I recently booted up Half-Life 2 to replay it. I have played the absolute shit out of this game before, so 60% of it just feels like a drag to me now. It was such an amazing game but it’s sort of spoiled for me after I’ve played it too much.
I also discovered ULTRAKILL a few months ago. I feel like I could play that game forever. It has tons of content, weapon combinations and higher difficulties with different enemy behaviour.
Do any of you have more game suggestions like Ultrakill? A really replayable singleplayer game.
!!BTW I don’t mean online multiplayer games or games similar to candy crush!!
Hades.
Should be higher up, the best game designed to be replayed until the end of time.
For rpg games, something like mass effect or Baldurs Gate could be the one
I basically 100%ed Hades over a span of 2 weeks and never touched it again. Great game, but there is little reason to continue playing when you’ve unlocked everything.
If you’re into boomer shooters, you can’t go past the original doom for infinite playability. Literally 30 years worth of user created content and mods.
Dyson Sphere Program is dangerously replayable to me. Hundreds and hundreds of hours sunk into it
Heroes of Might and Magic - the originals. Mostly 3, but any from 1 to 5 can do it.
6 and upwards, it’s just pure Ubisoft enshitification. Can’t even play them properly anymore due to the online component having shutdown its service.
I would personally pick HoMM5 and avoid 4 altogether.
Basically any game that doesn’t in itself follow a story, so you are the story (or make it). For me personally it’s building and factory games, like Factorio, cities skylines (1 or 2), satisfactory, Kerbal Space program (1 only), Rim world.
This list is essentially endless.
FTL. It’s a simple fun cheap game. Steam says I’ve played this for over 3,000 hours!
FTL is so much fun. Finally beating by first run felt amazing.
Hades
Super Metroid. The game really opens up if you spend a bit of time learning alternate routes and sequence breaks. Many of them are kind of easy too. Besides all that, I just feel weirdly cozy in the depths or outside in the rain. It’s also a shortish randomizer if you go outside of the vanilla experience with like 100 places to check.
4x games tend to be functionally infinitely repayable, since a single game often takes an eternity and there are usually many factions to play.
I particularly like sword of the stars 1 & 2. Honestly don’t remember which I preferred but I know I got an insane amount of time sunk into both of them.
Whoah you are probably first person i encounter that enjoyed SotS 2. First one was one of the best 4x in history though.
Currently looking for a new 4x game that will scratch my itch. Been going through tons but they all seem like watered down versions that “simplify” the process. Last game I played was SpaceEmpires (4&5), completely addicting but after over a decade of bugged games I’ve just completely given up on it. Definitely got my playtime out of it though, great game regardless.
I’ve played a lot of RimWorld, and I don’t feel anywhere near done
Rimworld, especially with mods is a game I can always come back to. Such an amazing game.
I don’t know how much is truly infinitely replayable outside of tetris, but for what it’s worth I have 250 hours into dead cells and I still haven’t beaten 5 cells or even reached the final biome. You’ll definitely get replay value out of it, the game is fantastic.
Football Manager 2016 was the first version I tried. I put 1,500+ hours into it and only stopped because I decided to upgrade to Football Manager 2018. I’m on 2024 now at ~400 hours.
This list is GREAT … but if you’d be willing to venture back to the late 90s or early 00s I’ll offer you three more names:
- Fallout 2
- Fallout
- Mafia
All three are open world.
Doom. No the originals. Doom, Doom 2, and Doom Final. I always go back every few years.
Dungeon keeper.
Any of impression games latter worldbuilders (pharaoh, zeus, emperor)
Have you played War for the Overworld? Based on DK but reworked and (imo at least) improved
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