New dad? You might need to change your gaming habits as your kid can need you at any time. Here are 5 excellent games for that.
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00:00 Introduction
00:14 XCOM 2 War of the Chosen
02:13 Terra Invicta
04:10 Surviving Mars
06:38 ICBM
08:33 7 Days to Die
11:28 Noteworthy mentions
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So your a dad now? Congrats! 👍👍💀, Also sprocket will be getting custom battles soon it in experimental. hope you will play it again
(Maybe I should have watch at least 5 second of the video lmao)
1. Resident Evil
2. Dead Space
3. Silent Hill
4. Outlast
5. Alien: Isolation
I'd suggest Civ, Cities Skylines, and Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
When my daughter was born I found myself sinking countles hours into Starsector. Seven years later I'm still sinking countless hours into Starsector.
Wholesome video! Great game suggestions.
I am not a dad, but i would have to add project zomboid to that list, as you can pause it in single player
I'm not a dad, but my favorite games to play when I'm not necessarily gonna have time to be at the PC are Civilization (my favorite is IV with mods), Football Manager, and any of the Paradox games (Hearts of Iron, Stellaris, Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis etc etc) or Total War series.
Honorable mention to Farm Manager 2018 which got me through a post-op period when I was stuck in bed with quite a bit of pain for a few weeks and didn't quite have the ability to focus on any of the others, it's such a relaxing, non-intensive game.
Tell me a Dad joke…
Good video
Playing house flipper with your kid sounds nice
I'd recommend Jagged Alliance 2 (if you feel like an old school challenge), Tropico (quite literally any of them apart from 2), Cities Skylines, The Patrician/Port Royale, Battletech, 4X titles in general (Civilization, Age of Wonders, Endless Space/Legend, Thea: The Awakening, Fallen Enchantress).
Basically, anything that wants you to pause and think. All the best to all the parents out there.
i have to say about surviving mars as great atitisthereisa better looking game under way but icant remember the name
As a dad I approve
I have played Alot(!!) of Satisfactory when my was born 2 years ago … and I still love it!
Have you ever played any of the Gary Grigsby games? War in the Pacific (AE Edition) or War in the East (1 or2)? Two of the best war games ever imo alongside of many that you have recommended in this vid.
Something maybe not in your area of interest, but since my daughter was born, I do enjoy the following games as you can step any time:
Factorio
Prision Architect
Kingdoms and Castle
Lots of good mentions in the comments as well!
Hi stealth
How’s it going, how’s the family and baby stealth doing. The game I would like to try is that one u r playing in the series on YouTube right now.
Good idea for a video 🙂
Many of my distractor-friendly favourites were already mentioned in the comments, including beloved Jagged Alliance 2 (preferably with Urban Chaos and 1.13 mods combined). I could add Kerbal Space Program, Silent Hunter III, and Command: MO, where you can also pause and compress time as you see fit. And speaking of Paradox grand strategy games, Victoria II, as we are waiting for Victoria III to be released soon.
I play a lot of Company of Heroes, particularly with the Blitzkrieg mod. I used to play the Warhammer 40k series a lot as well. I still play Freelancer with the Discovery mod and I've just gotten Ultimate Admirals – Dreadnoughts.
Terra Invicta will turn you into an abusive dad XD
Project Zomboid is a great recommendation. what you described about 7 days to die can be pretty much said word for word in regards to Zomboid with the only real difference being the isometric graphics as opposed to the first person perspective. I personally like it over 7 days to die
Subnautica. single player so you can pause any time. a very relaxing and fun game about surviving in the ocean. lots of nice relaxing swimming amidst beautiful bio-florescent flora and fauna in a beautiful map. as a new dad you probably wont get too much time to go diving so its the next best thing.
Factorio. while it does have a strong addictive "just one more building" element which earned the game the nickname Cracktorio theres nothing to prevent you from pausing the game. and you can even play in peaceful mode which completely disables the enemies so you can even feel confident walking away without pausing. and just plan ahead
Not a Dad but the same things you mentioned apply for some simulators. For example, the Silent Hunter series. It's a slow, brainheavy game that you can stop whenever you want/need. And just like how it works with XCom, while you are away you can think about your next move.
Euro Truck Simulator also comes to mind.
The CK series is a good example too
bit of a pointless video. So any single player game that you can pause applies..For example:- All of them………..
Surely turn based games are the proper games for new dads.
If I start a game of Civ when my child is born I may have finished a run when they leave home!
As a new Dad your priority should be spending those precious moments of your children’s lives with them and not on video games.
XCOM: Is so good but my luck is so bad
Terra Envicta: never played
Surviving Mars: is fun
ICBM: I am waiting for Nuclear War Simulator
7 Days to Die: Sandbox survivals are ok but 7DTD is so fun if you have friends.
Games I'd Recommend:
Valor & Victory
Combat Mission
City Skylines
Blood Bowl 2
#2 can confirm with experience
I love XCOM and Surviving Mars, if i may give my opinion id recommand the old school Command and Conquer, Starwars Empire at war, Disciple, Heroes of Myth and Magic, Sins of a Solar Empire or even Commandos.
And as always Stealth you doin an amazing job thx for all the good time you're providing us, peace 🤟🤟
Soon we will be in ICBM game
When ever the babies screams frustrates you wipe out a civilization or two in stellaris
No Xcom LWOTC mod list?
Excellent list! As a dad it's super hard to find the pause button especially if there is not one..
Avorion, Sapiens Oxygen Not Included & Raft are my go to games if I know interruptions are likely to be inbound. All can be paused with a single click.
xcom2 – yes, definitely
terra invicta – yesn't… if you have a complex plan, it takes longer to reorient yourself
surviving mars – agreed, but I prefer per aspera
icbm – interesting… does it have a real time like defcon? super long game on the lowest timescale
7 days to die – survival games get boring for me very quick, unfortunately. it is very time consuming, compared to other games
stellaris – cool
avorion – cool, give starbase a try 🙂
space engineer – yup
stormworks – cool
rimworld – true
games you can give a shot:
uboat (realtime = realtime… no pause required, unless in combat)
pathfinder games, with turn based game mode (replayability galore, good story and extremely long)
civilization 4 and 5
endless space 2 (civ game, but in space and each race plays differently)
heat signature (quick starting game and short-ish missions)
baldur's gate 3 (my kid loves this game, and we can't wait for them to finish it)
battletech (xcom but with mechs)
hardspace shipbreaker (nice zen-like game, with 15 min shifts)
banner saga trilogy (awesome story, mostly turn based)
the room 1 – 4 (cool puzzle game)
hearts of iron 4 – millenium dawn: a modern day mod
phantom doctrine (xcom like game)
Congrats
This was a really interesting video. I'm by no means a dad, let alone soon to be one but I've still found this a really interesting video. It was nice to see your choices around such a topic.
You left out Factorio, and maybe Dyson Sphere Project! Both are immensely replayable and can be very heavily modded.
Look forward to the sequel video: 5 Games to Play with Your Kid.
Pfff I will play these games even though I will probably not be a dad for quite some time
Turn based games are absolutely the way to go, but… I've really struggled to find time to game with very young kids.
When they're asleep, there's house chores to do and even after that, I need to sleep at some point otherwise I'm just a wreck. With my third child I've pretty much said goodbye to free time until he's old enough for school. :/
X4 foundations would be a good addition. Singleplayer space economic simulation as sandbox. Keeps you also engaged while not playing. To get the logistics going if you chose the way of getting your own Empire.
That is interesting, but you are pretty much just cutting out the MP games.
Now how about games that you can play WITH your kid? For that I would suggest more city builders or resource management rather than the shooters and wargames that you clearly like best.
This is a great list, I played most of these when "off shift" as it were. The only ones I'd add are the simulation games like farm SIM, gold rush, Fishing Barents sea, X3, Eurotruck etc. All single player, stress free for the most part so a nice chilled game.
Plus my son now loves watching me play farming sim and Eurotruck as he is obsessed with lorry's and tractors so win win 😁