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.

  • kateAEnglish
    54·
    28 days ago

    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?

        • dom@lemmy.caEnglish
          41·
          28 days ago

          Ah I wasn’t aware but not surprised. Not sure why you’re getting down voted for sharing information. Ahh reddit lemmy

          • kateAEnglish
            4·
            28 days ago

            My best guess is people took “child gambling” to mean the game itself 🤷‍♀️ (or maybe they don’t like that i insulted their favourite brand)

      • kateAEnglish
        4·
        28 days ago

        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

      • kateAEnglish
        2·
        28 days ago

        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

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      27 days ago

      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.

    • Gibibit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      27 days ago

      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 :/