Outer Wilds. Best game ever made. Stick with it.

Subnautica works for me on days like these. It's atmosphere, the clever design of how to explore more of the story and the constant danger. I also really like the ending, but I won't say more about that, cause spoilers.

STALKER, it's story may not wreck you but the monolith will. If you want to be kicked in the dick play the anomaly mod, pretty sure it's free and doesn't require the games.

The second game feels to me much less unique, compared to the first, especially the atmosphere. It's still a good game, just not what I expected from the sequel

Peripeteia- Dark cyberpunk imsim. Obviously inspired by GitS and deus ex. I’d consider it pretty dark and pessimistic but lots of fun to play around in and explore the different ways you have to solve a problem.

Thank you both! Gonna look into it, had it in the back of my mind for a while.

Thank you! Wanted to play those two when they released them for PC, but then I've read about technical issues and I kinda' forgot about both. As for playing games which fit my mood, I prefer to letthings burn themselves out, make sure there's no unfinished business left. Pouring more fuel on the fire genuinely helps, horror makes me feel less alone.

Omg, I completely forgot about Soma... and I even own it! Thank you!

This sounds like a nice "Deck in bed" game, thanks!

I've read/listened to a lot about Earthbound/Mother, maybe it's time to play them.

Still need to give that one a try, thank you!

Never heard about it until now, but it does sound very interesting from the Steam blurb! Thank you!

Thank you! I've played quite a bit of Dying Light back when it came out, lots of fun in co-op! As for Hardspace Shipbreaker and Dredge, the first I wanted to try for a while (big fan of Space Engineers), and the second looks like "life as a background character in a Lovecraftian story," so awesome!

Good! Hope it does thin slices, thank you!

I've had my eye on them for a while, but they look so cute to me that I feel I need a better mood to really enjoy them.

I've played Gemini Rue on my phone obsessively, great game! Night in the Woods and Sally Face both look like the kind of games which one underestimates then ends up sobbing after 12 non-stop hours, like SIGNALIS. Thank you! Oh, I've "used" the first two Thief games so much that I've sanded off any matte they had left:))

Yet another one I already own and completely forgot about, thank you!

For both rich atmosphere and unique game mechanics, you could do a lot worse than [Return of the Obra Dinn](https://youtu.be/ILolesm8kFY). If you're unfamiliar, the presentation evokes early PC (or Mac, more specifically) black and white "1 bit" games, but real time 3d. This already is very distinctive, but the gameplay also sets it apart. You are an insurance investigator with a magic pocket watch which allows you to travel back to the moment in time that someone expired, if you find their corpse. From these brief flashes (and by cross-referencing the ship manifest) you piece together what happened to all the crew and passengers on the ships ill-fated voyage, before it's baffling reemergence years after the fact.

Soumds fuel-efficient, thank you! Definitely looking into it!

Have fun, I think it really is one of the best games of the last decade.