[talldayo]

Management games help me relax a lot. I like Rimworld, Factorio and Stellaris, all for largely different reasons:

- Rimworld combines the best of most management games I've played into one. It's as granular as The Sims while giving you Simcity-levels of control of your surroundings. It swaps spit with Dwarf Fortress, which is not a comparison I make lightly.

- Factorio is pure efficiency porn. If you like staring at a puzzle and trying to optimize it or inch closer to a solution, that's what Factorio is for the entire playtime. Basically a pure logistics sim without a lot of the distractions from other genres.

- Stellaris is none of those things, and instead is a Paradox-developed strategy game. I don't know why I like it; the gameplay is repetitive and simple, but there's an enormous variety of low-pressure ways to develop your civilization. A lot of real-time-strategy fails to grab my attention, but Stellaris doesn't.

Those are just my picks, though. I can totally see how logistics and management simulators would feel like additional stress to the right kind of person.