I play a lot of windowed games on my PC as I watch less engaging content like TV I’ve seen, Youtube. Lately Balatro, Peglin, a racing game called art of rally, Mini Motorways. Interested to hear other people’s preferences.
I generally want something that runs well windowed because I use a third of my ultrawide to run the video, so no shooters or “big” games usually.
None. I prefer to watch movies or TV shows that I enjoy enough that it will keep my attention.
I think there are different levels. I love the office, I’ve watched it through a few times. But sometimes after a long day I like to toss it on and just relax. It’s a comfort show. But having seen it so much, it’s easy to fiddle with a game while I watch. It’s a way to destress after work for me. It’s not that I don’t like the show, I’m just experiencing it a different way. As comfort background viewing, apposed to when I watch a show I really enjoy and am seeing for the first time.
I do this but it’s usually with a Brit murder mystery or classic movie. If I’m watching something I love like Silo or Severance then that gets my full attention.
Oh %100, there are some shows that gets my full attention. If I’m watching, for example right now, The Expanse then it’s the thing I’m doing haha.
Oh that’s a great one too!
Balatro aka the best “Do I Have a Potential Gambling Addiction” simulator currently available.
lol, yep. It just cemented the fact that I don’t have that personality. I figured out Balatro, then it wasn’t as fun anymore and gave it up.
Did you try 100%ing it? At first, I was like, guys just because a game has rng doesn’t mean it’s a gambling simulator
Then I tried gold stickering everything. That’s when the gambling addiction kicks in
I’ve never needed to 100% any game. For me that isn’t fun. What’s fun is the journey. Beyond that I’m not interested.
I 100% would but recognized it early enough in life that I dont gamble but lord it hits every single obe of those buttons.
Minecraft. I was SUPER into Minecraft for a while and digging a 5x5 tunnel for ten thousand blocks or more to connect to a distant nation isn’t something I could do without additional entertainment going on my second monitor, especially if I am just monitoring two bot accounts to make sure they don’t get stuck too often.
Playing minecraft while listening to podcasts was a special kind of zen experience for me.
Mainly JRPGs because they’re turned based and I’m grinding. Going through FFVI right now on a RG40XXV. Love that little thing.
Anything where it doesn’t matter if I get distracted at any given point, e.g. turn-based or otherwise non-time-sensitive games.
- Incremental games (Chillquarium, Pegidle, Synergism, etc.)
- Powerwash Simulator
- Geotastic (with time limit turned off)
- Slay the Spire, or other deckbuilding roguelites
- Dominion
- FTL: Faster Than Light / Multiverse
- Civilization VI
- Picross/Piczle Cross and similar games
Best I can do is listen to an audio book while playing a chill/puzzle game. I would short circuit I’d had to watch TV and play a game. I can’t even really have a conversation and play, I have to pause it.
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Elite Dangerous is perfect to play with a show on. I used to do window in window in VR whilst flying between sites.
So the show is picture in picture overlaid on the ship interior? Sounds great in VR
Yeah exactly. I had the show in a window floating over part of the ship inside VR. Think about where the centre console would be in a car. It was a really cool experience, flying my space ship whilst watching a program.
Smash Karts is a lot of fun, it’s pretty much online Mario Kart deathmatches! There’s also capture the flag, hat holder, and a few other games layered in too. Worth a try the next time you want to game along side a boringish video.
Edit: Here’s a link
Ok, that was a time sink. Good fun.
Sounds interesting! Looks fun with friends / online
Binding of Isaac, Brotato, or Balatro are good once you have enough experience with them to be able to play without much thought
Right now Tetris but I have been alternating between Tetris and balatro
Usually a disposable MMO or idle game. I like the feeling of progression.
Ftl, into the breach, Minecraft, darkest dungeon 1 and 2.
FTL… I need to get back into that again. Excellent on work laptops.
Yt + mc
The only “games” I’ll play while watching stuff are flight sims, just to help pass the time on several hour long flights.
That’s my teenage son right now on my computer. “Dad, can I leave the computer on overnight for a flight to Japan?” Yeah, he’s way into it and all the ATC stuff while having a laptop on the side for god knows what he’s playing/watching at the same time. I joke with friends that he could legit hijack a 737 and fly it from dead off to landing it across the globe. Last startup procedure he did that was “real quick” was 20 damn minutes because he skipped a few nonessential pieces of the checklist. Lol.
