Ultima and Wing Commander, I know I’m showing my age but I guess it’s the nostalgia. I still go back and play through them.
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Monster Hunter (I rarely play multiplayer), MGSV and Xcom 2
For basically daily consumption, definitely Paradoy Grand Strategy games for me, EU4, Vic3, CK3, HoI4, one of those almost always manages to work out.
As a game that I can endlessly revisit with short pauses in between, Disco Elysium, never fails to resonate with me.
Rimworld - 2000 hours so far. I’m not done yet. The mod community and periodic dlc keep it alive for me.
I’m over 20,000 hours on Civilization III just on my current PC - that doesn’t even count all the time I spent on it when the game first came out. I’ve tried the later versions, just don’t like 'em as much.
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The Sims 2. I’ve played a fair amount of all four Sims games including their mobile editions, and Sims 2 remains my favorite after a near (yeeesh) 20 years.
The modding community is still relatively robust, especially for a game that’s so old and out of the four, I feel like I can enjoy even the basic gameplay as a storyteller in Sims 2 more than in 3 or 4. In Sims 3, the focus was less on playing multiple families, so it had to be modded right out of the gate to get back to its foundation and I never liked the way the sims looked. Sims 4 “feels” a lot more like Sims 2, which a lot of people hated, but its expansion and content packs are a complete joke. It costs like $2K to have everything, and they’re still releasing packs. I know it’s just the state of gaming these days, but it just sucks the fun out of a lot of the game.
Half the fun these days, though, is just getting the game up and running on modern PCs. I installed a new hard drive a few months ago and it took the better part of a weekend to get the game fully installed and running. I do have Ultimate Collection, but the less time I have to spend in that stupid EA app, the better.
I still play Civilization III. Nothing wrong with 20 year old games.
Minesweeper.
I play that too from time to time.
May I recommend minesweeper.online?
3D Minesweeper. Not sure I really like it, but it’s a concept.
Secret of Monkey Island.
Every so often, I play it again ( thank you, @scummvm@corteximplant.com )
Even though I know every puzzle, it’s still fun 2½ decades after I played it for the first time.
Stardew Valley!
Subnautica and Planet Crafter.
The best “just one more thing!” games I’ve ever found. Huge chunks of time just disappear for me and the people that I’ve had play it. Very rewarding.
Explain Subnautica. I have played a couple hours but I don’t get it. I picked up some fish and some other stuff. I did some crafting but I don’t know where the cool stuff happens. Can you build outside your ship?
The first 4 hours or so can be a bit rough because it doesn’t hold your hand much considering how big the game is and how much there is to do. I suggest focusing on surviving and following your radio messages for a new game, while crafting all your basic tools from the crafter as you follow the messages. Craft and use that scan tool. And by the time the radio messages run out, you’ll find some cool stuff 😁😁😁
And yes, you can build anywhere! The world is your oyster 🦪
Subnautica simultaneously my favourite “I like build base” game and horror game.
I really like the open-ended gameplay loop with a structured narrative. Had way more story than I expected going into it.
Check out Planet Crafter! It’s really cheap right now too. It’s the same but different enough to still be refreshing
I got Slay the Spire recently from the steam summer sale since it’s so cheap. I haven’t been able to put it down. It’s such a time suck, and I normally don’t even like card games. I would 100% recommend it.
I have been playing this game for years. A20 on all characters. Bought it on 3 different platforms. I am still playing it daily, and I’m not sick of it.
I tend to get bored of games fairly quickly. I’ll hop from game to game to game, over and over again, never (rarely) beating a game before moving on to the next. Sometimes I come back to these games I’ve abandoned and start over, only to repeat the cycle. There’s only one game that I keep going back to again and again. The Sims. I do wish there were other competing life sim games that offered a similar amount of content and mod support, but alas, there’s nothing out there quite like it yet.
It’s good to know I’m not alone… I buy a lot of games and have a huge catalogue over a number of systems. It really is the thing I enjoy most as downtime.
However, I can count on one hand how many title screens I have seen over the last 5 years. I get so far, lose interest, move on. Several months later I will feel like playing again, wipe the save and start over rinse and repeat.
Games that keep calling me back however are Skyrim, Fallout 4 and the Bioshock trilogy.
Good ol’ Skyrim. The possibilities to break the game are nigh endless.
You know there is a skyrim mods community here on lemmy? Come break the game with us!
Factorio, Rimworld, Terraria. In no particular order, they’re all perfect at what they do.
Terraria is one I should probably like, given that the other games there are among my favourite games ever. Just never could get more than an hour into it without just getting kind of lost. I get a house for me and the guide guy and then…am not sure what to do exactly.
Is it more action-adventure than I think? I just kind of want to build a town I think.
There’s a boss progression. The idea is that you build up to the gear level to kill the next boss, which unlocks more difficult content and more gear.
But you can also just build if you want, that’s chill too.
Took me a while to get it too. But man is it fun when you do.
Civilization for me… I don’t mind the newer versions but I’m old enough that I’ve played it since Civ I and I do sort of feel like it’s lost something as the graphics have improved and animations were introduced. Still, irrespective of the version, every game is a little different and eats hours like nothing else.
I have many versions of the game but the one I keep playing despite all the years that have passed, it’s Civ 5.
I do sort of feel like it’s lost something as the graphics have improved and animations were introduced
Have you tried Unciv? https://yairm210.itch.io/unciv It’s a free and open source remake of Civ 5 and already supports many of its features. I really enjoy playing it as it’s much less hardware intensive which makes for near instant loading times and keeps the computer nice and cool on hot summer days.
Oh I have not! Thank you, I’ll have a look!
