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I have a large library of steam games, but yet always come back to Garry mod and ravensfield. I keep coming back for the modded content and every other game is excellent, don't get me wrong. But a lot of big games like RD2 and watchdogs 2 just seem like such a long time investment. What 2 games do you infinitely come back to?

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Factorio. I don't even need a second pick

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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[–] CptEnder 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah I mean you're not gonna have time to eat or sleep, let alone play an entire other game.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The store tab and the library tab

[–] superduperenigma 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

factorio and rimworld. I can't believe that combo isn't here yet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Perfect combo.

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[–] PassingThrough 15 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Ah, but would you keep Workshop access?

If so, Garry's Mod is almost cheating. There's a bit of everything in it.

So that and Warframe. I picked up WF ten years ago and it's still in my top ten recently played games. Though I have a love/hate relationship with the Metagame it turned into, it still remains.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Tabletop Simulator might be cheating too

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That's an android app, why waste a steam game on that when you can get it out of steam?

[–] fjordbasa 10 points 8 months ago

I get the point you’re making, but I still wanted to point out that RetroArch is multi platform, not just Android.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] robolemmy 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Are you me?

I have 1300 hours in FO4 and almost 8600 in Civ6.

[–] Speculater 9 points 8 months ago

Slay The Spire for replay value and Rocket League for "pvp" itch.

[–] Protoknuckles 8 points 8 months ago

Deep Rock Galactic and Pinball FX3. I'm tempted to put Baldurs Gate 3, but once you've done a number of runs, I feel like you'll be done with it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Second game: Factorio, with mods enabled.

[–] VerseAndVermin 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

So I'm going for longevity. These two definitely wouldn't be my first choices for top games.

Elder Scrolls Online and Minecraft. There is enough story, social, and creativity that I would hope it works out.

Once Baldurs Gate 3 gets solid modding, and assuming modding is allowed, that takes a spot.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I would say noita and beatsaber.

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[–] Thcdenton 7 points 8 months ago

Dwarf Fortress and Dota 2

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Satisfactory & Mass Effect

[–] Breezy 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Mass effect legendary edition is one game with 3 games inside, so does that still count?

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[–] kaffiene 7 points 8 months ago

Slay the Spire and Noita

[–] Wolf_359 7 points 8 months ago

For longevity?

Satisfactory and Elden Ring.

Honestly, something like Call of Duty or fortnite might be nice too. I haven't played in years but the skill ceiling is very high so it could at least keep me occupied for a very long time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Skyrim and Half-Life 2

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Terraria and Starbound bc mods

I have a very specific taste

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[–] pastaPersona 6 points 8 months ago

Binding of Isaac (flash) Binding of Isaac Rebirth

Literally thousands of hours of entertainment, pretty much

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

The Long Dark and Valheim

[–] toomanypancakes 6 points 8 months ago

Dead Cells and Beat Saber. I don't know that I'll ever tire of dead cells, and beat saber my husband and I love to play together, trading off after three songs like we used with DDR when we were kids

[–] orgrinrt 6 points 8 months ago

Rimworld and M&B Bannerlords

I really wanted to fit Crusader Kings 3 in there, but I think ultimately these two cover all the bases, and have an amazing modding community to keep it fresh and interesting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Slay the Spire would be the first slot where a lot of others could fill the second.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Factorio and project zomboid

[–] Anticorp 5 points 8 months ago

Baldur's Gate 3, and um... Warthunder. Maybe Elite Dangerous instead of Warthunder. But why can't I play the $650 worth of other games that I bought and barely played?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Funny how there's a solid lack of quadruple "A" games here in the comments.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

What do you mean i love paying $60 for a game and then being asked to buy a $20 dlc and new cosmetics cough cough EA, Ubisoft Microsoft cough excuse me. Indie games will always have a special place in my steam library and its in recently played tab.

[–] Carighan 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Does it have to be Steam? Or any two games?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Warframe is a good one. After 4000 hours I got burnt out of some of the things it does poorly and haven't played in a year, but overall it's fun with crazy new content on a regular basis for free.

Terraria has far more depth than I ever expected, and way more than that added since I last played. This game can sustain a player for ages.

I would say Satisfactory but I did actually get tired of it for a while. Itching to go back with the 1.0 release though. I love it but the two above have better longevity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Dwarf Fortress and No Man's Sky. I wanted to say Satisfactory instead, but felt it might be too close to Dwarf Fortress in nature and that would make it hard to want to play either game if I was burned out from one of them.

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[–] JoeKrogan 4 points 8 months ago

Probably age of empires and MCC.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Torchlight2 and totalAnnihilation

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

TF2 and TF|2

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Terraria and I can't decide between Skyrim, Fallout New Vegas or BG3.

[–] Steveanonymous 4 points 8 months ago

No man’s sky and palworld

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

the talos principle 1 and automobilista 2

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Stardew Valley (maybe not that if I can just use the Android version), Hyperbolica, Portal 2?

[–] registeredusername 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Skyrim and outcast (the old version by appeal studios)

[–] IlIllIIIllIlIlIIlI 3 points 8 months ago

Battletoads and Frog wars.

[–] shadowSprite 3 points 8 months ago

Skyrim and Witcher 3. Shoutouts to Baldurs Gate and Witcher 2, but the latter is far too short for me to want it on my "you can only play this" list, it's quirky but there's something special as hell about it for me. I've played it through about 15 times.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Beam.NG would be one just because it covers nearly every driving discipline and the other would probably be Cyberpunk. It’s not even that Cyberpunk is my favorite, but it has so much content in it at this point that it would keep me busy for years.

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