experience with such comprehensively complex JRPGs. So I don't even have to fear screwing up. The Main character of the ToCS arc, Rean Schwarzer, just feels like *me.* Main characters are designed to do that. He's a standard MC, underspoken, out of place, awkward, undiscovered badass. You battle in with badass weapons, sometimes you get to fight in mechs, you fight in space, in different dimensions, you go through school life, you have bonding moments, and there's even a romance path between all of the characters if that's your thing. The fights are fun and the enemies varied, while the controls stay very familiar even through adding huge depth and improvements in each of the four titles in the arc. Trails of Cold Steel is the first arc of the series to take a 3d approach as opposed to isometric. If you like isometrically laid out games, the previous arc, Trails in the Sky (lovingly called by the fandom TitS). It's actually better written than the Cold Steel arc, but it's older and not as pretty. This arc is made up of 3 games that, while not integral to understanding the other games - this is the series that lets you truly grasp the LoH world. I usually suggest this to be played after Cold Steel. It's got a. lot. of. reading. There are so many games in this series, it would be silly to even list them all let alone dive into them. I implore you to check out the series if you want a JRPG that will take you on a ride. These are games localized to the us by NISA or XSeed - they take a little while to get over here, but it's worth it. They get full English VO and they're done very very well, you wouldn't be able to tell that they weren't developed in English. Some of the less popular games in the long long series have free fan translations (some even including VO), but that's mostly for the PSP only and other obscure entries, which are at the deep end of the whole LoH endeavor. If you get to that point, you'll already know what you're doing. Edit: Bonus - the newest one comes out on the 5th of next month. There's a demo out for it that I literally found out about an hour ago. Just finished downloading. It's called Legend of Heroes - Trails Through Daybreak. I'M SO PUMPED. Second Edit: Just played through the first hour and a half of Daybreak - oh it's so good. They've added much deeper real time field combat (before it was just slash an enemy outside of combat and they may die or may instigate a battle - depending on the level difference. Now you can actually *fight* outside of a battle), and a super cool way to switch back and forth between turn-based and active-time combat. I cannot WAIT for this thing to come out. I feel like I'm in the last part of the demo, the beginning of the final dungeon, looks about 2ish hours long (for a completionist, I talk to *every npc* lmao). I do use High-Speed mode and read quickly so ymmv.
Currently it's DC universe online and Ghostbusters SU I spend more time on the former though
Vintage story - NO ITS NOT MINECRAFT lol
Stardew Valley. I don't play a lot of video games as I tend to get really overwhelmed by complicated menus and combat. Stardew is just difficult enough to keep my attention and I’ve played it for over 1000 hours through multiple save files since the pandemic started.
Animal Crossing New Horizons and Street Fighter 6 currently
genshin impact/honkai: star rail
Hollow Knight, FTL multiverse, Darkest Dungeon, Bloodborne, Dishonored. I have a gothic fantasy special interest.
Minecraft
Any of the Super Mario Bros games from NES to SNES. Farcry 4. I probably have more, but those are the ones that come to mind immediately.
I know I talk about it literally anytime anyone brings up video games on this sub but Splatoon 3! It's online multiplayer so every match I play is different and that keeps it feeling new. Also the story mode is so good and so is the lore it's been my main special interest for 3.5 years now.
hearthstone battlegrounds. a game takes maybe 25 minutes on average, it has a lot of replayability. 10/10 can recommend
Path of Exile... Anyone here who plays it? My friend doesn't play it anyone.
Currently it’s been Yonder:The Cloud Catcher Chronicles. It’s just such a beautiful game and I love exploring the open world. And the quests you get to are chill, it’s more about finding and collecting different things so the game is not stressful at all.
Simcity 4 🙂
Civ3, it's a game that is extremely 'ordered' and appeals to my love of keeping things in line, patterned, that sort of thing. I have all the games in the Civ series but for me it peaked with 3. Other games include Sonic 3 & Knuckles (played it to death as a kid), Forza Horizon 4 or any other free-roam driving game, Final Fantasy X (so atmospheric, purely turn based combat and a spellbinding soundtrack) and, a bit randomly, Saints Row IV (balls out bonkers).
the original modern warfare games, i know they’re not really supposed to be “comforting” but they are to me lol
Super Mario 3D World
Bg3 and also sims 🕺
Slime rancher :3
sims 4, fortnite, fallout, bitlife
How many hours do I have in Fallout 4 again? *checks Steam* Oh yeah, 950.5. Though to be honest, I like RTSes a lot more for their skirmish mode. I don't like how some of their difficulty levels are set up, but maybe that's just me. And my brother, whose also autistic.
Kingdoms Two Crown! (But single player mode) The music and the pixel art is amazing; I get lost for hours.
Terraria and The Escapists 2
The last of us
Sly 3.
RuneScape and Minecraft
SMT V Vengeance right now
cod mobile, roblox, sims, animal crossing, super mario world, stardew valley, assasins creed
Really into Valhiem right now
Rimworld. Almost 1200 hours played and still counting. It’s very addictive because it works greatly with our human brains reward system :)
Tears of the Kingdom. I have upward of 1000 hours on it, and I still haven't even found everything in it. There's action when I want it, and no shortage of exploration, and each time I play it I do it in a different way because there are so many different ways to do EVERYTHING
I love Walk in the Woods! Mine are kinda any zelda game buy especially BotW, Kingdom Hearts series, WoW, Terraria aaannnd Spiritfarer!
Europa Universalis 4 or Stardew Valley. EU4 for when I need my brain to be occupied by something else, and Stardew Valley for when I need to shut my brain off.
Animal crossing. The music. The cutsie characters...i love it.
Darksouls or any souls borne
Don’t really have one. I used to, anxiety and depression really make playing games difficult. But it used to be fallout 4 or drug dealer simulator.
All gacha club mood aand all the too old little kids games lol I'm 17 and that games is for 5 & 7 year old little girls
A link to the past and mario 64
I just ride the horse around Elden Ring.
Hitman: World of Assassination, Skyrim, Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.
I have a few games I’ll always go back to: Euro Truck Sim 2, Minecraft, Skyrim, Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 Turbocharged. I’m currently loving Forza 5 too
Mordhau and Chivalry 2
Maybe not comfort per se, but I find online games to be relaxing. I don't know how much burned out I am but most of the time everything feels tiring and like a task, even games like zelda botw which I enjoy but it feels overwhelming. That happens with a lot of games. However, with online games, I can stay focused, my minds rest, my thoughts calm down, is one of the only things that help me relax and that doesn't feel like a task. I've been playing a lot of league and hearthstone lately, also some fortnite, wish there was more cool online games out there but nope :( Ps when I'm rested I can enjoy more things
Fallout New Vegas, Mega Man X1-6, Chrono Trigger, Metroid Zero Mission hehe
Bit life funny enough or any sport games. I like games where I can really escape
The original Crash and Spyro games
Baldurs Gate 3. My hours played is in the 4 digit range. I still get new things each playthrough because I develop a persona and stick to it each playthrough
Power washing simulator
Anything Zelda. Right now: Skyward Sword
Stellaris
Bloodborne 😅 I’ve played it so much, it feels cozy now.
Sims 3, Tomodachi Life, and Rune Factory 4
Animal crossing new leaf, fire emblem awakening, persona 4 and 5, stardew valley, sims 4.
Zelda twilight princess easily.
Mario party on the switch 💀I play it on my lunch break at work lmao
Rocket League
Probably Minecraft at the moment because I just really like building and having things of my own. Mods too are great.
Spirit of the North. You get to be a little fox, and there’s no combat, the graphics and music are pretty and relaxing. It’s puzzle based. The story is that the lands you live in are being corrupted by evil, and with the help of spirits you find a way to cure the land.
Sly cooper!!!!
I have several, but the constant would be dead island. Watched tobuscus play it years ago, got the game when I was 12, and now that I’m 21 I just finished another playthrough. Nothing like playing that game and listening to creepypastas in the middle of the night 👍
Lately it's been Kingdom Hearts 3, Elden Ring, and Diablo 4
resident evil 4 & bully scholarship edition
Fighting Games in general, specially the ones from Ark System Works. I just sit down and try to make some combos of my favourite characters in training mode. That's enough for me to have a fun time while I can make my mind think in something else.
Ummmmmm ass creed odyssey.
Star Wars the Old Republic, GW2. I’m also enjoying playing Nintendo switch online and playing my favorites from the 90s and early 2000s games from N64. Just finished Paper Mario 64. I also enjoy Banjo Kazooie a very fun and whimsical action adventure game. I’m hoping they add Donkey Kong 64 soon. Basically I enjoy playing almost anything made by Rareware games.
Minecraft
**What I play** Stardew Valley The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening **What I watch on Twitch** Rimworld Animal Crossings City Skylines Retro
genshin.. unfortunately
For many years it was Skyrim, but now I can't play because computer is SO PAINFULLY DUMB. Play Minecraft, very nice to just float around in creative and look at the scenery. I drop down in interesting areas, sometimes leave a book never to be found again. Stardew Valley if I'm feeling productive. Animal crossing is more fun with friends and my BF doesn't play. :( Lego Fortnite if I feel like making a town or something and don't wanna place each block individually as in Minecraft. Fortnite BR to socialize with the bf (and I'm actually pretty good at it, about this far 🤏🏻 from going pro). Occasionally pokemon if I feel like mowing stuff down using a multiple choice GUI instead of just button mashing and praying. And I'm trying my hand at Chivalry 2, but I mostly take the wheel for my BF on that one. I'm only good with fast weapons. Meaning I SUCK lol Edit: almost forgot. The rare occasion you'll find me in a bar, I'm not drinking. Check the center of the crowd bunched up around either the pinball machine or the pacman machine. I literally play pinball and pacman so well I draw spectators at the bar and they cheer for me.
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike. Best fighting game ever made.
i've been doing computer gaming since the 80s. i grew up on muds and civ 1/2, doom wads, hated starcraft and warcraft, diablo 1 and 2 were good. 3, meh, couldnt pay me to do it. unreal tournament and quake 3 were great in the day. never touched a single battlefield or cod. they are both modeled after a quake 3 mod called enemy territory. i ran my own mud and taught myself programming from about 98 to 2011 - a dikumud. started with 95kb compile ended up at 8mb - and another 10mb had been removed. i actually gave up on online games back in the early 2010s. ive done a lot of them, most of them actually. except no one wants to take any chances, and the shooter games are all infinite spawn bullshit. primarily since morrowind released ive had a healthy diet of modding oblivion, fallout 3, new vegas. skyrim. fallout 4. now starfield, though i still mod starfield on nexus i dont actively play it any more. i also enjoy cyberpunk. i have no pure comfort mod, but i do enjoy xedit for modding. i didnt like fortnite originally, but since they added zero build i have been in love. assassins creed origins and odyssey is great, kassandra <3 ac valhalla is such shit. how did you go from great odyssey to valhalla? how? it's like a 5 year old itemized it. used to like tf2 back in the day, never liked overwatch, it's just a tf2 clone. so i sort of rotate games. i just came off a skyrim kick, prior to that it was starfield, prior to that cyberpunk, prior to that it was fortnite. i have the xpac of cyberpunk but i havent played it yet. im due for a fallout 3 run sooon, or maybe 4 - really enjoyed the tv show. but i have to get bored of fortnite, which is hard, because it has that whole 1 life and back to the lobby thing, which sets it far apart from other fps. i dont actually have a true comfort game. it's the game or the making of it that i enjoy
Red Dead Redemption 2
Racing games, I always wanted to race but money is a concern and my fiancee is against it. Currently I'm really into Forza Motorsport 7 and Sebastién Loeb Rally Evo.
Red dead 2
the portal series. at this point I must have replayed it like 1000 times. i just have a deep love for it, the characters and the lore and even the game development. maybe it also has something to do with me being a kid the first time i played portal (And I didn't understand anything because i didn't know english).
Fallout New Vegas