I play a lot of windowed games on my PC as I watch less engaging content like TV I’ve seen, Youtube. Lately Balatro, Peglin, a racing game called art of rally, Mini Motorways. Interested to hear other people’s preferences.

I generally want something that runs well windowed because I use a third of my ultrawide to run the video, so no shooters or “big” games usually.

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    The Cozy series of games on iOS are sick.

    • Cozy Solitaire
    • Cozy Match-3 (like Candy Crush)
    • Cozy Majhong (my favorite of them)

    All one time payment of less than $5 (dont even recall paying for Majhong) and no ads or data harvesting

    I find match3 games that you can buy and aren’t data collection schemes in a trenchcoat are super rare on iOS so check it out if you like candy crush type games

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          She was instantly into the Steam version of Solitaire, thank you for the suggestion. I think I’ll try it in the future through the family sharing.

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            Try the others too. I like to plug them and support their work, can’t wait to see what they turn their attention to next! I wish they would do a Cozy Tetraminos (Tetris)

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    Binding of Isaac, Brotato, or Balatro are good once you have enough experience with them to be able to play without much thought

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    I’m in an online ladder for Wordfeud, a mobile scrabble clone that keeps obnoxiousness to a minimum. That means I’ve almost always got 7 or 8 games going against well-matched opponents.

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    Best I can do is listen to an audio book while playing a chill/puzzle game. I would short circuit I’d had to watch TV and play a game. I can’t even really have a conversation and play, I have to pause it.

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    None. I prefer to watch movies or TV shows that I enjoy enough that it will keep my attention.

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      I think there are different levels. I love the office, I’ve watched it through a few times. But sometimes after a long day I like to toss it on and just relax. It’s a comfort show. But having seen it so much, it’s easy to fiddle with a game while I watch. It’s a way to destress after work for me. It’s not that I don’t like the show, I’m just experiencing it a different way. As comfort background viewing, apposed to when I watch a show I really enjoy and am seeing for the first time.

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        I do this but it’s usually with a Brit murder mystery or classic movie. If I’m watching something I love like Silo or Severance then that gets my full attention.

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      lol, yep. It just cemented the fact that I don’t have that personality. I figured out Balatro, then it wasn’t as fun anymore and gave it up.

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        I 100% would but recognized it early enough in life that I dont gamble but lord it hits every single obe of those buttons.

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        Did you try 100%ing it? At first, I was like, guys just because a game has rng doesn’t mean it’s a gambling simulator

        Then I tried gold stickering everything. That’s when the gambling addiction kicks in

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          I’ve never needed to 100% any game. For me that isn’t fun. What’s fun is the journey. Beyond that I’m not interested.

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    I played it on mobile but it’s on pc as well- Slice & Dice. A really fun dice based roguelite. Liked it a little more than peglin and balatro.

    Lately I’ve been playing Factorio a lot with something on my other monitor but idk if it meets your criteria as well.

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      I think I have tried Slice and Dice, generally I am not great at games such as Slay the Spire and the like, but S&D was more accessible.

      Factorio is great, might be worth a new run. I have never actually beaten the game, and made it furthest on peaceful mode when I did get to stages like nuclear power.

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        Yeah, i bounced off Dicey Dungeon too, but had a lot of fun with S&D.

        The space age expansion for Factorio is huge, I feel like I’ve played it for 3 times as long as I did the base game and still not finished. I was not a fan of the bugs at first but I started to realize that they’re not really too much of an actual challenge it problem, they sorry if just serve as another pressure for developing your factory in a certain way.

        I really liked the logistical side of the game Mindustry but eventually the “tower defense” aspects overwhelmed the fun of rooting materials and stuff. I wonder if it has some sort of peaceful mode though, I should look for it again.

        Another thought is Dungeons of Aether, though it’s shorter than other Roguelites, a bit easier to “figure out” so it isn’t as interesting as some, and hasa lot more story elements so it might be too distracting as a passive game.

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    Minecraft. I was SUPER into Minecraft for a while and digging a 5x5 tunnel for ten thousand blocks or more to connect to a distant nation isn’t something I could do without additional entertainment going on my second monitor, especially if I am just monitoring two bot accounts to make sure they don’t get stuck too often.

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      Playing minecraft while listening to podcasts was a special kind of zen experience for me.

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    Anything where it doesn’t matter if I get distracted at any given point, e.g. turn-based or otherwise non-time-sensitive games.

    • Incremental games (Chillquarium, Pegidle, Synergism, etc.)
    • Powerwash Simulator
    • Geotastic (with time limit turned off)
    • Slay the Spire, or other deckbuilding roguelites
    • Dominion
    • FTL: Faster Than Light / Multiverse
    • Civilization VI
    • Picross/Piczle Cross and similar games
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    Elite Dangerous is perfect to play with a show on. I used to do window in window in VR whilst flying between sites.

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        Yeah exactly. I had the show in a window floating over part of the ship inside VR. Think about where the centre console would be in a car. It was a really cool experience, flying my space ship whilst watching a program.

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    Riichi Mahjong (Mahjong Soul, Riichi City), Slay the Spire, and Panel de Pon are my main second monitor fare these days.