Looking for video game recommendations.

I recently saw a video about aging and things to do to prevent and recover lost functionality, such as balance and reaction time.

one recommendation for reaction time was to play video games. I think that I would enjoy some of the racing games such as Gran Turisimo or Fast and Furious.

Elaine is not into racing or war games, any recommendations?

thanks

 

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he has a driving setup.

 

I tend to play turn based stuff now - similar to old hex war games or DnD style where you setup your moves, then the other side does, etc...

I never did well with first person shooters and even real time strategy like Age of Empires or the some of the Total War series challenged me. But, I guess that's the purpose - keeping hand/eye coordination and movement up?

 

Going to give you a mix of mostly Indy games - limited multiplayer. No first person shooters. Mainly strategy/tactical/thinking games, with a few "metroidvania"/platformer style games, and a few "roguelikes".
It's a good mix of stuff that generally provides a rewarding progression even when you "lose". I threw some "city builders" in there as well.

• Slay The Spire (and more recently Slay The Spire 2) - a unique "card battler" game that created the entire genre of "card battlers"
• Hollow Knight (like metroid and castlevania combined into one)
• Hades & Hades II - responsible for creating the genre of "roguelikes"
• Mechabellum (like playing a game of chess with robots)
• Baltro
• Dyson Sphere Program (great if you're OCD and want to build a planet sized factory with conveyor belts everywhere)
• Against the Storm - a unique style citybuilder
• Frostpunk (get the first one - rather than the second one) - a survival based city builder set in a post apocalyptic ice age
• Into the Breach - tactical game where you have "perfect information" and there is no randomness/RNG - you get to pick your moves based on perfect information of what the enemy will do and the exact impact of each of your choices
• FTL (faster than light)

These are all PC games through Steam. Might be a few that are on other platforms, but generally not.

 

Maybe try Tetris for your wife, might even be a handheld version available still.

Gran Turismo and/or Forza are good racing games.

 

thx

 

yes, the recommendation was to keep reactions sharp. So fast paced video games, or even have someone occasionally toss a ball to you when you are not expecting it.

 

yes, Tetris type games she might like and can test reaction time.

 

Thanks, I will take a look to see if any fit the bill.

 

I play Gran Turismo 7 exclusively pretty much about 95% of the time my PS5 Pro is on, been playing since day 1 of Gran Turismo way back when. There are a few other games I do/did enjoy which Tetris is one that I still to this day enjoy, I still remember back when I first played it on my little sister's Gameboy. Tetris is a progressive game so it will speed up as you go up in levels, love the challenge of this & it's such a great game still to this day. Now you can install an app to have it available to play on your smartphone which I do when I have to wait for a flight at an airport on the rare instances I do travel. Tetris is a great game for your mind as well as working on reaction time as the speed of the puzzle pieces will increase so you had better work fast to find where to put those pieces. A very old game my parents got me way back when was a game called Intelligent Cube, another puzzle game which becomes increasingly harder as the speed increases as well as the difficulty of the puzzles.