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Fallout 4 ☢️

Factorio, Rimworld, Terraria. In no particular order, they're all perfect at what they do.

Definitely Civilization in general. There’s a lot of other games I like that are completely different, but year after year I come back to the Civilization series. And even though they peaked at Civ5, it’s still one of the few games I’ll preorder as soon as the next one is available.

I’m gonna add Space Haven to the list. Still early access but I can’t stop. Been playing it on and off for the last year, 200 hours!

Crusader Kings, Europe universalis and imperator Rome. I know this is three games but it's the same general idea, as a history fan, this game scratches a very specific itch for me

There's also bannerlord/warband, amazing experience, sorta like ck3 on a micro level

Kenshi! Getting your ass beat by slavers again and again has never been so fun!

Subnautica and Enscryption :)

• Skyrim. Curse you, Todd!
• Dwarf Fortress (still on the old v0.47)

I've also recently began playing Spacebourne 2. It's janky and unpolished as fuck, but it's proving really interesting thus far. Considering it's done by a single dude, it's a miracle it even works.

Total War Warhammer games. I keep starting new campaigns to play all the races and subfactions.

It's 240 comments and no reference to Touhou?????

I play Taisei Project (FOSS bullet-hell shooter) and 3D Pinball: Space Cadet because it was #1 game in the list on Discover app.

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 it’s 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.

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.

Subnautica, I just keep going back to it it's like my comfort game.

Rogue Legacy 2

If you enjoy platformers and roguelikes, you'll like this.

I play far too much cities skylines

Oxygen not included

Caves of Qud

I know it's not 100% single player, but it's how I play it anyway, D2 and all of its mods.

Risk of rain 2, shit's addictive when you start getting decent at it

Ring of Pain. It's a creepy dungeon crawler roguelite. I don't know why, I've seen everything the game has to offer and somehow I keep coming back to it.

Enter the gungeon. Played it so many hours across different platforms.

Stardew Valley!

Metal Gear Rising Revengeance

I'll still install Duke Nukem 3D every couple of years to replay or to play the custom maps that were so easy to make.

OpenTTD is also great to mindlessly play while listening to podcasts.

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.

Two Point Hospital