What's your "comfort zone" game?

God of war pre "reboot" era

Stellaris and Rimworld always pull me back in.

I never manage to 'beat the game'.. but always have fun playing them!

What's your "comfort zone" game?
And by that I mean a game to which you can come back and enjoy it every time.

"Comfort food" is something you take comfort in, either due to long-established familarity [be that due to nostalgia, sentimental associations, or the appreciation of reliability] or due to perceived relaxation benefits [typically through being "junky" and "accessible", as with easy-to-prepare, unhealthy food, but also due to factors like warmth and mellowness, as with a relaxing tea].

"Comfort zone" is, in a sense, the opposite, in that it's not something you inherently favor, but rather you disfavor everything outside of it. "Leaving one's comfort zone" is generally assocaited with risky or discomforting interactions, such as trying food you're skeptical of, or similar. While "comfort zone" and "comfort food" are both associated with familarity, comfort zone is associated with a broad range of things that are "normal", and used to contrast against things which are "different" or "unusual", while "comfort food"is associable to a positive form of over-familarity.

As a sort of janky example, being with family could be considered as comfort food, while being with strangers could be considered as leaving one's comfort zone. Meanwhile, being with established acquaintances (that one doesn't have any issue with) could be perceived as being within one's comfort zone. Of course, the exact associations for each section will differ per person.

So, what's your game [/] to which you can come back and enjoy it every time.

Since I play games until I'm sick of them, that doesn't really exist...
I guess, probably Hex TCG would have qualified for that, as I never once got tired of that, but that's been pulled for a couple years now.

DDO was another example of that, as were some old 90s MMOs, but DDO has changed too radically, and the other MMOs are no longer up. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines was a game I went back to dozens of times, but I did eventually get sick of it and, further, it's not accessible/junky/relaxing by nature, so it's not really what most people (and more significantly, myself) would consider comfort food to begin with.

I wish I could include Nintendo games as comfort food, but older Smash/Kart/Party games haven't aged well, and newer ones [Wii onwards] are extremely user-unfriendly (losing a lot of customization/balancing/etc options older games had) and far more RNG-based and generally sloppily developed and designed.

Card Hunter and Icewind Dale were ones I went back to a lot, as well, but also ones I eventually got over-familar with.

I guess, rather than a specific game, comfort food for me would be genres.. specifically, card games, colony sim games, 4x games, and racing games. I never get tired of those genres, and they're always extremely easy for me to get into, and I play them primarily for comforting relaxation rather than deeply invested engagement.

always been World of Warcraft, i tell myself i'm gonna quit every time i take a long break, but i always return.
I have played that game for 13 years now, and have clocked well over 16000 hours, and i still find myself enjoying it every time i go back.

and lately it has also kinda been Genshin.

Right now: Hades, Sifu and Elden Ring. I just keep coming back play some more.

Hunt Showdown, I stopped playing outside of events because I want to play the rest of my backlog, but no matter how good the other ganes are, I always crave to get back to the hunt.

i think its mirror edge and nfs games

Tales of the Abyss. I wonder if anyone here has heard of it.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series with their mods that can transform the very same games into something much more to be enjoyed its like playing a whole diff game all together ..and Dying Light with the dlc and the new sequel aswell ..and pretty much any open world post apocalyptic setting + are my comfort zone games

csgo. even im mad at matchmaking(always russians trolling in team), even im losing, even 'i will never play it again' every day-im back...

No specific game, but I like going back to jRPG's from SNES and PS eras.

This is going to be a bit of a trite answer, but «Minecraft» is the perfect choice. Over ten years later, still want to look into it at least once a year, just to get away from everything and build something. For me, "comfort zone" is a game where you can really relax.
Also, beat 'em up's could be included here. These are always quite short, if talk about classic ones. Simple and fun, especially in the company of someone.

I'd have to say TES 4 Oblivion

I consider simple roguelikes and puzzle games to be my comfort games.

Funny enough, my "comfort zone" are RPGs in general, but mostly "World of Warcraft".

That is a game I can play for hours and hours and not even see the time pass.

It helped me a lot with social anxiety, depression and stuff like that, so it'll always have a precious spot in my heart.

PS:
Death of The Endless is one of the best characters EVER #ChangeMyMind