Let me talk about my situation first. I take the subway for 1 hour during the morning rush hour, take a 1-hour lunch break, and work overtime in the evening to get home. I have to squeeze in some time. I can count the hours I can play games on my fingers in a day. I used to enjoy large-scale mobile games, but later I found that office workers were not qualified to play games that required me to sit down and clear my energy, which made the pressure even greater.
Until I discovered Decompression Simulator, this thing is really for players with fragmented time. On the commute, whether you are standing or leaning on it, you can operate it with one hand. Just poke it twice and you will hear the sound of breaking glass. The crisp feeling is a hundred times more pleasant than the roar of the company boss. When the morning rush hour was crowded and people were agitated, I smashed a few vases inside, and the anger went away🫠
After eating takeout during lunch break, I would just lean on my chair and open the game and just play around without thinking about anything. It was a double visual and auditory decompression. I especially like the coconut-cracking session inside. The sound of duang duang is so loud that my colleagues around me thought I was playing a whack-a-mole game and came to ask me my name.
This game has no complicated task chains, no stamina bars, no rankings, and no forced social team formation. How long you want to play is all up to you, it's very suitable for overtime dogs like us. Sometimes I work overtime until 90 o'clock at night and come home. I lie in bed and open this game. After playing it twice, I feel that all the energy I have held in today is gone.
You may be thinking how much fun can it be if it's just smashing things? I can only say that its sound effects are really carefully crafted. The sounds of different materials are different. Wood has a muffled thumping sound, and glass has an extremely comfortable cracking sound. There are also decompressed ASMR sound effects interspersed in it. The overall design makes me feel like my brain cells are completely empty after a busy day. Moreover, the developer is Taoteng Interactive Technology, version 5.0, free download, no advertising pop-ups, just play.
Anyway, my daily routine now is to take one round on the subway to relieve stress, two rounds to relax during lunch break, and one round to help me sleep when I have insomnia at night. If you are like me, you don't have the time or energy to indulge in the world view of large games, and you just want to find something lightweight and relieving, this will definitely suit your taste.
Not to mention, after a day of work, I'm going to smash a glass to have fun🔨