Gaming

Minecraft, you can only pretend to have gotten away for so long before the block game calls again.

Factorio. I love the gameplay but none of my friends play it so I normally play other games with them and come back to Factorio every now and then.

Civ V, every few months I decide to completely fuck up my sleep schedule playing later than I should

• Shattered Pixel Dungeon
• Project Zomboid
• Vampire Survivors
• Rimworld
• Metal Gear Solid V (on PC with mods that greatly expand/enhance free roam, and add more side ops)
• Tomba 1 and 2 (Tombi in the EU)
• Chrono Trigger
• Megaman Legends (love the sequel, but haven't ever completed it, life keeps getting in the way)
• Castlevania Syphony of the Night
• Sonic Adventure (it's trash, but fun trash, especially with mods)
• Sonic Mania, Sonic 3 and Knuckles
• Minecraft

Some that I haven't come back to in a while, but I'm overdue:

• Ape Escape
• Crash Bandicoot (1-3)
• Spyro (1-3)
• Digimon World 3
• Any of the GBA or DS Castlevanias
• Actraiser
• Rayman 2
• Megaman Battle Network series(3 and 4 are my favorite entries)
• Dissidia Duodecim
• Zone of the Enders 2
• God Hand
• Wipeout Pulse/Pure
• Pretty much any Kirby game

Most of these games I find just plain fun. Thanks for asking, I was starting to get burned out and not finding stuff as fun, but writing this out has me hankering to revisit some old favorites again.

Skyrim for the mods. Every hardware upgrade I wonder how much more I can push it.

Peggle

STALKER, Stardew Valley, No Man's Sky, Skyrim, Morrowind, WoW Classic/Vanilla, Mass Effect, Fallout 3/New Vegas.

For me,

• half life 1 and 2
• portal 1 but not 2
• psychonauts 1 and 2

They're like chicken soup. So good.

Morrowind, there are some great multi player communities.

Mindustry, sometimes i just listen to the machines.

pretty much any console game on emulators, recently playing ffvii again while i wait for rebirth pc port.

shattered pixel dungeon.

Skyrim. Always end up with conjuration build.

Kenshi and Rimworld, with tons of mods its like adding different spices to the same yummy dish ☺️

Binding of Isaac for sure. Been playing on and off since I was in high school and there is just so much content there and new crazy synergies to find. Across all platforms I have well over a thousand hours. Hoping I can 100% it some day!

Definitely Bioshock Infinite. It was the first Bioshock game I ever played and the story just wow'ed me, it quickly became one of my favs.

Now I just treat the whole game like a huge movie event, playing the game with my friends as we experience the story. It's just something that i would introduce anyone to, even if they din't play that many video games cuz compared to Bioshock 1 the action is a lot faster.

(Btw Bio1 is better in almost everything, love that game as well)

Doom (1993). Though, I use a source port and the Brutal Doom mod. The Binding of Isaac, as well.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, Dwarf Fortress. Highly-replayable, open-world and they keep being developed, so when you come back, there's new stuff.

Skyrim, Fallout 4. Same idea, but the modders have added a lot of content.

Some of the city-builders, like Tropico 5. I play for a while, get tired, uninstall, but tend to come back, because the game is replayable.

Chase the Sun and Nova Drift are action games that I have spent some time away from and then come back and played. Nova Drift has seen regular development.

Pinball sims. I think that one can only play so much pinball, but I find myself thinking "I'd like to play a pinball game" down the line and reinstall.

I think that most of the games have some common characteristics:

• Didn't live-or-die based on their technology or graphics, because they're invariably obsolete by the time I've come back.

• Need to be highly-replayable. I've played games with story, like Fallout: New Vegas but I don't really go back to play them for the story (though I'll concede that specifically Fallout: New Vegas does have multiple paths to explore). They can't be appealing because of a surprising or tense plot or a plot twist.

• Often see continued development or modding, so there's some reason to go back and see what's there (though pinball would be a notable exception...you don't go back for new content).

Fallout 4 and FO:NV

Civ VI

The entire Myst series, Obduction (haven't played Firmament yet)

Ultima VII, Ultima Underworld, Ultima Underworld II

Beneath a Steel Sky, Beyond a Steel Sky

Postal 2. The game mechanics and open-world flexibility have aged amazingly well, it's still very funny, and I love the way the game's level of violence firmly depends on the player's actions.
Plus the Postal Dude's petition to make whiney congressmen play violent video games is needed more than ever.

On Android I miss Spaghetti & Marshmallows, where you had to build towers out of said materials. That was a wonderful game with great physics but sadly only runs on very old phones.

Here are some of mine:

1. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
2. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
3. Romancing SaGa 2 & 3
4. Mega Man X 1-4

Rayman Legends and Borderlands both live rent free in my mind. I don't know how to feel about it.

Horizon Zero dawn comes in a close 3rd place.

Tetris. Always Tetris. Tetris connected is the best iteration so far. The music and visuals are amazing.

Don't starve, hands down

Also Pokémon Rom hacks

Mirror's Edge, Jet set radio future (and now bomb rush cyberfunk)

The 3D Mario's (I haven't gotten around to playing galaxy 2 yet and it's eating me up inside lol)

Skyrim, Minecraft, stardew Valley

Ocarina of time and majoras mask.

Animal crossing (usually whatever latest entry, but I liked new leaf the best so far)

Lumines has become an addiction

Forza Horizon (similar to animal crossing, usually the latest entry, but surprisingly I enjoyed 1 and 4 the most. I was surprised about 4 because I didn't think I really cared too much about the location, but I liked the seasons a lot. It kept everything feeling new)

Kirby and the crystal shards

Star Wars: The Old Republic. I don’t care about all the MMO stuff, but every time I watch or read something star-wars-related, I want to fire it up, get the one month subscription, and go on with some single-player story I need to finish. This happens twice a year more or less.

Every Miyazaki Fromsoft game ever.

I have no idea how I'm not bored yet. They're all just so damn satisfying to play. I went from mostly online FPS to these games after I got Prepare to Die Edition back in the day. Any given time I play a game now, there's an 80% chance it's one of these or something similar to them (like The Surge, Mortal Shell, Lies of P, etc).

I revisit Slay the Spire fairly frequently. Vampire Survivors when I have my Deck and a little bit of downtime.

Nethack DROD

Total war warhammer, always the newest one. I come back, play a campaign and forget about it for a few months.

Slay the spire

Control. DmC.

Every few years I replay Gothic 1 or 2. Are these great games? Yes. Is it also because of nostalgia? Yeah

Also from time to time I reinstall black flag... Mostly for the feeling of sailing

I have an unhealthy cycle of this with Hearts of Iron IV a WW2 grand strategy game. I'll realize the embarrassing number of hours that I've put into the game and then I'll stop playing for a while. But then one of the big mods for it will update and then I dive back in and lose a weekend and then the process repeats.

The other game I consistently come back to is Threads of Fate or Dewprism it's a PS1 action-RPG with dual protagonists where each one has their own campaign or story to play through. I guess it's nostalgia that keeps me coming back to it, but it really wasn't a favorite game growing up and I didn't beat it until years after I'd gotten it. But every few years I'll just remember it out of the blue and get the urge to play through it again.