Submitted 7 months ago by CorrodedCranium@leminal.space to gaming@beehaw.org
I was going to say replaying but I feel like that limits the question to games like Prey or Fallout New Vegas that have endings and games like The Sims 2 or Cities Skylines where you can play indefinitely end up excluded.
I’m not really referring to games like League of Legends where you’re coming back every month. More so games where you stop playing for an extended period of time.
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
Green hell and the long dark
What about green hell brings you back? It’s one of those games that has been on my wishlist for a while now
I don’t play The Sims for months and months, then come back to it and play really intensely for a week or so.
Skyrim, Stardew Valley, and the Animal Crossing Games are my perennial favorites!
Time will tell on this one, but I think Baldur’s Gate 3 will be one I come back to again and again.
I have an unhealthy cycle of this with Hearts of Iron IV a WW2 grand strategy game. I'll realize the embarrassing number of hours that I've put into the game and then I'll stop playing for a while. But then one of the big mods for it will update and then I dive back in and lose a weekend and then the process repeats.
The other game I consistently come back to is Threads of Fate or Dewprism it's a PS1 action-RPG with dual protagonists where each one has their own campaign or story to play through. I guess it's nostalgia that keeps me coming back to it, but it really wasn't a favorite game growing up and I didn't beat it until years after I'd gotten it. But every few years I'll just remember it out of the blue and get the urge to play through it again.
Paper Mario for the N64 and Super Mario World for the SNES. I think it’s because I found them both at the perfect point in my childhood where they were the first games in their genres I managed to beat.
I had a blast finding every single exit and bonus stage in SMW, and Paper Mario was the first RPG that didn’t make my eyes glaze over (including Super Mario RPG). Plus the characters and aesthetics are still so charming, the whole game gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.
Satisfactory, I’m hoping to get employee of the planet cup before 1.0 comes out.
Angband. I don’t stick with it long, but I always come back, even though I’ve never killed Morgoth or the Balrog in Moria before that. Still, I enjoy it for a while and then move on again.
Kerbal space program 1
Dwarf Fortress
Deep Rock Galactic
Age of Empires II
Dark Souls
Space Engineers
Star Citizen, I like to poke my head in every few patches to see how things have progressed. I gotta say, despite what a lot of the naysayers claim, it has become quite a fun game and their development has only sped up since I first started playing. Still, a couple months hiatus every once and a while is worth it.
Fallout 4, I get that this is one of the more controversial choices but while the main storyline was super weak the world design was phenomenal. I love just wandering through the Boston area wastelands uncovering random things and fighting ghouls and bandits.
Neverwinter Nights (the first one) and Heroes of Might and Magic (3 and 4). They’re just so comfortable for me to play so I just start them up when I’m to stressed out to play anything new.
Skate 3 EarthBound Skyrim Oblivion Quake 1/2/3 Mario 64 Super Mario World Battlefield 1943 (RIP 😞) Fallout 76 DayZ
These are just a few. I cycle through games a lot.
Skate 3 is a fantastic choice.
It’s top tier fun. I come back to it routinely and make a bunch of ridiculous skate videos. Never gets old.
Dungeons of the Endless Castlevania Neverwinter Nights (Which I’ve been playing or DMing on for 23 years)
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DotE is a tower defense roguelike with pixel graphics and a team of heroes you manage. It also has one of the best soundtracks I’ve ever heard.
Castlevania needs no description. It’s just one of the best games ever made.
Neverwinter Nights has stood the test of time for me because it has persistent game worlds, built by other players (basically mini, homemade MMO’s), that you can log in and play. I also use its DM client to run online adventures for other players myself.
W40K: Gladius
Civ (latest version)
Distant World: Universe (latest version). In all years I played many DW:U (I and II) games. Finished exactly one.
Puh, yes! Gladius! Thats a pretty rare Pick These days. May I ask why Gladius? What makes it so Special?
The best 4X combat. Huge variety of units and sides (need DLCs though). Unique game in that it just focuses on combat, no diplomacy (it sux in all games anyway) no spies (also sux in other games), and simple but reasonably good (and different for different races) economy. It focuses at one thing - combat, drives it to perfection and the rest of the game design narrow focused to support that.
Cyberpunk 2077
Vampire Survivors
Hades
Dead Cells
Slime Rancher/SR2
Gunfire Reborn
Tetris and Rocket League
I keep coming back to hunter call of the wild,
Its just such a nice looking game with no real skill curve once you know not to go running through the bush hoping to see a dear, it takes patience.
On a hot day, put the ac on a nice cup of coffee and go walking through the bushlands looking at points of interest and maybe shoot me a dear all without sweating like a pig like i do where i live.
That game is the reason im moving south, im so tired of trying tondo anything and dying from the heat.
Dragon Age: Origins
I started playing through Skyrim again last year, but didn’t get very far before I lost interest.
I jump back in to left4dead every year or two. The original is probably my favorite shooter. I haven’t found Back4Blood as compelling.
Quake 3
MeltdownMuffin@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I don’t game very much, all the more so as I got older, but now and then I always return to the older fire emblem games and sometimes casual games like Diner Dash.