I’m looking something to take up the time I’d normally spend scrolling reddit.
Something that’s reasonable to play for 2-5 minutes or for over an hour.
My current go-to is Alto’s adventure or doing laps in Assetto Corsa Competizione.
Actually i’m playing hades on my idle time it’s a rogue lite
Here are my go tos if I want to just let my mind wander and not think about what i do: bullet hells
- vampire survivors
- brotato
- soulstone survivors
- 20 minutes till dawn
- bounty of one emulated:
- pokemon leaf green/fire red
- zelda BOTW (small chunks possible. Do one shrine, explore a bit. Search for some koroks.) runs beautifully on yuzu RPG:
- Dark souls 1 Remastered(Because the game practically saves every second or two you are not in any way committed to play a long time)
pokemon yes!
Dead Cells, Vampire Survivor, Loop Hero, Devil Daggers/Hyper Demon (more m+k games though), FTL, Into the Breach, Shovel Knight, VA11HAllA (or whatever, the cyberpunk bartender one), really any rogue like…
Slay the Spire
https://store.steampowered.com/app/646570/Slay_the_Spire/
Also on android and those I phones
I’ve been enjoying “Everything” for very mindless playing. It even has an “autoplay” feature - let the controls go and it will continue to play for you while you scroll the Fediverse! Not to mention all the amazing Alan Watts quotes that occasionally pop in.
@Dj_brown_sugar I’m a big fan of Vampire Survivors. Halls of Torment is also a good game.
Chronicon is good but being an ARPG you’ll have sit down from time to time to update your build.
It’s basically vampire surivors with long-term progression, except more active. My endgame was binding all skills to one button and bumrushing every area at like 6x speed, addictive enough I grinded for 100%
Factorio. Once you get a hand of it you can work in small chunks here and there, or pour in hours and hours of time.
I love Factorio so much. I find it’s pretty mindless with a few settings changed, like biters not being aggressive. But nuclear energy always makes my head hurt so I avoid it for as long as I can
Honestly the beauty of the stream deck imo is that a lot of games become great for short play sessions when you have a convenient sleep function.
I love the goddamn sleep function I wish PCs had it by default
I’ve been enjoying Peglin for when I only have 5-10 minutes between work meetings. If you have any fond memories of playing Peggle on XBLA then definitely check it out!
Vampire Survivor and Brotato.
The Binding of Isaac.
Pixross.
Tetris Effect.
Gunfire Reborn.
Spin Rhythm XD.
Bloons TD 6.
Brotato and Vampire Survivor are the best time wasters.
+1 Vampire Survivors
I second Brotato.
Instead of Tetris, I’ve gotten into PolyCube. Definitely my go-to “mindless” game.
Any “survivors” type game - Brotato, Vampire/Soulstone Survivors, Nordic Ashes, etc.
Roguelikes (I like Noita these days).
Card based games - Slay the Spire, Monster Train, Guild of Dungeoneering, …
Darkest Dungeon.
I’ve played noita for probably 6 hours and still have no clue what’s happening. Cool game though
For 5 minutes or an hour
Rocket league
I like playing 2048 if I need to kill time, though I’m not sure if it’s what you’re looking for.
I solve sudokus while commuting to work. It’s a great feeling after 100 puzzles when you can solve a hard one you couldn’t for a long time.