I am not a regular gamer, but once or twice in the week I am indulging in some after work gaming. Mostly I enjoy games that are either story rich to put different thoughts in my mind or games with a simple, but enjoyable gameplay (not too much micromanagement).
Here are my favorites for an after work gaming spree:
- Football Manager (mainly 2008 and 2014 edition)
- Citizen Sleeper
- Suzerain
- Disco Elysium
- The Long Dark
- Dave the Diver
- Hotline Miami
- System Shock 2
- The Long Drive
What about you, what do you play after work (even occasionally) to get your mind off or do you have any suggestions in general?
Right now its stardew valley and mini motorways. Just chill games you can jump into at any time
+1 for mini motorways. it’s such a good casual game you can pick up and pause whenever and a big improvement over mini metro in terms of options and strategy. I’ve been looking for a certain type of city builder game that scratched an itch I couldn’t quite place and this is doing it for me lately.
I’d recommend Pocket City 2 for mobile. Probably the best casual city sim game I’ve ever played. It’s like $5 maybe less and has no monetization stuff after that.
And the game has like the ability to walk around, drive cars and do activities as your avatar inside the city. It’s new so the dev is still adding stuff. But it’s wild to spend an hour setting up a nice district than race through it with an F1 car for money later.
10/10
Whatever I can hack and be a god. I have enough stress and challenge at work, I just want to come home and smite.
For me the biggest one is my current “filler MMORPG” of choice, which has been Final Fantasy XIV for the past few years.
The reason this works so well for me is:
- By and large these games allow you to invest however much (hardcore raids) or little (dailies/weeklies) brain and attention into their gameplay as you desire, which is important after work when my brain is all mush from coding.
- Light social interaction helps not completely feel like I’ve “shut down for the night” yet.
- If I want to I can chat about daily things with my friends/guild.
It’s the right combination of ultralight gameplay and light social interaction to allow me to come down from work mode. 😁
When I saw articles about Team Fortress 2 breaking concurrent player counts, I jumped back into that. I still suck, bad. But I have played it several nights after work just to have some mindless gameplay.
Diablo 4 and Zelda ToTK
I play God of War 2018 to chill out, the scenery is great and you can just vibe around.
Cannot find an artefact or realm tear in Midgard at the moment so the wandering is actually putting me off but I would highly recommend this game for a chill out session.
I haven’t played the new one, maybe some day.
If you like the fighting part I think that’s what Muspelheim is there for, just arcade-like monster killing.
Yeah that was fun, could not pass one of the trials and then I nailed it straight through to getting my ass kicked by the Valkyrie.
I don’t even have a physically demanding job, and I’m always too tired to play games after work. But I’ve been on Persona 5 Royal lately.
That’s one game I really wanted to finish but couldn’t for this very reason. After my brain is fried from programming all day, the last thing I want to do is a lot of reading.
Satisfactory for me. I like setting a small goal for myself to build a whole factory piece by piece.
I just can’t. I can play it during weekends and hollidays but after a day’s work my brain is too fried to design factories.
I’ve spent the past few days building a thermal propulsion rocket factory. I’ve never built one like it before. It’s absolutely enormous so far, I lost track after it hit 40x50. Inside, it’s split up into rooms with one or two simple outputs each. The outputs are carried to other rooms on conveyors or in pipes on the second floor, completely hidden from view. Need to perfect the lighting and interior navigation, but I generally don’t care what the upstairs hallways look like.
It’s intense. I’m like 500 hours in.
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I think doing something twice a week makes you a regular anything. Either way, my current games after work are Warframe and The Outer Wilds. Loving both.
I loved Outer Wilds! Very great game!
Just picked it up, excited to try the VR mod!
Red Dead redemption 2 or Noita, depending on how much time I have to play.
Against The Storm, still in early access but very regular updates and fantastic team behind it.
Very fresh feeling take on rts/micromanagment game. Feels very unique in its game play loop.
Trackmania, Witcher 3, City Skylines. Man I wish I had more time.
I used to play Europa Universalis 4 or Cities: Skylines for this purpose.
Single Player:
- tetris effect connected
- descenders
- tony hawk pro skater 1 & 2 remaster
Multiplayer with close friends:
- Risk of Rain 2
- Rocket League
- Golf with your friends
- Halo (if they get their shit together and get their player count back up)
- Fall Guys (if they get their shit together and unvault the maps)
