r/videogames • u/Familiar_Fish_4930 • 1h ago
Discussion / Question What 2 genres in your gaming life (no matter how different) perfectly complement each other?
This rotation works for me because the two pull in opposite directions. An ARPG is an inward, selfish sort of pleasure, all about your character and your loot and your own power creeping upward, while a horde game gives you the same of clearing blobs of massed units but still fundamentally different in design. You are building something and then defending it, and the stakes sit outside you instead of in a bigger number.
One runs on reflex and greed, the other on planning and that low hum of dread before a wave hits. They tire out completely different parts of me, so when one goes stale the other feels fresh precisely because I have not been using those brain muscles.
What two genres do you flip between that have no business working together on the surface but keep that gaming fatigue away for you?
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u/varnajohn 58m ago
Roguelikes for when I'm feeling like I need something unpredictable and exciting, but playable at your own pace. And boomer shooters for when I want something that's just satisfying exciting and visceral.
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u/massapj 58m ago
Grand strategy and rogue-like(lite)
Currently playing Stellaris on PC and Monster Train 2 on steam deck.
Always feels like a brain on / brain off situation.
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u/Familiar_Fish_4930 56m ago
That's pretty neat. Reminds me of my phase when I cycled HoI4 (TNO mod) with WoW Classic. AKA how to ensure you have no free time for anything else
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u/kuyaikari 52m ago
So excited for that Grim Dawn DLC
also probably ARPG and FGs. Maybe it's bc of the bit sized gameplay I can fit into my insanely busy schedule.
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u/Drayenn 58m ago
Played lots of soulslike metroidvanias lately.. guess thats one. Nine Sols was amazing