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If you’re majorly sick, I recommend playing a visual novel. They usually do not require much movement or thinking on your part; most only need you to click your mouse or tap spacebar to advance. You can look up a VN that suits your needs here: Link If you want a VN that has a particular genre or theme I can give more specialized suggestions.
Aside from that, you can play some simple automation or puzzle games. territorial.io works well for this. shapez 2 is also a good option.
If HL3 ever comes out, it will be a looter shooter with a strange story. In the time skip between 2 and 3, the rebels and Combine sued for peace because it turns out the Combine really are here to help humanity somehow. And most of the game is spent assisting the Combine with invading the very evil Race X homeworld.
I specialize in finding obscure good games.
Alice’s World - Mix between Doki Doki Literature Club and an adventure game.
Astro Colony - Satisfactory in space.
Days Without Incident - Fun small game made by the same guys who made Nightmare House 2.
I also recommend keeping an eye on Fractured Blooms, The Oversight Bureau, Cycle of Struggle Ardengrad, and Advent Dawn. They’re only demos at the moment though.
I use a decision tree to determine which platform to buy from, by going down this list and selecting the first platform that fits my requirements.
- Steam: If the full game is on there, buy. If the game needs an extensive patch to provide all the content, buy from another platform.
- itch: If the full game is on there, buy.
- GOG: If the full game is on there, buy. If the game needs an extensive patch to provide all the content, buy from another platform.
- JAST USA: If the full game is on there, buy.
- DLSite: If the full game is on there, buy.
- DMM: This platform is annoying to buy from since they dislike foreigners. If the full game is on there, buy.
I don’t really do racing games, but Distance is the best one I’ve played.
- You get community maps from the workshop.
- There are some very cool jumps to do.
- You can also train your gripfly skills. Basically, it’s where you flip your car and use the thrusters to fly. Gripfly is a useful technique, but hard to master.
- An excellent soundtrack.
I know of a major gameplay innovation in the past 5 years, though it’s incredibly unpopular to many.
AI2U features NPCs that are run by Azure AI. The goal is to make the ChatGPT NPC do what you want so you can solve the escape room.
This gameplay feature hasn’t really caught on, but I’ve only seen it be used recently.
Fallout 4. I could never bring myself to finish it. The furthest I ever got was just before the Mass Fusion mission between the Institute and the Brotherhood, with the Railroad already dead. I just couldn’t summon the will to continue. In every playthrough after that, I rush to Nuka World, finish a few parks there, and call it quits again.
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I say density, though Elite Dangerous puts a spin on how large the map should be.
In Elite Dangerous, most of the galaxy is unexplored. The Bubble (human inhabited area) is fully explored, which steadily dwindles as you go to about 1k ly outside the Bubble. Out there, you’re basically on your own.
When you explore and map unexplored areas, you actually get some money depending on the quality of your finds. If you find some Earth-like planets, for instance, you can get a lot of money from exploring. There is also an inexhaustible supply of systems to explore, so there’s no need to worry about running out.
Another game with interesting worldbuilding is White or Black (by ZeroCreation).
In that one, humanity nearly destroyed itself after an incredibly devastating WW3. Therefore, to avoid the constant Cycling of Empires, a band of philosophers and religious people tried to make one final civilization that lasts forever, which completed its rise to world domination in the late 21st century. Some interesting tidbits about this final civilization:
- The final civilization restricts learning and innovation to things it deems safe to consume. It considers certain works to have a destabilizing effect on people, so it only allows trusted individuals to use them to achieve the civilization’s goals.
- The human species in the far future now engages with symbiosis with another species. As far as I can tell, these future humans mainly photosynthesize.
- Emotion is considered to be an outright SCP. The final civilization allows some of it, but too much can make areas uninhabitable.
The Pegasus Expedition
The worldbuilding is mostly based around the Pegasus Galaxy and how humanity wants to exploit it. The premise is this: Humanity is getting torn apart by an aggressive alien race called the Colossals, so they sent three fleets to the Pegasus Galaxy to get some resources and reinforcements. These fleets consist of the Middle East, the US, and the EU (the EU is playable); the Chinese fleets are instead holding the line by Earth.
When humanity enters the Pegasus Galaxy, they get a very frosty reception. They appear in an organization’s territory who immediate try to push the humans back to their portal. The organization is instead wiped out by the humans, and the organization’s bosses - resembling the Roman Empire - tells humanity to back off or the Empire will kick them out.
There’s some politics stuff that happens in the Middle Eastern and US fleets later on, as well as a Flood/Thing-esque crisis that shows up. In the end, the EU gathers up all of its new friends in the Pegasus Galaxy to push through Flood/Thing turf and rescue the humans on Earth.
The gameplay is a bit dodgy but I think the worldbuilding and story are rock solid.
2009 onwards.