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:
- Football Manager (mainly 2008 and 2014 edition)
- Citizen Sleeper
- Suzerain
- Disco Elysium
- The Long Dark
- Dave the Diver
- Hotline Miami
- System Shock 2
- The Long Drive
What about you, what do you play after work (even occasionally) to get your mind off or do you have any suggestions in general?
Against The Storm, still in early access but very regular updates and fantastic team behind it.
Very fresh feeling take on rts/micromanagment game. Feels very unique in its game play loop.
Always was, always will be, Sid Meyer and his Civillisations.
On turn 658 you realise it’s 3AM and you have work in 4 hours
And you still will play just 1 more turn
Lately ive been bouncing between my usual dailies on final fantasy 14 or a few round of battlebit remastered. Battle bit has been really great at capturing that battlefield feel
My jam is an indie game called Warsim! It’s got a delightful arena battle minigame that you can bet on, complete with audience interference, a spike pit, and goblin streakers. After that, you can have a pint of various drinks in one of dozens of unique taverns, and round out the evening by presiding over the royal court and issuing decrees, proclamations, and dropping unruly petitioners through my personal trapdoor.
It’s been a few months since I played it, and I remember I really enjoyed it at the time but ended up feeling a bit limited in what I could do: after the truly magical first few hours, everything seemed to devolve into a game all about numbers and lacking actual depth. Has there been interesting updates since?
Oh, most definitely! They added a ton of random encounters, throne room encounters, and a crap-ton of other content. It’s got waaay more stuff, including QoL stuff like the ability to invade more than once. Highly recommend another look!
Wow… did not expect that many responses! I have strolled through all of them. There are a lot of really nice suggestions of games. I have bookmarked some of them.
Love the Lemmy energy, except those 1-2 hardcore ‘redditiers’ commenting here in their usual way : ).
Thx to all of you!
Lately it’s been Persona 4 Golden on the Vita and Zelda ToTK.
Zelda because you can change your play style easily, sometimes I just want to build stuff, other times I want to explore the map, fight monsters, or do side quests. Sometimes I’ll sit there and spend a bunch of time preparing meals for a future play sessions.
Persona 4 I keep coming back to for the story and overall experience - music, voice acting, and even just navigating menus is so stylistic and top notch. I started my playthrough in 2019 though and am barely picking it back up.
On days I have more energy I’ve been playing Freedom Planet 2 for some action platforming 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. 😁
Whatever I can hack and be a god. I have enough stress and challenge at work, I just want to come home and smite.
Right now its stardew valley and mini motorways. Just chill games you can jump into at any time
For me, it feels great to do a few laps in a racing sim like Assetto Corsa Competizione after a long day. Even something more arcade-y like Forza feels good to me.
If I don’t feel like like driving at the end of my day though I’d probably hop on Monster Hunter or a story-based single player game.
Just a perfect mix of 80s-90s rock, some weed and Diablo IV. Really hits the spot.
Multiplayer:
-Planetside 2
-Runescape
-Minecraft
-Chess.com
-Roblox (don’t judge me, I like lua)
Singleplayer:
-Fallout: New Vegas
-S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series
-Skyrim
-Metro series
We’ve acquired the facility!
Between Xbox and steam deck:
Recently I finished it takes two with my daughter, looking for new couch coops to play with her. For my own gaming time, getting bored of Diablo IV, Dave the diver was fun for a while but I’m ready for something else, maybe will get back into valheim.
DYO is a great free couch coop puzzle game on steam.
If you can play in seperate rooms, the We Were Here series is outstanding. As well as Escape Academy, which is much more child friendly.
Side scroller wise on the same machine. Ibb and Obb or Unravel 1 and 2 are fantastic couch coop games.
Yes, I love coop games. Just wish there were more. Feel I’ve.played them all already.
Awesome, thanks for the suggestions! Unravel (2) was one of the first games we played together, it was the the perfect game to introduce her to because asymmetrical skill doesn’t hurt the game at all, actually it even helps.
I agree with you on the limited local co-op games out there. I feel like I’ve played them all. Online co-op will be an option when I fix my PC, but the couch experience is hard to beat.
I used to play Europa Universalis 4 or Cities: Skylines for this purpose.
Right now I’m hard addicted to Remnant 2. Been playing it pretty much every day after work this week. Phenomenal game.
Same, been having a blast with engineer so far
