You can only pick 2 games from steam to play for the rest of your life, what games are they?
I have a large library of steam games, but yet always come back to Garry mod and ravensfield. I keep coming back for the modded content and every other game is excellent, don't get me wrong. But a lot of big games like RD2 and watchdogs 2 just seem like such a long time investment.
What 2 games do you infinitely come back to?
I need a change of scenery once in a while. I've been on a slow Dwarf Fortress - Factorio - Minecraft loop for about the last 15 years. Currently playing Minecraft, specifically the Enigmatica 6 Expert modpack which I started nearly 2 years ago.
If so, Garry's Mod is almost cheating. There's a bit of everything in it.
So that and Warframe. I picked up WF ten years ago and it's still in my top ten recently played games. Though I have a love/hate relationship with the Metagame it turned into, it still remains.
Farmframe is pretty solid pick. Ever growing amount of content to play and collect, plus the gameplay is fun. For me it's kind of missing a reason to farm all the stuff though, but I've also stuck with it on and off about 9 years now
To be honest, I stopped being a “qualified player” a few years ago. Nowadays I load up a nice long Survival round, usually against Infested to chew on, with whatever Frame I’ve forgotten how to play, to enjoy the loop without stress. So I’m not in it to farm all the stuff either. Or, I’ll play the story quest if a new one is out, since they are pretty well scaled for solo play and/or give you what you need.
Other than that I just can’t compete. I tripped some time ago and didn’t keep up with the latest meta builds, so now I struggle to have the things “required” to effectively participate in public sessions or the latest missions. And don’t even get me started on Rivens, Shards, Liches or whatever.
If I join a Zariman round I’ll probably die. Not as much now that I have Titania, but I’m also not clearing rooms in a single volley like everyone else.
I’m a filthy casual and I still find a way to have fun, so there’s something there worth keeping.
The same could be said about any game with any non-Steam availability. I don't think that was OP's intent. That being said, emulators surely were not the intent either.
Minecraft is not on steam unfortunately and I don't know how wise it is to choose a multiplayer only game like ESO since they will eventually shut down the servers
I figure I would get bored of ESO in 15 or so years when it closes. I suspect any game will lose me at a point. For the time it's online, it would offer a lot.
I'll sub Minecraft out for No Man's Sky. Valheim was close to taking the spot but it just doesn't ring as fun when friends aren't around. I would pace myself big time.
Honestly, something like Call of Duty or fortnite might be nice too. I haven't played in years but the skill ceiling is very high so it could at least keep me occupied for a very long time.
Dead Cells and Beat Saber. I don't know that I'll ever tire of dead cells, and beat saber my husband and I love to play together, trading off after three songs like we used with DDR when we were kids
I really wanted to fit Crusader Kings 3 in there, but I think ultimately these two cover all the bases, and have an amazing modding community to keep it fresh and interesting.
Baldur's Gate 3, and um... Warthunder. Maybe Elite Dangerous instead of Warthunder. But why can't I play the $650 worth of other games that I bought and barely played?
Warframe is a good one. After 4000 hours I got burnt out of some of the things it does poorly and haven't played in a year, but overall it's fun with crazy new content on a regular basis for free.
Terraria has far more depth than I ever expected, and way more than that added since I last played. This game can sustain a player for ages.
I would say Satisfactory but I did actually get tired of it for a while. Itching to go back with the 1.0 release though. I love it but the two above have better longevity.
What do you mean i love paying $60 for a game and then being asked to buy a $20 dlc and new cosmetics
coughcough EA, Ubisoft Microsoft cough excuse me.
Indie games will always have a special place in my steam library and its in recently played tab.
Dwarf Fortress and No Man's Sky. I wanted to say Satisfactory instead, but felt it might be too close to Dwarf Fortress in nature and that would make it hard to want to play either game if I was burned out from one of them.
I came to say Dwarf Fortress. I could gush about it for a long time. It's a very special game. This was the only game that came to mind for this question. Especially knowing that the brothers are only about half way done with all of the features they want to add to the game. And I'm not exaggerating here. They're on version 50 and the consider version 100 to be feature complete.
Skyrim and Witcher 3. Shoutouts to Baldurs Gate and Witcher 2, but the latter is far too short for me to want it on my "you can only play this" list, it's quirky but there's something special as hell about it for me. I've played it through about 15 times.
DayZ and minesweeper. DayZ has probably the best replayability over any other game I've played. On top of that it's also the game that gives me adrenaline rush like no other game has. DayZ is highly underrated and I highly recommend it in 2024 as it just keeps on giving.
Beam.NG would be one just because it covers nearly every driving discipline and the other would probably be Cyberpunk. It’s not even that Cyberpunk is my favorite, but it has so much content in it at this point that it would keep me busy for years.
Some hard choices. I generally like my RTS and FPS games. I play a wide range of games from story driven like the BG series, to yearly play throughs of 93's Doom, to mil sims like arma.
I have a hard time to stick to one game for a long time, so whatever I pick would need to be moddable to bring some variety. I'm imagining maybe a stalker game where there's a wealth of mods, but the world isn't that large. Arma 3 might be nice, you got decent multi-player bots for when the world has moved on, it's very moddable and relatively easy to set up new scenarios for yourself.
I do like my sim racing as well, so asetto corsa would definitely be the main contender there.
If I'd have to pick some games off the top of my head they'd be AoE 2, HL 2, Doom 2, asetto corsa, Ms flight sim (but the servers will die at some point), Arma.
So I'm picturing myself in 40 years time, I've finished building my new rocking chair with the skills I've got from all this free time, I sit down in front of the same computer I have now. I'd say I'm launching up doom to do another play through of Sunlust. Hm or maybe I'll do a bit more work on my at that point 10 year old OpenTTD save. Just something simple that will stand the test (and already has) of time, a game I can fire up and feel just as home in now, as I did last year, and the year before that.
If we get access too all future updates, Dwarf Fortress is my clear #1 choice.
If we also assume that the game will forever have an active enough userbase that lack of players won't be a detriment: Infinity Wars as my #2.
If we assume no updates, no mods and no guarantee of users: Tales of Maj'Eyal and probably some 4x or grand strategy game, it's a tossup between Civ, Gal Civ, and Endless Legend, maybe even one of the Total Wars.
If I am honest and base it on my actual play patterns it has to be The Binding of Isaac and Slay the Spire. Or maybe Ascension (digital version of the physical deckbuilder) especially if there is ever more content for it.
Just woke up. I thought this was a picture of valheim with a deathsquito on the background. Which is interesting because I was probably going to have to pick Valheim and Sims 4. If I can only playb2 games forever I need sometimes that doesn't necessarily have a main quest then it's done and both of those fit that.
I've been playing Dota since it was a Warcraft 3 map...
And Baldur's Gate 3, I don't know if I've ever done a second playthrough of any RPG I've ever owned before. Most of them I usually get bored and quit before the end because it's like... I get it... But Boulder Gate 3 I've beaten three times so far currently working on a fourth run which is an honor run. And I've been making a list of mods that I want to try to make.
It was close for me between ONI and Darkest Dungeon, but I've basically "solved" DD to the point where I need 120 (I counted) constantly rotating mods to even have anything to challenge me.... I'm not sure I'd ever "finish" ONI! I feel like i've barely scratched the surface, and i've put in hundreds of hours. (I love them both, though.)
That it's cute and has so many little random thoughtful details like how the hatch eggs are as big as the hatches (ouch) definitely helps too.
Honestly, I'd be pretty sad with zero city-builders. And Rain World is non-negotiable, hahah.