I like to replay The Last of Us (1) every couple of years - though it's always emotionally taxing.

Other than that I enjoy diving into Ultima 7 every here and then, though I tend to lose sight somewhere along the road, so technically speaking it doesn't fit the original post... but it's much fun/relaxing, following certain quest lines or just exploring.

Oh, Air Traffic Chaos on the DS is sometimes on the menu as well. Though I usually don't play it through, just some missions (i.e. airports and difficulties).

It'll throw you through a loop at first, but stick with it and don't look up any spoilers or cheat guides. It's my all time favorite game, and I've been playing games since I had an Atari 2600.

My issue is that the game is supposed to take like 10-15 hours, and I was at like 30 hours and so lost. I ended up feeling like an idiot and eventually lost interest.

I need to restart sometime...

If you sunk that much time into it, it's at least worth watching someone play it on YouTube. You'll get the same point.

Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age. No more beautiful sight than a sinking carrier.

If I recall correctly, Descent 3 was made by another developer team and it was quite a different game. But Descent 1 and 2 are favorites of mine. Some of the original developers made Overload. Try it, if you haven't already.

God of war, entire series and horizon

Hard Space: Shipbreaker

It's nigh meditative.

Super Tux Kart. Saved my life when I had nothing else but suicidal thoughts.

I kept finding myself coming back to No Man's Sky. Just peaceful dopamine from numbers go up

Factorio. Always. Others depends on mods. Minecraft, rimworld and satisfactory are great if mods are good for them. Well mods for Factorio too but playing space age without added content is just always so relaxing to me. Only 5k hours sadly in Factorio.

I feel ya, for me it was Terraria in those times.
Since currently everything sucks, I might give it a shot(again). <3
Thank you. :3

Cozy Caravan

Ff14

Stardew

Okami

Harvesrt moon/story of season

Doom and DoomII. I've been playing those for 30 years. It's like meditation I love 'em.

• Age of empires 2
• Morrowind
• Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

I do not think i can ever play minecraft ever again, i feel like I am wasting my life mining a new diamond block for the millionth time. New indy games like Everwind or Abiotic Factor far better satisfy that creative adventure for me, and i enjoy trying new cheaper titles of the survival adventure type.

I miss playing COD, Halo, and Mario Kart at lan parties but those don't happen as much anymore. I think party games are great with friends.

Unmodded the AI in Civ is pretty bad. On lower difficulties you can have a good time just doing your own thing if that is what you want, just building cities and infrastructure and whatnot. If you're interested you shouldn't be intimidated by them, I'd say. Plus you can regularly pick up Civ for like 2-3 bucks these days.

The important word is "currently". Hang in there, I hope it'll suck less soon!

Chess. (lichess)

Red Dead Redemption 2 - played all the way through 3 times. Now I'll just load up in a random chapter and just enjoy the game and atmosphere. Sometimes I'll go a play a mission where I get you go nuts, or just load up go camping with my horse and explore the map. Or I'll make up my own challenges. Like hijacking a train to see how far around the map I could make it before getting shot. Or seeing how many racist/KKK members I can burn alive.

I replay the Star Craft campaigns once a year. Wings of liberty in particular is always fun.

Atelier series games

Pre renewal ragnarok online