In essence, what game do you play when you are feeling down, under the weather, or depressed, and what does it do for you?
Mine would be Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. It is one of the first games I have beaten as a kid, and is probably the game I have completed the most amount of times. Everytime I play it, it brings me back to important or comfortable times in my life. It’s also one of those games that I just wish I could live in, and everytime I return to this game is liking visiting an old home, or visiting old friends, which I guess is fitting and somewhat comforting given the nature of the game. I grew up with the DX version, but I’ll play the original and the Switch remake as well for a slightly different experience. They all have their own way of making the experience feel different or fresh, like the different glitches between the original and the GBC versions, the attention to detail put into the remake, and the feeling of playing the OG version in a Super Gameboy if I’m feeling really old school. It’s one of those games where no matter which version I play, it will always take me to a place of comfort.
Great question! Didn’t even have to think about it. It’s got to be Hardspace: Shipbreaker. It’s the game I go to whenever I’m down and just need to sink into something familiar and simple. I can just be an anonymous roughneck nobody, floating in orbit far above a ruined earth, taking old decommisioned spaceships apart for salvage. The Mackerel Exolab with the large Solar Sails is my favourite ship. It’s just really peaceful but with the slight risk of sudden death to keep me on my toes hehe