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·
    3 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?

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      2 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.

      • kateAEnglish
        2·
        3 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

        • dom@lemmy.caEnglish
          41·
          3 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·
            3 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·
        3 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

    • Gibibit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 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 :/