Do you have a game you play over and over, when nothing else fits your mood? That game that is infinitely re-playable, somewhat the same every time and somewhat new and interesting?

For me it’s the games in the Orcs Must Die series. But mostly OMD 3. I play the mode called Scramble, where you have to beat 5 rounds of orcs, and they get harder and harder as you progress. There are random things to make it harder (nerfs) and you can choose 1 thing per round to make it easier (buffs). I’ve probably played that something like 300 times now since I beat the main game + DLCs a long while ago. I go into a special mental state while playing, since I know it all so well, and just zone out for about an hour each time.

Patient gamers, what’s your “I will keep playing this game for the rest of my life” fallback?

  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
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    14 days ago

    When I’m too tired or depressed to dive deep into something it’s always something really simple like Ring of Pain, Vampire Survivors, or other slow paced stuff.

  • knocks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I have no idea why, but Wurm Online always manages to draw me back. Guess it’s a Zen and the Art of Imping addiction.

    • Sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works
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      13 days ago

      How does Dear Esther work for you as a go to title? I played it years ago and was under the impression that the game was beaten in a few hours with no replay value whatsoever.

      What did I miss?

      • BertramDitore@lemm.eeEnglish
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        15 days ago

        You’re in for a treat! The Legendary edition was a great release, and the perfect excuse for me to replay the whole trilogy a couple years back for like, the fourth time. So good.

        • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
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          14 days ago

          I tried the first game long long after they were all out for a while and it felt really rough and clunky. Did the legendary edition make things any smoother in the first game?

          • BertramDitore@lemm.eeEnglish
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            14 days ago

            Yeah, they smoothed things out, improved the graphics, and squashed a lot of bugs. I think Legendary is probably the best way to play them, especially the first, which had the most fixed.

            Here’s a breakdown of the differences and improvements.

  • ISOmorph@feddit.org
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    15 days ago

    For years that game was Warframe for me. Just turn of my brain and run missions I know inside and out while watching twitch from the corner of eye on a second monitor. At some point I wanted to have more time to play other games so I stopped and didn’t find a new cozy game

    • Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      14 days ago

      Me too. Stopped a couple years ago after I hit 2,000 hours of play time. This year I’ve played a lot of Helldivers 2 and Monster Hunter, which I have a combined total of nearly 1,800 hours again.

  • cRazi_man@lemm.ee
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    15 days ago

    Rogue-lites are basically made to be infinitely re-playable and if I find one I like then I keep going back to it. Enter the Gungeon is a game I’ve played for years. Then there was a while this spot was taken by Slay the Spire and Balatro in turn. Now I’m back to Enter the Gungeon.

      • cRazi_man@lemm.ee
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        15 days ago

        A warning before you jump in: it’s crazy difficult. It took me about 70 hours of gameplay to be able to finish a play through…but after that it became pretty repeatable once I had learnt how to do it. This is pretty standard, but the failed runs are all fun and the gameplay is excellent and hilarious.

        The enemies are bullets that are holding guns and shooting bullets at you. You can unlock a gun that looks like a bullet, that shoots bullets that look like guns, that shoot their own bullets. Everything in the game is a pun.

  • Thassodar@lemm.eeEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I’m late but: Fights In Tight Spaces. I thoroughly enjoy their daily challenges, and save my replays when I have a spectacular run with no damage.

  • missingno@fedia.io
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    14 days ago

    These days I mostly just grind the same handful of games. Actually having a hard time pulling myself away long enough to get through the JRPGs on my backlog…

    • Skullgirls
    • Them’s Fightin’ Herds
    • Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes]
    • Riichi Mahjong (Mahjong Soul, Riichi City, IRL)
    • Slay the Spire
    • Puyo Puyo Champions
    • Panel de Pon