When my sick, close eyes and rest.

I’d recommend emulating some nostalgic games from your childhood, ones you’ve played to death and wouldn’t mind any sudden interruptions of since you’ve seen everything a hundred times.

Basically, the video game equivalent of putting on old sitcoms.

Turn based jrpgs like Final fantasy series games, octopath traveller, dragon warrior

Sam and max beyond space and time, comedy point and click adventure style game

DOOM

Maybe check out:

• Dorf Romantik
• Tiny Glade
• one of the house flipper or power wash sim games
• if I were sick, I’d probably play some RimWorld, or whatever open world RPG I have going, but those are probably more involved than it sounds like you’re in the mood for.

Games that are turn based or allow you to pause or control speed:

• xcom
• city builders
• sims
• anno
• paradox games (probably just stellaris since that has difficulty settings)
• cRPGs
• card games like slay the spire

also

• minecraft
• mmos that don’t require you to think, guildwars 2 just let’s you run around and auto attack that’s pretty effective…

When I’m sick I often get nauseated, almost like vertigo. So my answer is none of them.

If I’m not nauseated, any of them. I play a lot of low-impact, easy games. Animal Crossing on the Switch is both of those, until you see a knee-high tarantula! (They are in the game and are big because they’re not to scale, like most of the bugs. They run away from you though… unless you have a net out, in which case they will attack! You can’t die in AC though, they just knock you out and you wake up in front of your house, no harm no foul.)

I play Blue Prince on Mac and on Xbox (it’s also on PlayStation and PC). It’s a puzzle game, kind of a deck-building (but not really) building game (also not really). It’s pretty unique. I absolutely suck at it, but I like taking a run every other day or so. It’s fun to fail at. You have to get to the 46th room of a house, but its 9x5 grid resets every day, and as you come to a door, you choose the room to “build” (or blueprint, the name is a pun) and when you run out of moves, you call it a day and try again the next (in-game) day. It’s weird but it’s pretty chill. There’s one scene where you think there will be a jump scare, but it never happens (entering the Security Room).

Derail Valley Simulator is actually quite chill, once you have an idea of how to handle your trains. I have almost $7,000,000 saved up to see how big of a boom I can cause without going into debt, or hurting my engines and caboose.

The last time I got really fucking sick and had to stay off work for two weeks I played a lot of “Sticky Business”.

You design and sell stickers. Its cute, chill, wholesome, scratches my creative itch, and is just distracting enough for all the being-sick stuff going on, but not so complicated as to trigger a headache.

I played Fantasy Life I: The Girl Who Steals Time when I was sick. It’s a very chill game where you can run around and do different “jobs” like fishing, woodcutting, mining, various crafting, and combat.

Along with Hello Kitty Island Adventure which is similar to Animal Crossing in some ways but heavier on quests and befriending the characters. There’s a lot of reading though but I skim through most of it.

Zelda: The Wind Waker.

There’s a part where you heal a sick person, toward the middle.

Also, a kid with a snot drip hanging from his nose, in the beginning.

Deep rock survivor. No thought required. Break rocks. Guns will sort out the test on their own.

I played The Last of us Part 2 and the OG Alan Wake while sick. Both are pretty linear narrative games with little to no puzzles.

Hades 2

I would recommend playing a mediocre game you don’t intend to replay. If you’re anything like me, I associate movies and games with the feeling of sickness I felt watching it. So Shadow of the Colossus, for some reason, is strongly associated with the feeling I had being home sick playing it as a teenager. I still replay it but have that kind of aftertaste of the memory lol. I similarly associate the movie Dark City with having chicken pox!

EarthBound?