I’m talking barebones. Tetris. Picross-like. Something that requires very little thought and is addictive.

For background, the reason I’m asking is because I recently read that researchers found that participants in a study on traumatic events saw that people who played tetris during their recovery had less traumatic response/activation over time? I’m currently going through a pretty traumatic time in life and am just looking for games that activate my lizard brain to forget about the hard times for a little while. Thanks in advance.

    • qdtk@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Maybe someone can explain this one to me because I didn’t enjoy it at all. I felt I spent most of my time traveling and the part at the surface I never did enough damage and just got overwhelmed. Really boring and I didn’t play long.

      • TorrentFire@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I played it through steam family share while I used a recumbent exercise bike at a gym. It’s pretty simple and mindless in terms of its gameplay, but it is fun, to a degree. It does not have much depth to it, that’s for sure.

        • SparkyMountain@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Just got my recumbant bike this week. What’s your progress been with it and weight loss? How much have you lost and how long/often ff do you ride? Favorite game while biking?

          • TorrentFire@alien.topBEnglish
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            10 months ago

            I’m afraid it was more of a one-off thing for me so I cannot answer your questions. I would recommend, for whenever you begin doing it, to bring or to have a fan. Normally when I go to the gym, I don’t bring my steam deck, but I listen to audible instead.