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What games help you destress or warm up your brain?

Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2025 3:07 pm
by QueriesNTheories
In the title!

I am an anxious person, and in the last year I've had to try doubly hard to self-soothe and ease my own stress during really tense times. Life is weird like that lol. I tend to go to arcadey style games or comforting ones I know well if I'm not feeling right
Some games that help me see through the noise in my head in particular are:
  • I Love Hue (and I Love Hue Too)
  • Flow Free (the expansion packs are so worth the purchase)
  • Ouros
  • the Peggle games
  • Bejewelled 3 (or Bejewelled Classic on mobile)
I also like a good puzzle/brain teaser game to prevent my brain from turning into slop. Not a big fan of strategy games so a few of these are in the same sort of arcadey/casual category:
  • Professor Layton
  • Snakebird (albiet very slowly, the main game is HARD. Buy Snakebird Primer first)
  • Brain Training 1 and 2 for DS (or Brain Age for you 'muricans. I wanna get the Switch version, it looks cool)
  • Ninimaths (which I found like two days ago, it's basically just maths problems lol)
  • The Bart Bonte Collection (kinda owed it to him to buy the collection tbh, he's made so many cool games)
  • Sam & Max (those two are so much fun in comic form I just had to get the games)
Honourable mention to Tetris which does fit into both of these categories for me, but the best port of Tetris for mobile was EA Tetris and I can only access it via APKs with Bluestacks >:(
So I just play on Tetr.io instead lol. I wanna get into Tetris Effect but that price tag hurtsss :cry:
Puyo Puyo Tetris is cool though. Wanna play it for real someday, the characters look like so much fun :)