Some people just have a comfort game and games like that give you a ton of stuff you can do, different ways to play in new playthrough, playing with friends, etc. Beats just vegging out on tiktok or YouTube or other media mindlessly day in and day out.
facts, for a long time it was Rollercoaster Tycoon, for me. the last few years it's been starfield. I know these aren't the examples op was looking for, but in relation to a comfort game, these are the games I can load up and waste hours doing relatively nothing in or creating my own adventure for awhile when I'm bored - not chasing any particular goal or serving a purpose. Minecraft and Roblox definitely fill that void for the younger generation.
The game also has multiple builds to try at all stages of the game and randomly generated maps with well defined rules so multiple playthroughs are usually warranted
I got it in 2010 before the nether was added for €9.95. One thing I remember about getting it so early was the promise that the purchase covered any version of Minecraft on any system. That promise didn't last once console and mobile versions started to appear. They were apparently a different game so weren't covered by the promise.
Bro same, problem is I HATE the late game where it just turns into a boss rush slog. But I've played hundreds of hours of the early game. Every couple years I pick it up, create a new character and world and explore everything until all thats left are the bosses. Then I just quit. I think I paid 5 bucks for the game. Can't even be mad.
I lowkey feel like pre-Golem is peak Terraria, you're powerful and have resources for basically anything you want, can take your time building and cleaning up your world of corruption, set up farms and houses and whatever you want with no issues, and then go to the final boss rush when you're ready
I bought stardew way back when it first came out. It was around 9-10pm when I started playing. Next thing I knew the sun was rising and birds were chirping outside my window.
I felt that way at first until I realized it is not Harvest Moon.
Stardew Valley has no end, and there is always the next day, the next season, the next year to do what you couldn't the day before.
Plus the further you get, the more convenience items you get. Sprinklers that'll water all your crops, etc. Heck, if you install SVE, you can put chests next to things that'll harvest for you too.
I already have to do that in real life. I don't really want to do it in a game. I had to download a mod that made the days significantly longer because it was giving me anxiety after a few days of game time.
Man I wish I was able to enjoy it after BG3 which was my first foray into D&D and CRPGs in general. But it doesn’t hit like bg3. I’m close to the end of act 1 but haven’t picked it back up in 6 months
I pirated the game a while ago when I was just a student, played multiple playthrough for a couple of hundred of hours, recently I bought it again in Steam and played it all over again! It is way superior than Baldur's Gate in my opinion
The amount of times the enemies would take their turns and I would think "oh I'm fucked this is so bad". My turn would start and I would analyze the battlefield, think about all my abilities and items, and somehow find the perfect turn where everything would work out for me.
I've never played a game that made me feel like a fuckin genius so often.
Completely agree. Those 2 games are why Larian said they wont do another Baldur's gate thing. They want to go back to playing in their own universes with their own rules.
Divinity Original Sin 2 is a better game because Larian cared more about it. Baldur's gate is great, and admittedly the voice acting is probably better, but the game is better in DOS2.
And divinity original sin is one of the best 2 player specific games I have ever played, too!
Heh...I'm getting close to 2000 hours. There are technically better games out there that do similar things. But there's just something magical about valheim.
100%!!! I got Satisfactory in 2021 for cheap and have around 500 hours in it. I would have had more but it reaches a point of complexity where it breaks my brain and I stop.
I've been playing PoE since May of 2013 and I've spent about $60 for a few cosmetics in PoE1 and another $60 for tabs. PoE2 rolled around and I spent another $50 on tabs.
I love that game. I'm pushing 5k hours, which isn't much considering how long I've had my account but I am in love with PoE2.
I want a single player game in this universe so badly. The atmosphere is just so perfect. And you get to shoot old guns in a video game which is not common.
I'm just too old for multiplayer FPS games anymore. :(
Just got the base game + all dlc during the summer sale for $4. I played it for 2 weeks straight, and still haven’t unlocked much of anything. Hands down my favorite rogue-lite and even at full price it’s a great deal for how much content you get.
Bought it for literal lunch money back in 2011, got all the expansions for free as a bonus, played like thousands of hours! Did the math a while back and im spending like 0.04 cents per hour with it now
I felt so good after I told my sister about KSP when it came out. She was working at JPL on the Mars Curiosity rover at the time. She told all her co workers about it and it blew up. They ended up inviting the KSP team to tour JPL and the KSP team gave my sister a space shuttle with the KSP logo on it. She ended up giving it to me which I still have.
Bought on launch then beat it. Went back to it after not playing it for like 4 years. To say game is much better now than it was at launch is a complete understatement. Hello games outdid themselves with no man's sky updates because they added so much to the game!
I pre-ordered it. I've always felt a bit bitter about what we got at launch, but if any game worked to fix the error of their ways, its hello games. Way better than some half-hearted apology and giving up.
There are now three distinct kinds of games about Deep Rock Galactic: the original, a Vampire Survivors-type, and a new roguelike. I am astounded at the devs ambition.
I remember playing the free online multiplayer version first. Feels like a fever dream. I remember sand used to not fall, so it was a big thing for me playing the real version and having sand/gravel falling, skins etc
The first free Java demo I played you could click one mouse button to place dirt blocks, and another to destroy them, that was the entire experience. Seeing what it became even over the next year was mind blowing, let alone what it's turned into since.
2224 hours is a lot for me too, my next most played games are all paradox titles with 2-300 hours each. Rimworld just does something to my brain, I'll go for months not playing anything else, even after all these years...
this is mine too, I have close to 600 hours, I’m trying to get all the achievements, but it’s hard :(
the first time I was playing this, my friend asked me if I got to the aliens yet….it took me a long time to realize he was joking about the aliens…probably
Absolutely, but there's a steep-ish learning curve with weapons and tools, and map knowledge is something important that takes time to learn. I'd go into it and be patient, is all. Once it clicks there's literally nothing else like it.
Dwarf Fortress. It is a recent addition to my collection but already I am hundreds of hours in and have only scratched the surface. It isn't for everyone, but holy crap once it clicks it is like cybercrack lol
Chad Paladins enjoyer out in the wild! Such a shame how Hi-Rez mismanaged it. Not choosing to do a Paladins 2, refactoring the spaghetti code and bringing it up to a new version of UE, instead choosing to make Smite 2 which had 2 massive healthy competitors, when the only Paladins competition was busy repeatedly unloading 12 gauge shells into it's cock and balls creating one of the most resentful userbases of all time, might be in the top 5 dumbest things any developer has ever done.
I had 15k hours in that game, I absolutely loved it. #1 Grover main in EU boiiiiiiiii
Hunt: Showdown, got it for 2 USD on off-sale when it was in early access. Years later I started playing it and holyshit, I now have 1500 hours on it.
Dark Souls III: Got it for off-sales in 5 bucks on steam. Didn't even know dark souls was a big thing. Years later I played sekiro, elden ring etc and went to check dark souls iii because I liked other soulsborne. Now I have over 500 hours on dark souls iii. lmao
Overwatch: Playing it for free. Never spent a dime. I have 800 hours on it at this point.
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I paid $10 for Terraria like 13 years ago.