Best: Any Halo game

My freshman year of college was all about buying stemmy, seedy weed from a guy who graduated from my high school, smoking it out of a makeshift bowl made out of a pill bottle and a pen in the corner of the quad, and retreating to my shared bedroom to play Halo 3 while blitzed out of my gourd.

Though there’s an obvious competitive aspect to Halo, the absurdity of its sandbox makes the stakes feel lower, less dire. Dying in Halo is like temporarily zoning out a bit when you’re blitted—you’ll come back in no time, those neurons will rebuild themselves.

And since Halo offers so many opportunities for genuine, slapstick comedy, it’s a no-brainer for this list. Hopping into a Big Team Battle match with a few friends after making a little fresh salad plucked from your individual dime bags and careening about in a Warthog, trying to pull off ridiculous trick shots with sniper rifles and blowing up in a variety of stupid ways is an unparalleled serotonin boost.