Some of your favorite digital games?

[electric_blue68]

A relevant aside, which someone mentioned X ?months+, ago. Very annoying when the ad for a game is much better than the actual game. 😑😑
(Luckily they're not all like that!)

Like there's this vertical columns with various batches of usually match geometrical shapes which have to slide around till you get a whole row, then they disappear.
So there's a version with small, colored metallic looking boxes with cut outs. Sort of Xmas-y? It's pretty! Actual game? Eh, not so much.
I've learned to look so I can usually even skip installing it, then quickly getting rid of it!

So besides the usual Solitaire, Scrabble, other word games I don't do much of anymore , shooting pool, these two are some fun ones. I think there's one more in particular, but can't remember right now.

A design game for gardens- Garden Joy.
Flowers, bushes, trees, ground cover, furniture, flooring, walls, fountains, and decorative items. A fairly wide selection. I love gardens, and some cool furniture. You have various backyards, patios, etc - so it's fun.

Land build - this one can be pretty extensive. You have hexagonal "tiles" that contain a variety of geographic scenery: woods, fields, mountains, rocks, a rare crop, water, ice. A combo like water's edge and forest, mountains, and forest.

You have little grouping of houses, sometimes w geographical features. Then construction tiles with have a boundary and you certain types of strctures, or geographical features. Sometimes they they turn into city areas.

Then you have unique super tiles geo features or structures: a chalet, a hot air ballon launch, a cathedral, the Eiffle Tower(!), a stadium, etc.
It can get pretty complex! 😄

I've managed to not spend $, though during covid I spent some $ over several.months on an interior design game bc the choices were so much better ! 😄

[House of Roberts]

1. How about the games where someone DIES if you're too slow solving a puzzle?

Anyone for PTSD?

[electric_blue68]

2. Ohh, blankety, blankety...no!

[Inkey]

3. I still enjoy Hoyle Games

They have a variety of board, dice, and
puzzle games. There are other players
and you can also bring real people to
play along with you.

[JoseBalow]

4. A couple of different (free) games from opposite ends of the spectrum

I've been playing OGame for a couple of decades. It's an expansive MMO strategy game, pretty involved, that definitely requires a serious commitment to play. It's not for everyone, but if it's your kind of thing, it's one of the best.

On the other hand, I love to pop in for some casual fun playing skribbl.io when the mood strikes me. No account, no pressure, any skill level can jump right in, it's just a simple and fun drawing game.

Both are entertaining, in their own ways. I spend more time playing chess than anything else, but that's an entirely different animal than what you're asking about.

[electric_blue68]

5. Ty. Ohhhh, boy- chess. I tried to learn it young - 12ish? Never could get strategy!

[JoseBalow]

6. I grew up playing chess

My dad taught me as a toddler - I don't remember ever not playing chess.

[Morbius]

7. Township.

On my phone and tablets. Here's the Wikipedia definition:

Township is a casual farming and city-building game developed and launched on multiple platforms by Playrix in which players develop starter towns by building factories, harvesting crops, and creating goods. The main goal of the game is to link one independent agriculture operation into a complete set of industrial chains, increase income, expand the territory, and make your town more prosperous by increasing the population.

I've been playing it, pretty much every day, for over seven years. It's free but there is the temptation to buy Township cash (in-game currency) to (continuously) play the game within the game, a match-3. In 2020, the number of daily users went over 3.5 million.