Island: A Game of Survival

Lately:

Balatro

Tetris

Absolute Drift

art of rally

SnowRunner

Minecraft as a reference guide for how to survive on said island.

Animal Crossing so I have someone to talk to.

Elden Ring to remind me how bleak and hopeless everything is.

Solitaire and Minesweeper. In case I get bored.

Minecraft: Java Edition

Universe Sandbox²

Subnautica (never played it, but heard it’s fun so I might like playing it in a desert island surrounded by ocean)

Deltarune (I’d have all the time in the world to wait for the next chapters)

ENA: Dream BBQ (same as above)

Transport Fever 2

OpenTTD

Factorio

Factorio

Factorio

Probably something like this:

• Slay the Spire with mods
• Kerbal Space Program with mods
• Trackmania 2020 with all maps from Trackmania Exchange downloaded
• Path of Exile
• Cities: Skylines or Planet Zoo (with mods)

I’d also like to bring Factorio (with mods of course) but I’m not sure what to replace

Those would be the extremely moddable games with a good all around base set for replayability, so for me:

• Rimworld
• Mount&Blade bannerlord
• Crusader Kings 3
• Civ 6
• Luanti (and if have to choose a single game for it, Mineclonia I suppose)

As long as I can also archive some amount and variety of mods for each, of course.

If mods aren’t on the table, I think it would still look pretty much the same, except maybe civ 5 in place of 6, and in place of luanti perhaps Witcher 3, or 4 if it manages to release before this thing.

Edit: Actually hold that a bit: I need Stellaris there, especially if mods are ok. But even without. I’d skip luanti/witcher for that.

• Rimworld
• HoI4 with Mods
• Vic3 with Mods
• CP2077
• maybe Satisfactory

No Man’s Sky, but without any other players. More or less how I play it anyway 😁

Street Fighter 2: Champion Edition on the MegaDrive

Red Dead Redemption 2

EA FC/FIFA/whatever

Tetris

Age of Empires 2 Transport Tycoon Deluxe Ufo: Enemy unknown (x-com) Might and magic vii Heroes of the might and magic 3

If I could smuggle more it would be: Starcraft, Red Alert 2, Teenagent, Master of Orion 2.

Kerbal Space Program with mods
Cities:Skylines with mods
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
Dota 2 (I would be playing against and programming my own bots for it)
Trackmania with all current maps

Why does it have to be a desert island? I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating… and it gets everywhere.

Do one of those minecraft modpacks with a thousand mods count as a compilation? Because you could take out over 80% of them, and create a bunch of smaller packs for variation.

• crawl stone soup. A classic rogue like.
• elden ring + dlc. Big masterpiece of the genre.
• the binding of Isaac (+ all the dlc). Huge rogue lite. Lots of stuff I haven’t unlocked yet.
• monster hunter (maybe world? I liked rise too though).
• if I could have online, guild wars 2. Otherwise, maybe the original doom. Especially if it comes with a map editor, fan made maps, or Oblige to randomly make maps.

Gotta be one of the Paradox strategy games. I have two reasons for this: the first is that a good game unavoidably takes ages on them, so they have staying power; the other is that I know how to mod them, so I can make myself new scenarios once I get fed up of it. I’ll bring Crusader Kings 3 and Victoria 3 because I like them but haven’t yet played them much

I’ll add in Assetto Corsa and Dirt Rally 2 for some driving. Both have very high skill ceilings that I am nowhere near, so that gives me a lot to do. I also don’t own a wheel, so if I get that as part of the deal then that’d be fun to try. These two also have an odd bonus for me: they both have courses set near my home. I can sort of visit them by playing when I get a bit homesick

Lastly I’ll have Deep Rock Galactic for low effort shooty fun. I can’t always be putting mental energy into games

There are games I like as much or more than these five but which lack the replayability for this scenario. Like I adore Outer Wilds, but you can only really play it once