Recommend me games for my dad plz

He is recently divorced, extremely lonely, extremely boomery, and has a gambling problem, so preferably something with online play and no micro transactions. Does that even exist?

Since Covid he’s gone from married and occasionally doing a poker night with friends to divorced with his own apartment. He sits alone all day chatting with virtual poker folks and he is in desperate need of something to replace his addiction, preferably in a way that’s less isolating than text chats with strangers online.

Basically, I’ve effectively cut him out of my life, but him asking me to set up a new game on his computer is the closest he’s come to wanting to change in about a year. Any recommendations? Is Minecraft still free of micro transactions?

  • cummunist [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    I think minecraft is still free of microtransaction, and in case it no longer is (which I don't believe is the case but you never know) you can always find whatever pirated launched on the internet and have it play on an older version (which I don't think would be needed because microtransaction just don't feel like minecraft to me) Minecraft has micro transaction but not on its java version as mentioned up above.

    Online pictionary can be a cool way to spend time with someone but you're gonna need to be more than two people. https://skribbl.io/ is the best site I know of for pictionary. Since browser games are finnicky, you can also play it the ol' fashioned way by using https://awwapp.com/ for the drawing board and having each player take turns getting a word from a site like https://www.randomlists.com/random-words

    I'm not sure about the dad part, but I've recently started playing Phasmophobia and it's great multiplayer experience. I had trouble getting it to run on windows tho. It's basically a spooky game (I wouldn't exactly classify it as horror) where you and a team of max. 4 people basically go ghosthunting, going to a place and gathering evidence that it's haunted and trying to not get killed by it. I just bought the game and already spent an unreasonnable amount of time playing it.

    My personal best experience of coop game is without any doubt Battleblock Theater. The story is a bit too bizarre for me to explain from memory but the gameplay is great and the experience is fun and colorful. You could also play the previous game of the developpers of battleblock theaters which is called "Castle Crashers", it's also very good fun but more action oriented.

    You could also try playing rocket league although you would both probably need a controller for better experience, and I believe despite being great fun it unfortunately does have micro-transactions.

    I'll be editing this post to add more stuff if more ideas come to my mind

    I've enjoyed playing Broforce solo, and I know you can play it coop. Plus there's a nice "critique" of american imperialism through sarcasm in the campaign.

    Terraria is really cool too!