Been playing Pokemon Crystal Clear lately. Interacting with the Pokemon world without a clear goal is a super chill experience, you can roll through a town with a gym and just never go in because CC explicitly doesn’t gate you from going anywhere (although there are still optional areas that you can’t reach without cut, surf etc, so there’s an incentive, just not a requirement). I wish they’d do a mainline game with this kind of structure. Right now I’ve got an Eevee, Butterfree, Pikachu, and like a dozen other 'mons I’ve caught and immediately boxed and I’m wandering around having skipped Brock and Misty and the only badge I have is from Blue in Viridian. It’s a good game to pick up and play ten minutes at a time in between jobs on my phone with a “pocket taco” controller.