{"id":818450,"date":"2025-01-09T09:12:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T15:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/top-10-video-games-that-are-keeping-everyone-indoors\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T09:12:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T15:12:31","slug":"top-10-video-games-that-are-keeping-everyone-indoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/top-10-video-games-that-are-keeping-everyone-indoors\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 video games that are keeping everyone indoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"1c5b7a9d-ffb6-4506-b548-db28dde19f3a\" aria-label=\"widget-anchor\">\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fakazanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Game.jpg\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"351\"  ><\/p>\n<p>Whether you last touched a TV game console in your youth or frequently jump online to duke it out with friends, gaming is a fun way to relax after a stressful day.<\/p>\n<p>To find out which games made for the perfect cosy night in,\u00a0Northerner ran a test to see which games would top the list. To run the numbers, they worked from a seed list of the most popular <a href=\"https:\/\/fakazanews.com\/tag\/video-games\/\" title=\"video games\">video games<\/a> compiled through a variety of reputable sources including Metacritic, IGN and SteamDB<\/p>\n<p>Once all data was collated, a percentrank formula was used to calculate a final score out of 10 for each video game and games were then ranked in descending order, based on their overall score to reveal the best ones for reducing stress earning a \u201ccosy score\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Topping the list as the best video game to help reduce stress is\u00a0Stardew Valley, with a\u00a0cosy score of 9.4\/10. A country life RPG game,\u00a0<em>Stardew Valley<\/em>, holds the highest SteamDB rating (98%) out of all analysed games, as well as the highest IGN rating (9\/10). It\u2019s also the video game with the second highest Metascore (89\/100), after<em>\u00a0Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/em>\u00a0secures second spot, achieving a\u00a0cosy score of 9.2\/10. The game not only has the highest Metascore (90\/100) out of all the others in the study, but also the third highest IGN rating (8.5\/10), preceded only by\u00a0<em>Disney Dreamlight Valley<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Stardew Valley<\/em>. Released in 2020, it is the fifth game in the\u00a0<em>Animal Crossing<\/em>\u00a0series.<\/p>\n<p>In third place, with a\u00a0cosy score of 8.8\/10, is the adventure video game\u00a0<em>A Short Hike<\/em>. It landed the second highest SteamDB rating (97%) out of all\u00a0games\u00a0analysed, after\u00a0<em>Stardew Valley<\/em>. With an equally impressive Metascore (88\/100) and IGN rating (8.2\/10),\u00a0<em>A Short Hike<\/em>\u00a0is a great choice for a relaxing night at home.<\/p>\n<p>See the full list here:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> bukky<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/fakazanews.com\/2024\/12\/26\/top-10-video-games-that-are-keeping-everyone-indoors\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=top-10-video-games-that-are-keeping-everyone-indoors\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you last touched a TV game console in your youth or frequently jump online to duke it out with friends, gaming is a fun way to relax after a stressful day. To find out which games made for the perfect cosy night in,\u00a0Northerner ran a test to see which games would top the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":818451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3291,121],"tags":[5668,5421],"class_list":{"0":"post-818450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-games","8":"category-video","9":"tag-games","10":"tag-video"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}