Rogue-lites are basically made to be infinitely re-playable and if I find one I like then I keep going back to it. Enter the Gungeon is a game I've played for years. Then there was a while this spot was taken by Slay the Spire and Balatro in turn. Now I'm back to Enter the Gungeon.
Enter the Gungeon
I had to look it up but that looks cool! Thanks for the idea.
A warning before you jump in: it's crazy difficult. It took me about 70 hours of gameplay to be able to finish a play through...but after that it became pretty repeatable once I had learnt how to do it. This is pretty standard, but the failed runs are all fun and the gameplay is excellent and hilarious. I can give some generic starter tips if you want, things I wished I knew before having to learn the hard way (equally learning the hard way is the way rogue-lites are intended to work, so up to you).
The enemies are bullets that are holding guns and shooting bullets at you. You can unlock a gun that looks like a bullet, that shoots bullets that look like guns, that shoot their own bullets. Everything in the game is a pun.
Fucking love Enter the Gungeon. My favorite rougelike/roguelite
I'm late but: Fights In Tight Spaces. I thoroughly enjoy their daily challenges, and save my replays when I have a spectacular run with no damage.
StarCraft. The original. My brain and body is hardwired to play that game. "SCV ready" triggers something. I have a fantasy of retiring in an old folks home and me and a few of my fellow geriatrics fire that shit up and play LAN games until the DNR kicks in.
"SCV good to go, sir."
"Oh, it's you"
The atmosphere in that game is very unique and extremely well done. No shade to SC2, it just didn't require capture the feel, the music, the dread the way SC1 does
Europa Universalis IV. There are tons of countries to play, lots of variation each time, and so many options for self challenges (e.g. accomplish goal by year).
The only thing that would get me to stop playing is if EUV is good, and then only a few years and DLC in. Even then, I could see myself coming back to it.
The Long Dark. Something about wandering an icy wasteland scavenging, hunting, fishing, works for me.
Rimworld
I just keep coming back.
These days I mostly just grind the same handful of games. Actually having a hard time pulling myself away long enough to get through the JRPGs on my backlog...
Ys Seven for the PSP. I have Ys VII and Ys: MoC for the Vita and Ys IX for the Switch, but there's something about Seven that keeps me coming back.
Burnout 3
Burnout Legends for me!
I was going to say, mine is Burnout Revenge. I think last I looked though only Burnout Paradise was available on Steam for me.
Skate 3
I'll just load it up, find a new spot and make some clips.
Oh me too. I can just roll around for a long while, not even doing anything in particular.
Skate 3, the relaxation tool.
For years that game was Warframe for me. Just turn of my brain and run missions I know inside and out while watching twitch from the corner of eye on a second monitor. At some point I wanted to have more time to play other games so I stopped and didn't find a new cozy game
I've been chipping away at that deep rock galactic reverse bullet hell game for a while now. Don't have the patience to play anything for more than half an hour these days.
For me that's rocket league.
Space Engineers. I can just build and build and build, and the community seems to always have a few new interesting mods whenever I'm looking to start a new world.
Thoughts on the sequel they announced?
I am beyond excited! Keen has been tooling up the engine and adding the most popular mods' features, like real water physics, higher max object speed, but most importantly, they're making the grid system unified, so you can build large and small grid size pieces together seamlessly.
Civilization 6
Phigros
It's a mobile rhythm game without ads and in-app purchases. It's also completely offline so I don't need an internet connection to play.
My main ones are: Minecraft, age of empires 2, postal 2.
There's good free multiplayer games (e.g. delat force, marvel rivals, deadlock)
Unless you mean single-player
Caves of Qud
I love hunting for achievements and there’s always one unfinished game that’s a fallback to push a bit further in these cases where I stare at my Steam library for five minutes without starting anything, right now it‘s „if in doubt, play Metal Gear Solid V“
Runs 60 FPS all high on the Deck as well, which is crazy to me
Mount and Blade Warband. Or maybe EU4.
Project Zomboid, or one of the Arkham games.
Mass Effect. Always new choices waiting for you
Oh! I just started the Legendary edition this week for the first time.
You’re in for a treat! The Legendary edition was a great release, and the perfect excuse for me to replay the whole trilogy a couple years back for like, the fourth time. So good.
we could always use more valiant Helldivers to protect our way of life. for freedom and democracy.
Is it right to say that is always multiplayer?
Always online. You can start a mission and not call for reinforcements. Sometimes people like to play solo or with just one friend.
I could see myself enjoying Helldivers if it wasn't for the trolls I get matched with.
When in doubt, true doubt, Doom is always there for me, in every device I own.
A gaming community free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.
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