I’ve been playing Deep Rock Galactic since March of this year (when it was about to exit Early Access) and it’s been a real gem. Just like Left 4 Dead there’s that quiet calm before a huge swarm and mad panic to stay alive. Props to the Dev Team for adding in new content on a regular basis!

I’m trying to finish the clunky Arkham Origins, which is rendered particularly tedious by some horrible structure decisions (a tech branch depending on achievements that have to be accomplished in a specific order and only in specific places of the main story missions, none of which is being made clear in-game). Which…

I’ve been exploring Night City and getting lost in side quests of Cyberpunk 2077. One thing I’ve noticed with the game is that progression is not frustrating. You often find goals that are out of reach, such as a skill that requires more levels or and expensive piece of tech you can’t afford, but the game gives you…

This weekend I’ll be diving back into Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout and Genshin Impact after a few weeks away from each. The former just dropped their third season of content, and it’s winter-themed, which I appreciate greatly. The latter is releasing new content next week, opening up a whole new continent to explore,…

I’ve been playing game set in a dystopian near future featuring characters with upgraded cybernetic hardware, jacking into cyberspace, making a safe house at a sex work adjacent location that’s loosely based on an older tabletop RPG. Yep, that’s right:

Got a Civ 5 session, this time I’m England so I’ve focused on taking control of the seas. This is somewhat hampered by the thick jungle surrounding all my cities, hampering production; and by the invading NPC Greeks.

Been sating some of my wanderlust with No Man’s Sky, which has a few more updates- terrain’s more varied, there are now these gigantic trading posts on planets which also act as data repositories, I spent a lot of time just in one system scoping out some especially odd planets. This is a good chill time.

Having completed nearly everything My Time at Portia has to offer, I picked up Hollow Knight midweek to give it a second chance. My original romp through the intro probably dead-ended because I was half-asleep while playing it. After getting the first ability, it was very easy to tell where I was supposed to go next,…

Dark Souls, Sekiro, Bloodborne. Because cursing loudly right now is very cathartic and absolutely called for.

Civilization, Endless Space, or Endless Legend.  They’re all relaxed, stylized and slow paced enough to calm the mind.  The Endless games also have really cool soundtracks.

Animal Crossing, the worst thing that can happen is getting stung by wasps. It’s all very cheerful and peaceful. 

Fortnite Save the World. I’m not kidding when I say it’s the most boring game I’ve ever played. Every mission is the same. The objectives are unclear. It’s mostly about scavenging and the graphics suck.

But wow, is all of that perfect for anxious people. I can turn off my brain and just grind with my cartoon Detective…

Quake I .

*takes long drag off cigarette*

for a very, very long time, my go to game has always been civilization, starting probably with Civ 3, though i am not sure, those days are a bit hazy now. then civ 4, and then civ 5, and since i got civ 6 for free, civ 6. i do not know what it is, but i can easily lose hours, playing this series. i can get get tired…

For the best part of a decade it was Binding of Isaac. First the original, then Rebirth. There’s something uniquely transportative about action-roguelites, and BOI yields a lucky run frequently enough that the deaths aren’t too frustrating. It took Enter the Gungeon to finally unseat it; and more recently Hades.

For me it’s playing Fifa on whatever difficulty allows me to win 90% of matches against the computer by a goal or two. Not so easy it loses all meaning, but easy enough that I can just sort of flow through it without ever getting particularly frustrated. Put on some music and I have an evening ahead of me.

Katamari is indeed the greatest game ever. A work of art and gaming zen.

There’s a level (I think it’s called Down the Tubes) in the original Earthworm Jim that’s in an underwater cave passage and you have to navigate your bubble precisely without touching the cave walls otherwise the bubble will burst.

Tetris sprint. Even though it’s called “sprint,” it’s the most relaxing, flow-inducing type of tetris.