Some games bring me in the zone/give me flow like no others.
For example the following games do that for me:
- Olli Olli
- Contra (NES)
- Dark Souls
- Street Fighter II (SNES)
- Street Fighter 3
- Street Fighter 6
- Like Dreamer
- Choplifter HD
- XCOM
- Infested Planet
- Tetris Effect
What games are providing you with flow experiences?
Monster Hunter Series
AVGN agrees with you when it comes to Contra (NES)
Katana Zero did it for me
Infinite forest for Destiny 2’s Halloween event did it as well
Trackmania sometimes does it
Super Hexagon too
God I miss the Haunted Forest.
Destiny 2
As a launch computer player I have never been so scorned by how shit a game could be
I had such high hopes and low expectations and it ruined me
Doom Eternal and especially its challenge arenas are immediately what came to mind for me!
While id soft screwed Mick Gordon on the OST, they did so much right in the gunplay and movement mechanics in that game. Rotating through the power trinity and bhopping around an arena whilst gibbing demons is something I just don’t tire of.
Currently Deadlock.
League of Legends. I don’t even think anymore when I play.
How do you manage the macro for example ?
There are a lot of cues that happen in the game and you just kind of respond to that. I mostly play roaming supports so my brain is wired to go straight to mid after recall then look around the map to see where my presence is useful. The most obvious cues are the junglers.
Anyway, it’s kind of like flash cards. When you memorize things with flash cards, at some point you don’t really think anymore. There’s a default answer to every situation. But sometimes you get it wrong though. If you get it wrong too often, then those are bad habits.
(Real life. Games dont put me in a flow state anymore it seems.)
Any soulslike. When the boss movements click in your brain it’s very much a flow state.
Any simulation game usually.
I was playing bakery sim the other day, before I knew it 6 hours had passed.
Dead Cells, especially the first level puts me in a flow where I’m wondering at the end how I actually got there.
For me, it’s probably Richard Burns Rallye. Some times just everything seems to fall into place as you flow through a stage and the weight of the car transfers just right from one corner to the next. Also the boss fights especially in the souls series…
used to be smash bros melee but I can’t do it any more. my hands just can’t go that fast without seizing up here and there.
Celeste.
Rhythm games do it for me!
- One Finger Death Punch
- Rock Band
I’m a DDR 3rd mix bitch and huge into IIDX, Ouendan, and beat saber (before Facebook bought it) I could not agree more
Used to get this from Rocket League back in the day. My eyes would practically glaze over at times with just how automatic my movements would be.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
Factorio
Both are almost exactly like programming for me. Impossible not to get in the zone.
I go between flow and “burn it to the ground” with Foctorio.
Do you do DCSS with pictures or @?
I’m a webtiles man.