Over the many years I’ve tried to get into gaming (Dark Souls, Cats, Valorant, Hogwarts, Portal, etc), I’ve always backed out due to motion sickness. I’m getting really tired of never truly enjoying any gaming experience so it’d be nice to have some non-motion-sickness-inducing games to try out.

  • Katana314@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I know someone that has a lot of trouble with motion in games; they don’t really do 3D, or most 2D games. Wingspan, a port of a boardgame, is still pretty enjoyable to them. There may also be other categories of games that just don’t revolve around constant camera motion, like Slay the Spire, that could be fun.

  • Orvanis@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It sounds like you need to stay away from 1st person perspective games. Find some “top down” style games: Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing, Starcraft, etc and see how those work for your motion sickness since the camera is much more locked in place.

  • cecirdr@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I relate. First person games are more likely to cause it for me, but there have even been a few third person that do it. Stray was horrible for me, I got stuck within 20 minutes! Interestingly enough, BOTW and TOTK do not cause me any problems despite being action based (though they are third person). I guess how they handle the camera and other video issues it’s the reason? I’ve played nearly 70 hours in TOTK and over 150 in BOTW and never felt green in the least.

    Otherwise, I try to stick to turn based games and third person for the most part. Turn based games reduce the frequency that I have to spin the camera around to get my bearings. I’m lucky that I prefer rpgs, so there’s a good collection of third person turn based games to choose from. Persona 5 for example. No issues at all.

  • flibbertigibbet@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Rain World. 2D platform / survival but the camera never pans. And it’s a wild ride. Never played anything quite like it.