But presumably you don’t just stare at the wall. “Humans need something to do” is mainly bound to not just sitting around twiddling your thumbs. It’s the reason we get bored, the brain is annoyed at not having anything to focus on.

It doesn’t have to be literal work, just something you find engaging, be it going for a run, tending to houseplants, or completing your entire video game backlog.

And of course there is variation between humans. Some people cope well with having little to do, others always need to do something they find productive.

Or GameMaker if you are doing a 2d game, or Unreal if you don’t mind the learning curve. Plenty of other options beyond Unity.

I personally am a fan of jet-lagged, the game. Sam, Ben, and Adam from wendover productions/Half as interesting compete in various travel-based games across the world.

I play a lot of the classic games on Cardgames.io. Spades in particular is a favorite, albeit I also really enjoy an Icelandic game called “Manni”.

My family played a lot of what I later learned to be a variation of Shanghai rum, a contract rummy played with three 52 card decks. It takes a while to get over a full game, but it was always a good time.

Its just a really time consuming game. I’ve spent 9 hours playing a game we made it 4 rounds in (in fairness with a few new players). I personally like it, but you really do need to have the patience of knowing you are likely spending the day and probably not finishing regardless. A bit like Talisman.

Star realms because it is a great “on the go” game and having a constant stream of online opponents is great.

Axis and Allies… sort of… because it makes it easier to play over a long time if you cannot get the gang together for a full day of playing.

I’ve been meaning to get better at Go. It’s fun, but man do I not have the pattern recognition skills needed to play it well. It is a work in progress.

love letter is such a good game. It’s an instant hit with friends and gamily when we need something fast to learn but fun to play.

light : No Thanks!

medium : Catan, oddly enough.

Heavy : Shasn

Most played: Probably Talisman. Me and my wife played that a lot when we were getting together

Favorite of all time: Probably still Shasn, but if I can count civ5/civ6 as a board game that gets pretty close.

However I am a bit of a game omnivore that jumps from one game to the next, so I go through phases with what games are “in” at the moment and try new games frequentlt. My wife is the opposite, preferring what she knows and a solid set of few good games. As such we make a good team in blending variety and avoiding our board game shelf growing too quickly.

I feel that given the current trendyness of AI and large language models it seems prudent to mention Façade, an interactive play that used AI and language processing to let the player “speak” to the characters and influence tha narrative. It was very janky and you could break it rather easily, but the concept was solid - the technology was just a decade and a half away.

I’m Icelandic. The water is potable straight from the tap: no filtration or boiling required, albeit the hot water may smell a bit of sulfur due to being heated with geothermal energy.