If you were going to be stranded on a desert island, and for some reason you could bring 5 video games with their required hardware and means to power them, what would they be? No compilations or online multiplayer if you want to be a purist about it, but I’m still interested if you have thoughts about them :)
For me, it would have to be:
- Factorio
- Rimworld
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Tetris DS
- Disco Elysium
Minecraft: Java Edition
Stardew Valley
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Geometry Dash
Hogwarts LegacyDayZ, Minecraft, Cities: Skylines, Age of Empires 2 Definite Edition, Grand Theft Auto 5
- Stellaris
- Baldur’s Gate 2
- Starcraft
- X4: Foundations
- Papers Please
Sekiro
Lies of P
Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate
Slay the Spire
Balatro
In no particular order:
- Rim World
- Terraria
- Oxygen not Included
- Factorio
- Vintage Story
Games with the highest replay value for me:
- Civilization 4
- Heroes of Might and Magic III
- Sid Meyer’s Alpha Centauri
- TES3: Morrowind
- SimCity 2000
- Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection
- Slay the Spire
- Tetris Effect, Connected
- OpenXCom
- Olli Olli
- Minecraft
- Factorial
- Terraria
- Balatro
- Stardew valley
I’m just going for maximum time sink.
Why does it have to be a desert island? I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating… and it gets everywhere.
Can I mod them? Because if so
- minecraft
- skyrim
- terraria
- dark souls 2
- hollowknight (so i can finally get those speedrun achievements)
Transport Fever 2
OpenTTD
Factorio
Factorio
Factorio
- Dark Souls + DLC
- Metroid Prime
- Super Metroid
- Persona 3 Portable
- SMTV:V
Edit: Might swap DS for Sekiro
Half-Life 3 through 7.
Those would be the extremely moddable games with a good all around base set for replayability, so for me:
- Rimworld
- Mount&Blade bannerlord
- Crusader Kings 3
- Civ 6
- Luanti (and if have to choose a single game for it, Mineclonia I suppose)
As long as I can also archive some amount and variety of mods for each, of course.
If mods aren’t on the table, I think it would still look pretty much the same, except maybe civ 5 in place of 6, and in place of luanti perhaps Witcher 3, or 4 if it manages to release before this thing.
Edit: Actually hold that a bit: I need Stellaris there, especially if mods are ok. But even without. I’d skip luanti/witcher for that.