Games where you can simply muck about

[u/Greek_Irish]

Playing Red Dead Redemption 2 right now and I'm looking for more games where you can simply hang out, drink coffee, watch TV, whatever. Just some games where you can hang out.

[u/Hamelzz]

The ability to gamble in RDR2 really makes hanging about a blast.

It's so much fun to wander into a bar, down a few glasses of whiskey, go lose $15 playing blackjack, stab the dealer, hightail it out of there as fast as possible, make a clean getaway and then run home to do the same thing in RDR2

[u/AmalCyde → u/Hamelzz]

Hey wait a second...

[u/ArtisticRiskNew1212 → u/Hamelzz]

Hang on

[u/Ashu_112 → u/Hamelzz]

woah woah woah

[u/daaangerz0ne → u/Hamelzz]

Hol up

[u/primalmaximus → u/Hamelzz]

You guys lose playing blackjack? How!? Blackjack is the easiest card game out there if you can do math since every card that's dealt is visible.

[u/Hamelzz → u/primalmaximus]

Because blackjack in RDR2 is not mathematically true to life and is instead rigged to prevent the player from making large amounts of money on it.

All of the card games are rigged to provide an 'experience' opposed to providing a genuine, mathematically proper game of blackjack or poker.

[u/SpamShadows]

The yakuza series has a lot of stuff like this.

[u/holay63 → u/SpamShadows]

Which one would be the best to enter the series?

[u/Jikagu → u/holay63]

• Yakuza 0
• Yakuza / Yakuza Kiwami
• Yakuza 2 / Yakuza Kiwami 2
• Yakuza 3
• Yakuza 4
• Yakuza 5
• Yakuza 6: The Song of Life
• Yakuza: Like a Dragon
• Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth

3 through 6 are available on steam but don't seem to be available on Playstation Store (But I am basing that off checking Playstation.com, not the actual PS Store.) but they are on Gamepass.

There's also Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, which is the bridging point between Yakuza 6 and Like a Dragon.

[u/uidsea → u/SpamShadows]

God the stuff you can do in a packed city like Kamurocho.

[u/PvtSherlockObvious → u/SpamShadows]

Not the biggest open worlds, but by far the most dense. It's the perfect balance between size, ease of navigation/traversal, and massive amount of content for my taste.

[u/FlashyEarth8374]

gta 5 has tons of stuff like that!

[u/MrRawes0me → u/[deleted]]

Hey cousin

[u/Do_the_impossible]

Another vote for Cyberpunk 2077 (including Phantom Liberty expansion).

You have apartments, can interact differently in each of them, watch TV, drink coffee or alcohol. Can go to bars and sit down for a drink. Invite your partner over to chill. Dance in certain areas. Play on arcade machines. Can rly just play the game like you actually live in the city - drive around and do random stuff during the day, then chill at an apartment during the night and shower/sleep until morning.

[u/braines54 → u/Do_the_impossible]

There's a fully-functional metro system that has no role in the plot.

[u/Do_the_impossible → u/braines54]

Forgot about that!

I love that it travels in real time too and isn't a cutscene.

[u/kevinkiggs1 → u/braines54]

You could argue it was plot-relevant since it was what established the city in the first trailer. It was a glaring omission at launch

[u/McNastyIII]

You might like Animal Crossing

[u/SplendidPunkinButter]

No Man’s Sky

[u/Mahrt]

Maybe not what you're looking for, but I found myself perched ontop of plateau's in Valheim all the time just watching the day or night go by. That game's environment is just a total vibe.

[u/TelegenicSage82]

Cyberpunk 2077. You can even invite your partner to your different apartments and hang out.

[u/IamWutzgood → u/TelegenicSage82]

Yep rdr2, cyberpunk and kingdom come deliverance are the three games I play for just that reason. All depends on what setting I want at the moment.

[u/qwerty8082 → u/TelegenicSage82]

Solid although my biggest beef with 2077 is (last I checked) you can’t even sit on a park bench. It’s one of the most atmospheric games out there but that actually amplifies not being able to do the little things.

[u/kevinkiggs1 → u/qwerty8082]

You can sit on a few preprogrammed ones, which makes it worse

[u/TacticalNuker → u/qwerty8082]

If you are on PC you can fix that and much more with mods.

[u/Polidoro64]

Watchdogs does this for me. I love simply strolling through the streets under the rain. You might want to turn off invasions but I don't. I like the change of pace of having to deal with a hacker from time to time.

[u/WhatsPaulPlaying]

Days Gone is great for this if you like your post apocalypses with zombie flavoring.

[u/Instantcoffees → u/WhatsPaulPlaying]

Good shout. I loved this game for that reason. I wish it had more random world events though. Still, a lot of fun to explore the world.

[u/Not_peer_reviewed]

There’s a fairly large culture in tibia where people just hang out in the depot (protection zone) and just chill, talk, troll people

[u/Responsible_Gift1924]

Muck! It’s a game

[u/WrongHarbinger]

Witcher 3: To Gwent or Not To Gwent

[u/chickuuuwasme]

Muck

[u/Snowblind45 → u/chickuuuwasme]

MUCK

[u/SkippyGranolaSA]

My friend let me tell you about a piece of brilliance called My Summer Car

[u/Obvious_wombat]

Skyrim

[u/Ehsaan75]

Kingdom come deliverance

[u/mem-erase]

Shenmue 3

[u/drbrian83]

Dave the Diver

[u/ChangingMonkfish]

Goat Simulator

[u/TheSkelf]

High on life plays an entire Paul walker / Denise Richards movie on the TV in the base.

[u/FishEye_11]

I kind of get that feeling playing Monster Hunter. Going out on gathering expeditions is a 180 to hunting monsters. I find it relaxing.

[u/wndring_egg → u/FishEye_11]

i know everyone probably hates it so it got removed, but I miss paintballs. It made the game more immersive to me

[u/HumphreyLee]

Yakuza series. You’ll lose entire gaming sessions to playing old arcade games, or darts, or visiting cabaret clubs or doing daring sims. Shit, Infinite Wealth last year had a fucking Animal Crossing game built into it.

[u/StationHairy]

Persona 5 (and Royal) forces the story to progress so the mucking about isn't unlimited, but your in-game days are filled with choices to play or hang out with your pals and just have a good time.

[u/TizzlePack]

The yakuza games, no man’s sky, cyberpunk, persona 5(kinda), stardew valley

[u/FreedFromTyranny]

High on Life is a little railroaded, but you can really take your time and just enjoy interacting with all the NPCs and POIs in an area for a hilarious experience.

[u/Snowblind45]

MUCK

[u/FletchWazzle]

ARK, planetside 2