Gaming

The Way of the Hunter and theHunter: Call of the Wild. Starting a podcast and then slowly walk through beautiful nature and taking in the ambience. Or free roam in Firewatch. Next best to actually going outside 🙃.

Then Sailwind (sailing around delivering cargo with navigation as challenge). Also, Call of the Wild: The Angler and Fishing: North Atlantic.

Lake is also a beautiful game — delivering packages and enjoying the story.

I think you get the theme 🙃.

The good old Flight Simulators (MSFS 2020, X-Plane, DCS World) — problem here is to first get use to the many keys again after a longer break.

SpiderHeck is super easy to just jump in and play. It has been mine lately. I'm still playing Ultima Online and City of Heroes regularly.

Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage. Sometimes the other two in the trilogy but this is the one I've especially loved since childhood. One of the only games I've 100%ed and I've done so twice.

Pokemon Emerald is a nice comfort game for me. Replaying it can feel like a summer vacation for my mind. It's like a vacation spot you frequently go to so it feels like a home away from home. There's adventure, cute creatures, and just a general sense of fun.

Stardew Valley is great and I love playing it online with friends when there's time and schedules line up. I honestly just fish all day in that game. That and spend time with my sad sad emo boy Sebastian.

Lately, Battle Brothers. It's god damn brutal but I love min maxing my bros and carefully playing essentially battle-chess with them before dying horribly and restarting my save.

I'm probably the only one left still obsessed with Nidgogg 1.

Waves/Waves 2! Fantastic twin stick shooters, now free as well. Both have great chip tune soundtracks.

Oddly enough I go through phases where I just level up a character on WoW. It's mindless for me and I can just zone out and watch TV while playing.