Games to chill, what is your favorite?

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Historically, I'm an arcade gamer and I like fast-paced stuff including fighting and arcade racing games, as well as puzzles, stuff like that. I'm not much into RPGs though I've been loving to play Hogwarts Legacy, it's such a chill game.

But my main weapon of choice in terms of relaxing and having little projects to do is Minecraft. Basically, I play in creative mode and I like to build stuff. I love to create some cities here and there, but my main activity is looking for villages and making roads connecting all of them and upgrading them so they have actual streets and sidewalks, stuff like that.

I have been playing with 2+ years and I made so much stuff, it's easy to forget some of the stuff I built. But when I go exploring, I end up finding some villages I already messed with and some completely new ones. I like to renew the abandoned villages so they become functional, but I also like to modernize the other regular villages. It feels like a huge sandbox map, and it's funny to notice how I know all the different roads and directions just by memory. It may be my autistic side speaking, but it even got me interested in studying architecture in the near future. I just love it.
 
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I don't remember which Ratchet and Clank, but there was one with a bike race I played religiously. Going Commando maybe? I guarantee I put more time into the mini game than the actual game itself.
 
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Optimus said:
I love to chill and play games like Minecraft, Cities, Civilization 6. I used to sit in a saloon and play poker in RDR2.
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Good observation. Some open world games have really good mini games. I remember Bully having a lot of those side activities like the arcades, etc.
 
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Color me intrigued.
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I have some crazy amount of hours on this, I am not logged in at the moment. But I triple dipped on it too. I have the original release on Steam. Then I got it on PS3 then I got the HD version.


The game's premise is you are a planet. You have seedlings that are your defense and offense orbiting your planet. You need 10 seedlings to plant to make a tree that will produce seedlings (up to 40 population, after that seedling production stops but you can move others to a "full" planet to martial your forces). You can build up to 5 trees (some missions are 4, 3 or 2 only) per planet, and you must propagate and capture other planets. You can bolster your seedlings in one of three ways by planting a flower on your planet for speed, power or health. There is a defense tree that will act as a briar patch and is defensive only to protect your planet which when your trees produce a power up flower you can choose to apply it to your seedling trees to supercharge your seedlings or to the briar tree to build a defensive satellite that you can also take with you as you capture more planets.

It's simple to pick up and quite challenging at times. I still don't have all of the achievements and I have been playing this for at least 13 years now.

There is a mission mode. There is a dark mission mode and then there are skirmish maps, where I spend most of my time chilling that has a specific scenario to complete, but can be replayed as many times as you want, including if you finish the other two missions modes.
 
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My chill/kill time games:
Sudoku
WarCraft Rumble
Wordle
Duolingo

(All mobile)

But If I am at home and just looking for some "comfort food" gaming it's:
War Game: Red Dragon
Counter-Strike

It use to include hunting in RDR2 but I killed everything and it lost its appeal.
 
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Building cities in city builders like Anno 1404, 1800, older but still classic ones like Zeus, Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom, castles in Stronghold/Stronghold Crusader. For some reason Sim City 4 has never worked on any of my computers and always crashes.

Building out across the map in Age of Empires 1, 2 even 3. 4 is still odd.

Dragon Quest Builders 2 is fun to get lost in.

Picking a direction in Tears of the Kingdom, or visiting a stable to get the local gossip, quests and sidequests. Often finding myself cave diving or going deeper and taking a trip to the haunted decaying remains of a dead Hyrule to mine the ore needed to power my heavy wheeled transports and airplane/seaboat. Sometimes I stumble on and take out a yiga base to get their schematics.
 
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EverQuest or Madden. I can just zone out and dominate some random NPC team or toodle around in my all-time favorite elf sim.
 
Minecraft is a great choice OP. Same for me.

Puzzle games fit the bill. Grindstone, some version of Picross (lately Color Cross), a word game like Bookworm, or some version of Puzzle Quest (usually PQ2 or Galactrix).



Color Cross

www.color-cross.com



Most recently I've been sinking hours into Monster Train (card game roguelike) and Against The Storm (no-combat town builder).





Abzu is one of my favorite wander-around-and-look-at-stuff game, even though it is several years old and I've beaten it a few times.

 
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The most relaxing and chill game ever for me was Tilt Brush in VR on PC. I put the VR headset on, started some relaxing music, stood there in a dark void, and started creating something. The hours just flew by, it was like meditation.


Pinball FX & M are very chill and I often play some rounds.


Station To Station is just relaxing and lovely.


Poly Bridge 2 is chill


Driftwood. It's in Early Access but already fun.
 
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regawdless said:
The most relaxing and chill game ever for me was Tilt Brush in VR on PC. I put the VR headset on, started some relaxing music, stood there in a dark void, and started creating something. The hours just flew by, it was like meditation.


Pinball FX & M are very chill and I often play some rounds.


Station To Station is just relaxing and lovely.


Poly Bridge 2 is chill


Driftwood. It's in Early Access but already fun.
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Some amazing tips on your post. Will check them all out.
 
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Deep Rock Galactic.

Maybe not your usual chill game but you can knock down the difficulty and casually complete objectives/explore without too much hassle.
 
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WesternBlood said:
I want to get into this, but I feel a bit overwhelmed at what is all going on with the game.
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Yeah there are some things that are not explained very well but you kind of pick them up as you go. I could probably write a whole beginners guide but I wont derail the topic. Feel free to DM me any of your questions if you want. Its really a great game once you get the hang of things.
 
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I grabbed a cheap physical copy of Undernauts: Labryinth of Yomi as a taste test for "blobbers" aka party-based first person dungeon crawlers... I thought it would be grueling but it's very chill. All the system hooks of a JRPG but barely any fat or faffing about. Stakes are high enough to stay awake, but not particularly punishing for death (wake up at base, maybe lose some items?), and it's been very easy to put down for a good while and come back too, which JRPGs are famously not, at least in player's minds.

Other than that, I really like going back to the old PS1 platformers like Ape Escape and Jumping Flash! for low-challenge but engaging gaming. I'll probably kick around that era snd genre for "chill" and look for harder blobbers.
 
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I love any virtual Pinball as a chill sort of experience. Even if you're chasing a high score, you can just keep playing and get into that meditative sort of "zone"

Hot Shots Golf also fits that bill for me. Just taking your time lining up shots and enjoying the atmosphere.

Out of the Park Baseball is another for me. You can take forever looking at farm systems/prospects, schedules, statistics, coaching, scouting ratings, league history and on and on and on. I can end up spending hours and not even play a game, lol.

Another game I just started a few days ago is really appropriate here. A game called Equilinox.



It's like a virtual Zen garden where you populate and evolve a blank procedurally generated world until it's full of life and activity - myriad flora and fauna in an ecosystem where you can survey and alter your creation from a 'god-like' perspective. It's incredibly mellow and soothing and just begs you to relax and chill.

A brief review (not my channel...because I don't have one, ha. :p )

 
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I grabbed a cheap physical copy of Undernauts: Labryinth of Yomi as a taste test for "blobbers" aka party-based first person dungeon crawlers... I thought it would be grueling but it's very chill. All the system hooks of a JRPG but barely any fat or faffing about. Stakes are high enough to stay awake, but not particularly punishing for death (wake up at base, maybe lose some items?), and it's been very easy to put down for a good while and come back too, which JRPGs are famously not, at least in player's minds.
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the other RPGs by the same dev are really good, maybe even "better" if you prefer a more traditional fantasy setting. If you like physical carts, Saviors of Sapphire Wings and Stranger of Sword City come in a dual pack on Switch.
 
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DonDonDonPata said:
the other RPGs by the same dev are really good, maybe even "better" if you prefer a more traditional fantasy setting. If you like physical carts, Saviors of Sapphire Wings and Stranger of Sword City come in a dual pack on Switch.
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I dig the "post-apocalypse salaryman" vibe in Undernauts a lot. I love the art in 'Stranger of Sword City' too... so much so I bought the SE with the artbook for Vita lol. It will be 'revisited' (pun intended) next. Is 'Sapphire' good? Looked like the weakest of the three art-wise.
 
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I dig the "post-apocalypse salaryman" vibe in Undernauts a lot. I love the art in 'Stranger of Sword City' too... so much so I bought the SE with the artbook for Vita lol. It will be 'revisited' (pun intended) next. Is 'Sapphire' good? Looked like the weakest of the three art-wise.
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Sapphire was solid. If you already have Stranger of sword City, though, it might be somewhat redundant. The story is more fleshed out compared to Stranger, if that matters to you.
 
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DonDonDonPata said:
I still have that cartridge, plus the PS2 import (pretty much the same game, but with a 2p mode). Soooo good.
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They released a phone version and I used to battle my ex on it. What a great game.

I didn't know there was a PS2 one. Hmmmmm I want to grab that haha.
 
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They released a phone version and I used to battle my ex on it. What a great game.

I didn't know there was a PS2 one. Hmmmmm I want to grab that haha.
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yeah it's called ZOOO and it has a wide play field for the 2p mode, so you're battling over the same animals
 
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I mostly play competitive shooters but for chilling I play anything that lets me grind sweet loot/gear.

Lately Remnant 2 and Witchfire…. Oddly enough games have to be somewhat difficult as I am a glutton for pain. If there is no challenge I get bored but the challenge doesn't have to be constant. Remnant 2 strikes this balance well as the bosses are difficult but cruising the world lets me just zone out and shoot things. If I hit a wall I join some one else's game to grind some zones.
 
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I'm not sure how much I play relaxing games. Mine tend to be high energy/difficulty/stress lol. I really appreciate quiet relaxing moments between chapters though.
 
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lock2k said:
Uncharted series always had those moments.
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Yep. Loads of things about Uncharted 4 I love, but especially traveling between those minin islands in the middle of of a tranquil ocean. Also swinging from the ruins behind a Spanish prison to some extent. Surround sound adds so much to these moments.
 
The best part of Uncharted 4 is the final act in the Pirate town. The ambiance and lore built via the environment was fantastic. It was like going into the movie Goonies for me and hit that nostalgia feels something fierce. The outside rock clambering section in the rain storm was a very well done set and captured all the creepiness and ancient horror of a Pirate island in digital form. It surpassed Assassins Creed: Black Flag for a brief moment with this setting.
 
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Hostile_18 said:
Yep. Loads of things about Uncharted 4 I love, but especially traveling between those minin islands in the middle of of a tranquil ocean. Also swinging from the ruins behind a Spanish prison to some extent. Surround sound adds so much to these moments.
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That part of the ruins was great, very atmospheric.
 
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