Try Rimworld, insanely good game. You can play it on peaceful and just build your Commie colony or play it on normal difficulty and defend against raids and such.
Project Zomboid, a personal favorite of mine. It's a fun and very good zombie survival sim imo. It's still in development and I think it's pretty cheap.
Mount and Blade Warband, nothing to add on this one, it's just a great great game. There are a fuckton of mods, Prophesy of Pendor is a great one.
I'll second Warband. Infinite replayability. You can role play, you can just run a caravan, you can just do custom battles and throw 400 infantrymen at each other.
Project Zomboid is suuuuper janky, I died several times because my character was not attacking in the direction of my cursor
Also leveling is absurdly slow and it just feels like it's made that way to pad out the fact that it's so sandboxy that there is no actual endgame
sunk many quarantine hours into pendor, the most recent game i've played in years. boy is it enjoyable to get in the zone and just horse archer through your enemies.
I joined the Baccus Empire and first we had a massive army roaming around one of our cities (That snake priestess which spawns in the map), one we dealt with them (They had like a 3k army or something? I dunno, I remember it was massive as fuck) the Sarleons went full blitz on everyone and we barely have one city left, Janos, filled with surviving lords from other kingdoms with barely 30/50 men each.
F
Everyone's posting shit you actually have to think about.
Pick up Hades, or, if you want to support a worker-owned game co-op, get Dead Cells.
Pure twitch gameplay. No thinking required.
Civ 5 is the superior game anyway, though it never goes on steam sale, gotta get it cheap from those third party vendors like g2a
For a potato computer you could get civ 4 or 3 instead. The complete editions are on sale right now for $7.50 and $1.25 respectively
FTL is the opposite of turn your brain off. It's my all time favorite game but it makes me feel like I'm on coke.
You can get into kind of a groove with OG Hotline Miami. Hotline Miami 2 though kinda got a little more complicated with level design and relied a bit too much on guns imo.
lol true i was thinking more "turn your brain off from the outside world"
hey they meet 1 of the criteria
Adding Monster Train, but i feel like the levels/"lanes" and the soundtrack get your brain working a bit more
Tropico is always a grand old time. One of my favorite unwindey games. Kick up your feet, smoke an imaginary cigar, take in the latin jazz as your run your little banana republic
You can never go wrong with good old Doom. It's almost 30 years old, still looks good on any computer.
No story except screen texts here and there. The game sets you on Mars and you get to blow up demons and zombies! Fun times!
Have you heard of incremental games?
Start with Universal Paperclips
I came here to say subnautica too because it's so chill most of the time and doesn't require any real mental effort or dexterity. Satisfactory is another good one because you can basically go as slow as you want without consequences, though the end game can get a little spreadsheety if you're really wanting to optimize things
Journey is a nice 2 hour game that is nothing but ambiance. Definitely recommend.
I reinstalled Terraria recently after 4 years. It's still great. They added a werewolf girl NPC.
Turn your brain off and go hole up in the broom closet, like God intended
