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I have a large library of steam games, but yet always come back to Garry mod and ravensfield. I keep coming back for the modded content and every other game is excellent, don't get me wrong. But a lot of big games like RD2 and watchdogs 2 just seem like such a long time investment. What 2 games do you infinitely come back to?

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[–] Godort@lemm.ee 65 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Factorio. I don't even need a second pick

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] CptEnder@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah I mean you're not gonna have time to eat or sleep, let alone play an entire other game.

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[–] baggins@lemmy.ca 52 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The store tab and the library tab

[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] Willy@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

factorio and rimworld. I can't believe that combo isn't here yet.

[–] greyw0lv@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Perfect combo.

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[–] PassingThrough@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Ah, but would you keep Workshop access?

If so, Garry's Mod is almost cheating. There's a bit of everything in it.

So that and Warframe. I picked up WF ten years ago and it's still in my top ten recently played games. Though I have a love/hate relationship with the Metagame it turned into, it still remains.

[–] UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Tabletop Simulator might be cheating too

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[–] KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's an android app, why waste a steam game on that when you can get it out of steam?

[–] fjordbasa@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

I get the point you’re making, but I still wanted to point out that RetroArch is multi platform, not just Android.

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[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] robolemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Are you me?

I have 1300 hours in FO4 and almost 8600 in Civ6.

[–] VerseAndVermin@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

So I'm going for longevity. These two definitely wouldn't be my first choices for top games.

Elder Scrolls Online and Minecraft. There is enough story, social, and creativity that I would hope it works out.

Once Baldurs Gate 3 gets solid modding, and assuming modding is allowed, that takes a spot.

[–] whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Minecraft is not on steam unfortunately and I don't know how wise it is to choose a multiplayer only game like ESO since they will eventually shut down the servers

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[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Slay The Spire for replay value and Rocket League for "pvp" itch.

[–] Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I would say noita and beatsaber.

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[–] nick@midwest.social 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Second game: Factorio, with mods enabled.

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Dwarf Fortress and Dota 2

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Terraria and Starbound bc mods

I have a very specific taste

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[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Deep Rock Galactic and Pinball FX3. I'm tempted to put Baldurs Gate 3, but once you've done a number of runs, I feel like you'll be done with it.

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Slay the Spire and Noita

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Satisfactory & Mass Effect

[–] Breezy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mass effect legendary edition is one game with 3 games inside, so does that still count?

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[–] Wolf_359@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

For longevity?

Satisfactory and Elden Ring.

Honestly, something like Call of Duty or fortnite might be nice too. I haven't played in years but the skill ceiling is very high so it could at least keep me occupied for a very long time.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

The Long Dark and Valheim

[–] makmarian@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Skyrim and Half-Life 2

[–] orgrinrt@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Rimworld and M&B Bannerlords

I really wanted to fit Crusader Kings 3 in there, but I think ultimately these two cover all the bases, and have an amazing modding community to keep it fresh and interesting.

[–] toomanypancakes@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Dead Cells and Beat Saber. I don't know that I'll ever tire of dead cells, and beat saber my husband and I love to play together, trading off after three songs like we used with DDR when we were kids

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does it have to be Steam? Or any two games?

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[–] pastaPersona@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Binding of Isaac (flash) Binding of Isaac Rebirth

Literally thousands of hours of entertainment, pretty much

[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Warframe is a good one. After 4000 hours I got burnt out of some of the things it does poorly and haven't played in a year, but overall it's fun with crazy new content on a regular basis for free.

Terraria has far more depth than I ever expected, and way more than that added since I last played. This game can sustain a player for ages.

I would say Satisfactory but I did actually get tired of it for a while. Itching to go back with the 1.0 release though. I love it but the two above have better longevity.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Slay the Spire would be the first slot where a lot of others could fill the second.

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Baldur's Gate 3, and um... Warthunder. Maybe Elite Dangerous instead of Warthunder. But why can't I play the $650 worth of other games that I bought and barely played?

[–] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Dwarf Fortress and No Man's Sky. I wanted to say Satisfactory instead, but felt it might be too close to Dwarf Fortress in nature and that would make it hard to want to play either game if I was burned out from one of them.

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[–] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

Factorio and project zomboid

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

TF2 and TF|2

[–] Steveanonymous@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

No man’s sky and palworld

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Probably age of empires and MCC.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Torchlight2 and totalAnnihilation

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[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Terraria and I can't decide between Skyrim, Fallout New Vegas or BG3.

[–] ggnoredo@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

the talos principle 1 and automobilista 2

[–] Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

Nioh 2 and Satisfactory

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Stardew Valley (maybe not that if I can just use the Android version), Hyperbolica, Portal 2?

[–] otacon239@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Beam.NG would be one just because it covers nearly every driving discipline and the other would probably be Cyberpunk. It’s not even that Cyberpunk is my favorite, but it has so much content in it at this point that it would keep me busy for years.

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