The Last of Us does too, but I tend to zone out and take my time sneaking around or observing stuff. So I don’t play it unless I know I have a lot of time to waste.
Sound Shapes did it for me too, but I haven’t played in awhile.
Monster Hunter World once I got down the controls/equipment well enough that I didn’t have to think about them. But once I dropped it, I didn’t go back because I don’t have time to relearn.
Halo Reach would take my time for hundreds of hours back in the day. It’s a unfortunate/fortunate that the Master Chief Collection doesn’t include multi-team in matchmaking.
Xcom was a good one too during missions. I have some great war stories from that game. My first encounter with chryssalids was straight out of a horror movie. Quickly went FUBAR and barely got one soldier out alive.
Roguelikes. Binding of Isaac is one of my top played games with something like 500 hours in the game. I put it down a year or two and picked it back up like nothing. Just dodging and weaving and min maxing like i never stopped. Even new games that have a similar feel, I just tend to lock in and end up getting really far in my first run.
Apex Legends. Its a difficult game to master, but every once in a while I get “in the zone” and pull moves/plays that impress myself. It’s not often, but feels nice when it happens. I still enjoy it even though I “suck” most of the time. I basically play it as a survival game >90% of the time.
Doom Eternal and especially its challenge arenas are immediately what came to mind for me!
While id soft screwed Mick Gordon on the OST, they did so much right in the gunplay and movement mechanics in that game. Rotating through the power trinity and bhopping around an arena whilst gibbing demons is something I just don’t tire of.
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Any simulation game usually.
I was playing bakery sim the other day, before I knew it 6 hours had passed.
Any soulslike. When the boss movements click in your brain it’s very much a flow state.
Dead Cells, especially the first level puts me in a flow where I’m wondering at the end how I actually got there.
Monster Hunter Series
AVGN agrees with you when it comes to Contra (NES)
used to be smash bros melee but I can’t do it any more. my hands just can’t go that fast without seizing up here and there.
Rogue Legacy does it for me in a pinch.
The Last of Us does too, but I tend to zone out and take my time sneaking around or observing stuff. So I don’t play it unless I know I have a lot of time to waste.
Sound Shapes did it for me too, but I haven’t played in awhile.
Monster Hunter World once I got down the controls/equipment well enough that I didn’t have to think about them. But once I dropped it, I didn’t go back because I don’t have time to relearn.
Halo Reach would take my time for hundreds of hours back in the day. It’s a unfortunate/fortunate that the Master Chief Collection doesn’t include multi-team in matchmaking.
Xcom was a good one too during missions. I have some great war stories from that game. My first encounter with chryssalids was straight out of a horror movie. Quickly went FUBAR and barely got one soldier out alive.
Celeste.
Currently Deadlock.
Roguelikes. Binding of Isaac is one of my top played games with something like 500 hours in the game. I put it down a year or two and picked it back up like nothing. Just dodging and weaving and min maxing like i never stopped. Even new games that have a similar feel, I just tend to lock in and end up getting really far in my first run.
Sekiro, and nothing else has ever come close. It’s so smooth and so fast that I drop into the flow state with no trouble at all.
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Katana Zero did it for me
Infinite forest for Destiny 2’s Halloween event did it as well
Trackmania sometimes does it
Super Hexagon too
God I miss the Haunted Forest.
It was the coil for me in destiny. I put so much time into that and I’m kinda sad contest of elders doesn’t have a similar upgrade system.
As a launch computer player I have never been so scorned by how shit a game could be
I had such high hopes and low expectations and it ruined me
Apex Legends. Its a difficult game to master, but every once in a while I get “in the zone” and pull moves/plays that impress myself. It’s not often, but feels nice when it happens. I still enjoy it even though I “suck” most of the time. I basically play it as a survival game >90% of the time.
Doom Eternal and especially its challenge arenas are immediately what came to mind for me!
While id soft screwed Mick Gordon on the OST, they did so much right in the gunplay and movement mechanics in that game. Rotating through the power trinity and bhopping around an arena whilst gibbing demons is something I just don’t tire of.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
Factorio
Both are almost exactly like programming for me. Impossible not to get in the zone.
I go between flow and “burn it to the ground” with Foctorio.
Do you do DCSS with pictures or @?
I’m a webtiles man.
Usually platformers or games with strong platforming elements. Once i get into RainWorld i rush to the top of the food chain.