Long story short I started watching the Handmaid’s Tale, just finished episode 3 and it’s terribly depressing and too real for me. I’ll keep watching but I need to counter all this negativity.
Hence why I’m looking for some “aftercare” games that will help me cope. Something easy, where I don’t have to think and just follow along good vibes.
I have played the following games, which kind of fit what I’m looking for:
- a short hike
- carto
- frog detective (all 3)
- islanders
- helltaker
- spec ops the line (just kidding)
- mini metro / motorways
- dave the diver
Thank you !
Some great games being listed already! Here are some nobody mentioned yet: Hoa, Abzu, Toem and Donut County.
Take it easy and pace yourself with the depressing stuff. We’re all in this together.
Cat fishing (maybe it’s called fishing with cat?) glad you already did for detective, cat quest 1-3, trine is pretty laid back, Thomas was alone, undertale,
I’ve only played the demo, but Caravan SandWitch has a cozy vibe and seems very chill.
Fields of Mystria is a Stardew-like that plays excellently on the steam deck!
Sayonara Wild Hearts. I love that game and often load it up when I’m feeling out of sorts.
Fantastic game that does not get the love it deserves. I think it was on sale for a few bucks recently.
I have an urge once or twice a year to play through the game again and it makes me cry every time. Just played it last week actually. Still have some of the music stuck in my head.
Great music
big list
Alba
Mutazione
Farm Together 2 (looks like a mobile game, it is fun! It is a great co-op optional game (splitscreen too))
Original Peggle and Peggle Nights
Crops!
Monster Train
Death Road To Canada
Everdell
Bunny Hill
MotorTown
Hydroneer
Hexcells Infinite
Instanbul Digital Edition
Lethal League Blaze
Legends Of Runeterra (the singleplayer roguelike mode is my fav)
Mystic Vale
Niche: a genetics survival game
Nobody Saves The World
Flipon
Garden Galaxy
Holocure
Intergalactic Fishing
Jelly Car Worlds
Lego DC Villains
Liftoff
Luck Be A Landlord
Galaxy Pass Station
Earthtongue
Donut Dodo
Critter Crunch
Crafty Survivors
Cosmos Quickstop
Cook Serve Delicious 3
Concordia
CastleStorm
Veloren
Master Of Pottery
MixoLumia
Monster Hunter: Worlds or Rise
Monster Sanctuary
Moonring
MotorTown
Mountain
Mutant Football League
Nickolodeon Kart Racer 2
Old Market Simulator
Omega Strikers
Ozymandias
Panorama
Urbo
Paperball
Petal Crash
Patron
Pikuniku
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
Original Plants vs Zombies
Plateup
Raid: World War II lol i know but its 2025 so shooting nazis is relaxing for me
Rock Of Ages 1-3
Roadwarden
Rubber Bandist
Roundguard
Peglin
Sailwind
Samorost 3
Saleblazers
Shipped
Shovel Knight
Slipways
Snakebird
Snowrunner
Steep
Strange Horticulture
Suika Shapes
Super Indie Karts Ultra Karting
Super Volley Blast
Switchball
Tangledeep
Terraria (of course like… of course)
Tidalis
Trailmakers
Kingdom Two Crowns
Tricky Towers
Valheim
Wayward
Witch It!
Wobbledogs
Wobbly Life
Wizard Of Legend
Yokus Island Express
World Turtles
Chuzzle Deluxe
Chronicon
Caveblazers
Bone’s Cafe
Boneraiser Minions
Besiege
Luanti
The Sea Will Claim Everything
Vintage Story
Battleblock Theater
Can absolutely vouch for Chuzzke Deluxe. Only problem I have with it now is that last I checked, some of the settings don’t work if you are on Linux and using proton. Mainly just the setting for windowed mode, if I remember correctly. But that’s a minor thing considering how cheap the game is on Steam.
Edit:
It’s $4.99USD, so it’s not really that expensive, but I for some reason thought it was a slightly lower price. Still recommended if you don’t mind spending that little amount to pick it up.
Coffee talk might be a good one
Unpacking (if mouse control via touch pads is ok for you)
UFO 50 and Star of Providence!
TOEM is usually the game that I suggest for this sort of genre. I got it from someone who had an extra key from a humble bundle, and in hindsight I wish I bought it because they deserve the money.
- terra nil
- what the golf
Someone else mentioned Superliminal, and I second that recommendation. Very cool puzzles, very nice message.
I’m a huge fan of Mice Tea (nsfw), it’s more comic than game (it’s actually a choose-your-own-adventure) but I read it on my Deck <3
It’s an erotic romance about a nerdy girl, a bookstore, and some magic tea that turns you into a furry. Tons of literal and metaphorical aftercare.
Update: 15ish hours in, I’m voicing like four characters and my partner is voicing all of the others. We are absolutely loving it so far. Thank you for the recco!
hell yeah! don’t forget to wishlist Coffee Buns and Crossed Signals, a couple of other stories being worked on by the same team :)
TF me into a furry? Uhhhh how have I not played that yet
- Cult of the Lamb
- Vampire Survivors
- Halls of Torment
I didn’t think of survivors games but they fit perfectly, thank you!
- Sable - but you’ll want to use protontricks to install dxvk
- Stonefly
- Far - 1 & 2 are both good, but I still prefer the first one
- Vane
- Lightmatter
I don’t think that dxvk is a thing that you’re supposed to pull in on its own. Any recent version of Proton (and especially ProtonGE) brings its own up-to-date copy of it.
