I always somehow find my way back to playing No Man’s Sky. No matter what I do, game I play, activity inside or outside of gaming, NMS is always there to play and chill. Sometimes I go on creative and spend a week amassing the perfect color coordinated team of ships, crew, frigates, and freighter.
That and every content update we get for free!
I’m very much a vanilla Minecraft survival player and to me Minecraft survival is pretty much as perfect a casual survival game gets for me. Slight challenges you can seek out like going to the nether or exploring in the caves and/or far from your base but also a deep enough yet simple enough to grasp crafting system to make based on the fly creatively, in mass and not take forever to grind for. I love building like a straight up village with some friends then going out on horseback and exploring the pretty interesting procedurally generated world. Very relaxing but with nice little spikes of tension, how I romanticize the idea of an adventure in my head.
unfortunately vanilla bores the crap out of me anymore (I mostly played vanilla from Beta 1.8 up until like Minecraft 1.7, when some of the first major modern modpacks started showing up), but I always love that sense of wonder with new terrain, I remember seeing the 1.18 terrain gen for the first time and being blown away. Same for the first time (which was on ATM8, actually), where I was in the deep dark and realized the cave it was in went all the way to the surface.