You can only pick 2 games from steam to play for the rest of your life, what games are they?
You can only pick 2 games from steam to play for the rest of your life, what games are they?
I have a large library of steam games, but yet always come back to Garry mod and ravensfield. I keep coming back for the modded content and every other game is excellent, don't get me wrong. But a lot of big games like RD2 and watchdogs 2 just seem like such a long time investment. What 2 games do you infinitely come back to?
Ah, but would you keep Workshop access?
If so, Garry's Mod is almost cheating. There's a bit of everything in it.
So that and Warframe. I picked up WF ten years ago and it's still in my top ten recently played games. Though I have a love/hate relationship with the Metagame it turned into, it still remains.
Slay The Spire for replay value and Rocket League for "pvp" itch.
Dwarf Fortress and Dota 2
Slay the Spire and Noita
For longevity?
Satisfactory and Elden Ring.
Honestly, something like Call of Duty or fortnite might be nice too. I haven't played in years but the skill ceiling is very high so it could at least keep me occupied for a very long time.
Deep Rock Galactic and Pinball FX3. I'm tempted to put Baldurs Gate 3, but once you've done a number of runs, I feel like you'll be done with it.
The Long Dark and Valheim
Skyrim and Half-Life 2
Rimworld and M&B Bannerlords
I really wanted to fit Crusader Kings 3 in there, but I think ultimately these two cover all the bases, and have an amazing modding community to keep it fresh and interesting.
Factorio and project zomboid
Binding of Isaac (flash) Binding of Isaac Rebirth
Literally thousands of hours of entertainment, pretty much
Dead Cells and Beat Saber. I don't know that I'll ever tire of dead cells, and beat saber my husband and I love to play together, trading off after three songs like we used with DDR when we were kids
Warframe is a good one. After 4000 hours I got burnt out of some of the things it does poorly and haven't played in a year, but overall it's fun with crazy new content on a regular basis for free.
Terraria has far more depth than I ever expected, and way more than that added since I last played. This game can sustain a player for ages.
I would say Satisfactory but I did actually get tired of it for a while. Itching to go back with the 1.0 release though. I love it but the two above have better longevity.
Baldur's Gate 3, and um... Warthunder. Maybe Elite Dangerous instead of Warthunder. But why can't I play the $650 worth of other games that I bought and barely played?
No man’s sky and palworld
TF2 and TF|2
Probably age of empires and MCC.
the talos principle 1 and automobilista 2
Terraria and I can't decide between Skyrim, Fallout New Vegas or BG3.
DayZ and minesweeper. DayZ has probably the best replayability over any other game I've played. On top of that it's also the game that gives me adrenaline rush like no other game has. DayZ is highly underrated and I highly recommend it in 2024 as it just keeps on giving.
Vermintide 2 and Tekken 8.
Both games have high skill ceilings, so I could probably spend years (and have) playing both and still finding ways to improve or optimize gameplay.
Battletoads and Frog wars.
Nioh 2 and Satisfactory
Some hard choices. I generally like my RTS and FPS games. I play a wide range of games from story driven like the BG series, to yearly play throughs of 93's Doom, to mil sims like arma.
I have a hard time to stick to one game for a long time, so whatever I pick would need to be moddable to bring some variety. I'm imagining maybe a stalker game where there's a wealth of mods, but the world isn't that large. Arma 3 might be nice, you got decent multi-player bots for when the world has moved on, it's very moddable and relatively easy to set up new scenarios for yourself.
I do like my sim racing as well, so asetto corsa would definitely be the main contender there.
If I'd have to pick some games off the top of my head they'd be AoE 2, HL 2, Doom 2, asetto corsa, Ms flight sim (but the servers will die at some point), Arma.
So I'm picturing myself in 40 years time, I've finished building my new rocking chair with the skills I've got from all this free time, I sit down in front of the same computer I have now. I'd say I'm launching up doom to do another play through of Sunlust. Hm or maybe I'll do a bit more work on my at that point 10 year old OpenTTD save. Just something simple that will stand the test (and already has) of time, a game I can fire up and feel just as home in now, as I did last year, and the year before that.
Skyrim and outcast (the old version by appeal studios)
Stardew Valley (maybe not that if I can just use the Android version), Hyperbolica, Portal 2?
Beam.NG would be one just because it covers nearly every driving discipline and the other would probably be Cyberpunk. It’s not even that Cyberpunk is my favorite, but it has so much content in it at this point that it would keep me busy for years.
Team Fortress 2 with either Deathmatch Classic or Ricochet....
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Octopath Traveler 2
Skyrim and Witcher 3. Shoutouts to Baldurs Gate and Witcher 2, but the latter is far too short for me to want it on my "you can only play this" list, it's quirky but there's something special as hell about it for me. I've played it through about 15 times.
Factorio now, and I'll save my second one for Factorio Space Age when it releases.
Slay the Spire. I probably don't need a second.
Path of Exile and Rocket League
Planescape torment and HoMM III (yes I will take the bundle, thank you)
So, we're just talking Steam - that means I can keep playing Fortnite either way. And my GOG library I suppose :>
From Steam I'd pick:
- Beat Saber, it's my sport
- Stellaris, so I can keep playing it with my SO
Path of Exile 1 and 2. Not much would change
Assetto Corsa (assuming mods are included) and Factorio (again, with mods, but to a lesser degree).
Factorio and Baldurs Gate 3...
Feels bad leaving off other amazing games though
If we get access too all future updates, Dwarf Fortress is my clear #1 choice.
If we also assume that the game will forever have an active enough userbase that lack of players won't be a detriment: Infinity Wars as my #2.If we assume no updates, no mods and no guarantee of users: Tales of Maj'Eyal and probably some 4x or grand strategy game, it's a tossup between Civ, Gal Civ, and Endless Legend, maybe even one of the Total Wars.
Dota 2 and Factorio (with mods enabled)
Dirt Rally 2.0 (with my sim rig and VR headset).
I don't need a 2nd game.
If I am honest and base it on my actual play patterns it has to be The Binding of Isaac and Slay the Spire. Or maybe Ascension (digital version of the physical deckbuilder) especially if there is ever more content for it.
Dwarf Fortress and Factorio.
Stellaris and Rimworld. Replace Rimworld with Minecraft if including non-Steam games.
Arma 3 and GTA VI
Satisfactory and Titan Quest
Dota and Baldur's Gate 3.
I've been playing Dota since it was a Warcraft 3 map...
And Baldur's Gate 3, I don't know if I've ever done a second playthrough of any RPG I've ever owned before. Most of them I usually get bored and quit before the end because it's like... I get it... But Boulder Gate 3 I've beaten three times so far currently working on a fourth run which is an honor run. And I've been making a list of mods that I want to try to make.
Killing floor and chivalry. It'd be like Valhalla.
G-Mod and ARMA 3
siege and tekken 8
Grim Dawn* and Rat Party.
Just woke up. I thought this was a picture of valheim with a deathsquito on the background. Which is interesting because I was probably going to have to pick Valheim and Sims 4. If I can only playb2 games forever I need sometimes that doesn't necessarily have a main quest then it's done and both of those fit that.
Civilization 5 and Space Engineers
Dark Souls 2 SOTFS, Borderlands 2
Path of Exile for sure, not sure about the second though. Maybe Dark Souls 2, Elden Ring, or maybe XCom 2.
CS2 & super auto pets
Skyrim and Minecraft. But we'll see what happens after the creation kit for starfield comes out, might change one of my games
Monster hunter world and satisfactory
Quake Champions and Monster Hunter Rise
Would choose those 2 because it would let me kinda bypass that limit
Source Sdk 2013 Multiplayer
S&boxValheim and Starfield.
Tough question. I'd say Stellaris and Neverwinter Nights.
Stellaris is giant with so many options, it would take a while to get stale.
Neverwinter Nights has hundreds of homebrew campaigns available, and with the PRC mod also hundreds of classes & races to play.
No Man's Sky and Light No Fire
That is a hard choice
Stellaris is number one and Skyrim or Fallout 4 for number to just based off mods available.
… what is steam? 👀