What's your Comfort Game?

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[ T h e B o s s ] Dec 8, 2023 @ 4:11pm

You know, the kind of game that makes you feel warm and fuzzy no matter how many times you've played it.
https://youtu.be/J6vDhKpjzpI
For me it's Probably Contra Hard Corps. Or the original Doom.

What about you?

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Vendicator Senpai Dec 8, 2023 @ 4:14pm

Summer Memories

Grimsdottir Dec 8, 2023 @ 4:15pm

Death Stranding.

Go from point A to point B and don't ♥♥♥♥ it up.

Plus all the pretty views.

ṼṏẌṏḭḊ Dec 8, 2023 @ 4:15pm

Dwarf Fortress.
I love early fortresses, then they get huge and ♥♥♥♥ starts going wrong and I get sick of it again.

DarkCrystalMethod Dec 8, 2023 @ 4:16pm

Sleeping in on the weekends.

How about a nice game of chess?
TF2 still gives me the warm fuzzies.

Ren232 Dec 8, 2023 @ 4:17pm

Dead Cells

Tristin Dec 8, 2023 @ 4:38pm

Vantage Master V2

Incarnate Dec 8, 2023 @ 4:49pm

Vice City.

The real one, not the dog-s**t, bastardized "Definitive" version.

Pierce Dalton Dec 8, 2023 @ 4:50pm

GoldenEye 007.

The real one, not the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, bastardized remake version.

Affronter Dec 8, 2023 @ 4:52pm

On a cold winter day

https://store.steampowered.com/app/299600/Dragon_Fin_Soup/

AlienTestosterone Dec 8, 2023 @ 4:53pm

Dodgeball

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Your_White_Knight Dec 8, 2023 @ 4:55pm

Originally posted by The Boss™:
What's your Comfort Game?

You know, the kind of game that makes you feel warm and fuzzy no matter how many times you've played it.
https://youtu.be/J6vDhKpjzpI
For me it's Probably Contra Hard Corps. Or the original Doom.

What about you? :hp_aiko:

Well it was Heroes and Generals.... now that it's gone... nothing much has replaced it.

Last edited by Your_White_Knight; Dec 8, 2023 @ 4:55pm

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Phirestar Dec 8, 2023 @ 5:24pm

These are all of my current ones, I think.

RuneScape / Old School RuneScape
Dark Souls (series)
Age of Wonders III
Hollow Knight
Stardew Valley
Terraria

The key factor that I see in all the titles I consider to be comfort games is that starting over from the beginning, with a fresh character or fresh save file, is where the game feels the most exciting.

There’s two halves that make this up, in my eyes.

One half of it is consistency: when the “good part” is there from minute one, and lasts the whole way through. If I feel like I have to play through and reach a certain point of a game before the fun actually begins, then that’s not really comforting. Those games are good because they start off enjoyable, and remain so from that point on, potentially becoming even better over time.

And the other half is a satisfying sense of progression over time. My favorite types of games are the ones where you start out small and grow over time. The idea of beginning with nothing and working you way up to the top is the most engaging type of experience, in my opinion. They all have that in some form or another, whether it be your character leveling up and becoming stronger, obtaining resources to build bigger and better structures, exploring the world and defeated greater and greater foes, or whatever else it could be.

I also like having a lot of choice to dictate the direction of my experience, too, which is also a common trait with all those games.

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