To this day, I still think back to a moment when I was playing Morrowind. My family was over visiting, and everyone was talking and laughing around the house. My brother was on his bed playing a handheld and listening to his CD player (yeah Im old) and I was playing Elder Scrolls Morrowind on our shared PC, with headphones on and I could hear the feint laughter of the family in the background, and it was a quiet, chill afternoon that just had that undeniable sense of comfort, and in the game I was walking through a foresty area, and I looked up at the sky, and could hear the light blowing of wind, and the mellow Morrowind field music, and I was looking at the dual planets / moons in the sky and that moment just imprinted itself permanently on my brain. Even when I just look up at the real night sky now, I get a rush of that comfort feeling and always remember that moment.
I know exactly what you mean. I also have similar moment imprinted on me with morrowind. It was a moment when I discovered Caldera after playing for years, astonished that I'd never seen it before even once
Morrowind is a rather comfy experience indeed. For me too. Also it was first time when I could say looking at the night sky that it was beautiful. Makes you appreciate simple things like that
So my life has been kinda saved by comfy games. Super Mario 64/World and Pokémon Blue on the GB are my childhood nostalgia comfyness. But with the Covid pandemic, my friends regrouped into a discord group that bonded strong over games, and now we have a whole wave of shared online comfort. Stardew Valley, Minecraft, Street Fighter 3, Bomberman (everyone grew up with a different version and we share), The Last Blade 2, the list goes on. That's also some good writing on your video! Keep going
That's why I still listen to the soundtrack of Port Hanshan on Noveria from Mass Effect 1. The blizzard rocking the facility, the cool atmosphere accentuated by the deep synths and the memories of uncovering the business dealings and secrets on that world are just major comfy to me.
this really nails something I never had the words for before. For me it's the original Shenmue; that whole town, simultaneously winter outside and winter in-game, the laid back pace, the surreality of the gameplay, the lingering chemical smell of the cheap hair coloring I was using during that year of high school. It's a sensory experience of every aspect of the world, for that whole day, being totally fine.
It's funny, because what makes a game feel comfortable for someone can completely defy genre depending on the person. Katana Zero is a depressing, violent game about an assassin employed through drug addiction. But there's something about the moments of downtime at his apartment, sitting down and drinking tea while calming music plays and rain falls outside that really resonates with me. Or Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines, a janky, grungy, horror RPG, where terrible things happen, but you can still stop and find quiet moments as city nightlife passes you by and funny radio talk shows drone on in the background. It's that hard to describe mixture of atmosphere, context, and soundtrack that can draw me in and immerse me in a game's world beyond its base mechanics or need to rush ahead to the next big thing.
it's so odd just how many different games can be comforting for me based purely on the memories i associate with them. my brother bought me dark souls 2 when it came out and i hated it at first but couldn't stop playing until i beat it. everything about that game puts me in a calm state somehow and i replay it now and again to this day. FF14, terraria, xenoblade, stardew.. im glad even new experiences can keep giving me these vibes.
just found your channel, had to go back a bit to see the grassroots, and this is lovely. very comfy. me, i think Animal Crossing is the comfiest game ive ever played, but my newest comfy game has been Sea of Thieves, especially with Safer Seas solo lobbies being an option now (nothing comfy about being trolled). For me, being in a boat out in the vast sea, doing a bit of fishing just off the coast of some lonely, faraway isle, idling checking the horizon for storms, or to drink in a sundown over the sea.... idk, something about that makes my soul feel like a puffy marshmallow floating on perfectly steamy cocoa.
I look back fondly on my first playthrough of King's Field The Ancient City back in 2019. I would come home from a stressful day of work and boot up my PS2 and tune in to old episodes of my favorite podcast while getting comfy in my kotatsu. I beat the entire thing within over a month, but part of me wishes that that playthrough lasted just a while longer.
I've noticed that when life gets tough I end up playing classic WoW, before that I would open up a private server and just level, no intentions of ever raiding or doing end game, just sitting back and levelling with a warm drink by my side. As for single player games, the late 90/early 00s era of colorful dreamcast'ish games with summer vibes bring me to happier times. I fucking hate summer nowadays but these games always make me feel better. Stuff like, Billy Hatcher, Super Monkey Ball, Sonic Adventure, Crazy Taxi, Super Mario Sunshine, Wind Waker and so on
Just discovered the channel. Love your content! And you’ve definitely got a good voice for the job lol. Keep on keepin’ on! Also, my comfy games are New Vegas, GTA (series), Legend of Zelda (series) and Terranigma.
Batman: Arkham Asylum, Tony Hawk Underground, Story of Season: Friends of Mineral Town, Mario 64 and Odyssey, Oblivion, Tekken, Half Life 2, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, the Vocaloid Picross game, and Just Cause 2. I can just sit down and relax playing any of them.
Damn, I dunno, when I played Elden Ring, I was in the snowy area one afternoon, entered one of those "Rise" towers there (With the invisible bridge) and just let my character sit there in one of those rooms while I went and got me a cup of warm coffee, I just sat there drinking it while my character just chilled there, snowy night thorugh the tower's window. That shit just hit the spot, a good thing since the Roundtable Hold is one of the most anti-comfy hubs in the series.
Gaming RU-vid is a comfy game, Cel drawn anime and cartoons are comfy. My Comfy game is Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. Right now my ultimate Comfy console is the MiSTER attached to my old CRT.
Basically what i make custom doom maps into while taking screenshots of standout sections. I basically go around the levels, then take a screenshot, which i then either draw into paper or make a desktop background.
Adventure Quest and Dragonfable. They were web based games, but i played them every Sunday after church at my gmas, and I was so excited all week to play. Maximum coziness in grandma and grandpas' computer room : )
Ah, let's see. For me: Castlevania Symphony of the Night, Morrowind, Fable 2, Starbound, FF7. Maybe more I can't think of right now. Honorable mentions (mostly comfy): Terraria, Zelda A Link to the Past and Breath of the Wild, Mario 3, Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance (8-bit Simon Belmont in Boss Rush mode, amazing how well he does with his faithful NES controls against bosses in a game where you can normally change direction in midair, double jump, and dash back and forth. That he can also take on these bosses comfortably and fairly had to take a lot of work.)
When you finished a gym in Pokemon Gold after school and walked outside and it was dark in the game and you look up and it's evening in real life and you go eat dinner...
For several years way into the late 2000s I kept replaying A link to the past every summer since it is my favourite 2D game. At some point I even considered speedrunning it (but then I got a job lol). Then oddly enough, playing through Dark Souls became incredibly comfortable, which I know sounds ridiculous. I still remember the first time I installed it, I played from 6pm to 3am. Pretty much nonstop. After my first playthrough, I did so many NG+ runs and then with mods, invasions etc. It was indeed, comfy. There have been some games since that had an incredibly comfortable mood since. That I was looking forward to playing, coming home after uni or work. Namely Slime Rancher, Stardew Valley (though I never played Harvest Moon!), Outer Wilds in it's very own way... Somehow even PUBG became kind of a comfy game for me. Just dropping in those spots you've been in hundreds of times before. Obviously that changes as soon as you have an encounter with another player... BUT UNTIL THEN!!! I should reinstall Deus Ex when I got some time.
Big shoutouts to Stardew valley. I used to be in a relationship with a girl who would get really annoyed by competitive games, and whenever something went wrong there, after a round I'd say "Hey let's chill a while in Stardew", and she'd be calm as can be. That game has an energy of chill I love. Personally, I dig MMORPGs. Just grind for a while, pick some herbs, maybe redecorate your house, it's really fun and relaxing and you can watch some TV - or rather, RU-vid these days - on a 2nd monitor. That's my happy place in video games right there!
Watched this video on my comfy bed. To me the Pokémon games are the height of comfiness. Doing the many sidequests of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 has been very comfy too. P.S. I love that you said everything there was to say about this topic in less than 5 minutes.
holy shit, what's the game at 1:24 ? It just awoke a forgotten memory for me, I kinda remember that it was a mixture of adventure and platform with a quite horror atmosphere for a kids game
So relatable. For me it's classic (pre-2000) Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Phantasy Star. Plus Chrono, NES Ultima, my old TurboGrafx. Comfy games are a way of life.
Fallout 4 does this for me too. Ignore the raiders and mutants and just spend some time building up a nice settlement, even if you never turn on the beacon to attract people to live there.
GTA San Andreas is top comfy for me. I would drive cars around in the lonely roads and tiny towns, just exploring. No crime, no violence, just me, a car, a radio station and a road.
Yeah I did that with Shadow of the Colossus and much later on Fallout New Vegas. Wandering and exploring in those games was like a massage for the brain.
For some reason, solo Project Zomboid, with permanent winter mod, but well stocked, warmed and defended base, when you know you won't be needing to go to any dangerous parts of the city but sit in your base and build skills or improve the base is incredibly comfy. Then you get out of the base and it becomes Silent Hill again.
All of my SQUARESOFT games are comfy, they're able to soothe my soul immediately no matter what's happening in the world or in my life. Even the ones that I never got to play as a child and I've been discovering as an adult bring me joy and remind me of my childhood and of better times, maybe another me in alternate dimension did get to play them as a kid! ☺
Thank you, I really appreciate this nondescript trip down memory lane to feel comfy even when the world isn't. I appreciate your work new or old, because you my friend make me comfy :^)
I like the opening caveat that 'comfy' doesn't mean stress-free or with a warm or relaxing aesthetic. People seem to get stuck on that a lot. I find Umihara Kawase to be one of the comfiest games of all time, and it's also brutally challenging.
Donkey Kong Country for me (1-3). And maybe, just maybe Death Stranding, which I have not replayed yet but it did give me that vibe when I played it. Just turn off your brain and deliver stuff.
and there is no action and I sneak around and that's help. a lots of games with amazing world to explore and feel comfy are broken for me in that aspect for being action games.
Fuck, this hit hard. Comfy games use to be my go to on a hard day. or cold winter nights. It use to be FF7, OOT, Chrono Trigger or Link to the Past. I've become so jaded and cynical in the last few years thats its been a while since I could sit and actually enjoy those games. This made me think on that and now I know what I'm doing with my weekend. Time boot up some old games.
So many games are this for me; RollerCoaster Tycoon, Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3 & NV, Doom 3, Bioshock, Diablo II, Borderlands 1-2, Ape Escape, SoulCalibur 2 & 4, the Metal Gear Solid games, Kingdom Hearts, Persona, and too many other RPGs to list here
A comfy game that absolutely shouldn't be comfy is into the radius. Sitting in a small room with all my items sorted carefully, opening a can to eat, a cigarette to smoke and planning out when to sleep feels incredible. It's a stressful game sure but ive never been so happy to see a Christmas tree in a video game. something about it feels so cozy.
When I was a kid growing up Sim City for the SNES was very comfy for me. I have great memories of playing it on a Sunday after noon, falling asleep to the docile music. If I was lucky I'd wake up and the city wouldn't be destroyed.
Are you in any way subjected to russian meme culture? Cause that yellow round laddie you're using for the visuals in the video is endemic to russian-speaking sectors of world web. Just curious how you found him.
Some say you have not experienced true comfy, ultimate comfy, incomprehensibly comfy comfy. Not until one has experienced the comfy that is Hitman comfy. Of course by some I just mean me but the absolute comfy of the point remains it's unheard of levels of purely untarnished comfy... **straightens tie** ... Such comfy. Good times.
I have specific save files on don’t delete or save over so I can visit places in video games that give me comfort. While I go to bed, my character will just chill there soaking up everything. For example, falling asleep to ICO while they’re sitting on the save bench. Or a save room in silent hill.
What a pleasant video! Seeing Fable up there certainly brought back some great memories. A comfy game that captures similar feeling for me is Grim Fandango. There's something so charming about those prerendered backgrounds that makes you just want to stop and take a load off. Awesome work dude!
I often used to confuse comfort and nostalgia (there is definitely a lot of overlap), but I just recently realized how much I just love to sit back and replay any of the GBA and DS-era Castlevania games (and SotN of course). Doesn't really matter what's going on in the world around me. The reason I was confused is because I would get the same feeling from games that I don't really have nostalgia for, like games I only just recently played for the first time. Then one day I realized what comfy really was.
Nah, he said comfy games are predictable and easy to replay. Dark Souls definitely lacks unpredictability on repeat playthroughs (DS2 still being the only exception)
