Adding to this,
DUSK
Amid Evil
Turbo Overkill
Selaco
Zortch
There’s no shortage of great boomer shooters these days, and I think they check the “brain off, cozy shooter” criteria.
My favorite example of this so far, the top rated comment on a post about players making a one million science per hour factory in factorio:
Factorio is proprietary software, Mindustry is not
Lemmy is so negative, it even hates Factorio.
Yes, that’s typically how militaries are used, you fucking goober