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What's the game you play when nothing else sounds good? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 days ago by perishthethought@lemm.ee to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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Do you have a game you play over and over, when nothing else fits your mood? That game that is infinitely re-playable, somewhat the same every time and somewhat new and interesting?

For me it's the games in the Orcs Must Die series. But mostly OMD 3. I play the mode called Scramble, where you have to beat 5 rounds of orcs, and they get harder and harder as you progress. There are random things to make it harder (nerfs) and you can choose 1 thing per round to make it easier (buffs). I've probably played that something like 300 times now since I beat the main game + DLCs a long while ago. I go into a special mental state while playing, since I know it all so well, and just zone out for about an hour each time.

Patient gamers, what's your "I will keep playing this game for the rest of my life" fallback?

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[–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

For years that game was Warframe for me. Just turn of my brain and run missions I know inside and out while watching twitch from the corner of eye on a second monitor. At some point I wanted to have more time to play other games so I stopped and didn't find a new cozy game

[–] MarauderIIC@dormi.zone 3 points 2 days ago

This is mine- I always wind up coming back to it.

[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Me too. Stopped a couple years ago after I hit 2,000 hours of play time. This year I've played a lot of Helldivers 2 and Monster Hunter, which I have a combined total of nearly 1,800 hours again.