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[Silent_Thunder]

So, recently someone got me NASCAR The Game as a joke, so of course I installed it to see how good or bad it was. In all honesty, it wound up being like if you took Euro Truck Simulator and just made it go 200mph. Mostly relaxing for the vast majority of the time, and then occasionally completely terrifying. Mostly the difference is whether of not you're free of the "pack" as it's called. Most racing games you might have to occasionally dodge a guy every few corners, but the nature of Stock Car Oval racing is that you're usually going two or three wide at all times, and one slip up results in a massive pileup.

So yeah, somehow that game is really fun (Although I couldn't tell you how well of a NASCAR simulator it is, of course). And it got me thinking. What games should by all rights be the most dull experience imaginable, but somehow wind up being strangely fun?

[Mictlantecuhtli]

http://gamejolt.com/games/strategy-sim/goat-petting-simulator/16698/

Do not question It.

[Bouchart]

Perry Mason: The Case of the Mandarin Murder.

Interesting little text adventure.

[itisnotlogical]

The licensed PC games of Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, Chamber of Secrets and Prisoner of Azkaban, as well as Quidditch World Cup. Pretty nice 3D puzzle platformers and a Quidditch video game. It's a shame that Goblet of Fire was... some sort of beat-em-up I guess? And the trailers for the Deathly Hallows game made it look like a cover shooter.

EA's game for Lord of the Rings: Return of the King is pretty cool too, a beat-em-up with some light RPG stuff. Actually one of the first PC games I ever played, as a demo disc that came in a cereal box.

[nenjin]

All the "clicker" games. Although maybe it's less fun and more tapping into our inner OCD tendencies.

[mastahcheese]

The licensed PC games of Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, Chamber of Secrets and Prisoner of Azkaban, as well as Quidditch World Cup. Pretty nice 3D puzzle platformers and a Quidditch video game. It's a shame that Goblet of Fire was... some sort of beat-em-up I guess? And the trailers for the Deathly Hallows game made it look like a cover shooter.

EA's game for Lord of the Rings: Return of the King is pretty cool too, a beat-em-up with some light RPG stuff. Actually one of the first PC games I ever played, as a demo disc that came in a cereal box.

I personally hated Chamber of Secrets, but Quidditch was totally awesome.
Return of the King was just too freaking hard for me in the later levels.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

There's this kind of Roguelike I used to play a lot more, where you have to manage hundreds of little guys with a text interface and get them to not die constantly. It was a bit like the Sims but with more murder and tragedy, cupidity and debauchery. So much unscrupulous behavior.

That said it's far and away the best game I've ever played and it still has huge potential.

[nenjin]

There's this kind of Roguelike I used to play a lot more, where you have to manage hundreds of little guys with a text interface and get them to not die constantly. It was a bit like the Sims but with more murder and tragedy, cupidity and debauchery. So much unscrupulous behavior.

That said it's far and away the best game I've ever played and it still has huge potential.

Oho, how droll you are.

[TheDarkStar]

There's this kind of Roguelike I used to play a lot more, where you have to manage hundreds of little guys with a text interface and get them to not die constantly. It was a bit like the Sims but with more murder and tragedy, cupidity and debauchery. So much unscrupulous behavior.

That said it's far and away the best game I've ever played and it still has huge potential.

I've played a game like that too. It's this thing with a fortress and dwarves and lots of death and dismemberment.

[GreatJustice]

M&Ms, the Lost Formulas: a gigantic advertisement of a platforming game. Yet the controls were quite good, the graphics were fine, the story was...Well, I liked it when I was around five, and it even had minigames mixed in. Whoever made it deserves a pat on the back for making such an entertaining little game with what they had to work with.

[Blaze]

Cookie Clicker

[jocan2003]

Free enterprise? Got me hook for a good 2-3 week easy...

[Remuthra]

There's this kind of Roguelike I used to play a lot more, where you have to manage hundreds of little guys with a text interface and get them to not die constantly. It was a bit like the Sims but with more murder and tragedy, cupidity and debauchery. So much unscrupulous behavior.

That said it's far and away the best game I've ever played and it still has huge potential.

Wow, that sounds like a really interesting game to try out. Do you happen to remember the name or anything?

[Levi]

BLOOOOOONS. 

[Remuthra]

Candy Box.