I am not a regular gamer, but once or twice in the week I am indulging in some after work gaming. Mostly I enjoy games that are either story rich to put different thoughts in my mind or games with a simple, but enjoyable gameplay (not too much micromanagement).
Here are my favorites for an after work gaming spree:
Forza Horizon 5, have been playing racing games for a lot of years and the Forza games are easy to pick up for a few races. You can also just cruise around the open world map.
I generally just play whatever game I’m working through at the time. I recently replayed GTA:SA, and now am trying a new character in D:OS2 to get me by until BG3 releases from EA.
I’ve mostly been wanting to play Rocket League, but I’ve been super stressed and for whatever reason playing against real people stresses me more. I think it’s because I can’t just pause the game whenever I feel like it.
So I’ve been mostly playing against ML bots with RLBotGui. As a gold/plat level player, it’s actually a great way to practice.
I’ve also been playing through all of the Adventures of Lolo games(1-3 US and Japan, GB Lolo, eggerland series, plus all of the many rom hacks) on my Anbernic handheld. It’s my favorite puzzle game of all time.
I was just playing Lolo 3 and I’m so surprised to see it pop up here! I’ve never played it before and went directly to the 3rd installment - is that a bad idea?
I’m also playing on an anbernic (rg351v). I wish I could play “baba is you” on it, it would be perfect.
You can play them in any order, but I’d recommend playing the English games before the Japanese market games because the Japan games have more difficult levels.
For me it needs to be something that my two daughters can watch me play. If I want something quick I’ll normally go for some Fortnite. I’m trying to decide if Remnant 2 is alright my kids to watch me play, if I decide it is that’ll be my other one.
Oh, same here. Our eldest daughter sat through playthroughs of Horizon: Zero Dawn, Skyrim, Fallout, Portal 2 etc… Now she’s old enough to start her own Skyrim playthrough. The youngest is still so small she thinks she is playing the game if you give her a dead controller/keyboard, so looking forward to many more hours of family gaming.
They (6 and 8) watched me play about half an hour of Remnant 2 the other day and they said it wasn’t scary. My first area is the creepy Victorian city as well.
For me the biggest one is my current “filler MMORPG” of choice, which has been Final Fantasy XIV for the past few years.
The reason this works so well for me is:
By and large these games allow you to invest however much (hardcore raids) or little (dailies/weeklies) brain and attention into their gameplay as you desire, which is important after work when my brain is all mush from coding.
Light social interaction helps not completely feel like I’ve “shut down for the night” yet.
If I want to I can chat about daily things with my friends/guild.
It’s the right combination of ultralight gameplay and light social interaction to allow me to come down from work mode. 😁
Nhl offline. No idea why. I win almost every game. Sometimes it’s a close one. But it’s not easy on superstar. I just enjoy finding the angles. Good podcast game. But I am down on myself for ignoring the massive backlog.
Finally though, I snapped out of it and tried Hades for the second time and this time it stuck. Chasing those Heat skulls now.
Love some “turn your brain off” kinda games. BOTW AND TOTK (altho that one is a bit more involved) are perfect for this. Also love an after work session of some Warriors (not nba) game.
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Forza Horizon 5, have been playing racing games for a lot of years and the Forza games are easy to pick up for a few races. You can also just cruise around the open world map.
Red Dead redemption 2 or Noita, depending on how much time I have to play.
Tears of the Kingdom kept me busy for a while.
Now I’m on Diablo 4 and Dave the Diver.
I hope to play Fallen Jedi next.
TotK, D4 & Dave Dive are big for sure.
Although I’m trying to get back into Predecessor for the sweet, sweaty combat
If I’m knackered it’s Noita, if I have some energy left I’m pwning noobs in Population 1.
I generally just play whatever game I’m working through at the time. I recently replayed GTA:SA, and now am trying a new character in D:OS2 to get me by until BG3 releases from EA.
I’ve mostly been wanting to play Rocket League, but I’ve been super stressed and for whatever reason playing against real people stresses me more. I think it’s because I can’t just pause the game whenever I feel like it.
So I’ve been mostly playing against ML bots with RLBotGui. As a gold/plat level player, it’s actually a great way to practice.
I’ve also been playing through all of the Adventures of Lolo games(1-3 US and Japan, GB Lolo, eggerland series, plus all of the many rom hacks) on my Anbernic handheld. It’s my favorite puzzle game of all time.
I was just playing Lolo 3 and I’m so surprised to see it pop up here! I’ve never played it before and went directly to the 3rd installment - is that a bad idea?
I’m also playing on an anbernic (rg351v). I wish I could play “baba is you” on it, it would be perfect.
You can play them in any order, but I’d recommend playing the English games before the Japanese market games because the Japan games have more difficult levels.
For me it needs to be something that my two daughters can watch me play. If I want something quick I’ll normally go for some Fortnite. I’m trying to decide if Remnant 2 is alright my kids to watch me play, if I decide it is that’ll be my other one.
Yeah I’m rolling between grounded and Fortnite with my buddies lately. Kid safe and casual. Need to sit down for some single player soon though
Oh, same here. Our eldest daughter sat through playthroughs of Horizon: Zero Dawn, Skyrim, Fallout, Portal 2 etc… Now she’s old enough to start her own Skyrim playthrough. The youngest is still so small she thinks she is playing the game if you give her a dead controller/keyboard, so looking forward to many more hours of family gaming.
They (6 and 8) watched me play about half an hour of Remnant 2 the other day and they said it wasn’t scary. My first area is the creepy Victorian city as well.
For me the biggest one is my current “filler MMORPG” of choice, which has been Final Fantasy XIV for the past few years.
The reason this works so well for me is:
It’s the right combination of ultralight gameplay and light social interaction to allow me to come down from work mode. 😁
Destiny. But I’m waiting so hard for Starfield.
Same I hope it will be good. I’ve been wanting a good space game but I can’t get into no man’s sky.
Boring meetings and/or uninspiring rote programming: Tekken 7.
Tired: Age of Wonders 4
Chill with the missus: Tears of the Kingdom / Oxenfree 2
Nice, that you added your particular condition before naming the games.
Nhl offline. No idea why. I win almost every game. Sometimes it’s a close one. But it’s not easy on superstar. I just enjoy finding the angles. Good podcast game. But I am down on myself for ignoring the massive backlog.
Finally though, I snapped out of it and tried Hades for the second time and this time it stuck. Chasing those Heat skulls now.
Love some “turn your brain off” kinda games. BOTW AND TOTK (altho that one is a bit more involved) are perfect for this. Also love an after work session of some Warriors (not nba) game.
I used to play Europa Universalis 4 or Cities: Skylines for this purpose.
MCC and Risk of Rain 2 are my co too games lately. Both have a ton of things to do and are easy to put down when it’s time to pass out.
Cities Skylines. Not stressful and still interesting.