Factorio. I don't even need a second pick
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Yeah I mean you're not gonna have time to eat or sleep, let alone play an entire other game.
factorio and rimworld. I can't believe that combo isn't here yet.
Perfect combo.
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.
Tabletop Simulator might be cheating too
RetroArch ;)
That's an android app, why waste a steam game on that when you can get it out of steam?
I get the point you’re making, but I still wanted to point out that RetroArch is multi platform, not just Android.
Fallout 4 and Civ VI
Easy
Are you me?
I have 1300 hours in FO4 and almost 8600 in Civ6.
Slay The Spire for replay value and Rocket League for "pvp" itch.
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.
Factorio.
Second game: Factorio, with mods enabled.
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.
Dwarf Fortress and Dota 2
Satisfactory & Mass Effect
Mass effect legendary edition is one game with 3 games inside, so does that still count?
Slay the Spire and Noita
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.
Skyrim and Half-Life 2
Binding of Isaac (flash) Binding of Isaac Rebirth
Literally thousands of hours of entertainment, pretty much
The Long Dark and Valheim
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
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.
Slay the Spire would be the first slot where a lot of others could fill the second.
Factorio and project zomboid
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?
Funny how there's a solid lack of quadruple "A" games here in the comments.
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.
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.
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.
Probably age of empires and MCC.
TF2 and TF|2
Terraria and I can't decide between Skyrim, Fallout New Vegas or BG3.
No man’s sky and palworld
the talos principle 1 and automobilista 2
Stardew Valley (maybe not that if I can just use the Android version), Hyperbolica, Portal 2?
Skyrim and outcast (the old version by appeal studios)
Battletoads and Frog wars.
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.
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.