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Seems almost cliche to recommend Stardew Valley but it’s my go to relax and play at my pace game. Extremely low stakes gameplay
Might I recommend Hades, a roguelight about killing your dad and becoming your own person. There’s a lot of progress to unlock over time, the story is very satisfying, you can pick it up on pretty much any platform, and I think the aspect of building up relationships with people over time is extremely well done.
I see SG has their whole portfolio on sale. Transistor and Bastion are both beautiful games and while Pyre is a bit more niche (the game play is basically wizard basketball) they’re all really well done. Hades is definitely their golden child but I simp pretty hard for all SuperGiant offerings. The music is particularly special imo, Darren Korb and Ashley Barrett always knock it out of the park while giving each game a distinctive tone. The first time I played Transistor I’d frequently put the controller down to admire the backdrop and music.
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what’s your therapeutic category?
for example: doom eternal is therapeutic. so is stardew valley. but both in very different ways.
i will recommend against stardew valley actually, people forget that it’s a low-key dating sim, might not be what you want after a bad breakup. or maybe it is
the theme of being part of a community, learning about the people, and connecting with them never got advertised to me. I found it too easy to automate the animals and crops and I’m giga profitable. Therefore all I have left is to finish 4 items in the community center and collect 35 of each villager’s loved items if I were so compelled.
Great game, but the ratio was more people-centric than farming-centric for what I expected/hoped for.
Minecraft and Undertale are the first two I’d recommend, they’re classics for a reason.
Outside of that though? The new Wolfenstein series. Easily some of the greatest FPSes ever made. Killing Nazis is extremely satisfying, and the sequel gets into abuse pretty hard. BJ’s dad is abusive as fuck, and they show very accurate depictions of the abuse. The 2nd game has a lot of moments that are hard to get through, but ultimately work because of just how GREAT it feels to kill the shitheads.
The Outer Wilds. One of those games you should go into knowing as little as possible but trust me.
