Minecraft, you can only pretend to have gotten away for so long before the block game calls again.
One thing I've gotten into doing is instead of starting a new game I just run off in some random direction for an hour. It's neat to stumble across things you built years ago
I definitely get what you mean
They have bees now!
Factorio. I love the gameplay but none of my friends play it so I normally play other games with them and come back to Factorio every now and then.
Civ V, every few months I decide to completely fuck up my sleep schedule playing later than I should
One more turn…
…and it’s morning.
Some that I haven't come back to in a while, but I'm overdue:
Most of these games I find just plain fun. Thanks for asking, I was starting to get burned out and not finding stuff as fun, but writing this out has me hankering to revisit some old favorites again.
Skyrim for the mods. Every hardware upgrade I wonder how much more I can push it.
Peggle
Great, now I need to play some peggle
Peglin is also pretty great
For me,
They're like chicken soup. So good.
Just curious as why not Portal 2? That’s honestly one of my “chicken soup” comfort food games - Portal 1 is great but to me, Portal 2 is so much more.
Portal 2 is definitely the one I pick up regularly, but specifically for the Perpetual Testing Initiative. I've already played the main story enough times, but dropping in for a few really well-made user-created levels with a little bit of new Cave Johnson dialogue is great!
I think it's the length, is all. Tough to commit to all that again now. It is great, for sure. We reference it in quotes all the time around my house.
Morrowind, there are some great multi player communities.
Mindustry, sometimes i just listen to the machines.
pretty much any console game on emulators, recently playing ffvii again while i wait for rebirth pc port.
shattered pixel dungeon.
Do you mind talking a bit more about the Morrowind multiplayer? I'd be interested to hear how it works and your experience
I had no idea morrowind had multiplayer mods. That sounds cool!
Skyrim. Always end up with conjuration build.
Binding of Isaac for sure. Been playing on and off since I was in high school and there is just so much content there and new crazy synergies to find. Across all platforms I have well over a thousand hours. Hoping I can 100% it some day!
Kenshi and Rimworld, with tons of mods its like adding different spices to the same yummy dish ☺️
STALKER, Stardew Valley, No Man's Sky, Skyrim, Morrowind, WoW Classic/Vanilla, Mass Effect, Fallout 3/New Vegas.
Doom (1993). Though, I use a source port and the Brutal Doom mod. The Binding of Isaac, as well.
Definitely Bioshock Infinite. It was the first Bioshock game I ever played and the story just wow'ed me, it quickly became one of my favs.
Now I just treat the whole game like a huge movie event, playing the game with my friends as we experience the story. It's just something that i would introduce anyone to, even if they din't play that many video games cuz compared to Bioshock 1 the action is a lot faster.
(Btw Bio1 is better in almost everything, love that game as well)
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, Dwarf Fortress. Highly-replayable, open-world and they keep being developed, so when you come back, there's new stuff.
Skyrim, Fallout 4. Same idea, but the modders have added a lot of content.
Some of the city-builders, like Tropico 5. I play for a while, get tired, uninstall, but tend to come back, because the game is replayable.
Chase the Sun and Nova Drift are action games that I have spent some time away from and then come back and played. Nova Drift has seen regular development.
Pinball sims. I think that one can only play so much pinball, but I find myself thinking "I'd like to play a pinball game" down the line and reinstall.
I think that most of the games have some common characteristics:
Didn't live-or-die based on their technology or graphics, because they're invariably obsolete by the time I've come back.
Need to be highly-replayable. I've played games with story, like Fallout: New Vegas but I don't really go back to play them for the story (though I'll concede that specifically Fallout: New Vegas does have multiple paths to explore). They can't be appealing because of a surprising or tense plot or a plot twist.
Often see continued development or modding, so there's some reason to go back and see what's there (though pinball would be a notable exception...you don't go back for new content).
Fallout 4 and FO:NV
Civ VI
The entire Myst series, Obduction (haven't played Firmament yet)
Ultima VII, Ultima Underworld, Ultima Underworld II
Beneath a Steel Sky, Beyond a Steel Sky
Under a steel sky
Is there a third game in the series I'm not aware of or did you mean Beneath a steel sky?
I did mean that. Fixed
Ooh, Under a Steel Sky. I've been in the mood to play one of those old ScummVM games. How is that one?
Great story. It’s on GOG. Beyond a Steel Sky is the sequel, released a few years ago. Kinda sad, but really great, too. Made by the creators of the original from the 90s, and has an in-game commentary track!
Postal 2. The game mechanics and open-world flexibility have aged amazingly well, it's still very funny, and I love the way the game's level of violence firmly depends on the player's actions.
Plus the Postal Dude's petition to make whiney congressmen play violent video games is needed more than ever.
On Android I miss Spaghetti & Marshmallows, where you had to build towers out of said materials. That was a wonderful game with great physics but sadly only runs on very old phones.
Here are some of mine:
Tetris. Always Tetris. Tetris connected is the best iteration so far. The music and visuals are amazing.
Star Wars: The Old Republic. I don’t care about all the MMO stuff, but every time I watch or read something star-wars-related, I want to fire it up, get the one month subscription, and go on with some single-player story I need to finish. This happens twice a year more or less.
Rayman Legends and Borderlands both live rent free in my mind. I don't know how to feel about it.
Horizon Zero dawn comes in a close 3rd place.
Every Miyazaki Fromsoft game ever.
I have no idea how I'm not bored yet. They're all just so damn satisfying to play. I went from mostly online FPS to these games after I got Prepare to Die Edition back in the day. Any given time I play a game now, there's an 80% chance it's one of these or something similar to them (like The Surge, Mortal Shell, Lies of P, etc).
Don't starve, hands down
Also Pokémon Rom hacks
Don't Starve ticks pretty much all the boxes for a game that I should like...but I just don't.
I like a number of action roguelikes, like The Binding of Isaac.
I like the open-world nature.
But the game just doesn't do it for me. I dunno. I guess that a lot of the gameplay is clicking on things to gather them, which I am not that blown away by. I don't feel like I change things up much based on what the world throws at me, which I think is an important aspect for a roguelite/roguelike to have. Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead does a better job of this, The Binding of Isaac a much better. I think that the low-sanity graphical artifacts might build mood, but are obnoxious.
The aesthetic just doesn't really do it for me.
Mirror's Edge, Jet set radio future (and now bomb rush cyberfunk)
The 3D Mario's (I haven't gotten around to playing galaxy 2 yet and it's eating me up inside lol)
Skyrim, Minecraft, stardew Valley
Ocarina of time and majoras mask.
Animal crossing (usually whatever latest entry, but I liked new leaf the best so far)
Lumines has become an addiction
Forza Horizon (similar to animal crossing, usually the latest entry, but surprisingly I enjoyed 1 and 4 the most. I was surprised about 4 because I didn't think I really cared too much about the location, but I liked the seasons a lot. It kept everything feeling new)
Kirby and the crystal shards
You're the first person I've seen say Mario, which I find surprising.
For me, it's Super Mario World, including romhacks. It's platforming perfection. I particularly like the SMW Central level competition compilation romhacks since you can skip the levels you don't enjoy.
Spyro is another one I come back to, especially now with the remastered version.
Diablo 2, with mods now, is another. "Stay awhile, and listen." I sure will, old man.
For a long time, it was Counter Strike and Team Fortress, but I don't really play FPS games any more so it's been almost a decade for me at this point.
Total war warhammer, always the newest one. I come back, play a campaign and forget about it for a few months.
Slay the spire
Nethack DROD
Every few years I replay Gothic 1 or 2. Are these great games? Yes. Is it also because of nostalgia? Yeah
Also from time to time I reinstall black flag... Mostly for the feeling of sailing
I revisit Slay the Spire fairly frequently. Vampire Survivors when I have my Deck and a little bit of downtime.
I have over 4,000 hours across all the trackmania games. So that, I guess. Most is 2,000 in United followed by a couple hundred in all the rest. 1,000 in trackmania 2020
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