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Ashtear@lemm.ee to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game

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    Would be interested to know what games you have >500 hours in. Especially if they aren’t multi-player online games.

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      • Oxygen Not Included

      • Caves of Qud

      • Fallout 4. A lot of this is going to be due to mods.

      • Wargame: Red Dragon. Intended to be played multiplayer; I played it single-player. Steel Division II is a far better single-player choice if you don’t mind the different setting, as the AI is much more interesting.

      • Skyrim. A lot of this is going to be due to mods.

      • Rimworld

      • Civilization V

      • Fallout 76, the only entry here I actually play multiplayer (and even that to a minimal degree; that game tends to have players having pretty minimal interaction with each other unless they’re actually trying to play with each other). I would recommend playing Fallout 4 over Fallout 76 unless you specifically want multiplayer; Fallout 76 is just the closest thing to “more Fallout” short of a Fallout 5.

      Not run through Steam, so no Steam stats (though available on Steam) but I’m sure that they’re way up there:

      • Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. Free and open-source, though there’s a commercial build on Steam if you want to effectively donate. If not, can download from their project page.

      • Dwarf Fortress. Free, though there’s a commercial build on Steam with a fancier, more-approachable UI and such.

      • Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup, though that’s going back a few years. Free and open-source.

      Some others with a fair bit of playtime:

      • Steel Division II. Primarily a multiplayer game, but I only play single-player.

      • X3: Reunion

      • Mount & Blade: Warband. The Prophesy of Pendor mod adds a fair bit of time to this.

      • Elite: Dangerous. Though I don’t remember how I accumulated that many hours. Wasn’t super-impressed with the game. Probably pretty in VR, though.

      • Stellaris

      • Noita

      • Kenshi

      • Nova Drift

      • Starfield

      • The Sims 3

      • Starbound

      • Rule the Waves 3

      • Wasteland II

      • Fallout: New Vegas

      • Carrier Command 2. Primarily intended to be played multiplayer, but I play single-player.

      • Kerbal Space Program

      • Total War: Warhammer II

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