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What’s a good “mellow” Switch title to play at night?
- Thread starter HououinKyouma
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Came here to say this. Super chill and it has good stopping points.
A word of caution: Stardew Valley can be deceptively demanding if you're the organized sort who tends to plan and want to optimize. It's not mellow like Animal Crossing, which basically tells you at some point that there's nothing left to do for now and you should turn off the game already. Stardew also has the "one more day" thing going on, which can be a drawback if you'd rather go to sleep on time and not see your bedtime slipping ever further back in tiny 15-minute-increments.
Octopath Traveler is surpisingly good bedtime gaming. It's very predictable in its patterns and how long you can expect everything to take. It is dialogue heavy when you start one of the story bits, but that's always up to you.
Octopath Traveler is surpisingly good bedtime gaming. It's very predictable in its patterns and how long you can expect everything to take. It is dialogue heavy when you start one of the story bits, but that's always up to you.
That would be news to me. There are countless studies proving the effect it has on your eyes/retinas and focus. Newer phones are applying blue light filters, there are specific lens for glasses made for people who work extensively with computers, etc.
Fe is about being a woodland creature and singing to other creatures to solve environmental puzzles. It's nice!
Damn, I was going to recommend NightSky but I guess that never made it to Switch. What ever happened to all those Nicalis ports?
Anyway, if you have a 3DS, cannot recommend NightSky enough for a chill before bed fix
Isn't this the opposite of what OP would be asking for?
Anyway, if you have a 3DS, cannot recommend NightSky enough for a chill before bed fix
Isn't this the opposite of what OP would be asking for?
Too stressful, I made this mistake once and didn't sleep for next hour lol
If you haven't played them yet I would recommend The Fall and The Fall 2, fairly relaxing and enough dialogue to wind-down to.
Forma.8 is also quite relaxing, and maybe something like Oxenfree, I'd also recommend Yoku's Island Express and maybe Thimbleweed Park?
Forma.8 is also quite relaxing, and maybe something like Oxenfree, I'd also recommend Yoku's Island Express and maybe Thimbleweed Park?
- Grim Fandango - A classic adventure game based on film noir and Mexican culture which makes for a unique setting.
All correct answers. This is a great game for chill playing.
Are you saying like Stardew Valley because you already have it? That was the first one that came to mind. Definitely perfect.
Otherwise, DQ Builders 2. Japanese one has been out for a while. English I think is out very soon if not already.
Minecraft, DraQue Builders, Cities Skylines, Stardew, Mario Maker 2, Captain Toad, Wandersong... Even vast open-world games like Skyrim and Zelda BotW fit the bill, IMO.
I usually take it to bed and there are three scenarios:
- I put Youtube on and I fall asleep and wake up in the morning with a drained Switch.
- I browse the eshop, download some demo or buy some cheap game, try it and fall asleep in 5 minutes.
- I give up and just put it on the side without even opening it and fall asleep.
Especially ever since I started morning training, Switch "before bedtime" is a lost cause.
Haha pretty much, I recently started playing the Phoenix Wight Triolgy on 3DS and I'm playing that a little bit by bit and it has been nice so far. Nothing to taxing and something I can do while I have something on the TV.
This article here certainly casts doubt - it seems to be more about upsetting circadian rhythms (i.e. day / night cycles and sleeping patterns) than doing actual damage.
There was a Watchdog segment in the UK a couple years back where opticians were giving false or hyperbolised information as to the detrimental effects of blue light.
Basically it seems like we really have no idea, as with most tech issues. Not to say that in the future we won't find out that this stuff is terrible for us and we've all grown optical mutations, but at present, I'm unconvinced.
Idk. I studied some physical therapy and study eastern physiology for a more comprehensive idea of the human body, but you really don't need that to realize how bad fucking up a circadian rhythm is even if that is all it is. Our generation doesn't need a study it needs some body awareness so they dont end up like the guys who were saying "well we didn't know smoking was bad"
Have you tried a cigarette? Like should be obvious, just like this screens right before bed should be obvious but too much of our gen is too overstimulated to realize imo. If you dont get the right amount or type of sleep have fun dying young (which we also have studies for). It is very stressful for the body
