Some games bring me in the zone/give me flow like no others.

For example the following games do that for me:

  • Olli Olli
  • Contra (NES)
  • Dark Souls
  • Street Fighter II (SNES)
  • Street Fighter 3
  • Street Fighter 6
  • Like Dreamer
  • Choplifter HD
  • XCOM
  • Infested Planet
  • Tetris Effect

What games are providing you with flow experiences?

  • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    used to be smash bros melee but I can’t do it any more. my hands just can’t go that fast without seizing up here and there.

  • teft@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    Any soulslike. When the boss movements click in your brain it’s very much a flow state.

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Any simulation game usually.

    I was playing bakery sim the other day, before I knew it 6 hours had passed.

  • IndiBrony@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    Used to get this from Rocket League back in the day. My eyes would practically glaze over at times with just how automatic my movements would be.

  • Platypus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    Sekiro, and nothing else has ever come close. It’s so smooth and so fast that I drop into the flow state with no trouble at all.

    • hector@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Sekiro truly did that to me, especially the boss rush where I took a chug of water before getting started and got into the flow zone for the next hour.

  • Thelsim@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    Dead Cells, especially the first level puts me in a flow where I’m wondering at the end how I actually got there.

  • RageLtd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    3 days ago

    Doom Eternal and especially its challenge arenas are immediately what came to mind for me!

    While id soft screwed Mick Gordon on the OST, they did so much right in the gunplay and movement mechanics in that game. Rotating through the power trinity and bhopping around an arena whilst gibbing demons is something I just don’t tire of.

  • lemonuri@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    For me, it’s probably Richard Burns Rallye. Some times just everything seems to fall into place as you flow through a stage and the weight of the car transfers just right from one corner to the next. Also the boss fights especially in the souls series…

  • inlandempire@jlai.luEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    Katana Zero did it for me

    Infinite forest for Destiny 2’s Halloween event did it as well

    Trackmania sometimes does it

    Super Hexagon too

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      61·
      3 days ago

      Destiny 2

      As a launch computer player I have never been so scorned by how shit a game could be

      I had such high hopes and low expectations and it ruined me

      • hitagi@ani.socialEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        There are a lot of cues that happen in the game and you just kind of respond to that. I mostly play roaming supports so my brain is wired to go straight to mid after recall then look around the map to see where my presence is useful. The most obvious cues are the junglers.

        Anyway, it’s kind of like flash cards. When you memorize things with flash cards, at some point you don’t really think anymore. There’s a default answer to every situation. But sometimes you get it wrong though. If you get it wrong too often, then those are bad habits.

  • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    Dark Tide (Warhammer 40K). The combat just flows so well, and the relentless hordes of enemies lay on the kind of pressure that forces you to use every tool in your character’s arsenal to its maximum potential.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    Anything that can get my adrenaline pumping, which generally only happens with multiplayer games when I am facing a human opponent. Dark Souls is a great example for me, here, because the single player gives me that rush for a while but eventually I’m able to breeze through every boss and enemy in the game with minimal effort, so going into invasions and getting sweaty against a host and his 2 OP phantoms is the only way to get that rush again, because, generally speaking, other players can think so no two opponents are really ever the same.

    I actually kinda wonder now what the flow state even feels like to others who suggest things like strategy games or puzzle games. To me, it’s like that fucking hyper focus the protag has in the movie Wanted. Crazy Lazer focus on whatever action is going on, and it’s just like… Automatic. No thoughts. Just actions. So I’m really curious how it might manifest in something slower paced like Civilization and what not. Or even how some folks can enter that state via meditation. That sounds awesome and I wish I could trigger it with something else.