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Hi all,

Recommend me a game! I'm looking for something casual (to play for 20-30 minutes from time to time), challenging (like in difficult to master), not super complicated (I don't want to spend hours learning all the rules), but not super simple (when it's too repetitive the patters get ingrained in my brain. anyone else has this?), cheap (don't want to spend $30 on a game I will play from time to time). Must work on Linux and on an integrated GPU. Games I enjoyed previously:

  • Fistful of Frags
  • smashcarts.io
  • xevil

What I did a lot years ago was to play single levels of games over and over until I totally crashed it even if I wasn't that interested in the entire game. I guess what I like most is figuring out the smallest details of a game, not getting into long campaigns.

So, what can I play?

Edit: Thanks for all recommendations so far but I see I need to add one more requirement: no levels. I'm looking for something quick, in and out, skirmish, death match, melee type of game. Not something where you build a character, solve puzzles and so on.

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[–] seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Easy but complex, free, short sessions? Sounds like a job for tetr.io

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tetris is one of the games that fucks me up a bit. It's all comes down to automatic responses and after some time it just gets inside my head and when I close my eyes call I can see are falling blocks. Can't play it.

[–] seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I understand! I personally dont suffer too much from this but I get that. I am not very automatic when playing tetris, I am often looking to do T-spins and that kind of stuff so I actively think about the setups I want to build