I recently booted up Half-Life 2 to replay it. I have played the absolute shit out of this game before, so 60% of it just feels like a drag to me now. It was such an amazing game but it’s sort of spoiled for me after I’ve played it too much.
I also discovered ULTRAKILL a few months ago. I feel like I could play that game forever. It has tons of content, weapon combinations and higher difficulties with different enemy behaviour.
Do any of you have more game suggestions like Ultrakill? A really replayable singleplayer game.
!!BTW I don’t mean online multiplayer games or games similar to candy crush!!
RimWorld. shit can go crazy with the mods a available or just vanilla.
I dunno, I only have 3417 hours played in Rimworld, I’m not sure that qualifies as infinitely replayable. /s
Don’t give up! You’re close to finishing the tutorial!
Rimworld would be my top suggestion, as others have noted.
I picked up Old World (excellent native Linux support BTW) during this summer sale and have not been able to put it down. If you’re a fan of Civilization style strategy games I’d highly recommend checking it out. I haven’t really enjoyed a Civ game since Civ 4, and Old World feels very similar but fresher and with less jank. it’s got a Crusader Kings style dynasty system with randomized events that adds a layer of role playing your leader and securing their dynasty through heirs you can train/influence.
As for the repeatability, Old World has tons. Each culture plays significantly differently, and each leader has different bonuses that encourage an interesting style of play. Games don’t play the same because of the mentioned event system, but also because learning new technologies is “randomized” as well. New techs are researched based off a selection of 4 drawn tech cards once you finish a previous technology. The card system makes it so you can’t just rush straight to archers and dominate the early game to snowball into a power house every game, but its not truly random so you can “game” the system in your favor to get the techs you want with the tools the game gives you through either unique leader powers, or specific governor roles for example.
The game is super deep while not being off puttingly complex.
What you are describing is essentially the roguelike/lite genre, lol. Search up some of that, see if anything looks fun.
I think factorio is one, even when you launch your rocket (I have more than 100 hours and I don’t think…) you still can restart in a new generated world and try do to it again in a better way.
dude, after you launch the rocket is where the real game begins. You either go for a megabase or you start a overhaul mod. Restarting vanilla from scratch doesn’t really make much sense.
Risk of Rain 2 and Robo Quest are probably up your ally because you like Ultra kill
But if you want to diversify genre, here are some that I would recommend
- Card Games - Slay the Spire (Its like a card game and rogue like combined)
- Rogue Like - Hades is currently one of the top tiers in rogue like dungeon crawler
- RPG - Baldurs Gate 3, even if you end up finishing the game, how you ended up finishing it is what makes it so replayable. Each character has their own stories for you to uncover. Larian’s other gem is Divinity Original Sin 2 too
- Sandbox Games - Minecraft of Terraria
- Arcade - Most arcade games are highly replayable because thats their whole selling point. Currently I am back to playing Temptest 4000
- Hack n Slash - Grimdawn, nuff said
If you don’t mind top down colony managers, rimworld is an absolute gem. The base game itself is infinitely replayable because every game is basically a story. Think dwarf fortress with graphics (well, df has graphics now but). Also incredibly easy to mod to customize or completely change your game experience.
Risk of rain and risk of rain 2
Dead Cells! Made by a worker cooperative 🥳
Dead cells studio is a co-op? Wasnt aware, thats cool
My son and I had a blast with this one. We took turns doing runs through all biomes and found tons of blueprints and secrets. So fun!
The binding of Isaac.
I’ve been playing it on and of since the flash game released 13 years ago.
Minecraft, especially with mods.
Roguelites in general. My favorite is FTL. Also has good mods.
FTL!! It’s hard as shit lol
Ftl is awesome I really like it. Eventually I got the multiverse mod which is really well done and adds more events and aliens and things
Hades.
Should be higher up, the best game designed to be replayed until the end of time.
For rpg games, something like mass effect or Baldurs Gate could be the one
I basically 100%ed Hades over a span of 2 weeks and never touched it again. Great game, but there is little reason to continue playing when you’ve unlocked everything.
Nice, I’ve done over 100 runs and haven’t completed the story yet
For me, Noita. I don’t recommend it unconditionally, but for me that game will forever be the only permanent game in my library. I expect it’s possible that I could finish Elden Ring. I know I will never finish Noita.
Yep! Noita is a game I play again and aga.in. Despite sucking at it
Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead
Zombie survival roguelike. It’s free, open source, and a mature project.
Fallout: New Vegas, Caves of Qud, Project Zomboid, Minecraft, Terraria, Morrowind, Skyrim, Dwarf Fortress, Kenshi, Rimworld, Elden Ring, and so much more.
The detail in Kenshi is pretty amazing. I don’t normally get sucked into single player games, but the design really does give the impression of nearly unlimited freedom, every different starting scenario feels genuinely unique. The slave start particularly was a ton of fun.
It’s pretty amazing that it was designed by basically one guy. He was really efficient in how he chose what game elements to invest his limited development time into and clearly had a really strong vision. I hope he can get a few more devs onboard to develop a second one, I feel like even two or three other people would make so much more possible.
Absolutely, it’s one of the few games that genuinely give the player absolute freedom, but does so in a hand-crafted world with detailed lore and worldbuilding. It’s great.
Anything with procedurally generated levels, like roguelikes/roguelites. I can personally vouch for the longevity of Slay the Spire, for one specific example.
