Games that give a lot of dopamine with low investment, like Balatro does
Platform: Steam Deck
I'm looking for a game with very high dopamine / low investment ratio.
Balatro works very well for me because the effort I have to put is tiny: I just play poker hands and buy jokers. However it gives me huge dopamine with numbers go up, visual effects, sound effects, opening card packs, rewards...
But now I want something else. I've already played 250 hours of Balatro and I'm tired.
Don't recommend these games that I already know:
- Slay the spire
- Enter the gungeon
- The Binding of Isaac
- Nuclear Throne
- Monster Train
- Factorio & Satisfactory
- Vampire Survivors and all other survivor-likes
- Brotato
- The other Balatro-likes like Ballionaire
- Shooters like DOOM and ULTRAKILL
- Elden Ring and other souls
- Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing and similar ones
- Pokemon TCG Pocket (I'm already playing it)
- Wildfrost
- Competitive card games like Gwent, Heartstone, Magic the gathering, Marvel Snap...
- Tetris Effect
- Picross and Sudoku