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Hades has been pretty fun
Hades might be my favourite game of all time, but I'd say it's the opposite of a chill time
Well, I play it casually. I'm not that good at it, so I take it slow. But I probably agree with you anyway, it's a bit tense at times
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Warframe is good for this. Lots of ways to tune your level of engagement through build choices. Most content rarely requires your full attention and story is only progressed in specific story missions that you usually play only once.
Astroneer is pretty low stakes, I played it mostly while listening or watching other things
Mordhau is definitely one of few casual games medieval fighting game where you can mindlessly kill other players and laugh your ass off. But at the same time its the type of game you can get really good at too. So it has a very in depth combat experience
Two casual-adjecent games I played a lot over the past week are Mini Motorways and Inscryption: Kacey's Mod.
The first one is like a simplified city building simulator that works more like an evolving puzzle, you just build roads to connect houses and buildings of the same color while trying to keep traffic moving along. It might sound overly simple but it gets hectic and intense incredibly fast.
The other is an expansion to the original Inscryption game, which was a roguelike deckbuilder with a horror-ish spin that, no spoilers, went places lmao. What the expansion does is essentially take out all the story and convert a specific part of the game into an actual endlessly repeatable roguelike. It's challenging, but very engaging, and the presentation is just 10/10.
Superflight
Celeste can be quite casual and also challenging at the same time.
You can die as many times and the game doesn't punish you, you can save at any point and come back exactly where you lef off later.
Celeste’s difficulty scaling is great. First play through, though, be ready to break a sweat maneuvering some rooms. It also has great music, which is at least worth a listen.
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Dead Cells was my go-to podcast game for quite a while! Story tidbits are few and far between, and it’s more about finding your stride in subsequent runs. There’s a lot of DLC that often goes on sale too.
Kartrider is a well developed Mariokart like game that is basically on all platforms (except Switch obviously).
I love to play from time to time Banished with podcasts. Once you figure out how to survive then it's just "how much can I build on a map before my PC explodes".
Ostriv seems nice too, but it's still in alpha, so weird things happen like villagers going out to buy candles or soap and returning with shoes.
The X3 games, I think?
They may be ancient, and weird, and buggy, and huge time wasters, and frustrating, but hey I have like 500 hours of playtime on them
... oh, they also have a learning curve that C++ developers are afraid of but I would still call them "casual games" somehow