Tetris effect is outstanding, visually, auditory, mechanically. It’s one of my most played games

Emulate Apotris? I always love playing it for short bursts like waiting on a table or food

Unpacking?

Brotato

Tetris Effect is great, but the music sometimes gets me emotional.

Lumines Remastered is just about perfect. The beat is like a dopamine stim.

Tetris effect.

If you want to be utterly immersed in something simple, this is it.

It’s just Tetris, but lights, sounds, music all react to you when playing. It’s beautiful. It gave me chills.

I play every morning with a cup of coffee. I love it.

Luminous remastered Hall of torment

Keep in mind that some games easy mode is often more story driven and a decent way to release. I’ve been playing dead space on easy and it’s been nice.

I was going to say RimWorld… but it might not help with trauma

Super indie karts.

I have been playing Marios Picross for the GB on my deck. It’s so good to just relax with it.

I’d say any game with a grind, in other words, RPG’s. Sure there’s a story and progressing in the story requires thought but you can pick and choose when you want to progress. If you just want to sit there and grind for hours at end, you can do that and the longer you do it, the easier the game gets. Eventually you can beat the game and add another notch to your gaming belt so it doesn’t feel like a complete time loss.

Also skateboarding games. No thought process required. Just do big combos until time runs out. Do that constantly trying to beat your best score.

Vampire Survivors

I would recommend dicey dungeons. It’s only 15 bucks but goes on sale pretty often, it’s got an incredible soundtrack, it’s very charming, it’s turnbased so you don’t need to worry about time when making your moves, and most runs end in 20-30 mins. The only caveat is there is a character that gets insanely insane hard, but she’s the last one you unlock, and also all the dlc is free and you don’t need to beat the game with the super hard character to play the dlc, but you do need to beat her series of levels to beat the final boss of the vanilla game.

I’ve been dealing with some crazy insane shit in my life the past 6 months or so and dicey dungeons has been my go to unwind game. I normally disregard deck building games — it’s sort of like slay the spire but very cute and charming and more simplified— but something about dicey dungeons just sinks it’s teeth in me.

Powerwash Simulator dude. It’s almost like a reverse coloring book. You start off with a map or object completely covered in grime and take your time cleaning it in small sections. Some of the levels are truly incredible, like the skate park, treehouse, and paint ball arena. I like to put on some chill music, lay back, relax and start washing. They just added some Back to the future DLC which is gonna be awesome 😎👍

Dome Keeper