Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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FTL, Rimworld, MMORPGs (the grindier the better), grand strategy games (Victoria 2, Europa Universals 4, Stellaris, etc), Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing, Valheim, Binding of Isaac, Risk of Rain, Super Auto Pets, and Mount and Blade off the top of my head. Also sports management games.
A personal pick and perhaps controversial is that I like to play Souls games with a podcast on, specifically on reruns or NG+
Edit: Also nobody has mentioned the Civ games yet, they deserve a shout
Tetris
I spent a lot of time in 2020 listening to Cum Town while playing Cities Skylines.
Brotato ($3), Satisfactory ($16), Dwarf Fortress ($25), Crystal Project ($10), Astlibra Revision ($20), Monster Sanctuary ($5). Prices in USD and from current Steam sale which will end 1/4/24.
Dwarf Fortress is also available free on the Bay12 website from the devs. Truly one of the greatest works of 21st century art.
vampire survivors / halls of torment / death must die
The games take very little brainpower once you're in game so I find them to be great for multitasking.
Minecraft, Mini Metro/Mini Motorways, an endless runner like Race the Sun, a tower defense game like Rogue Tower, or maybe something with a lot of busy work like Factorio
I play Rimworld when I want to focus more on something else than the game.
I played a ton of Minecraft modpacks while listening to The Deprogram last year. This year I listened to a lot of TrueAnon and Blowback while playing Satisfactory.
Traditional roguelikes go well with podcasts since there's no music or sound effects, two of my faves are Angband and Nethack.
Yeah, Hades was one of my go-to podcast games for a while.
I'd say give Angband a try, since it's got graphics and it's more user friendly than Nethack.
I'll give it a look, thanks!
Also gonna suggest Brogue. It's got modern controls and is generally easier imo to get into than other trad RL games.
Mount and Blade Bannerlord is the platonic ideal of a podcast game
You need something slow or brainless so that it doesn't interfere with properly understanding what is being said.
I'm gonna say Project Zomboid or driving games.
I've been playing Gregtech: New Horizons while binging podcasts. Probably not for most but I've been enjoying spending 2 in game weeks looking for tin while listening to Guerilla History
Quasimorph, Synthetik, Caves of Qud, Dwarf Fortress
Rimworld, factorio, satisfactory, minecraft, build games in general
Umihara Kawase games. World Of Horror (after one learns how it works). Zachtronics games.
kenshi, minecraft, mount and blade, project zomboid, payday, nightmare reaper, grim dawn, diablo,
Factorio
Seiken Densetsu 3
SD3 slaps. I've wondered if the remake is any good, but I'm assuming it's not great.
I haven't played it but it seems to have pretty good reviews as far as I can tell.
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OSRS
celeste is a big one for me
Russian roulette
My favorite game but it doesn't go well with podcasts
My damn headphones keep getting in the way of the barrel
Podcasts go well with roguelikes imo. I recently reinstalled Spelunky and Armello, and I can easily follow both the game and a podcast.
Rimworld, easily
Factorio, Satisfactory, Dyson Sphere Program, Shapes, Techtonica.
Any of the logistics games will end up being good once you have some understanding of what you're doing because they start turning into scale games.
Minecraft, TES 2 Daggerfall
rugby
Death Stranding
I’ve been vibing with Diablo 2 Resurrected (single player) recently. I played a ton back in the day, but never really played through single player before. Having to find all your own gear and level yourself is super fun.
I've been getting gud at F Zero X. That and GX on the GameCube are more like podracing than podracing. It's very difficult, the speed level is pretty nuts but the controls are very tight and precise. It's a play the tracks on time trial a few times and memorize them before even trying one easy kinda hard but the initial skill ceiling to do okay on novice isn't too high. I usually like twitchy stuff when listening to podcasts.
Both are from the same dev and follow the same monetization model where they offer a fair number of free levels and sell 16 new levels for like 1 dollar or currently like 79 cents. They're both a pretty mindless thing to work on while listening to stuff
Moonstone Island. Has elements of Stardew, Pokemon, and Slay the Spire. Very Ghibli vibe and once you get going, you can just do calm repetitive tasks.
Hardspace: Shipbreaker
F zero 99
always liked playing pokemon while listening to slop in the background, esp. when I'm just replaying a game as nuzlocke challenge or what have you
Super Robot Wars 30 and Street Fighter 6s World Tour mode are my current go-to.
MS Flight Sim and Il-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles are regular podcast games for me, too.