I know a lot of people that have very specific games that they play to turn their brains off or play because it gives their hands something to do while they focus on other things, and I never really understood it until I put 1000km (and stopped) into TLD.
The simplicity and ease of surviving in this game puts it above just a literal idle clicker or something, but once you get any amount of stored resources you could basically ignore any stops; the driving is what you really need to "pay attention to" because the biggest problem you'll face is some part of your car flying off due to the games janky physics.
The real point of this game though is just to give you something to do if you can't sit still with something else: you could listen to a whole book or long video if you wanted to. Hell, I even finished a whole movie while playing this at one point.
The simplicity and ease of surviving in this game puts it above just a literal idle clicker or something, but once you get any amount of stored resources you could basically ignore any stops; the driving is what you really need to "pay attention to" because the biggest problem you'll face is some part of your car flying off due to the games janky physics.
The real point of this game though is just to give you something to do if you can't sit still with something else: you could listen to a whole book or long video if you wanted to. Hell, I even finished a whole movie while playing this at one point.