6/2…

Some other options.

If you have a joystick or wheel, flight Sims, space sims, racing games might be possible.

RTS games in single player mode (just play on an easier difficulty). Plenty of decent ones have been released in the last little while. Also, maybe 4x games, total war etc.

Digital Board Games might work too.

• Yokus island express 80% off
• Emberward 20% off
• Supraland 70% off
• Immortals Fenyx Rising

Other games that look cool but I haven’t played

• Eternal strands
• Shadow gambit: the cursed crew
• Teardown
• Tactical breach wizards
• Selaco

If you like r6 siege’s terrorist hunt, perhaps you will like Ready or Not.

Or you can look for older games like SWAT 4 on gog.com.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/dopamine-the-pathway-to-pleasure

I’m a little confused. I had always read about dopamine as “the reward chemical” like in the link.

I imagine things are more complicated than that like you alluded to but I had always seen it written as a key part of the brain’s reward system and so makes sense to mention in the context of rewards in games.

Also we really shouldn’t be using drug metaphors in general when talking about games.

This and the title seems disingenuous to me. A dopamine rush or hit is not a drug metaphor but a reference to body chemistry in response to something that happens in a game.

Please correct me if I’m wrong

Hosting your own server and playing multiplayer games over LAN is playing offline. Is that what you’re asking?

I doubt that the average PC gamer is commenting on those articles.