Comfort games?

With gaming often bringing me into a really depressive headspace sometimes with how the markets are developing, whats a game you can always go to and just be lost in, or just be happy with?

Personally i would go for advance wars 1 and 2 on the gba (there is no remake and never will be)

the artstyle, the music, the game-play is just simple, yet effective, a sublime experience of very fun times.

Whats yours?

Mathusalem,
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for me it’s baldur’s gate. A return to my childhood each time

fmstrat,

Unraveled (Unraveled 2 is great for 2 players, too), and Hue. Then there’s always Slayaway Camp. All good on Steam Deck as well.

But those are for the times when I’m not addicted to RL.

MeowKittyWow,
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It has been a while, but there was a time when, if I was feeling really anxious and almost panicky, a quick playthrough of Enter the Gungeon would chill me right out.

EvilGibbon,

I could (and have) spent hours in Valhiem just noodling around surviving as a Viking

pixxel,

The last couple of years my comfort game has been Ori and the blind forest and Ori and the will of the wisp.

noyesster,

For me, it’s always Ocarina of Time. The music always improves my mood and there is something oddly comforting about the game.

Fictionalistic,

MH Rise (Lance for tank mode) - fighting Melvor - idling Disney Dreamlight Valley - collecting Hardspace Shipbreaker - dismantling

natryamar,

Journey and Flower

delcake,
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Journey is just One Of Those Games. I like to replay it once a year, usually on some quiet December evening when I can really just shut out the world and focus on a front-to-back play-through.

empyrean,
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Trackmania 2020 is great!

delcake,
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If I'm not careful, an entire afternoon will disappear before I notice if I fire up Trackmania. It's just so good at getting me in to a flow state of just really dialing in my gameplay.

paorzz,
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Minecraft. It's just a nice game to get lost in.

teawrecks,

Outer Wilds. But I already know everything that happens. So I prefer watching a stream/VOD of someone playing it for the first time.

delcake,
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100%. What an experience.

Trainguyrom,

Euro Truck Simulator/American Truck Simulator

It quickly just becomes a virtual road trip simulator, and as someone who generally enjoys driving and road trips its very chill

simonthefoxsays,

Outer wilds. The music is so pretty, and going back to it after you've explored it all feels like being on your childhood playground again. Sometimes now I just go out into space and watch how the planets move.

citrixscu,
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Second this. Outer Wilds is amazing. If you do play, try not to look up anything as the satisfaction of exploring and figuring things out is so cool. The sound track is very good as is the DLC.

Wilshire,
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Elite Dangerous in VR. I can really disconnect from the real world and just enjoy being a space-pirate bounty hunter.

YellowGas,
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Hardspace: Shipbreaker can be a super relaxing game. You sit back and slowly disassemble massive spaceships in a salvaging yard. I love playing it when I want something mindless but relaxing. It's nice sitting alone in the salvaging yard with the catchy music and slicing apart a bulkhead.

delcake,
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Great recommendation. There's something special about doggedly tearing down those massive hulks of metal piece-by-piece and executing your plan of how to crack the thing wide open.

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