Hungover During The Holidays? Play These Games While You Suffer

Summary

PowerWash Simulator is a brainless game that is perfect for hungover days when you can't think straight. It's oddly satisfying to clean virtual spaces and makes you feel productive.
Cocoon is a calm and slow puzzler game that won't make you nauseous. It requires logic and thought rather than quick reflexes, making it suitable for hangover days.
Hitman may require some quick thinking and reflexes, but it can also be a meditative game if you plan carefully. Just like with holiday drinking, being skilled and careful can prevent a disastrous outcome.

For many of us, the end-of-year holiday season is a time for seeing family. For others, it’s a time for getting drunk. For still others, it’s a time for getting drunk with your family and maybe getting into fights with them. Happens to the best of us, I’m not judging. This year, while I’m avoiding red wine and bottles of tequila until New Year’s Eve rolls around, this week has brought me many a friend’s desperate text adm🗹itting that they made some dubious alcohol-related choices the night before and now they’re stuck in bed, sipping water and praying for death.

I’m young enough that my friends still want to get way too drunk over the holidays, but I’m too old to 🀅do it without physical consequences.

As someone who has struggled in the past with moderating my alcohol use, I’ve been there. I’ve spent many a weekend morning trapped under the covers, afraid to open my curtains, wanting something calm to do that will help me ease back into the world of the living but won’t make me nauseous or require too much brain power. If this sounds like you this week, I have you cov🌠ered. Here are the games I play when I&rsq💞uo;m hungover – they’ll serve you well.

PowerWash Simulator

This is a no-brainer, because it requires no brains to play. If waking up after a night out makes you feel like every brain cell in y🍨our head has shrivelled up and died, is the♎ ideal game for you.

I like to listen to podcasts while I play since it makes me feel productive as if I’v♛e done actual, real-life chores, which gives me enough dopamine to get out of bed at some point in the day. Of course, cleaning virtual spaces does not mean I’ve actually done anything useful with my day, but you can fool your body into believing some tꦍhings are true if you manipulate yourself often enough.

Cocoon

If you can think with a hangover, Coco𓆉on is a great, extremely chill puzzler. I like it because it’s the antithesis of an action game, which means very little motion or sudden movement on your part. Well, the boss fights might take some coordination, and if you’re like me they might elevate your heart rate a ൲tiny bit, but the game generally requires more logic and thought than it does quick reflexes. It’s a slow game, and it probably will not induce nausea.

Hitman

Agent 47 sat down as he screws a suppressor onto a pistol

You might be protesting, given what I’ve just written – Hitman can get a little hectic if you mess up, and you will need reflexes and quick thinking to recover, which you mඣight not be c🧔apable of if hangovers leave you almost catatonic. To that I must say, unfortunately, git gud.

Cross-Department Editor James Troughton also 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:recommende꧋d Hitman if yo💮u’re a humbug, so whatever your excuse - play Hitman this hꦅolidꦰay season.

If you’re skilled and careful with your planning, you won’t end up scrambling to save the level, and the game can be surprisingly meditative. Then again, you could just be skilled and careful with your holiday drinking, and you won&r💛squo;t end up with the hangover to end all hangovers. Remember, drink water in between g𝐆lasses of wine and you’ll feel better the next day!