Patient Gamers

Burnout 3

The Long Dark. Something about wandering an icy wasteland scavenging, hunting, fishing, works for me.

StarCraft. The original. My brain and body is hardwired to play that game. "SCV ready" triggers something. I have a fantasy of retiring in an old folks home and me and a few of my fellow geriatrics fire that shit up and play LAN games until the DNR kicks in.

Rimworld

I just keep coming back.

Dark Souls. If there's nothing else I want to play, I'm always up for another run through Lordran with a build I've never tried before.

FIFA, a lot of the time. Lately it's been Rocket League.

Europa Universalis IV. There are tons of countries to play, lots of variation each time, and so many options for self challenges (e.g. accomplish goal by year).

The only thing that would get me to stop playing is if EUV is good, and then only a few years and DLC in. Even then, I could see myself coming back to it.

I have no idea why, but Wurm Online always manages to draw me back. Guess it's a Zen and the Art of Imping addiction.

For years that game was Warframe for me. Just turn of my brain and run missions I know inside and out while watching twitch from the corner of eye on a second monitor. At some point I wanted to have more time to play other games so I stopped and didn't find a new cozy game

I’ll load up Spider-man a couple times a month just to go on patrol, and stop random crimes.

Been doing this since Spider-man 2 came out on the original Xbox. Glad the new one came out, and I don’t have to chase that kid’s damn balloon anymore.

Skate 3

I'll just load it up, find a new spot and make some clips.

Deep Rock Galactic is good even in singleplayer.

When I'm too tired or depressed to dive deep into something it's always something really simple like Ring of Pain, Vampire Survivors, or other slow paced stuff.

For me that's rocket league.

Guild Wars 2 and Dear Esther

My main ones are: Minecraft, age of empires 2, postal 2.

I'm late but: Fights In Tight Spaces. I thoroughly enjoy their daily challenges, and save my replays when I have a spectacular run with no damage.

I love hunting for achievements and there’s always one unfinished game that’s a fallback to push a bit further in these cases where I stare at my Steam library for five minutes without starting anything, right now it‘s „if in doubt, play Metal Gear Solid V“

Runs 60 FPS all high on the Deck as well, which is crazy to me

Caves of Qud

Space Engineers. I can just build and build and build, and the community seems to always have a few new interesting mods whenever I'm looking to start a new world.

Mount and Blade Warband. Or maybe EU4.

Phigros

It's a mobile rhythm game without ads and in-app purchases. It's also completely offline so I don't need an internet connection to play.

These days I mostly just grind the same handful of games. Actually having a hard time pulling myself away long enough to get through the JRPGs on my backlog...

• Skullgirls
• Them's Fightin' Herds
• Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes]
• Riichi Mahjong (Mahjong Soul, Riichi City, IRL)
• Slay the Spire
• Puyo Puyo Champions
• Panel de Pon

Civilization 6

Mass Effect. Always new choices waiting for you

Project Zomboid, or one of the Arkham games.