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Posted December 20, 2017
So. I tend to have allot of downtime at work when not much happen. I tend to spend this time surfing the webb and playing some games (in seecret ofc), upp till now i mostley played openttd and swarmsim but i have grown bord of borh of those.
Anyone has any sugestions on what to play? Demands are as follow.

Must be windowedmode for quich switch in and out of.
Must be able to tend to itself for periods of time while i work and forget pause.
Must be able to play only mouse or mouse and keyboard as suppoer (like moving camer in openttd with the arrowkeyes)

I have tried sim city 3000 witch sadly compleetly buggs out when i tab, and Heroes of might and magic 3 witch dosnt tab atall more or less.

Hit me with your sugestions! (Game must preferibly be free or avaliable on GOG or both)
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Posted December 20, 2017
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Deadrat: So. I tend to have allot of downtime at work when not much happen. I tend to spend this time surfing the webb and playing some games (in seecret ofc), upp till now i mostley played openttd and swarmsim but i have grown bord of borh of those.
Anyone has any sugestions on what to play? Demands are as follow.

Must be windowedmode for quich switch in and out of.
Must be able to tend to itself for periods of time while i work and forget pause.
Must be able to play only mouse or mouse and keyboard as suppoer (like moving camer in openttd with the arrowkeyes)

I have tried sim city 3000 witch sadly compleetly buggs out when i tab, and Heroes of might and magic 3 witch dosnt tab atall more or less.

Hit me with your sugestions! (Game must preferibly be free or avaliable on GOG or both)
My homm3 alt tabs fine? Though I am using the HD mod.
Posted December 20, 2017
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Deadrat: So. I tend to have allot of downtime at work when not much happen. I tend to spend this time surfing the webb and playing some games (in seecret ofc), upp till now i mostley played openttd and swarmsim but i have grown bord of borh of those.
Anyone has any sugestions on what to play? Demands are as follow.

Must be windowedmode for quich switch in and out of.
Must be able to tend to itself for periods of time while i work and forget pause.
Must be able to play only mouse or mouse and keyboard as suppoer (like moving camer in openttd with the arrowkeyes)

I have tried sim city 3000 witch sadly compleetly buggs out when i tab, and Heroes of might and magic 3 witch dosnt tab atall more or less.

Hit me with your sugestions! (Game must preferibly be free or avaliable on GOG or both)
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Matewis: My homm3 alt tabs fine? Though I am using the HD mod.
Mine just hangs when i try sadly :( Maybe i should try the HD mod. Have to take the PC home for christmass and install it hehe.
Posted December 20, 2017
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Matewis: My homm3 alt tabs fine? Though I am using the HD mod.
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Deadrat: Mine just hangs when i try sadly :( Maybe i should try the HD mod. Have to take the PC home for christmass and install it hehe.
You can get it here https://sites.google.com/site/heroes3hd/ if you want to try it. Works great for me.

Other possibilities: one of the civilization games, FTL, Master of Orion, Disciples 2, Deadlock : Planetary conquest, Settlers 4.
And then there is a whole swathe of browser based games. Most are horrendous but there are a few good ones.Three that come to mind: Cookie Clicker, A Dark Room and Spaceplan
Posted December 20, 2017
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Deadrat: Mine just hangs when i try sadly :( Maybe i should try the HD mod. Have to take the PC home for christmass and install it hehe.
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Matewis: You can get it here https://sites.google.com/site/heroes3hd/ if you want to try it. Works great for me.

Other possibilities: one of the civilization games, FTL, Master of Orion, Disciples 2, Deadlock : Planetary conquest, Settlers 4.
And then there is a whole swathe of browser based games. Most are horrendous but there are a few good ones.Three that come to mind: Cookie Clicker, A Dark Room and Spaceplan
Ahh good sugestions! thanks i shall look in to them. Think i own some of them allready tbh.
Posted December 20, 2017
Start playing the Forgeign Exchange market, or online selling, double your income - well your already playing games at work, may as well make some money...
Posted December 20, 2017
IF you want to start trading, do yourself a favour and start with one of those trainers first. It is basically a game where you trade with toy money but in the real market. It takes several months to see if you have any knack for it. Many banks offer the service for a fee.

Games I play when I want a short break:
Unreal Tournament 2004, this one I do not mind quitting or alt tabbing out of just about whenever.

uhmmm, I was sure there were more but I am drawing a blank right now. Tetris, Jazzball, all kinds of solitaire used to be coffee break games for me but not any longer.
Post edited December 20, 2017 by Themken
Posted December 20, 2017
I hope you work in an environment where you can't harm people, like not in a train station.
Posted December 20, 2017
That is a good point. One of the largest recent train accidents in Germany was caused by an operator playing games.
Posted December 20, 2017
TIS-100. I was actually seen playing it during working hours but didn't get caught.
Posted December 20, 2017
CS1.6, UT99, UT04 and Q3 as "all" office computers will handle those just fine. Still popular if you want a quick match against your co-workers or somebody else.
OpenRA
CNCnet

Any puzzle games. BaSS, Dig, Spacechem,

Alpha Century

Fallout.

Worms

Factorio

Scorched Earth - THE mother of all games.

Mahjong

Snes9x (with a game of course). As soon as you move out of the windows focus it pauses.

The Adventures of Captain Comic

Sim Tower and Fish Tycoon :p
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Posted December 21, 2017
Infested Planet, Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville, 1849: Gold Edition, Kingdom Rush games (or other tower defense games). But you'll probably need to reload the last save if you forget to pause. Maybe Jagged Alliance 2 games? Perhaps they are a bit complex to play at work.

BTW, what tower defense games are on GOG, anybody knows? Can't remember any except Kingdom Rush.
Posted December 21, 2017
As someone in an engineering firm, I would definitely say if you're in a professional setting, where you are tempted to slack off in any significant fashion.... don't, just don't. It's one thing to take a 3-5 minute breather and socialize and read a little, even smoke break, it's another to risk getting yourself invested in a game or a significant amount of time b#ll$&itt^ng. It doesn't reflect well on you if you spend more time on your leisure than you do on your work. And my office has seen people trying to order internet hookers and downloading movies (which wound up costing our firm $50,000, with the guarantee of a firing for whoever did it again)
Posted December 21, 2017
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QC: ...And my office has seen people trying to order internet hookers...
lol, I hope they ordered some for the yearly holiday party!
Posted December 21, 2017
Stardew Valley can be set to automatically pause when the game window isn't active :)

I once knew a guy working as a night guard in a storage place where they had nothing valuable, only boring stuff, and he was allowed to play games to keep awake :)
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