What are some good games to play while absolutely baked?
I'm not talking high, I'm not talking vibing, I mean absolutely covered in cookie crumbs baked.
Sometimes, it's nice to come home from an awful day at work, smoke
a toke, and forget about problems for a minute.
I usually would just continue playing whatever game I'm actively into at the moment. But when you're sitting there covered in cookie crumbs, maybe trying to figure out how to play Boulder Gate 3 might be too tedious for the moment.
Vampire Survivors is what I typically play, but sometimes it's nice to have more than one option.
-Subnautica
The underwater visuals are perfect for baked brains
-Destiny 2
Go solo and just visit the different worlds, don't worry about quests or missions just enjoy the scenery and shoot things, occasionally. Without knowing what's going on there are a lot of neat secrets places to stumble into and some of the scenery is awe inspiring.
-Disco Elysium
If you can read and toke, it takes you places
-Dorf Romantik
Someone already mentioned this but it's worth it. Like a puzzle, but there are no wrong pieces
-Eufloria
Not complicated, very chill. I don't know how to describe what it is...leaf seeds fighting each other?
-Lego
Pick a franchise and there's a Lego game. Doesn't require much brain power and you always feel like your winning.
-Red Dead Redemption 2
It's like going for a walk in the wilderness from the couch
-Superliminal
It'll bend your brain and is totally worth completing in one sitting. If you can't figure out what to do just look it up. The end is worth being high for. Kind of like Stanley Parable, but with 'perspective'.
-Stanley Parable
Definitely try this one.
Peggle and Tetris effect are also really great suggestions. Tetris Effect has a really great reactive soundtrack.
I don't know about Subnautica - seems like it might be a little too intense for me. Maybe ABZU? Same underwater theme/vibe as Subnautica without the pants-shitting terror
Dorfromantic: chill satistying game about building a landscape out of tiles, and matching biomes/rivers to get more points.
Minecraft on peaceful: I like to do weird redstone projects in creative too.
Titanfall 2/old school shooters: its weird but I blast music and play stuff that I can do mindlessly. And for me that's deathmatch style shooters, where there's no objective or anything, the respawn time is short, and you just run aroind blasting stuff.
Open world games with time wasting sidequests: So most assassins creed games, corrupted zones/trials in HZD, wandering skyrim, etc.
Edit: forgot, Mario Kart, its just fun and silly and I don't mind just doing dumb shit and coming in last, so long as I hit koopa troopa with all the red shells because its dumb and I'm attacking him with his own brethren!
Discovered Cloud Punk only recently and I completely agree - lovely little game. Gameplay itself is pretty chill and I really enjoyed the characters and storytelling. I feel like too many cyberpunk games are like "look at this rotten, desolate society based on greed and oppression" only to then go "fuck yeah, let's make it to the top of that pyramid of injustice" instead of questioning it.
I hope the developers can somehow keep that storytelling aspect in the upcoming sequel which looks much broader in scope, like a life sim set in the city of Nivalis.
I play indies or roguelikes for this. It's the most similar to old arcade cabinets experience from back in the day: you play a match, 15-30 minutes top, if you feel like it, rinse and repeat, otherwise not a big deal.
I'm currently playing Hades. Dead Cells is even better.
Proteus. It's a very pretty and colorful game, has wonderful ambient sounds and procedurally generated music, and the gameplay is literally just walking around and looking at stuff
Mini Metro and Mini Motorways are pretty chill.
Both Katamari REROLL games.
Pretty much every Humongous Entertainment game.
DREDGE and WORLD OF HORROR if you want an exercise in slow-paced creepy bullshit tolerance.
Jet Set Radio is probably another solid choice, just for the music and aesthetic.
Beat Hazard for vibing to your music and some crazy flashy visuals. 2 has support for a bunch of major music streaming platforms, including YouTube.
Also like any porn game you can get down with.
Risk of Rain 2 and Diablo 4 have been fun to play while blazed lately. Actually set up Diablo 4 so I can essentially play with 1 hand and eat snacks with the other. Both are pretty chill
Other people have given you recommendations, I want to give you my commendation on the first time I have heard someone describe easy to play games in this manner.
I reckon you would have aced my school's internal exams back in the day where they were more concerned with the size of the content.
I highly encourage Dome Keeper, it hit me similarly to Vampire Survivors, but with just a bit more gameplay variety, once you learn the basics the back and forth between mining and defending is a rather enjoyable rhythm. And it plays like it was made for the Deck.
i really like paradise killer for this. like there's a mild horror aspect to the game, and a lot of social commentary, but mostly it's just nice to chill out in the transdimensional occult vaporwave dimension and wander and listen to the music. sable, too, though that's a totally different vibe.