What "mindless" games do you play?

AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de to Android@lemmy.world – 85 points –

I'm often in longer telephone conferences and like to play relatively uncomplicated, mindless games like 2048 or threes. Both of these are getting pretty boring these days, so I'm looking for new games.

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Vampire survivors. Perfect one hand food game

It's great that it can be played in landscape too if you want to pay more attention to it occasionally

Minesweeper and various solitaires, which are decent enough to pass time.

I don't know if you'd call them completly mindless, as they're puzzle games of a sort, but both Mini Metro and Mini Motorways are great relaxing time killers to me.

Not really complicated, just making connections. A fair bit of downtime just everyone make their trips, relaxing music, simplistic visuals, easy to pick up and play.

i am hooked to Crossy Road. (is like atari fogger, but better)

Idle Apocalypse, Tower of Hero, and when I'm not mad at them Pokรฉmon Go

Magic Survival. It's mostly mindless until late game when you really start thinking about how you could survive any given map for an hour.

Infinite Loop (โˆž Loop), Flow, Desert Golfing, Simon Tatham's Puzzle Pack, and various card games are some of the games I play just to kill time or keep myself stimulated while listening to something.

Dots is entertaining and mindless.

I haven't played it, but holedown looks very promising.

My personal favorite is Egg Inc, though it's a slightly different genre since it's an idle game.

Word Hero - basically boggle word find, but new game every 3 minutes and you score with 100 other players

  • Paper-io.com 2 - teams, small map
  • Territorial.io
  • Hexceed
  • You Must Build A Boat
  • Hexcells
  • Little inferno
  • Dwarfs!?
  • Viscera cleanup detail/powerwash simulator etc.
  • zombie driver hd
  • LYNE
  • Mini metro
  • Fly corp
  • Bullet chess
  • Clash royale/minion masters
  • Cookie clicker/ngu idle/adventure capitalist

While not entirely mindless, I've been loving Void Bastards to wind down at the end of the day

I like farming games like Harvest Moons on emulators for when I'm bored.

Break free of your dopamine addiction.

And then what? Stare on a blank screen for 4h a day?

It's my job to be in conference calls where I only listen for 75% of the time and there's nothing else for me to do except listening. And I find it easier to listen when playing around.

Doodling on paper is just as mindless, but that's probably okay for you, because it's "real" right?

Why don't you listen while you are working?

It seems to me you have bigger issues, that stem from a dopamine addiction.

Maybe bottom feeders can't do that, but normal people can listen and play around at the same time.

I can imagine you also tell people in a bar to stop drinking.

Nah those people know they are doing something wrong.