I play a lot of windowed games on my PC as I watch less engaging content like TV I’ve seen, Youtube. Lately Balatro, Peglin, a racing game called art of rally, Mini Motorways. Interested to hear other people’s preferences.
I generally want something that runs well windowed because I use a third of my ultrawide to run the video, so no shooters or “big” games usually.
None. I prefer to watch movies or TV shows that I enjoy enough that it will keep my attention.
I think there are different levels. I love the office, I’ve watched it through a few times. But sometimes after a long day I like to toss it on and just relax. It’s a comfort show. But having seen it so much, it’s easy to fiddle with a game while I watch. It’s a way to destress after work for me. It’s not that I don’t like the show, I’m just experiencing it a different way. As comfort background viewing, apposed to when I watch a show I really enjoy and am seeing for the first time.
I do this but it’s usually with a Brit murder mystery or classic movie. If I’m watching something I love like Silo or Severance then that gets my full attention.
Oh %100, there are some shows that gets my full attention. If I’m watching, for example right now, The Expanse then it’s the thing I’m doing haha.
Oh that’s a great one too!
Balatro aka the best “Do I Have a Potential Gambling Addiction” simulator currently available.
lol, yep. It just cemented the fact that I don’t have that personality. I figured out Balatro, then it wasn’t as fun anymore and gave it up.
Did you try 100%ing it? At first, I was like, guys just because a game has rng doesn’t mean it’s a gambling simulator
Then I tried gold stickering everything. That’s when the gambling addiction kicks in
I’ve never needed to 100% any game. For me that isn’t fun. What’s fun is the journey. Beyond that I’m not interested.
I 100% would but recognized it early enough in life that I dont gamble but lord it hits every single obe of those buttons.
Minecraft. I was SUPER into Minecraft for a while and digging a 5x5 tunnel for ten thousand blocks or more to connect to a distant nation isn’t something I could do without additional entertainment going on my second monitor, especially if I am just monitoring two bot accounts to make sure they don’t get stuck too often.
Playing minecraft while listening to podcasts was a special kind of zen experience for me.
Mainly JRPGs because they’re turned based and I’m grinding. Going through FFVI right now on a RG40XXV. Love that little thing.
Anything where it doesn’t matter if I get distracted at any given point, e.g. turn-based or otherwise non-time-sensitive games.
- Incremental games (Chillquarium, Pegidle, Synergism, etc.)
- Powerwash Simulator
- Geotastic (with time limit turned off)
- Slay the Spire, or other deckbuilding roguelites
- Dominion
- FTL: Faster Than Light / Multiverse
- Civilization VI
- Picross/Piczle Cross and similar games
I played it on mobile but it’s on pc as well- Slice & Dice. A really fun dice based roguelite. Liked it a little more than peglin and balatro.
Lately I’ve been playing Factorio a lot with something on my other monitor but idk if it meets your criteria as well.
Oh I was thinking of Dicey Dungeons, took me ages to remember the name. S&D looks fun
Yeah, i bounced off Dicey Dungeon too, but had a lot of fun with S&D.
The space age expansion for Factorio is huge, I feel like I’ve played it for 3 times as long as I did the base game and still not finished. I was not a fan of the bugs at first but I started to realize that they’re not really too much of an actual challenge it problem, they sorry if just serve as another pressure for developing your factory in a certain way.
I really liked the logistical side of the game Mindustry but eventually the “tower defense” aspects overwhelmed the fun of rooting materials and stuff. I wonder if it has some sort of peaceful mode though, I should look for it again.
Another thought is Dungeons of Aether, though it’s shorter than other Roguelites, a bit easier to “figure out” so it isn’t as interesting as some, and hasa lot more story elements so it might be too distracting as a passive game.
I think I have tried Slice and Dice, generally I am not great at games such as Slay the Spire and the like, but S&D was more accessible.
Factorio is great, might be worth a new run. I have never actually beaten the game, and made it furthest on peaceful mode when I did get to stages like nuclear power.
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Best I can do is listen to an audio book while playing a chill/puzzle game. I would short circuit I’d had to watch TV and play a game. I can’t even really have a conversation and play, I have to pause it.
Elite Dangerous is perfect to play with a show on. I used to do window in window in VR whilst flying between sites.
So the show is picture in picture overlaid on the ship interior? Sounds great in VR
Yeah exactly. I had the show in a window floating over part of the ship inside VR. Think about where the centre console would be in a car. It was a really cool experience, flying my space ship whilst watching a program.
Right now Tetris but I have been alternating between Tetris and balatro
Smash Karts is a lot of fun, it’s pretty much online Mario Kart deathmatches! There’s also capture the flag, hat holder, and a few other games layered in too. Worth a try the next time you want to game along side a boringish video.
Edit: Here’s a link
Ok, that was a time sink. Good fun.
Sounds interesting! Looks fun with friends / online
Binding of Isaac, Brotato, or Balatro are good once you have enough experience with them to be able to play without much thought
Usually a disposable MMO or idle game. I like the feeling of progression.
Ftl, into the breach, Minecraft, darkest dungeon 1 and 2.
FTL… I need to get back into that again. Excellent on work laptops.
Yt + mc
