Your go-to game world for escapism

[Arryosha]

Is escapism healthy? Is it even a real thing? I don't know. But there are a few game worlds I go back to because I just like being in those worlds and I'm able to become immersed in them. I think of them as being like places in the real world I go to just get away sometimes. Mine is unoriginal: either Thief or Morrowind. But I'm interested to hear from others. Maybe it'll be a game I haven't played. To head off some responses, I'm already aware of the option of going outside.

 

[I'm Big Into Anal]

new vegas or skyrim

comfortable worlds to try new things

 

[karoliner]

 

[Gregz]

 

[Humanity has risen!]

Nothing will ever top Might & Magic VI.

 

[Daemongar]

I'll go with Morrowind and FO:NV. I could spend hours doing random things such as trying to sneak to Vegas as a level 2 scrub, or just modding the living hell out of Morrowind and trying it again.

 

[jackofshadows]

The Long Dark
Stardew Valley

 

[Bruma Hobo]

I no longer believe that's a healthy habit, I think escapism can slowly ruin your life not unlike porn addiction. But when I do want to forget about the real world, I like to go full Cortés.

 

[Curratum]

 

[d1r]

Baldur's Gate 2 and Fallout New Vegas.

 

[Immortal]

I'm not super big on escapism persay but BG1 has such a Kino feel to it, or the first act of DoS 2.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Yes, escapism is not good for you in the long run.

Yes, we need it fucking now because the world has gone crazy.

But for me? Terraria is the closest thing to the OP's description.

 

[Bruma Hobo]

I do the oposite. Bringing the game into real life. I was like riding the bike the other day, great green grasslands and forests all around in the background. Was thinking I was in one of those HoM&M games, riding a horse like a hero and leading the armies to battle. Man, I love biking in the wilderness.

How old are you?

Spoiler

Get out of here while you can.

 

[Kev Inkline]

Shoutbox. An alien landscape inhabited by otherworldly creatures, each species with its own intricate belief systems. Many of whom under are also in a state of perpetual delirious trance induced by the consumption of hallucinogens of their liking. Terrifying yet wonderful.


Caves of Qud meets Serbian Film. 94/100, wouldn't play again ~Kotaku, probably.

 

[HeroMarine]

Age of Decadence or SMAC. Possibly much more, crpgs or cool strat games, but sadly I have very little time for long periods of escapism with a small kid at home, so it's mostly chess for now.

 

[udm]

New Vegas, Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Red Faction: Guerrilla. Maybe Minecraft too?

 

[glasnost]

On Moon, in Hitler’s mind, these four artists shared another’s vision: Hitler remembered Einstein telling him, “I believe with Schopenhauer that one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is to escape from everyday life, with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from personal life into the world of objective perception and thought: this desire may be compared to the townsman’s irresistible longing to escape from his noisy, cramped surroundings into the silence of high mountains, where the eye ranges freely over contours that look as though they were built for eternity.”

I see a frightening-amusing feature in this edifice, whose total knowableness without reservation Einstein so confidently professed—he, the creator of a theory that contradicted his confidence, because it led to a place where it itself broke down, and where every theory must break down: in the world torn asunder. For it foretells sunderings and exits which it cannot itself penetrate; yet one can exit from the world anywhere, provided one strikes a blow at it, of the force of a star in collapse. Is it physics alone which appears incomplete under such constraints? Are we not reminded here of mathematics, whose every system is incomplete as long as one remains inside it, and which can be grasped only by going outside it, into richer domains? Where is one to look for them, if one stands in the real world?

(i play morrowind btw)

but I've recognized my "comfort game" is deus ex.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Grand strategy titles.

 

[A horse of course]

I do the oposite. Bringing the game into real life. I was like riding the bike the other day, great green grasslands and forests all around in the background. Was thinking I was in one of those HoM&M games, riding a horse like a hero and leading the armies to battle. Man, I love biking in the wilderness.

Josh?

 

[what am i doing]

Probably a weird choice since it's a fairly short and linear game (and I have played it many times) but Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. Something about that era of Source Engine games paired with the devs' art and sound really hits the spot for me, and it's usually my game of choice when I'm feeling down.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

new vegas or Morrowind

ftfy