What's your comfy game? - For games that help you unwind and relax.

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The original Fable for me. Yes, Peter Molyneux overpromised as always, but it's still a fun and charming game with plenty of soul and personality. Always a joy to revisit and just fuck around in.
 
Lately it’s been Dungeons of Dredmor. Fun just picking a randomized build, enabling permadeath and seeing how far I can get before the RNG decides to smite me.

Borderlands 2 is a fun comfort game as well.
Borderlands 2 is one of those games I revisit every other year or so, as a sort of habit. The original Half life as well, both very comfy games.
 
My time at sandrock has been a nice comfy game to play. There's timers on some stuff but it's pretty unobtrusive. You're just a handyman in a post apocalypse Western town building stuff and fixing things.
 
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and Mario's Super Picross, and Picross DS, and really any kind of nonogram puzzle game.
 
Unironically sudokus or other puzzle games on my phone. Loosest definition of a game but I really recommend it to anyone. "The room" Series is absolutely fantastic, good atmosphere, nice puzzles, not too difficult but no breeze either.
 
I'm playing through the Arkham games again, and I can say for sure they are cozy. When superhero shit was just fun and action-packed, and not designed to appeal to set of demographics and identity politics.
 
The Division 2, it’s not a great game but I do enjoy it. I have a soft spot for the first one too.
 
Mount & Blade: Warband and Rome: Total War. They both fulfill my need for the spectacle of mass combat and expanding map control.
 
I find Euro/American Truck Simulator are very relaxing. It's also really the only time I can sit and listen to podcasts, elsewhere I am too easily distracted from them (Including irl driving)

Also 7 Days to Die is a big comfort zone for me. It's not exactly the most relaxing game but I have thousands of hours in it over the years and years it has been in development (It's an early access game that has been around forever). For me it is a perfect gameplay loop of looting and exploration and combat and construction and character progression and I can drift away for hours and hours playing it. It gives me a good feeling to be back in 7 Days especially when I have built a big base
 
Anyone here play Dave the Diver? Super charming little game with excellent art and a fun game play loop. Made with a ton of love by a little Korean studio, I think.

Highly recommend, extra comfy.
One of the surprise hits of last year for me. Surprised it's still getting DLC, but not a bad thing at all.
 
Of all things, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fan games (ones that have been made in forks of the engine, like Call of Chernobyl and Anomaly) have become some of my comfiest games.

There's something very enchanting about wandering through deceptively innocent-looking countryside and derelict farmhouses early in the game, and eventually progressing into more metropolitan and deadly places like Dead City, or the maps set in and around Pripyat. If you REALLY want a chill experience, you can turn down spawn rates in any of the versions that use STALKER Anomaly as their base, to make coming across other people or mutants rarer or basically non-existent if you want.

It's got so comfy for me, I've started getting into STALKER GAMMA, which (unless you disable some things on your own) forces you to engage more often with immersion-encouraging mechanics, like actually hunting and cooking mutant meat to keep food costs down, scavenging and repairing all the intricate parts of weapons and armours since you can't simply buy them anymore, and better planning and routing since by default in GAMMA you can only manually save at lit campfires (personally I have that disabled, but only because I ALREADY forget to save for half an hour or longer sometimes as it is).
 
Currently MHR but if I had to choose in general..hmm .hack//IMOQ and .hack//GU
Back when I still played PS2 on my phone Initial D was my go to
 
Anyone here play Dave the Diver? Super charming little game with excellent art and a fun game play loop. Made with a ton of love by a little Korean studio, I think.

Highly recommend, extra comfy.

Yeah I completed that a few weeks ago and was really impressed. It's a chill game with strong world building and I like how the gameplay expands and introduces new elements as you go along
 
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