The kind of game you daydream about while at school or work because you can’t wait to come home and play some more.
Ignoring digital releases of card games, which I’ve loved since I was a kid, it has to be Valheim. I would spend hours and hours making structures like castles and villages, with their own defense mechanisms against monster invasions. It’s a wonderful indie game, very pretty for only taking 1GB in storage.
Modded Factorio and elden ring.
There is no help. The factory is the only thing there is. I am not even on 1500 hours yet but sometimes i just need a mental break from the game and that period varies… Greatly. I always come back and longing so much for the expansion.
My poor brain can only take so much abuse from more advanced mods. When i look at what i have to build next and I see that it will be days of building without reaping the reward, my brain says “not today”.
But yes, the factory is always growing if not in the computer, it is in my brain.
Probably WoW tbh. I don’t play anymore and don’t recommend it, but WoW with friends/guildies at its peak is unparalleled. You can’t wait to log on and reconnect with everyone.
satisfactory on my 8th full playthrough and the game is not even 1.0 yet
I got so hooked on Factorio for years that after trying Satisfactory for a few hours I had to stop since I had things to do in the next year and a half. One day I hope I’ll have time to give it a real shot.
yeah that is a good idea I have almost 1000 hours in satisfactory and have a real problem of telling myself I will go to bed after I finish this production line then I blink and it’s 4am.
Like a Dragon : Infinite Wealth
I got back on the Warframe wagon with the Whispers in the Walls update. After a long break, I’m impressed how much better it is, and it’s hooks are firmly back in my brain. The new location and the throat chanting type soundtrack from the semi-hidden boss regularly flash into my brain at awkward times.
Finally played Half-Life 2 recently. Best shooter I have ever played.
I gotta go with Cyberpunk : i waited until very recently to start playing (didn’t have a beefy enough computer before) and man am I hooked. The universe feels complete, and the characters feel real to me : truly a fantastic game
I also had it at launch and had very, very few bugs. The ones I did were very easy to work around. I think my favorite part is the amount of philosophy some of the side quests had!
I wanted Anno 1800 to be this but man, the income fluctuations are fuckin uncontrollable
I usually play on easier difficulty. The fun in the game for me is trying to optimise everything, and not having to worry about money running out at all times makes that a lot easier.
Doom Eternal
when the doom music kicks in
Currently obsessed with BG3 and getting back into Hyper Light Drifter. It just feels too satisfying to go sicko mode on a room full of assholes and then grumpily stick my sword in the ground.
+1 for HLD also excited for Hyper Light Breaker!
I have a lot of trust in Heart Machine, at the same time I wasn’t that into Solar Ash. HLD has such a tightness of vision and execution in terms of aesthetic, world building, and gameplay. How that translates to a procedurally generated open world BotW-like is beyond me, but I’ll probably give it a go.
Runescape/Old school runescape
Been playing since 2009. Sure I’ve taken breaks, sometimes multiple years, but I always return.
The old saying is true, “You never quit runescape, you just take breaks”
The Binding of Isaac
