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 :)
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
In no particular order:
- Rim World
- Terraria
- Oxygen not Included
- Factorio
- Vintage Story
- Dark Souls + DLC
- Metroid Prime
- Super Metroid
- Persona 3 Portable
- SMTV:V
Edit: Might swap DS for Sekiro
- Minecraft
- Factorial
- Terraria
- Balatro
- Stardew valley
I’m just going for maximum time sink.
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 LegacyCan I mod them? Because if so
- minecraft
- skyrim
- terraria
- dark souls 2
- hollowknight (so i can finally get those speedrun achievements)
Half-Life 3 through 7.
- Stellaris
- Baldur’s Gate 2
- Starcraft
- X4: Foundations
- Papers Please
DayZ, Minecraft, Cities: Skylines, Age of Empires 2 Definite Edition, Grand Theft Auto 5
- Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection
- Slay the Spire
- Tetris Effect, Connected
- OpenXCom
- Olli Olli
Transport Fever 2
OpenTTD
Factorio
Factorio
Factorio
Sekiro
Lies of P
Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate
Slay the Spire
Balatro
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.
- Stardew Valley
- Skyrim
- ADOM
- Burnout Paradise
- Vegas Solitaire (or I think a decent Solitaire collection is a fair exception to that one rule because you can get many games out of a pack of cards)
Stardew Valley, Skyrim and ADOM for games that you can keep going back to over years and playing in different ways and still discovering new things. Vegas Solitaire for more of a mindless time passer when you don’t want something immersive and involved. Burnout Paradise for something in between complex and mindless and something different once in a while.
Edit: I hope I eventually get rescued though because there’s a LOT of shorter titles that I’d miss.
