Yeah, I know. You either study or play, I agree. For this reason I’d like to find a game that I can check twice every hour, that just keeps going in the meantime.
This is because I hate studying, I’m very bad at it and I don’t really get a feeling of progession and accomplishment while doing so. I’d like to trick my brain into getting those feelings, even if it’s for the wrong reason (it should work).
About the game, I’d like for it to be a game I can actually play from time to time, which is why I don’t think autoclickers will do the trick for me (but I’m open to try). I was thinking about Minecraft prison servers, where you had to grind to get materials and then sell them, or some kind of sandbox RPG where I can autofarm endlessly.
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Factorio would be perfect to let it play itself after you are far enough into the game. Play on peaceful mode so that you don’t have the enemies destroying your buildings
I wouldn’t recommend this game for studying. It has a tendency to hook you (in a good way). There’s a reason why people sometimes call it Cracktorio.
Thanks for the suggestion!
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Thanks, you summarized the overall feel of the game very well, I’m a day one player myself! Unfortunately, like I replied to another person, I need something to check in between every study session, and I want it to auto-play while I study
I would check out r/incremental_games for games like that. We’re starting a community for it here on lenny !incrementalgames@lemmy.ml.
I’d love to join that community but tapping the link on my phone just takes me to the lemmy.ml homepage.
on vlemmy.net, put https://lemmy.ml/c/incrementalgames in the search bar (i usually have to click the next button for it to show up) then you can subscribe.
I love that we got to a point where there’s a community for everything one could think of and more! I’m joining now, mind if I repost (idk if there is a crosspost feature yet) there?
Go for it! Let’s build communities!
Hell yeah
Try out some incremental games! Some good popular games in the genre are Cookie Clicker, Realm Grinder, Antimatter Dimensions (and its mods), and there’s a whole world of little niche incremental games out there waiting to be discovered.
Thank you!
A bit late, but hypixel skyblock may fit (it’s a minecraft mmo based on 1.8.9) which has many idle game components and many ways to play while active
I’ll try it for sure!
Give Hitman WOA a try
Thank you for your suggestion, but isn’t it the hitman trilogy? How is it going to autoplay?
A little late to the party, maybe you’ve found your game already and I’m not sure if this is what you search for, but what I did, while writing my master’s thesis, was playing Stardew Valley.
It’s cozy for the most part. The game auto saves after you finish an ingame day (it saves when you wake up the next morning if I remember correctly). Days were for me roughly 15-25 minutes, depending on how far I was in the game.
So what I did was play a day in Stardew Valley, then write my thesis for a while, play another day, write my thesis, play two days, write my thesis and so on. (I admit, there were days where I played more, but hey, I finished my thesis!)
Good luck with your studies!
Hey, thank you for sharing! Unfortunately this never worked for me, I just kept thinking of the game even aftee the breaks. I’m hopeless lol
Don’t beat yourself up! You just haven’t found the best way for you. You will find it, I’m sure!
Thank you! I appreciate it
Edit: It was called ‘soda dungeon’.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.armorgames.sodadungeon
Iirc in ‘Pixel dungeon’ you can auto play after you have levelled up a bit manually.
Pixel Dungeon (Rogue-like) https://f-droid.org/packages/com.watabou.pixeldungeon/
Pixel Dungeon is great, but neither the original (which you linked) or Shattered (the most popular version after it went open source) have an auto play feature. They’re fully manual control the entire time.
Yup, thats my mistake. I was remembering soda dungeon incorrectly.
Never heard of soda dungeon, I’ll give it a try! Thanks!
Also I know shattered pixel dungeon, which is a sort of “enhanced version” of the original: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.shatteredpixel.shatteredpixeldungeon/
Shattered is the recommended version of Pixel Dungeon, but it doesn’t have an auto play feature. It’s possible another variant of Pixel Dungeon does, but I don’t know which one that would be.
I see, thanks
Rimworld, at the later hours of a colony, becomes more of an idling game. Mods make it even more so by making your pawns and defenses insanely overpowered. My late game colonies usually have 5-10 brawlers that absolutely shred everything.
You can set up afk farms in Terraria to find rarer items :)
This is actually a very interesting suggestion, too bad I’m not really into terraria. I’ll take this in mind though
Action web game with a simple concept but difficult to master. Good for a study break because you can play a couple matches within 15 minutes.
Cool little game, but not quite what I was asking for: I need something to check in between every study session, and I want it to auto-play while I study. Sorry I was not clear enough, english is not my first language
Rimworld on 1x speed and on a lower difficulty. Spend some time setting up your farms, materials, buildings and research, and let your colonists deal with it while you study. Bonus points: the music is relaxing and really good.
You’ll get a couple bad events every hour and probably will need to be on top of food for a while but on a lower difficulty with custom settings, you’ll be fine.
If you want to ruin your life, there’s always Eve Online. There’s lots to do when checking it infrequently (mining, selling/buying stuff, etc.). You can then play actively for PVE content and PVP.
I feel like it’s one of those games that keeps the player too involved, but thanks for the suggestion
Bitburner is a kinda fun idle type game.