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

submitted 1 day 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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[–] yamper@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

this is a smartass answer but if no video game is catching your attention, don't play a video game. do anything else. pick up a new hobby or revisit an old one.

[–] Zess@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

I got a laugh from my Steam recap because I couldn't find anything to play this summer so I got really into ice cream making. Then Satisfactory came out.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

Yup. I like reading and working on coding projects.

That said, sometimes I get a hankering to play a game, but none of the dozens I have installed look interesting, so I'll go play one of my favorites (EU4, C:S, Mount & Blade, etc).

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

This is what I also do. I have plenty of old favourites, but if I'm really not in the mood, I don't try to push it.