>>37276026Sucks. I think most people without real-life influence now get their taste from video game streamers on youtube, and kind of branch out from there. Vinesauce is pretty inoffensive and show off a lot of free games if you want to check them out some day.
Afaicg the "chill" factor is an artificial sense of ease created by a large community and slow-paced, choiceful gameplay.
- You could try nethack or openttd but they have a sloped learning curve and require at least a drop of autistic blood, so maybe you'd find yourself lost there.
- Yumme Nikki's good if you like exploring video game worlds, and there's a little imageboard out there that will give you what /vp/ has for pokemon, but better (until you lot of goons show up and break it).
- For turn-based combat, if you feel like
>>37275703, chess is a lot more complex than Pokémon and fulfilling, and you can talk about it with a lot of people.
- Neopets is childish, but it has that cute monster-ally thing going on, as long as you don't admit to playing it here nobody's gonna give you shit for it.
- Pirating is not an issue? Look into CYOA games, point-and-click adventures [scummvm compatibility gives you a compact list to work with and ensures they'll work on your machine / alternatively, everybody loves myst], and city-building games for slow-paced, chill gameplay.
