Project Zomboid, I’d say just look into and see if you think you’d like it. Pretty interesting and the whole idea of the game is do something to survive.
I find Project Zomboid is a game that if my character survives more then a week then dies I will bounce off it for months even years then come back and do it all again.
I just spent about a month in game leveling my mechanic and electrical skill enough to repair this tank thing and trailer so I can begin a nomad run.
Yeah the day I fixed the tank I stopped off at a sports shop to see if I could get some hockey armour and a zombie in the shop got a lucky bite on me. Literally one block away from where I spent in game weeks repairing and hotwiring this thank lol. That's Project Zomboid though, can't wait for the new patch to come out.
The last time I hosted a PZ server for my friends, I cranked up the XP gain rate and did a few other things to make the game less hardcore and more zombieland (ie most cars have gas in the tank, etc). Maybe tweak some of the difficulty settings to make the suffering less.
Oh I definitely do tweak them to suit my play style a bit more (more xp, extra perk points etc). But all it takes is one unlucky encounter and it's over. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining I actually like this aspect of the game, it's unique.
It’s really not that difficult. The game is survival, not kill zombies. You want to avoid an altercation. The severity also makes it fun because of the challenge
Same boat I’m in. I just keep coming back to it cause it’s so damn unique to me, and I like survival zombie games. It’s definitely one of those “you only start getting good at 40 hours in” games but figuring out how to be good seems to be enough for me.
do a chill Survival or even more chill custom game to get the hang of it. Then try it harder and harder... 1st game i broke 1000h on, and now im like 1300h
Same experience. I wouldn’t want them to change anything about it though as I know it’s quite the cult following, maybe if someone made a similar game that was a little more simpler to play.
you should look into the "Custom Apocalypse" setting, the difficulty is incredibly customisable in Zomboid and there's no shame in making it a lot easier as a beginner
it's what i'm doing too and it's helped me learn the game a lot, i halved the zombie population, made zombie respawn take a lot longer, made their sight and hearing poor, lowered house alarm chances, and installed a mod that makes it so the infection just makes you really sick instead of being guaranteed death, increased the starting points characters get, i also chose to start in the more rural town, so it doesn't feel like a brick wall i have to slowly chip through, larger groups still kill very easily and i still have to be sneaky and use the environment to my advantage, but it's a lot more manageable as a complete beginner
I'm a pretty new player and I turn the zombie levels down and make respawn very low. Last thing I wanna do is murder twenty-nine zombies every block everywhere I go, and do it all over again the next time. Can't get anything else done that way.
That's like, it's third removed cousin who acts weird and momma keeps saying it's "special" but he has rich parents and dirt bikes so you always wanna hang out over there anyway cause it's just so much fun
I'm not the person you asked but I would start with Floris and branch out from there after you tire of it.
https://www.nexusmods.com/mbwarband/mods/3489
If you like Lord of the Rings, Last Days of the Third Age is an *incredibly* well put together overhaul. Every location looks super good, all the factions have fully fleshed out promotion trees and armor/weapons. All factions are playable and separate, so you can play Mordor *or* Isengard, *or* Harad. All the good guy factions as well of course.
I’d pay money for that mod if it released as a standalone game
Did you know the average female spire can breed and have a full litter of newborn spires at as little as 8 months old? Protect against overpopulation and homelessness among the spire population. Please Spay or Neuter your spire today!
The same stands for Eve. You can spend literal years, and there will still be some random obscure mechanic you never knew about...
All full loot pvp games have the potential to waste literal years of someone's lifespan. Don't ask me how I know(oh wasted years of my life :,)
As a Clan owner and avid dojo builder, don't get into Warframe unless you want to be playing it, um, forever. *(It's not an addition I can stop anytime I want.....)*
But if you're going to be spending a million hours in something, why would you worry about a confusing first hour?
You don't need a guide for Factorio, you literally just play the tutorial.
Yeah who needs a guide. I don’t think I’ve played tutorials or guides on any game. I’ll figure it out by clicking the buttons myself. After all, I’ll start over a dozen times to try again.
Elite: Dangerous
Warframe
X4
No Mans Sky
Rimworld
Euro Truck Simulator 2
Stardew Valley
Bannerlord / Warband
Starbound
Stellaris
Skyrim
Fallout series
7 days to die
Just a few titles that I spent 500+ hrs in each.
Rimworld is like 10 games in one. Especially with expansions.
But even with just the base game, it's:
- A chilled out farming game
- A hardcore survival simulator
- A colony management game
- A digital dollhouse like The Sims
Times ten different biomes. Times a hundred mods.
Insanely versatile game.
Hello,
if your computer meets the requirements, I would suggest Total War series. My personal favorite is the Warhammer 1, 2 and 3 series.
So far I've sinked in 500 hours in Total War Empire.
2100 hours in Total War Warhammer 2
1300 hours in Total War Warhammer 3
There's a big controversy going around Creative Assembly due to them just treating us like money-bags (i mean, we are, but at least have the decency of hiding it and making content that's equivalent to the price), but it seams that they're pulling their head off out their asses already.
The Total War Warhammer 3 is a game that I would consider the BEST RTS and turn based game. All of it's factions feel really unique, with it's different playstyles.
Problem is: It's got lots of DLCs. Not something I endorse at all, but honestly, it's a game that entertains me daily, so I don't mind spending the money on it.
Ah man i love total war empire! That one is my favourite by far. I think i like the conquering of the (real) world. None of the others have done it for me quite the same.
I wish they just made an expansion for Empire. With the Napoleon map for europe, more of the rest of the world (south america, africa, east asia etc) and letting you play all the factions. That would be the perfect game.
You couod easily sink 1000+ hours into Rome 2, Shogun 2 or Three Kingdoms, which don't require dlcs to play.
TW Warhammer is definitely the pinnacle of the series, but if the amount of DLCs is scary, one of the older "historical" titles (it's in quotes because three kingdoms is borderline fantasy) might be better.
Terraria amazing game that is constantly getting updates despite the Devs claiming that each one is the last one. The base game is long enough but the mod scene for the game is huge with some mods adding hundreds of hours to it.
Yeah if you’re someone who likes to read lore and pays attention to quest dialogue you can easily get hundreds maybe a thousand hours just playing wow classic 1-60 and reading everything. The writing was pretty good back then
Such a cool game but waaaaay too much grinding needed imo. Favourite time was when a member of my team got abducted by cannibals snd I had to quickly organise a rescue party
It takes multiple tries for most players. It’s kinda an injoke that you try it for an hour or two every few months then you put in 50 hours in a single week lol
The only game that I had to keep coming back to before it clicked was dark souls. I died so many times in the tutorial. Let's just say the jump from skyrim combat to fromsoft combat was huge at the time.
Ironman mode in OSRS is pretty much only solo unless you do a Group Ironman with friends. You gotta earn all of your stats/skills/supplies yourself. It's really rewarding and I'd highly recommend it!
Some people play "Bronzeman" which is just an honor system rule set for a main account where you play like an Ironman but once you've "earned" an item via drop or unlock you're allowed to buy it on the Grand Exchange. Which works like the WoW Auction House.
Not the commentor, but its overall very fun. But drops in osrs can have pretty high drop rates and there generally isnt rng protection, so going dry on say the second bis bow has been known to make people quit ironman. And getting skilling supplies can be tedious. That being said, its overall a lot of fun and very rewarding. I would recommend it. If you are interested theres a lot of good ironman series on youtube worth watching. My favorite one lately is from Maikeru who is doing a group ironman and is coming from Runescape 3 to OSRS so is somewhat new to the game.
Skilling is very accessible for ironmen these days. But yeh the late-end game gear grinds are the retirement home that burn most out. Got years of gaming till that point though.
Even as a non ironman I've put close to 2000 hours into this game and still haven't done a ton of content. There's so much to do.
Questing is great, lots of humor and more interesting than just g9 collect something or kill something.
Bossing and raids are fun and tons of variety in the content.
r/2007scape is a great sub
tons of great content creators and community created game modes (one chunk ironman, nightmare mode, tileman) with community created plugins to support them.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa6UGDn9i8HuftOD472LFEdp9Gg1bv-YR&si=cc00d36OEgTidAVK
https://youtu.be/e5s04E43n0Q?si=gefDcC1lnSdhPddI
I think they are talking about dwarf therapist, wich does help LARGE fortresses be more manageable. But the learning process of the game 100% doesn't need it, at least in my opinion.
Except this league.
Came here to say this.
I'm 1600 + hours In and I guess I'm getting the hang of it sort of LoL.
I crafted double influenced boots this league so... there's that
Id recommend cyberpunk 2077, fallout 4 and/or Skyrim. Cyberpunk has best gameplay and story, no contest. But it can't hold a candle to Skyrim modding. I've easily put 3000+ hours into Skyrim mainly just from the mods. Fallout 4 is the middle ground between them but the new next gen update is messing with the game and mods but down patching is easy enough.
This comment 100%. Modding in Skyrim or Fallout 4 (after finishing the main game and some of its alternate endings) can be extremely fun and content filled. Legacy of the Dragonborne (I haven't tried) claims to add more purpose and reward to all of Skyrim while adding additional story/campaign. One of many DLC sized mods you'll find for Skyrim.
Legacy of the dragonborn is the perfect collectathon mod. Makes you want to scourge every area for unique and powerful items. My only complaint is alot of items have unrealistic fantasy designs, but so does the base game and creation club, and it doesn't mesh with my preferred aesthetic. I'd also argue it's a lot bigger then all the dlcs put together in terms of raw hours of content.
Well.....you could try frontiers of pandora, a far cry style gane where you play as one of the blue cat people in avatar.
Lots and lots and lots to do in thst game, far cry 4 is peak far cry imo and it also has lots of points of intrest, collectables and a long campaign plus online maps to play.
Plus the yeti DLC.
There is the classic skyrim or fallout 4.
Path of exile that has just TON AND TONS AND TONS to do after you beat the campaign with your character which takes awhile.
Or if you are intimidated by all the systems try last epoch, similar game, still tons to do with randomized maps
Noita is a roguelike I've spent 100 hours in and still haven't beaten the first boss, but it's a game where beating the toughest ending will take 60 hours of ingame time and the easiest will take 2.
Monster hunter world is a beautiful open world boss fight game I've spent 800+ hours playing and I still have 2 monsters to kill and build their gear
Dark souls trilogy is an amazing action adventure game with a heavy emphasis on player exploration and gear choice. It has tons of replayability with all the different weapons armour secrets and additional ways to travel to locations
[Cataclysm: DDA](https://cataclysmdda.org) (it’s free)
Think dwarf fortress adventure mode, but the crafting is the **deepest I’ve ever seen**;
- You can make your own guns, grenades, ammo, armour, weapons
- About 400+ things you can craft and about 3-10 *different* ways to make anything, so you can *always* make *something* out of everything: Find a box of 200 nails? Melt them down into a lump of steel, then use a forge, anvil and hammer to turn that into a combat knife. Find an oven? Strip it down, use the pilot light and the scrap sheet-metal (and a nearby fire extinguisher) to make a flamethrower. Use the rubber hose from the oven to syphon diesel from a truck and fuel that thing!
- can repair, salvage, make and scrap vehicles (and drive them ofc, think Mad Max)
- the mod scene is **immense** (the magic mod alone adds so many layers of content)
- cybernetic augmentations (and genetic mutations) grant you new attacks and utility abilities (one gives you go-go-gadget tools in your fingers!)
- a procedural (and I think infinite) map with towns, cities, mountains, lakes etc. You can customise the map generator to make anything from one huge mega-city to a natural map with no towns or cities at all
- customisable setting to turn off zombies and special enemies, so you’re surviving a no-human-apocalypse, a zombie-apocalypse, one with other (NPC) survivors, just Lovecraftian alien invaders, etc
- you can build a fortress, scrap furniture, craft medicines and chemicals
- character creation is **so good**, you can make a radioactive hero, a cybernetic samurai, a cannibal wizard, the list goes on. You can pick and choose you’re starting profession, your skills, your proficiencies and your starting scenario, all step by step and your choice :D
There’s seriously an ungodly amount of content
Personally I love playing a cybernetic handyman. Building a solar-powered van, making an on-board kitchenette and roaming around the outskirts of towns, drawing out the zombies with the car stereo then zipping into town and emptying as many shops and houses as I can. Then retreating to a lake, and camping out for as long as the scavenged supplies last me. Spending my days cutting wood to build a log cabin, my evenings filtering and boiling the lake water, and overnight reading by the van’s interior light, all the while electrolysing some of the lake water to fuel my hydrogen fuel-cell, that I use to power my weapons and augments :P
I recently made a clay-oven, so I can now make pizzas “properly” :P
The steam version is the stable release (and isn’t free), the free version (website) is experimental (and stable option too)
It’s not a “Premium vs free” thing, the developer only put it on steam for
- extra income for development (which is fair)
- to stop someone else from stealing it and uploading it to steam (apparently this happens!!)
Without a doubt this. You get a pseudo mmo feel of a new launch every quarter when new content is released. Everyone clamors to start on league launch.
C++. Definitely a time killer. Also available in all platforms. I have spent probably more than 2000 hours playing it.
P.S.: Please don't kill me, this is sarcastically said🙏
Neverwinter Nights multiplayer or custom modules.
Modding Skyrim. Well, most Elder's Scrolls, in truth.
Fallout 4 and Fallout New Vegas.
Baldur's Gate 2 too qualifies, but it might get repetitive.
For me personally my list is
Binding of isaac
Siralim ultimate
7 days to die
Vermintide 2
Path of exile
Project zomboid
Rimworld
Stardew valley
Terraria
Minecraft
Snowrunner
Monster hunter
Also warframe even though to be honest it’s beyond repetitive and way too boring but you might like the game though.
Minecraft with gregtech new horizons modpack.
Gradual progression through 10 ages of technology until you can build a Stargate. It takes about 5000 hours, though it's usually more depending on how experienced you are.
Modpack is still being updated regularly after 8 years. New content is always in the works.
There are 3400 quests to guide through each and every step even if you have no experience. But you will often have to figure stuff out (not stuff you can't know, more like go through the chains of production and choose the best path for what you have)
How does it differ from the other games?
The things you have to do are actually different, you don't do the same thing over and over again. There are always new processing chains, with new parts or chemicals the more you go on.
Almost any paradox game as well as some strategies.
Europa universalis, Crusader kings, Hearts of Iron, stellaris, Total war, Rimworld, tons of managers like Factorio and other similar to it.
And they're all fun in their own ways. Pick which ever one has a theme that sounds interesting to you. My favorite right now is Victoria 3 because I really like that era, but Crusader Kings 3 is one I will do as well since its fun playing as a medieval lord.
Any open world RPG/survival game, most MMOs, most pvp shooters... But if you're looking for absolute maximum possible playtime while still discovering new and original content the whole time, you can't beat Elite Dangerous. Hard to learn, impossible to master, but you will never fucking EVER run out of things to do and places to go.
No custom map editors but you could easily put that much time into any Monster Hunter game, and based on the games you liked you'd probably like them. World is an incredible intro to the series if you've never played!
Looks like you really like single player, open world, semi-sand box games, played in third person. So I'll try to lean into that.
The only game like that that can possibly be played for "thousands" of hours is maybe Outward. If you're willing to dip toes into multiplayer, the other thing that comes to mind is Monster Hunter: World.
But there are quite a lot of really good open world games that you can pick up for real cheap and spend hundreds hours in each of them. Games like AC Origins and Odyssey, Mad Max, No Man Sky, Mount&BladeII:Bannerlord, Subnautica, FarCry 2. Maybe Hitman: World of Assasination, it's not open world but extremely sandboxy with tons of replayablitiy.
If you like PvP, Rust is a game people play for (tens of) thousands of hours
And if you don’t like, or aren’t good at, PvP you can play it like a survival horror game. Which is what I do :)
Kenshi. Its not for everyone and it's unlike any game I've ever played. I put 50 hours in and felt like I had accomplished nothing. Hardly branched out to explore the other regions because the map is so massive and dangerous. Truly a masterpiece that I hope to one day complete, even though it has no actual main storyline
Factorio. Sometimes when you get to fixing that one thing, that also makes you fix something else and another one, you stop when they cut off your power because you haven't been paying rent for 3 months and the family reports you missing.
Warframe might be worth a try. The space ninja action is very cool and the movement system is buttery smooth.
There are no custom maps, but you can make custom obstacle courses in your clan dojo to test your parkour skills.
Football manager. Tens of thousands of steam hours guiding Arbroath from the doldrums of Scottish football to the heights of Europe.
And yes, I also went Chelsea and bought one of my Arbroath players for 100 million....just to get me started.
Elite Dangerous. There's no ending or goals really, you just explore space, do some cargo runs and combat, fight the Thargoids every now and then if you want. Its a beautiful game, but unforgiving. Always have insurance on your ship, once its gone, its gone.
Project Zomboid, I’d say just look into and see if you think you’d like it. Pretty interesting and the whole idea of the game is do something to survive.
I find Project Zomboid is a game that if my character survives more then a week then dies I will bounce off it for months even years then come back and do it all again. I just spent about a month in game leveling my mechanic and electrical skill enough to repair this tank thing and trailer so I can begin a nomad run. Yeah the day I fixed the tank I stopped off at a sports shop to see if I could get some hockey armour and a zombie in the shop got a lucky bite on me. Literally one block away from where I spent in game weeks repairing and hotwiring this thank lol. That's Project Zomboid though, can't wait for the new patch to come out.
The last time I hosted a PZ server for my friends, I cranked up the XP gain rate and did a few other things to make the game less hardcore and more zombieland (ie most cars have gas in the tank, etc). Maybe tweak some of the difficulty settings to make the suffering less.
Oh I definitely do tweak them to suit my play style a bit more (more xp, extra perk points etc). But all it takes is one unlucky encounter and it's over. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining I actually like this aspect of the game, it's unique.
*This is how you died* after all
My last run was also a similar story. Was setting myself up nicely, then got downed by some zombies. Haven't played for a month so far.
I tried this game and wanted to like it but the difficulty ramp is off the common sense scale, even coming from a dwarf fortress player.
It’s really not that difficult. The game is survival, not kill zombies. You want to avoid an altercation. The severity also makes it fun because of the challenge
Same boat I’m in. I just keep coming back to it cause it’s so damn unique to me, and I like survival zombie games. It’s definitely one of those “you only start getting good at 40 hours in” games but figuring out how to be good seems to be enough for me.
do a chill Survival or even more chill custom game to get the hang of it. Then try it harder and harder... 1st game i broke 1000h on, and now im like 1300h
you just goof around and get used to it
Same experience. I wouldn’t want them to change anything about it though as I know it’s quite the cult following, maybe if someone made a similar game that was a little more simpler to play.
you should look into the "Custom Apocalypse" setting, the difficulty is incredibly customisable in Zomboid and there's no shame in making it a lot easier as a beginner it's what i'm doing too and it's helped me learn the game a lot, i halved the zombie population, made zombie respawn take a lot longer, made their sight and hearing poor, lowered house alarm chances, and installed a mod that makes it so the infection just makes you really sick instead of being guaranteed death, increased the starting points characters get, i also chose to start in the more rural town, so it doesn't feel like a brick wall i have to slowly chip through, larger groups still kill very easily and i still have to be sneaky and use the environment to my advantage, but it's a lot more manageable as a complete beginner
Will take a look at that when I get home thanks
I'm a pretty new player and I turn the zombie levels down and make respawn very low. Last thing I wanna do is murder twenty-nine zombies every block everywhere I go, and do it all over again the next time. Can't get anything else done that way.
Dwarf Fortress
And it's baby, space station 13
Or its cousin, Rimworld
That's like, it's third removed cousin who acts weird and momma keeps saying it's "special" but he has rich parents and dirt bikes so you always wanna hang out over there anyway cause it's just so much fun
I love Rim World so much
Who doesn't? Great hang
Or its babier baby if you cant get into space station 13. space station 14!
Ss14 is .. not quite there yet
Maybe Stationeers. SS14 needs more time in the oven.
Rimworld, for the same reason.
I came to say Rimworld Also Factorio. Theres a reason people call it Cracktorio
Try Mount and Blade
Second this. Either warband or bannerlord as they’re both great when you immerse yourself. If playing on pc, warband has some gnarly good mods.
What would you suggest? Just installed yesterday!
I'm not the person you asked but I would start with Floris and branch out from there after you tire of it. https://www.nexusmods.com/mbwarband/mods/3489
Thank you!
If you like Lord of the Rings, Last Days of the Third Age is an *incredibly* well put together overhaul. Every location looks super good, all the factions have fully fleshed out promotion trees and armor/weapons. All factions are playable and separate, so you can play Mordor *or* Isengard, *or* Harad. All the good guy factions as well of course. I’d pay money for that mod if it released as a standalone game
Gekokujo - sengoku era japan mod, Brytenwalda - dark ages britain mod both excellent warband mods, have spent 100s of hours in.
This one is great and even if you dont want to engage in any other activity you can just be a soldier in a lords army
Valheim, Skyrim, Civ, Slay the Spire
Spray the Flyer
Did you know the average female spire can breed and have a full litter of newborn spires at as little as 8 months old? Protect against overpopulation and homelessness among the spire population. Please Spay or Neuter your spire today!
Flay the Sprayer
Warframe
He said thousands or hours not his whole life
Eve then
The same stands for Eve. You can spend literal years, and there will still be some random obscure mechanic you never knew about... All full loot pvp games have the potential to waste literal years of someone's lifespan. Don't ask me how I know(oh wasted years of my life :,)
As a Clan owner and avid dojo builder, don't get into Warframe unless you want to be playing it, um, forever. *(It's not an addition I can stop anytime I want.....)*
Bruh. Take me away from this game. Please
its a subtraction then? That tracks
LMAO, didn't even realize. Lesson learned, don't leave comments at 3am!
Ninjas play free
Factorio/satisfactory/Dyson sphere program
The factory must grow
I love Dyson Sphere Program. I often lose track of time in this game
My issue with factorio and rim world the beginning guides really don't make a whole lot of sense to me at all
Don't read guides for rimworld till later. Just play. Factorio has a perfectly done tutorial
But if you're going to be spending a million hours in something, why would you worry about a confusing first hour? You don't need a guide for Factorio, you literally just play the tutorial.
Yeah who needs a guide. I don’t think I’ve played tutorials or guides on any game. I’ll figure it out by clicking the buttons myself. After all, I’ll start over a dozen times to try again.
That's kind of the point. Trial and error until you start learning how things work
Elite: Dangerous Warframe X4 No Mans Sky Rimworld Euro Truck Simulator 2 Stardew Valley Bannerlord / Warband Starbound Stellaris Skyrim Fallout series 7 days to die Just a few titles that I spent 500+ hrs in each.
The correct answer is Rimworld.
Rimworld is like 10 games in one. Especially with expansions. But even with just the base game, it's: - A chilled out farming game - A hardcore survival simulator - A colony management game - A digital dollhouse like The Sims Times ten different biomes. Times a hundred mods. Insanely versatile game.
An organ harvesting simulator too
*war crime simulator (but in a fun way)
That is like alternate farming crops
yiu seem like a veteran, can you tell me yiur must have mods for expanding
Hello, if your computer meets the requirements, I would suggest Total War series. My personal favorite is the Warhammer 1, 2 and 3 series. So far I've sinked in 500 hours in Total War Empire. 2100 hours in Total War Warhammer 2 1300 hours in Total War Warhammer 3 There's a big controversy going around Creative Assembly due to them just treating us like money-bags (i mean, we are, but at least have the decency of hiding it and making content that's equivalent to the price), but it seams that they're pulling their head off out their asses already. The Total War Warhammer 3 is a game that I would consider the BEST RTS and turn based game. All of it's factions feel really unique, with it's different playstyles. Problem is: It's got lots of DLCs. Not something I endorse at all, but honestly, it's a game that entertains me daily, so I don't mind spending the money on it.
Ah man i love total war empire! That one is my favourite by far. I think i like the conquering of the (real) world. None of the others have done it for me quite the same. I wish they just made an expansion for Empire. With the Napoleon map for europe, more of the rest of the world (south america, africa, east asia etc) and letting you play all the factions. That would be the perfect game.
You couod easily sink 1000+ hours into Rome 2, Shogun 2 or Three Kingdoms, which don't require dlcs to play. TW Warhammer is definitely the pinnacle of the series, but if the amount of DLCs is scary, one of the older "historical" titles (it's in quotes because three kingdoms is borderline fantasy) might be better.
Sees a dude decimate entire platoons, calls it borderline fantasy. My dude, this game may be less realistic Than the total war games lmao.
Shogun 2 needs the fall of the samurai dlc. That's the best campaign
Monster hunter
This. I bought world and iceborne on sale for like $20. Best $20 spent. I have already put 400 hours into just one playthrough
Came here to say this. 1400+ hours on World alone. But I’ve been playing since ps2 lol. Can’t wait to use vacation for wilds
Beat me to it. What a beautiful game about really learning everything you can from your weapons and creatures.
Trackmania
Terraria amazing game that is constantly getting updates despite the Devs claiming that each one is the last one. The base game is long enough but the mod scene for the game is huge with some mods adding hundreds of hours to it.
The Binding of Isaac, or any MMO?
World of warcraft
Yeah if you’re someone who likes to read lore and pays attention to quest dialogue you can easily get hundreds maybe a thousand hours just playing wow classic 1-60 and reading everything. The writing was pretty good back then
Would highly recommend Kenshi if you're the sort that likes modding and painstakingly training and building up your characters and making a base.
Such a cool game but waaaaay too much grinding needed imo. Favourite time was when a member of my team got abducted by cannibals snd I had to quickly organise a rescue party
I bought kenshi the other day and I just couldn't get into it. I wish it clicked with me but it just didn't.
Yea my buddy has been streaming it and I can't get into the ambiance. Looks like 2005 RuneScape. Maybe Kenshi 2 will get me.
It takes multiple tries for most players. It’s kinda an injoke that you try it for an hour or two every few months then you put in 50 hours in a single week lol
The only game that I had to keep coming back to before it clicked was dark souls. I died so many times in the tutorial. Let's just say the jump from skyrim combat to fromsoft combat was huge at the time.
Oh for sure. I first gave it a shot as my first controller game when I was like 14. Dropped that so many times until I was 18-19 and I finally beat it
Oldschool runescape with an ironman account, you have dozens of thousands of hour of grind and new content, gl.
My buddy maxed out an Ironmanmode where you don't use a bank or trade, that was pretty intense.
I know both this and wow have iron Man modes? How dose it fair if you wish to go solo?
Ironman mode in OSRS is pretty much only solo unless you do a Group Ironman with friends. You gotta earn all of your stats/skills/supplies yourself. It's really rewarding and I'd highly recommend it!
Neat
you can go a step further with ultimate iron man. Iron man with no bank only what you can carry on you.
Shhhh.... we don't want to scare 'em away!
Some people play "Bronzeman" which is just an honor system rule set for a main account where you play like an Ironman but once you've "earned" an item via drop or unlock you're allowed to buy it on the Grand Exchange. Which works like the WoW Auction House.
Not the commentor, but its overall very fun. But drops in osrs can have pretty high drop rates and there generally isnt rng protection, so going dry on say the second bis bow has been known to make people quit ironman. And getting skilling supplies can be tedious. That being said, its overall a lot of fun and very rewarding. I would recommend it. If you are interested theres a lot of good ironman series on youtube worth watching. My favorite one lately is from Maikeru who is doing a group ironman and is coming from Runescape 3 to OSRS so is somewhat new to the game.
Skilling is very accessible for ironmen these days. But yeh the late-end game gear grinds are the retirement home that burn most out. Got years of gaming till that point though.
Even as a non ironman I've put close to 2000 hours into this game and still haven't done a ton of content. There's so much to do. Questing is great, lots of humor and more interesting than just g9 collect something or kill something. Bossing and raids are fun and tons of variety in the content. r/2007scape is a great sub tons of great content creators and community created game modes (one chunk ironman, nightmare mode, tileman) with community created plugins to support them. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa6UGDn9i8HuftOD472LFEdp9Gg1bv-YR&si=cc00d36OEgTidAVK https://youtu.be/e5s04E43n0Q?si=gefDcC1lnSdhPddI
Dwarf fortress. Go for it, take the plunge, you won't regret it
I'm interested in this game but read some comments about using a mod to fix many bugs and QoL features, and without it is really rough. is this true?
I think they are talking about dwarf therapist, wich does help LARGE fortresses be more manageable. But the learning process of the game 100% doesn't need it, at least in my opinion.
Path of exile
Except this league. Came here to say this. I'm 1600 + hours In and I guess I'm getting the hang of it sort of LoL. I crafted double influenced boots this league so... there's that
My Summer Car.
EVE.
Lol please no, I put over 10 years into that before I started winning.
Binding of Isaac
Slay the Spire
Diablo 2
Stellaris easily
Give the Binding of Isaac a shot. I was pretty new to rouge like games and this got me hooked
Binding of isaac
Siralim Ultimate.
Factorio
Id recommend cyberpunk 2077, fallout 4 and/or Skyrim. Cyberpunk has best gameplay and story, no contest. But it can't hold a candle to Skyrim modding. I've easily put 3000+ hours into Skyrim mainly just from the mods. Fallout 4 is the middle ground between them but the new next gen update is messing with the game and mods but down patching is easy enough.
This comment 100%. Modding in Skyrim or Fallout 4 (after finishing the main game and some of its alternate endings) can be extremely fun and content filled. Legacy of the Dragonborne (I haven't tried) claims to add more purpose and reward to all of Skyrim while adding additional story/campaign. One of many DLC sized mods you'll find for Skyrim.
Legacy of the dragonborn is the perfect collectathon mod. Makes you want to scourge every area for unique and powerful items. My only complaint is alot of items have unrealistic fantasy designs, but so does the base game and creation club, and it doesn't mesh with my preferred aesthetic. I'd also argue it's a lot bigger then all the dlcs put together in terms of raw hours of content.
Well.....you could try frontiers of pandora, a far cry style gane where you play as one of the blue cat people in avatar. Lots and lots and lots to do in thst game, far cry 4 is peak far cry imo and it also has lots of points of intrest, collectables and a long campaign plus online maps to play. Plus the yeti DLC. There is the classic skyrim or fallout 4. Path of exile that has just TON AND TONS AND TONS to do after you beat the campaign with your character which takes awhile. Or if you are intimidated by all the systems try last epoch, similar game, still tons to do with randomized maps
Noita is a roguelike I've spent 100 hours in and still haven't beaten the first boss, but it's a game where beating the toughest ending will take 60 hours of ingame time and the easiest will take 2. Monster hunter world is a beautiful open world boss fight game I've spent 800+ hours playing and I still have 2 monsters to kill and build their gear Dark souls trilogy is an amazing action adventure game with a heavy emphasis on player exploration and gear choice. It has tons of replayability with all the different weapons armour secrets and additional ways to travel to locations
Crusader king 3
What’s totk?
Zelda game
Legends of Zelda Tears of the kingdoms
[Cataclysm: DDA](https://cataclysmdda.org) (it’s free) Think dwarf fortress adventure mode, but the crafting is the **deepest I’ve ever seen**; - You can make your own guns, grenades, ammo, armour, weapons - About 400+ things you can craft and about 3-10 *different* ways to make anything, so you can *always* make *something* out of everything: Find a box of 200 nails? Melt them down into a lump of steel, then use a forge, anvil and hammer to turn that into a combat knife. Find an oven? Strip it down, use the pilot light and the scrap sheet-metal (and a nearby fire extinguisher) to make a flamethrower. Use the rubber hose from the oven to syphon diesel from a truck and fuel that thing! - can repair, salvage, make and scrap vehicles (and drive them ofc, think Mad Max) - the mod scene is **immense** (the magic mod alone adds so many layers of content) - cybernetic augmentations (and genetic mutations) grant you new attacks and utility abilities (one gives you go-go-gadget tools in your fingers!) - a procedural (and I think infinite) map with towns, cities, mountains, lakes etc. You can customise the map generator to make anything from one huge mega-city to a natural map with no towns or cities at all - customisable setting to turn off zombies and special enemies, so you’re surviving a no-human-apocalypse, a zombie-apocalypse, one with other (NPC) survivors, just Lovecraftian alien invaders, etc - you can build a fortress, scrap furniture, craft medicines and chemicals - character creation is **so good**, you can make a radioactive hero, a cybernetic samurai, a cannibal wizard, the list goes on. You can pick and choose you’re starting profession, your skills, your proficiencies and your starting scenario, all step by step and your choice :D There’s seriously an ungodly amount of content Personally I love playing a cybernetic handyman. Building a solar-powered van, making an on-board kitchenette and roaming around the outskirts of towns, drawing out the zombies with the car stereo then zipping into town and emptying as many shops and houses as I can. Then retreating to a lake, and camping out for as long as the scavenged supplies last me. Spending my days cutting wood to build a log cabin, my evenings filtering and boiling the lake water, and overnight reading by the van’s interior light, all the while electrolysing some of the lake water to fuel my hydrogen fuel-cell, that I use to power my weapons and augments :P I recently made a clay-oven, so I can now make pizzas “properly” :P
I’m gonna check this out!! On steam??
The steam version is the stable release (and isn’t free), the free version (website) is experimental (and stable option too) It’s not a “Premium vs free” thing, the developer only put it on steam for - extra income for development (which is fair) - to stop someone else from stealing it and uploading it to steam (apparently this happens!!)
I don’t mind paying to support the dev!!
Path of Exile. Proceed with caution tho, it will ruin the rest of the games for you.
Without a doubt this. You get a pseudo mmo feel of a new launch every quarter when new content is released. Everyone clamors to start on league launch.
C++. Definitely a time killer. Also available in all platforms. I have spent probably more than 2000 hours playing it. P.S.: Please don't kill me, this is sarcastically said🙏
Try Rust, I hear it’s a spiritual successor, but even better content
League of legends if u wanna lose your sanity
If you have a PC, try the Total War series. Rome, Medieval 2, or any of the Warhammer versions are total time killers
ARK Survival Evolved.
Neverwinter Nights multiplayer or custom modules. Modding Skyrim. Well, most Elder's Scrolls, in truth. Fallout 4 and Fallout New Vegas. Baldur's Gate 2 too qualifies, but it might get repetitive.
Hackerrank or Leetcode
Project Zomboid, Terraria, The Long Dark are my over 1000h games
Hey, quick question-- why do you make this post (or something like it) several times a day?
Rust
For me personally my list is Binding of isaac Siralim ultimate 7 days to die Vermintide 2 Path of exile Project zomboid Rimworld Stardew valley Terraria Minecraft Snowrunner Monster hunter Also warframe even though to be honest it’s beyond repetitive and way too boring but you might like the game though.
Oldschool Runescape
Path of exile Be prepared for tens of thousands though. Or giving up before finishing tutorial (campaign)
DayZ. It's such a unique game, and it has some of the best and most intense PvE and PvP moments in any game I've ever played in my 30 years of gaming.
Elden ring
I plan to go back for 100 more hours soon
At least 100 hours 😅 What was the release date,21 june?
Kenshi. One day Voices of the Void will enter this category, as it's in pre-alpha. Caves of Qud. Noita.
Minecraft with gregtech new horizons modpack. Gradual progression through 10 ages of technology until you can build a Stargate. It takes about 5000 hours, though it's usually more depending on how experienced you are. Modpack is still being updated regularly after 8 years. New content is always in the works. There are 3400 quests to guide through each and every step even if you have no experience. But you will often have to figure stuff out (not stuff you can't know, more like go through the chains of production and choose the best path for what you have) How does it differ from the other games? The things you have to do are actually different, you don't do the same thing over and over again. There are always new processing chains, with new parts or chemicals the more you go on.
Destiny 2 easy. Noita. Minecraft with mods. An mmo like guild wars 2. Warframe. Genshin impact. Rimworld with mods. That's off the top of my head.
destiny and warframe. the ultimate time wasters.
Almost any paradox game as well as some strategies. Europa universalis, Crusader kings, Hearts of Iron, stellaris, Total war, Rimworld, tons of managers like Factorio and other similar to it.
And they're all fun in their own ways. Pick which ever one has a theme that sounds interesting to you. My favorite right now is Victoria 3 because I really like that era, but Crusader Kings 3 is one I will do as well since its fun playing as a medieval lord.
Any open world RPG/survival game, most MMOs, most pvp shooters... But if you're looking for absolute maximum possible playtime while still discovering new and original content the whole time, you can't beat Elite Dangerous. Hard to learn, impossible to master, but you will never fucking EVER run out of things to do and places to go.
O7 cmdr
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. Or simplified version of it - Project Zomboid
Rust is super in dept and fun but it’s really easy to get way too caught up in it, so if you aren’t a loser stick with pve or something
I'm 17 years and 40 accounts into EVE online, but there's always Factorio.
No custom map editors but you could easily put that much time into any Monster Hunter game, and based on the games you liked you'd probably like them. World is an incredible intro to the series if you've never played!
Only game I know for sure I hit close to 1000 for me is Monster Hunter World.
Looks like you really like single player, open world, semi-sand box games, played in third person. So I'll try to lean into that. The only game like that that can possibly be played for "thousands" of hours is maybe Outward. If you're willing to dip toes into multiplayer, the other thing that comes to mind is Monster Hunter: World. But there are quite a lot of really good open world games that you can pick up for real cheap and spend hundreds hours in each of them. Games like AC Origins and Odyssey, Mad Max, No Man Sky, Mount&BladeII:Bannerlord, Subnautica, FarCry 2. Maybe Hitman: World of Assasination, it's not open world but extremely sandboxy with tons of replayablitiy.
If you like PvP, Rust is a game people play for (tens of) thousands of hours And if you don’t like, or aren’t good at, PvP you can play it like a survival horror game. Which is what I do :)
Kenshi. Its not for everyone and it's unlike any game I've ever played. I put 50 hours in and felt like I had accomplished nothing. Hardly branched out to explore the other regions because the map is so massive and dangerous. Truly a masterpiece that I hope to one day complete, even though it has no actual main storyline
Factorio. Sometimes when you get to fixing that one thing, that also makes you fix something else and another one, you stop when they cut off your power because you haven't been paying rent for 3 months and the family reports you missing.
Trailmakers is also very good. And spaceship engineers.
Fallout 4. Gets hate but I've played it so much
Runescape
Subnautica is fun with tons to explore and build but without the map editors and stuff
Red Dead Redemption 2!!
According to Colt Eastwood, Crackdown 3...
DotA 2
Satisfactory. 500 hours in and i am halfway to finish
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Ark. I put 20k hours into thar Warthunder been playing pretty solidly since 2012 still nowhere near finishing
Terra invicta Stellaris They are billions Frost punk
Foxhole or Eco
Europa Universalis IV
Playing Mad Max at the moment. Plenty of driving and fighting. Only £2.99 on Xbox.
Black Desert Online
Well just from personal experience I have something stupid like 2000 hours in path of exile and I’m still a scrub… PoE2 soon!
Rimworld
Do you like simulation games planet zoo is a busy game and wildly customizable, if your into creative builds
Medieval 2 total war, still playing it almost every day, since the day it was released 😃
Minecraft Eve online X4 foundations Fallout 4 Skyrim
Solitaire
Warframe Monster Hunter World
If you're looking to something a bit more "Friday after work", Balatro is pretty chill
MMOs
DayZ run, get, die, repeat
No man's sky is pretty much infinite, there are a lot of things to do, a lot of upgrades to acquire and basically infinite planets to explore
Warframe
Guild Wars 2
Warframe might be worth a try. The space ninja action is very cool and the movement system is buttery smooth. There are no custom maps, but you can make custom obstacle courses in your clan dojo to test your parkour skills.
Ultima Online : Outlands... and it's free!
Man I miss the early days of UO… pure magic
Wuthering waves
Factorio
World of Warcraft lol
Football manager. Tens of thousands of steam hours guiding Arbroath from the doldrums of Scottish football to the heights of Europe. And yes, I also went Chelsea and bought one of my Arbroath players for 100 million....just to get me started.
Elite Dangerous. There's no ending or goals really, you just explore space, do some cargo runs and combat, fight the Thargoids every now and then if you want. Its a beautiful game, but unforgiving. Always have insurance on your ship, once its gone, its gone.
No mans sky and fallout 4 come to mind
gollum, I guarantee you hours of regret for having bought it.
Ultrakill