What's a good video game for a NEET to spend most of their waking hours playing?

I'm looking for something that requires just enough attention for it to alleviate my anxiety somewhat by getting me to focus on something else; it's also important that the game can be played in windowed mode, with sound off, while half paying attention to Youtube videos/TV shows/whatever.

I want to feel like I'm making progress in some way. I used to be very into getting all achievements in WoW, but I don't want to do that anymore for reasons I don't want to get into. Said achievement hunting was, however, absolutely perfect for me in every way, the only problem with something similar now would be that it'd take me years to get to a similar world ranking in a different MMO.

Most games nowadays are focused on an audience that want to jump in and out for a quick session, I'm looking for something that rewards huge time investments.

Something like OSRS isn't suitable due to requiring too much constant attention to do stuff like tick manipulation, though that's also to a large degree due to all of the inputs being mouse-only; something like RS3 isn't suitable due to it requiring too little input.

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>>1530026 (OP)
gnosia

>>1530026 (OP)
Graph theory.

>>1530026 (OP)
E.T. The Extraterrestrial for the Atari 2600

>>1530026 (OP)
Disgaea is turn based and its end game is basically endless.

Treating every post as being serious:
>>1530029
Seems interesting and quite fun, but not like something you'd be able to sink thousands of hours into.
>>1530030
I couldn't find a game called that, so in regards to actual graph theory—I've done intro courses on both discrete mathematics and matrix theory, in total I've got about 150 ECTS points in mathematics, so a dropout without an actual degree. My current mental state of depression and anxiety has made me completely retarded, so I'm unable to do anything like that. If this part of the post has made me seem as if I'm trying to present accolades, please refer to the part where I called myself retarded dropout, that's my main point.
>>1530040
It has like two minutes of gameplay once you understand the game.
>>1530052
I looked into it, and it seemed nice, but also fully singleplayer. I really enjoyed just sitting around, chatting to strangers in WoW, and since I don't have anyone to communicate with neither IRL nor online at the moment, a place where having such chats would be possible would be great.

>>1530026 (OP)
This might not be exactly what you're looking for but Archeage? It's a tab target MMO with similar combat to WoW. Its like a perfect blend between a themepark and sandbox MMO. You can do traderoutes which is basically buying x amount of items in 1 place then travelling across the world to sell with a profit and hope you don't get ganked by the opposite faction and looted on the way. You can take safer routes with less PVP risk and autorun while watching TV shows/listening to a podcast or whatever. A lot of PVP WoW players went to this one back when it came out. But you can play it in a very grindy crafting/merchanting PVE type of way if you want to.

>>1530110
Have I misunderstood something, or are you referring to some type of private server? All info I could find spoke of it being shut down in 2024, with a sequel coming "soon".

I've spent more time that I'm willing to admit playing gregtech:new horizons and other similar minecraft modpacks

>>1530026 (OP)
The best not-attentive videogames to play while listening to something else and watching a huge amount of progress depending on how much time you sink into it is Minecraft with a few vanilla-friendly mods (you can ask me which if you're interested). It's just an eternally good game.
That's pretty much it.

>>1530026 (OP)
play a fighting game and grind combos in training mode or whatever

fuck yeah iroha

also zhp unlosing ranger

Elona

Solo Yugioh games

World Championship 2009, 2010 and 2011 + Tag Force games are the best overall

Forbidden Memories and Reshef of Destruction are the most challenging

>>1530026 (OP)
If you can stand to play single player games, I recommend the entire Atelier series, in release order, mainline titles only, starting with Rorona or Rorona Plus. There is a lot of autistic min-maxing, both in terms of item synthesis but also with other systems like equipment and character stats which also tie into item synthesis. There are also other systems intertwined with these, such as character friendship stats that unlock certain things. And all of this is sometimes compounded by the time limit system (which is in some but not all Atelier games.) and the time limit system makes you think harder about your actions in advance so you manage your time better.

>>1530026 (OP)
You can sink endless hours into a single Factorio run, even more so with the recent expansion. There's so much to do at any given time, you can just pick something, work on it for as long as you'd like and then pause and go do something else for a bit.