These amazing PC games to play during online meetings will help you beat the tedium of Zoom

Remote working has become increasingly widespread over the past 18 months due to the global pandemic. If you’re lucky enough, you don’t even need to switch on your camera for some of those online meetings, and that means you can squeeze in a bit of gaming on the side.

The following five games have been tested in work and family situations, and can be played without taking a big toll on your mental focus. In order to select them, we’ve isolated the main features that can take away your focus, reduce you to a bumbling idiot and destroy your career: hypercomplex systems, rhythm mechanics, and, above all, big chunks of text and narrative sections.

This guide will help you to indulge in your favorite hobby without fear of getting fired. All these games require little concentration, and will allow you to invest just the right amount of attention on your boss, while focusing the rest on what really matters: your own happiness. In effect you’ll be getting paid while playing, a dream normally reserved for influencers.

Before starting, it’s important to note that every game needs a little setup before you can play them along with your meetings in Zoom, Skype or similar. Overall, these three tips will help you become a stealthy player and a seemingly productive worker:

Two Point Hospital
Two Point Hospital is the ultimate hospital simulator. Unless you’re looking for realism. But you’re looking for happiness, and just watching a patient being treated for Premature Mummification or Grey Anatomy can make your day.

Play any tutorial beforehand, as learning new skills demands more attention
If you’re playing on Steam (or similar), set your status to ‘Offline’ or ‘Invisible’
Use earphones and set the game’s general volume to around 5-10%. Or just mute the game
For your convenience, all these games have been rated for the following criteria: concentration needed, amount of text, pauseability, risk of cursing and preliminary setup.

This management sim is not as complex as others, but it still offers an interesting challenge (especially if you’re a completionist).

In addition, it features tons of extra content (free and paid), tools for personalizing furniture and decorations, and even the ability to rename any character you want. That means you can cure your simulated boss of Logic Problem while listening to your real boss’s illogical problems! MAYBE That means you can cure a patient of their complaint while listening to your work colleagues complaining.

Concentration needed: Very Low Amount of text: Low

Pauseability: You control time Risk of cursing: Very Low

Preliminary setup: Low SUPERHOT
The main catch of SUPERHOT is that time moves very slowly if you stand still – so just like in a project management meeting. This makes for just the right amount of tension when you suddenly need to explain why the yearly balance sheet doesn’t add up while you’re jumping over a car, dodging bullets and throwing a katana at an enemy.

We recommend completing the campaign before engaging in any business meetings. That means you can leave individual levels and challenges for your online meetings, where you don’t need to concentrate too much. Strangely enough, SUPERHOT doesn’t feature pausing. If you press Esc, you return directly to the main menu. Fortunately, levels are short and restarting is automatic, but if you get distracted by your coworkers’ bad jokes, you will die.

Concentration needed: Very Low Amount of text: Very Low (outside the campaign)

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