Top 5 Video Game Safe Rooms You Never Wanted to Leave

The hubs, shrines and save rooms where your shoulders finally dropped and you stalled for ten minutes before heading back out.

1. 1

   Firelink Shrine — Dark Souls (FromSoftware)

   A crumbling ruin, a cynical Crestfallen Warrior and one bonfire, and somehow it felt more like home than anywhere else in Lordran.

2. 2

   House of Hades — Hades (Supergiant Games)

   Dying here just means a chat with Nyx, a pat on Cerberus and petty insults from Dad, which makes losing a run feel almost like a reward.

3. 3

   Majula — Dark Souls II (FromSoftware)

   An endless sunset over the sea and that melancholy piano theme. It's the one place in the series that lets you exhale properly.

4. 4

   The Save Rooms — Resident Evil 2 (Capcom)

   The second that save-room music starts, your pulse comes down. No series has made a typewriter and a storage box feel this much like a hug.

5. 5

   The Normandy SR-2 — Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)

   Walking the decks between missions to bother every crew member was the real game, and the fights were just the price of more conversations.