I’d recommend emulating some nostalgic games from your childhood, ones you’ve played to death and wouldn’t mind any sudden interruptions of since you’ve seen everything a hundred times.

Basically, the video game equivalent of putting on old sitcoms.

I played Fantasy Life I: The Girl Who Steals Time when I was sick. It’s a very chill game where you can run around and do different “jobs” like fishing, woodcutting, mining, various crafting, and combat.

Along with Hello Kitty Island Adventure which is similar to Animal Crossing in some ways but heavier on quests and befriending the characters. There’s a lot of reading though but I skim through most of it.

Zelda: The Wind Waker.

There’s a part where you heal a sick person, toward the middle.

Also, a kid with a snot drip hanging from his nose, in the beginning.

When my sick, close eyes and rest.

I would recommend playing a mediocre game you don’t intend to replay. If you’re anything like me, I associate movies and games with the feeling of sickness I felt watching it. So Shadow of the Colossus, for some reason, is strongly associated with the feeling I had being home sick playing it as a teenager. I still replay it but have that kind of aftertaste of the memory lol. I similarly associate the movie Dark City with having chicken pox!

Deep rock survivor. No thought required. Break rocks. Guns will sort out the test on their own.

mahn thats how i ended up in stardew valley

sick off my ass, bored, and not really being a gamer.

Games that are turn based or allow you to pause or control speed:

• xcom
• city builders
• sims
• anno
• paradox games (probably just stellaris since that has difficulty settings)
• cRPGs
• card games like slay the spire

also

• minecraft
• mmos that don’t require you to think, guildwars 2 just let’s you run around and auto attack that’s pretty effective…

I replayed The Witcher 3 when i got sick earlier this year. Needed something that didn’t require too much thinking, and it worked for me.

Stardew valley and terraria

Derail Valley Simulator is actually quite chill, once you have an idea of how to handle your trains. I have almost $7,000,000 saved up to see how big of a boom I can cause without going into debt, or hurting my engines and caboose.

Dorfromantik.

It’s a game where you place tiles to build a map and you get scored based on how well the placed tile matches the rest of the tiles. Extra score comes from additional goals which usually mean finishing a certain area.

It’s my go to game when I’m burnt out and can’t think or I’m so sick I can’t focus on anything, because the game is perfect when you’re low energy. There is no clock, there is no mental overhead of keeping track of something. The game gives you all the information you need and you can play one tile at a time. The music is calm and the tiles you place create this idyllic world that’s pleasing to the eye.

It’s the ultimate chillout game.

Hades 2

I replay games I’m intimately familiar with so I can just autopilot and chill.

I am more likely to watch a movie or binge a show when I’m sick than play a video game though. Sometimes I read a comic book if my eyes are OK or listen to an audiobook.

I’d do for Vampire Survivors