Untitled Goose Game?

Because Postal already exists.
And postal 2, 3, and 4

So you want a game where you can go… postal?

Check out the Youtube channel Let's Game It Out. Josh is very creative in finding ways to torment the NPCs of various simulator and tycoon games.

I saw an ad a few days ago for a game called Roadside Research.

It's a gas station management sim where you play as an alien disguised as a human, running a gas station and "researching" humanity.

It looks pretty fun.

For the record, the science shows that Destruction Therapy is not effective at actually managing anger, and may actually cause more harm long term, as you're normalizing that behavior in your brain.

But as for why we don't see more games along those lines, I don't know. It does seem like a genre that would sell well right now. I remember there was a series of desktop games when I was a kid called Stress Reducer that would give you a set of animated weapons to "destroy" your windows desktop (an image of it).

Say No! More

I don't want to take my stress out on randos, I want to take it out on the ones responsible for my stress

What do you think the minigun is for in GTA5?

My feeling, that I've learned after many years of doing it wrong, is that 'taking out' your stress with violent or aggressive acts, even virtual ones, isn't a healthy way to deal with it. It reinforces it rather than releasing it. Calming exercises, deep breathing and letting stress go is a much more useful way to deal with it.

In that vein, I recommend Tiny Glade for stress relief. Or any so called 'cosy' game.

Untitled Goose Game is what you are looking for :)

If you want to shoot Nazis and klan members there are Wolfenstein games.

I bought just for some cathartic relief. Unfortunately the first person camera jostled around too much and gave me too much motion sickness.

Damn. Really needed that.

https://youtu.be/JWfD4geJm2Q

Here is a cool video from a small time creator about why we don't get Nazi-killing games anymore.

It’s interesting how simulators do tend to draw in people who also do the same thing as their IRL job.

Lots of farmers play Farming Simulator. Lots of truckers play Euro/American Truck Simulator. Lots of pilots play MS Flight Simulator.

A lot of VR titles let you do that. Job simulator, vacation simulator, and more erm, viscerally, surgeon simulator.

Assassinations aside, Hitman has loads of ways to mess with people.

I feel like this is what people do with the multiplayer games where they are allowed to be mean to each other

I want eat the rich the game

Postal 2 immediately comes to mind for me. Just some dude trying to do mundane errands around town. Definitely a lot of killing tho..

given the history of video games, and video game censorship, i know this has a low likelihood of coming to fruition. however, i would adore a game where i massacre a bunch of capitalists like ultrakill

being a very disgruntled worker in a very annoyingly noisy environment with shitty customers.

That sounds like pure stress to me instead of stress relief. Dont know about other people but I wouldnt want to spend my free time simulating a shitty job.

I see the Postal series has gotten some mentions, but where is my Carmageddon Crew?

Ha ha, it's funny reading this immediately after a 4 hour long session of Supermarket Together. Chatting with friends, slacking off, causing mischief (like renaming the store, moving shelves), and being a menace in general - to robbers, innocent customers, employees, or other players.

There's a whole genre of games you're describing. Single and coop. Many are free to play.

japan has an arcade game where you flip your dinner table as hard as you can and the more stuff you break, the higher the score

I think we all just destress differently & there's some games where you can make a mess or cause chaos, but some folks like a challenge to overcome like souls games finally beating a boss, climb a leaderboard, get x rank elo, etc. Others build a farm or speedrun shooting demons or just keep replaying the same nostalgic games.

Reminds me of why I like driving games so much. Sure it's nice to be in the driver's seat on a street or racetrack in a way where it feels like I'm really there taking a hairpin turn in Times Square without any personal risk.

But there's nothing quite like doing literally what my mind can come up with in a game with arcade physics, keeping just enough realism to give feedback on collision damage without breaking immersion.

Also, I don’t remember asking for armchair psychologists to come here and start dropping unasked thoughts about how to best relieve stress. Check those at the door.

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