I feel like the best options would be strategy such as CK3 as the other commenter mentioned or endless sandbox games like Minecraft and Euro/American Truck Simulator. X4 Foundations is a pretty fun space sim, and there are the Bethesda games with mods, Skyrim and Fallout 4 have some pretty cool mods and eventually Starfield too.
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I’ve played Risk of Rain 2 on and off for years and I’m not bored of it yet
Football Manager 2016 was the first version I tried. I put 1,500+ hours into it and only stopped because I decided to upgrade to Football Manager 2018. I'm on 2024 now at ~400 hours.
Red Dead Redemption 2, Fallout 4, the BioShock series
I want to throw out Mario Bro 3, Tetris, Dr Mario, and Sonic Mania. Just pick up and go, no long term commitment, always fun solo but you can add a friend anytime. Simple but rewarding game play loop.
Just Cause 3, with the additional DLC. I've been through all of it three full times, slowly plugging through a fourth (when time allows)
I think factorio is one, even when you launch your rocket (I have more than 100 hours and I don't think....) you still can restart in a new generated world and try do to it again in a better way.
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For me, Noita. I don't recommend it unconditionally, but for me that game will forever be the only permanent game in my library. I expect it's possible that I could finish Elden Ring. I know I will never finish Noita.
Yep! Noita is a game I play again and aga.in. Despite sucking at it
X4 foundations and relevant DLC. I have multiple saves with over a year worth of playtime
For me Rollercoaster Tycoon 1&2. But you could probably throw most Sim Games into here like SimCity 2k 3k or 4.
Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead
Zombie survival roguelike. It's free, open source, and a mature project.
Minecraft, especially with mods.
Roguelites in general. My favorite is FTL. Also has good mods.
FTL!! It's hard as shit lol
Ftl is awesome I really like it. Eventually I got the multiverse mod which is really well done and adds more events and aliens and things
I was about to suggest "Balatro" but you don't want infinite dopamine game then play The Binding of Isaac:Rebirth.
Fallout: New Vegas, Caves of Qud, Project Zomboid, Minecraft, Terraria, Morrowind, Skyrim, Dwarf Fortress, Kenshi, Rimworld, Elden Ring, and so much more.
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The binding of Isaac
Tetris maybe (too close to candy crush)
If you into emulators the SNES has a lot of good arcade ports, those are high score based
Kerbal Space Program, for sure. Skyrim is another.
Dead Cells! Made by a worker cooperative 🥳
My son and I had a blast with this one. We took turns doing runs through all biomes and found tons of blueprints and secrets. So fun!
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Risk of rain and risk of rain 2
Sorry to be a soulsborne weeb but I have something like 1500 hours in bloodborne and I still pick it up from time to time
My most played games outside of actually multiplayer games are arpgs. Diablo(mostly 2 and 3), path of exile, last epoch. Diablo2 and last epoch can be played offline, PoE can't. And yes, they're technically online multiplayer games but most people play them alone so they might as well be single player games to me. After that my most played games are RPGs and rogue likes. Plenty of good suggestions for that already
Stellaris, Rimworld, the Sims, and a lot of stragedy games.