What are your favorite single player games to go back to often?
- Minecraft
- Furi
- Mario 64
- Super Mario World
- GTA SA and Vice City
It’s kinda rare for me to go back to a single player game and replay it, but there are some games that are nostalgic in the same way place or smell can be nostalgic.
I know them so well that I can’t help but want to go back and visit and I never really get disappointment by the experience. Sure, I don’t get as immersed as the first time, but I definitely still enjoy the games.
- Factorio (the factory must grow…)
- Soul Reaver & Legacy of Kain series
- Lufia 2 (SNES)
- Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)
- Final Fantasy VI
- Diablo 2
Stardew valley. I stopped playing it earlier this year but picked it back up this week. I forgot I made a new game that went with joja instead of the community center and I feel disgusting playing it but I need to see how it shakes out lol
I love me some Stardew. Have you tried out Dave the Diver? It’s got a similar quirky feel to it.
It looks so good!! Definitely gonna grab it on the next sale. Man these indie dev pixel budget games are so much better than the AAA ones.
Starbound. They’ve had a couple of big story changes over it’s development and it’s not as big as terraria. But I enjoy the soundtrack and having a spaceship and just enjoying space travel (at the expense of stealing fuel from a ghost).
I haven’t played in a while, but I know I’ll go back and give it a try again.
- Halo 2, I know most cutscene quotes by memory
- X3: Terran Conlict, huge time waster, janky, infuriating and I love it
Chromehounds(not really, I lost the CD and my X360 is dead (Armored Core ain’t got shit on Chromehounds, fight me))- Crysis 2, better looking graphics than all the AAA games *I* have seen in the past 3 years
- Terraria, it’s Terraria
- Starbound, it’s Terraria but in space
- Valheim, it’s Terraria but you’re a 3D lowres viking (it’s low resolution textures exhalt my love for normal mapping)
Hades
I recently picked it up for my switch and I’m really excited to try it out. I’ve heard a lot of great things about it
It’s a great game to kill time, each play through is random so doesn’t feel repetitive. Great soundtracks. I’m playing this on my laptop through a ps5 controller honestly this game is best to be played on a switch or steamdeck type device. Anyway happy gaming.
I’m pretty hyped for the sequel.
Highly recommend; it’s on my list. It’s a low-barrier roguelike to get into. Overall, the genre has some friction points, but this game is really smart about it. There is a story! It is advanced every time you die. You slowly get more stats each time also. However, If the game determines you are dying ‘a lot’, it will allow you to decrease the difficulty so you won’t abandon the game. The fun is in combining Greek god powers; you can ‘git gud’ if you want a challenge, but it’s not necessary to ‘have fun.’
Into The Breaxh, Sekiro, Psychonaut 1&2.
They are so satisfying and not too long. Factorio is a bit too demanding.
Rimworld. It’s not a game for me at this point, it’s a drug that I have to take from time to time, and it takes all of your free time like a good drug would.
There are others with that effect for me, like modded Minecraft, or Factorio, or Satisfactory, or Hitman, or Skyrim, but nothing is that severe.Minecraft (modded and unmodded)
Creeper world games
Mindustry
XCOM 2012 is my favourite turn based stratedy game, I really like the Long War mod. Saving earth from an alien invasion is such a cool fantasy.
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey because I love Greek history and mythology, so being able to explore that part of the world is really appealing to me.
Warhammer 40k Dawn of War. It’s just the best 40k game. I wish Relic would remaster it.
Sunless Sea. It’s one of my favourite visual novels, and it has RPG elements. The writing is hilarious, and weird. It’s like halfway between Charles Dickens and HP Lovecraft. Pilot a ship around a vast underground sea, fighting monsters and talking to Victorian wierdos.
Spelunky. I’ve been playing it for 10 years now, and completed it hundreds of times. I’d recommend it a lot.
STALKER Call of Pripyat. It’s an alternative history first-person shooter set in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl power plant. It’s semi open world, and unlike any other game I’ve played for its story and atmosphere.
Factoring, satisfactory
Heck anything with a dedicated server support. I throw up my own server, connect and play SP. So long as the game is fun, I’ll play it
Oblivion, Skyrim and The Witcher 3 are my favorites
I got myself skyrim for a birthday when it first came out, and I love going back to it. It has a lot of flaws, but it also has a lot of character.
Thank you, I think I’m going to start a playthrough soon because of this comment
I loved The Witcher 3 and I know it has tons of replayability… But heck, I don’t see myself finishing it again any time soon, it took me a bit part of my life to finish it once lol.
I like to go back to crpg’s like the Pathfinder or Pillars of Eternity games.
I love trying out different story paths and finding the little things I’ve missed on previous play-throughs.Slay the Spire. It’s so challenging that it’s always engaging when I play it.
Didn’t even consider this one because I never left it. Having it on mobile means I’m playing it in way too many situations I shouldn’t be.
I’ve read the whole thread and nobody has said Spintires/Mudrunner/Snowrunner … it’s basically the same game, it just keeps evolving and it’s impossible to really complete because by the time you do there’s more levels released.
For me, driving big trucks through mud is repeatedly appealing.
I’m kinda the same way with American Truck Simulator. Its a great background game so I play it once every two weeks at least
Mmm, whereas to me the on-road truck simulators feel like drudgery, lol
GTA IV, I don’t even like it that much, yet keep going back to it.
Some things are just appealing bc of how familiar they are. I enjoy the Polar Express movie, but it’s not my favorite, yet I’ve watched it more than any other movie lol
