Hello. I got a walkpad a month or so ago (it’s a small treadmill) and I try to walk 1hr per day daily for health.
As far as making the most of this otherwise boring workout I have found it helps to play relaxing games on my CRT. I have a PC but lean more towards pre 2005 games (it’s not a limit though).
I mention the treadmill because the games have to be engaging but not require 100% of your attention. For example I finished Resident Evil 1 the other day. It was a wonderful game although it had a lot of backtracking which was annoying.
A bad example would be Megaman 1 (too strenuous and attention requiring, also brutal)
A good example would be civ2 on the PS1.
In terms of what games I can play, I can pretty much play everything up to 2005 either handheld or console up to that time. I have a PC/ 3DS/ Analogue Pocket.
I lean towards pre 2005 games but not limited to that. I don’t really have any specific genres in mind so you can recommend whatever you want and enjoy.
Slay the Spire
This and Balatro (and probably many rogue-lite deckbuilders I haven’t tried) are perfect compulsive time killers. Even though they’re newer, I would say they deserve serious consideration.
And Monster Train
And Dicey Dungeons
Turn based RPGs. I played through Persona 3, 4, and 5 on an elliptical machine in the past few months, and am now on Metaphor Refantazio. Atlus games seem perfect for this, heh. Not your pre-2005 style, but there’s plenty of old RPGs out there.
I also played through most of the Yakuzas on the elliptical too, although on easy difficulty since they didn’t become turn based until very recently.
Sounds like the Fire Emblem games would be perfect for this!
Agreed! There are several good ones on 3DS.
Advance Wars is also a great option - you can play a couple of them on 3DS with back-compatibility. Or, of the pocket can play GBA, there’s those.
And there are some PC games out there (although much more recent than 2005) that are in similar genres, like WarGroove or Dark Deity.
it had a lot of backtracking which was annoying
…but very immersive on the treadmill, no? LOL
…I‘ll show myself out
Another vote for turn based RPGs, but that also includes ones like Pokémon.
Resident Evil on a treadmill isn’t strenuous?! Mad lad territory.
I love a simple but satisfying puzzle game like Peggle, Nubbys Number Factory, Hexic, Lumines etc
Into the Breach, turn-based and would probably look great on a CRT
Balatro since it’s not realtime
No Man Sky. Pretty relaxing, not really needs super concentration.
I have played a few hundred hours of XCOM 2 on my treadmill. But I’ll play anything turn based that I can use a controller with. Steam controller takes care of the ones that need a mouse.
Balatro.
I would imagine any turn based game would work. I can’t stop playing Slay the Spire but there’s a bunch of options.
I do something similar on an exercise bike most turn based games are fine ie balatro but I have also enjoyed more casual time based games like katamari damacy
since people are talkinmg about balatro here, is it possible to buy it somewhere other than steam if i don’t want to support the child gambling company?
It’s on mobile app stores too
yeah I thought about that but apple and google are each bad in their own ways. maybe i’ll mail a tenner to the dev studio and just pirate it
Child gambling company?
Valve enables cs2 gambling through loot boxes. Many children are introduced to gambling this way
Ah I wasn’t aware but not surprised. Not sure why you’re getting down voted for sharing information. Ahh
redditlemmyMy best guess is people took “child gambling” to mean the game itself 🤷♀️ (or maybe they don’t like that i insulted their favourite brand)
Volvo and the cs2 loot boxes incl. their weird workarounds like the X-ray scanner so they can enable child gambling in countries like France that have made it illegal. like they really love child gambling it’s fucking weird
Android
Not on gog or itch sadly. The official balatro website only links to Steam. So it’s either Steam or get it on a console :/
Is there anyone who sells games that aren’t bad in some way? You don’t become successful in capitalism by being altruistic. Any company successful enough to run a market probably has some skeletons in their closet.
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Factorio, osrs, rimworld.
I tried playing games like Tony hawk pro skater or racing games, but every time I’d turn I’d lose my balance and almost fall off the treadmill. So anything i could play had to be slow placed or not have a 3d camera.
