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.
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
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!
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
I revisit Slay the Spire fairly frequently. Vampire Survivors when I have my Deck and a little bit of downtime.
Here are some of mine:
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
- Romancing SaGa 2 & 3
- Mega Man X 1-4
Peggle
Great, now I need to play some peggle
Peglin is also pretty great
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.
Genre mismatch might be a factor? Don’t Starve is not an action-roguelite like Binding of Isaac; it’s a survival-crafting game. They are aiming to be vastly different experiences.
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.
Civ V, every few months I decide to completely fuck up my sleep schedule playing later than I should
V?
V = 5, fancy roman numbers
Oh I understand that it is 5. But why you are not playing 6?
I actually love Civ IV, myself. I’m sure Leonard Nemoy is a huge part of why.
That reminds me about the music of Leonardo Workshop world’s miracle in Civ 2. I remember very little about Civ 2, but this wonder is with me forever:)
Not OP, but I like both for different reasons. V doesn’t have the districts, which changes gameplay pretty significantly. I also prefer the art style of V. That being said, I like the districts and usually play VI, but go back to V almost as often
Oops, my b, misunderstood. I prefer civ V, and seems like a fair number of people do too. I like the art style, and game mechanics better in V. Admittedly though I could never really get into VI, but it seems like a lot of people prefer it too.
One more turn…
…and it’s morning.
Tetris and Rocket League
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!
We play it HARD a few weekends a year. So amazing to get lost in a new world every now and then.
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
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.
I’m with you, I got a lot of hours in it but still come back every few months for a new map.
But although I’ve done mega bases, deathworld, Bobs and Space Exploration, I don’t want to do them again even though I thoroughly enjoyed them.
My love is the early game and up to launching a rocket. Anyone with me on this?
- Shattered Pixel Dungeon
- Project Zomboid
- Vampire Survivors
- Rimworld
- Metal Gear Solid V (on PC with mods that greatly expand/enhance free roam, and add more side ops)
- Tomba 1 and 2 (Tombi in the EU)
- Chrono Trigger
- Megaman Legends (love the sequel, but haven’t ever completed it, life keeps getting in the way)
- Castlevania Syphony of the Night
- Sonic Adventure (it’s trash, but fun trash, especially with mods)
- Sonic Mania, Sonic 3 and Knuckles
- Minecraft
Some that I haven’t come back to in a while, but I’m overdue:
- Ape Escape
- Crash Bandicoot (1-3)
- Spyro (1-3)
- Digimon World 3
- Any of the GBA or DS Castlevanias
- Actraiser
- Rayman 2
- Megaman Battle Network series(3 and 4 are my favorite entries)
- Dissidia Duodecim
- Zone of the Enders 2
- God Hand
- Wipeout Pulse/Pure
- Pretty much any Kirby game
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.
Can you recommend some Sonic Adventure mods?
MGSV bored me to death. I think I watched 10 minutes of cutscenes, got bored of watching a game, and then never touched it again.
You missed like another 40 minutes of cut scenes before briefly getting to control your bare-assed character before more cut scenes. I also gave up.
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.
I don’t play The Sims for months and months, then come back to it and play really intensely for few days.
Skyrim, Fallout, 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.
Control. DmC.
What do you like about Control? That’s one game I’ve been thinking about revisiting
What’s not to like? Super cool main character with telekinetic and space gun abilities. Explosions like crazy. Regular upgrades. Not too complicated. Lots of exploring. Plenty of storyline, but not too much. Intriguing characters. “Open world”, but with a mostly clear sense of direction.
Probably one of my fave games of all time. Even though I hated Alan Wake.