Elite Dangerous is an excellent choice for any audiobook or show, especially if you're exploring the black or doing trade loops.
I completed a few anime shows on my way to the galactic center.
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No Man's Sky would be good for the same reasons.
maybe one of the Truck Simulators?
Seconded. Between American Truck Simulator and Snowrunner I went through… I think Star Trek Voyager, Charmed and unavoidably something else too. Both games run well on the Deck (ATS has a Linux version: pick the Windows one, it’s far more optimized)
Edit: and Forza Horizon! Can’t forget that.
Minecraft or any number of the farming/life sim games out there. I've dug countless tunnels in Minecraft while listening to various things.
Definitely farming simulator or euro truck simulator.
No man's sky might be good for this!
Satisfactory with animal aggro turned off.
Viscera Cleanup Detail
Hell yeah. Exo one was kinda what I had in mind, something with stupidly simple mechanics. But I am definitely intrigued by POOLS. Looks spooky. Thanks!
Abzu
I was going to say Vampire Survivors but looks like you’ve already mentioned that.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2420510/HoloCure__Save_the_Fans/ - more Vampire Survivors (Dare I say better.)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1535560/Farmer_Against_Potatoes_Idle/ - I apologize in advanced if you get hooked on this.
Both are free.
For me it's definitely Viscera Cleanup Detail. Super chill and satisfying cleaning game that I often boot up when I just want to shoot the shit with someone. There's also quite a few custom maps after you get through the official ones.
Also Cities Skylines (the first one). Sometimes I just spend a couple hours watching my trains go around with a first person vehicle mod while I watch videos.
I'm kind of mindlessly grinding levels in the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters right now.
Admittedly, some of the games I'm about to mention take time to get good enough at to turn your brain off, but here's some of my favorites for listening to audiobooks.
Bloons TD6
Any roguelite - currently I'm loving balatro and spelunky 2
Backpack battles
Tetris Effect
Mario sports games
Mini Metro
Kingdom
In general, I find it helpful to tell yourself that it's totally okay to "lose." When you are listening to an audiobook, you should be spending most of your attention on that. You don't need to take the game seriously.
Games that I actually played while listening to an audiobook:
Farming Simulator, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, Minecraft
Games that I wouldn't recommend based on my experience:
Civilisation, Portal and any game that you're not familiar with
I’m very bad at multitasking but thanks for the recommendations! I wish we had Peggle 2 on Steam, that actually sounds great to play listening to something.
Suzy Cube - it's a 3d platformer, to me kinda has Super Mario 3d Land/World vibes
a lone scientist in a satelite array scanning for signals, processing them, repairing the servers, sending codes, trying to maintain a sleep schedule. Scientist things.
PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate, while I love the games music, it’s not necessary since it’s a tower defence game.
I do this with massive open Ubisoft worlds like Ghost Recon and Far Cry. In-between missions and story stuff is far too much crap to clear out and do, if you like covering every square inch.
GTA V/Online. Just drive around
graphicaudio.net has great full cast audio productions of book novels and comic books.
I'm doing this with TOTK at the moment but it does mean I'm kind of ignoring the story aspects.