There is one problem with MMORPG’s, though they are filled to the brim with hours of content, the content can be quite boring when playing the game by yourself. This is something I have learned after trying to return to the World of Warcraft when most of my friends had left it behind. Guild Wars 2 delivers something different, a constantly expanding world filled with community challenges, PVP options as well as a coherent storyline. NCSoft have also helped players by constantly delivering additional free content to the game as well as last year’s release of the Heart of Thorns expansion. Sounds good, right? The better part, the game has zero subscriptions fees, once you purchase the title, it’s all yours for the taking.

I’m not going to rag on about this title for too long, nearly every site and magazine that even mentions video games has already said far more than I can possibly fathom about how much this game has to offer for player, but I’m still going to talk about it anyways. The Witcher 3 is a huge game in nearly every aspect, the world is massive, the story is epic and the game has enough content to fill a series of books written by accomplished Polish author: Andrzej Sapkowski, actually he did do that.

Alongside the base game, The Witcher 3 also has two expansion packs which add roughly another 40 hours to the game, so for another £20 you effectively have enough for another game, this doesn’t cover the 16 pieces of DLC that CDProjekt Red released for free to players of the game. So yeah, you should have enough of a game here to keep the boredom away for a rather long time.

If you haven’t been living on the moon or in the darker parts of rural Wales, then you’ve probably heard of the Sims. The game where you can make little virtual people, build them a house and let them live prosperous and peaceful lives, or you can do the far more entertaining thing and remake your favourite horror movie scenarios.

That’s right, nothing kills boredom like killing others. Every Sim you make can be another chance for prosperity, or another chance to recreate that scene from Saw where everyone is stuck in a bathroom. Have fun, let the games begin.

Another fairly old title for you to indulge in. This time we’ll take the simulation title away from the personal, sadistic level the Sims delivers and put it on a much larger scale, being in control of a whole collection of cities, oh what fun.

This game is quite an easy one to become addicted to, even with a full time job and other responsibilities, I still managed to clock over 36 hours into the title. Playing around with the factions, developing my city and trying to make it as efficient and as eco-friendly as possible.

You still have the ability to wage war on others and become the horrible war-mongering dictator that you clearly always wanted to be, but you can still go Civilization style and avoid combat and war altogether if you simply prefer building up your city.

Wait, before you rush to the comments section to call me all manner of things, hear me out. Solitaire is the perfect game to get rid of boredom and can be accessed on nearly every computer, the important thing, it can be accessed at work.

Let’s be honest, we are at our most bored when we are at the workplace, there is nearly always a computer in the workplace and that means to get rid of the strongest level of boredom, we play Solitaire. Perfect, right? Sorting through those cards and matching the suits suddenly becomes the most addictive and entertaining pastime when our alternative option is making graphs on a spreadsheet, or worse, serving customers in a retail environment. Without solitaire, we’d all be stuck with penis drawings on Microsoft Paint.

So there you have, that is our top 5 games to play when you are bored. If you have any recommendations of what to play when bored, let us know in the comments.