If you have VR, beat sabre.
Sometimes I'll take a stab at Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy or play a few rounds rounds of NES Tetris.
Weather permitting I'll prefer going outside.
Ask HN: What video games do you play during the day?
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#32I play a game called "where's my lighter" where I've lost my lighter and none of the sleeping pets will get off my lap while I try to escape. Its frustrating but rewarding.
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#33I play a couple of games of bullet chess (1 minute games) on Lichess app. From a locked phone to the start of a game is 11.5 seconds (yeah, timed it). After a game you can start a new one in a few seconds.
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#34Bloons Tower Defence
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#35Quick minute or two: Wordle (Or a copy of it, that I can play more than one game a day)
On-Going in the background: Old School Runescape - I have 3 monitors, so I keep it on half of one while I work. There are many activities that are a "grind" and are pretty AFK, so it's just a click every few minutes or so.
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#36Based on the games you listed, I think you’d enjoy https://shapez.io
It’s essentially minimalist Factorio with a lot of neat ideas of its own. You can play it in your browser or on Steam.
Another classic browser game is TagPro. 3v3 physics-based capture the flag with a surprisingly high skill ceiling. https://tagpro.gg
Re: Ask HN: What video games do you play during the day?
#37Seedship us fun and works offline too so good for planes/trains etc. https://johnayliff.itch.io/seedship
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#38I had a friend that used to take mid-day breaks to play CS:GO. The weird part is that it seemed to work wonders, I guess there's something about getting shot at that really gets your energy levels going
It's essentially the pomodoro break. Concentration and focus followed by a short relief. If that's a coffee, a chat, or a quick game, if it works it works!
25 minutes of gaming then 5 minutes of writing solid code for some relief.
Re: Ask HN: What video games do you play during the day?
#39https://play-cs.com/en/servers
Been quite surprised to find fully functional CS 1.6 in a browser, but that's it. Heard that the latency is worse compared to the game client, haven't checked that myself because I don't want to bother buying or pirating the original version. Main use case: playing at work when you can't install random binaries but can visit websites (this use case isn't mine but I've been asking players there and they responded in this way).
Re: Ask HN: What video games do you play during the day?
#40on my windows/linux machines, Overwatch rounds are nice and short.
on my mac? mame, with certain roms and savestates. can't beat the combination of the simplicity of the old classics plus the ability to freeze and duplicate state at any point.