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Posted May 13, 2017
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DaCostaBR: Sounds like an easy thing to find, right?

You know how you look at the games in your library sometimes and think "I don't really want to play any of these right now". Okay, I'm not quite there yet.

The problem is I'm playing Bloodborne right now and felt like mixing it up with another game. I installed the ones that caught my eye: Pathologic, The Black Watchmen and The Darkest Dungeon. My immediate thought looking at these four games was "How fucking dour". If I wanted to mix things up and unwind after some work, I don't think I'm doing it right.

What games do you turn to when you are looking for something fun? That are guaranteed to lift your spirits and put a smile on your face?

For me I think the Professor Layton series probably work, it's full of that fuzzy feeling of nostalgia without being about a single nostalgic thing in particular, it's more about the tone.

Maybe Call of Juarez Gunslinger is pretty fun too. Yeah, you go around killing hundreds of people, but it's all pretty cartoony and the meta antics that the narrator gets into, rewinding scenes, redoing them, telling things wrong on purpose, make it all pretty lighthearted and even funny at times.

Needless to say though...ehh...I'm just not in the mood to replay those games, y'know?
With regards gunslinger, I literally finished the game this week. It is good, personally found the frist two games better, this one was more jumping in and out of a story, and sometimes play stops as the narration takes over which can be frustrating. It also seemed a bit short. Still good though. Gun is quite a good wild west game. Now onto assassin creed black sail, got a thing for pirate games since risen 2.
Posted May 13, 2017
Crayon Physics Deluxe
A shame that it isn't on GOG but you get it DRM-free on Humble Store too.

Now I'm also addicted to the new released Gremlins Inc
Post edited May 13, 2017 by Silverhawk170485
Posted May 13, 2017
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Posted May 13, 2017
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DaCostaBR: unwind after some work
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bonzer: Papers Please

NO.
Posted May 13, 2017
1.Double Fine Games - Stacking, Psychonauts, Costume Quest
2. Serious Sam games
3. Journey of a Roach (Just played it, very short game, but very fun and relaxing).
4. Spelunky
5. Treasure Adventure Game (I first played it years ago, its a fun platformer in a strange land, and it's FREE). :)

Edit: Not on GOG, but, Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok is good, and the soundtrack is relly relaxing.
Post edited May 13, 2017 by bhrigu
Posted May 13, 2017
Doom 1+2
Quake (1)
Posted May 13, 2017
Tower of Guns is also on of those games games which are just fun to play
Posted May 13, 2017
Shmups are short and intensive, and even though there is so much depth to them, you can just choose to ignore all that if you just feel like shooting and blowing up crap:

Crimzon Clover, Revolver360, Raiden series...
Posted May 13, 2017
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Suuuure. If you find high blood pressure and throwing your control out the window fun.

I'd say Bastion, nice soundtrack, soothing narrator's voice, simple bashing up of squirts.
Post edited May 13, 2017 by Leonard03
Posted May 13, 2017
From me gog list of games I'd say

Populous: The beginning
Urban Chaos
Posted May 13, 2017
So far I started replaying Touch My Katamari. It's fun, relaxing, hands on and not too serious, but it's also pretty short, I think by tomorrow or the next day I'll be looking for another game.
Posted May 13, 2017
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DaCostaBR: So far I started replaying Touch My Katamari. It's fun, relaxing, hands on and not too serious, but it's also pretty short, I think by tomorrow or the next day I'll be looking for another game.
With a title starting with "Touch my..." I'd hope it would be hands on. :P
Posted May 14, 2017
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HunchBluntley: All Spelunky And No Spelunky Make Spelunky Spelunky Spelunky.
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Leonard03: Suuuure. If you find high blood pressure and throwing your control out the window fun.
Well, you have to be cool with dying and starting over a lot. But in a way, it's liberating -- one is free to make all sorts of "experiments", especially in the early levels, secure in the knowledge that "I was probably gonna die anyway." :)
The sense of satisfaction as one slowly gets better at the game, though, is immense.
Posted May 14, 2017
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Posted May 14, 2017
Earth Defense Force, any one of them. They contain more or less everything that's cool from every sci-fi I've read or seen: epically massive monsters and robots, awesome weapons and huge destructive arenas to fight them all in.

Army Men, any of them on GOG. I mean, you're playing toy soldiers fighting aliens and what-not in a miniature world. It's wacky and silly. For similar reasons, the 8-bit Armies games.

Freedom Force, both games. For very much the same reasons as above. Cool superhero stuff.
The later Tex Murphy games. They always get me in a good mood.

Since you have a PS4 I'd also suggest the Yakuza series. They might look dramatic from trailers and such, but there's actually a tonne of really whacky and silly stuff in these games. They are more like GTA 5 than Maffia 2/3.

Others: the Saint's Row series, GTA 5, Jazzpunk, Outlaws + A Handful of Missions, Redneck Rampage., Don't Starve, Just Cause 2 & 3 .

The common thread in all these games is that they don't take themselves too seriously.
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