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Yeah Shotgun king is nice and is also very moddable too
Strictly speaking about single player games, as in no rogue likes and such, Max Payne 2 is probably the game I played most times over the years.
Dyson Sphere Program is dangerously replayable to me. Hundreds and hundreds of hours sunk into it
My most played games outside of actually multiplayer games are arpgs. Diablo(mostly 2 and 3), path of exile, last epoch. Diablo2 and last epoch can be played offline, PoE can't. And yes, they're technically online multiplayer games but most people play them alone so they might as well be single player games to me. After that my most played games are RPGs and rogue likes. Plenty of good suggestions for that already
I put multiple thousand hours into Mount blade warband, Crusader Kings 2, Europa universalis 4, and more.
X4 foundations and relevant DLC. I have multiple saves with over a year worth of playtime
Rally racing games; special stage rally is racing on a closed road and competitors start one at a time, competing for the fastest time at the end. These games are infinitely replayable in that you can always try for a faster time. The arguably best rally game is Richard Burns Rally, which has been kept alive by modding communities like the Rallysimfans.hu plugin, where independent developers continue to create new tracks and cars. Other fun rally games include Dirt Rally, Dirt Rally 2.0, Dakar 18, and BeamNG.drive (which has a massive modding community of its own) Special mention to the Gran Turismo series and Wreckfest, which both include rally among many other types of racing.
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.
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 have enjoyed caves of qud. Feels like every run is brand new.
I’ve played Risk of Rain 2 on and off for years and I’m not bored of it yet
Doom? Does it have any wads you can play on... like myhouse.wad...
I have played the absolute shit out of Doom as well, basically all the official WADs, Master Levels, Sigil, you name it. I have tried myhouse.wad, but i was too big of a dum-dum to reach any of the secrets so I just quit and watched some youtube videos on it.
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Holy shit... idk, at this point, Blood (FPS)...? There's this relatively recent mod of it called Death Wish as well...
I have played Blood too, as well as its Cryptic Passage expansion. Haven't played Duke Nukem or Shadow Warrior though, maybe someday.
Death Wish? Thanks, I'd never heard of it! I will definetly check it out!
I was about to suggest "Balatro" but you don't want infinite dopamine game then play The Binding of Isaac:Rebirth.
Just Cause 3, with the additional DLC. I've been through all of it three full times, slowly plugging through a fourth (when time allows)
I want to throw out Mario Bro 3, Tetris, Dr Mario, and Sonic Mania. Just pick up and go, no long term commitment, always fun solo but you can add a friend anytime. Simple but rewarding game play loop.
So maybe don't take this as a real suggestion because it doesn't make sense to be a game with lots of replayability, but I've replayed the everything shit out of FF8. I don't think it's because of the game. It's because of me. Maybe it might do the same for you?
Turbo Overkill is sort of Duke Nukem/Quake strafe boomer shooter with modern schmovement mechanics like Ultrakill.
Also another vote for Prodeus. It's basically a Brutal Doom clone. It's messy and gory and just a tone of mindless fun.
I'm playing Prey right now and it's also a ton of fun trying to figure out ways to do stuff instead of running in all guns a-blazing. Still trying to figure out how stealth really works mechanically.
My first reaction on seeing the title was to name a games that just have fun core mechanics where replaying the game is basically just doing more of the same fun thing, so ULTRAKILL means I'm on the right track.
Prodeus is a pretty good doom clone. Not as in-depth as ULTRAKILL, but nonetheless has fun weapons and your basic doom (eternal) movement/mechanics. Blasting your way through enemies is as fun on the first level as the last. And the Quake games hold up extremely well, and the mechanics are so simple and powerful that you can really have fun replaying and getting better.
Stealth games are also very fun for this. The Splinter Cell series (especially Chaos Theory) are very fun to try to perfect/improve on. Dishonored and Thief as others have mentioned.
And Midnight Club is the best racing series for this. You'll have to emulate it, but it's worth it. Completely open-world, and learning the city layout over time is very satisfying.
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