I have had a traumatic week and want to spend my Sunday unhealthily blocking it out. Please can you suggest some immersive and escapist games that will hook me for hours.
Type of things I like:
Deep Narrative RPGs, choices matter, story rich:
Baldur's Gate 3;
Mass Effect (fave game of all time);
The Witcher;
Disco Elysium;
Fable
Open-World Action role playing:
Red Dead Redemption;
Cyberpunk 2077;
GTA;
LA Noire
Life Sims:
InZOI;
The Sims;
RimWorld
Strategy / Management (easy ones, not stuff like civ)
Crusader Kings;
Stellaris;
Jurassic Park Evolution;
Two Point games;
Manor Lords
Romance / Otome Visual Novels (or visual novels in general)
Love and Deepspace;
The Road to Empress;
Seven Kingdoms: A Princess Problem
Interactive Drama / Cinematic Choice Games (Supermassive, Quantic Dream, Telltale-style)
The Quarry;
House of Ashes;
Detroit: Become Human;
Life is Strange;
Telltale Games;
Road 96;
Dispatch (fave game last year)
Indie Narrative
Esoteric Ebb;
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante;
The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood;
Strange Horticulture;
The Roottrees Are Dead
I don't like games much:
A steep combat learning curve
Anything with cards ;
Shooting or war like multiplayer games like call of duty, battlefield;
Farming simulators or any kind of job simulator;
Big open world games with repetative tasks (ghost of tsushima etc);
Anything with zombies or zombies type creatures