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What are your favorite single player games to go back to often?

  • Minecraft
  • Furi
  • Mario 64
  • Super Mario World
  • GTA SA and Vice City

It's kinda rare for me to go back to a single player game and replay it, but there are some games that are nostalgic in the same way place or smell can be nostalgic.

I know them so well that I can't help but want to go back and visit and I never really get disappointment by the experience. Sure, I don't get as immersed as the first time, but I definitely still enjoy the games.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Red Faction: Guerilla. Pure therapy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Crusader Kings. I keep coming back to it when I'm between other games and I don't see that ever changing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Skyrim, grab a few new mods and the game is practically new to be again!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've played Skyrim for over 500 hours but I've never played mods. Which ones are your favorite?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Anything Borderlands really, except for the Tales of the Borderlands adventure games.

I'm currently playing BL1 on the Deck.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Tales from the Borderlands is one of my favorite games! The rocket launch scene is so fucking epic.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age: Inquisition are both games I've played through and loved multiple times over
  • Skyrim lol but it's infrequent for me now
  • Civ (I've only played 6)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Jet Set Radio Future, Oblivion, Fallout 3, Need for Speed ProStreet, Torchlight II, Paper Mario, Freelancer, Uncharted Waters: New Horizons, GTA San Andreas & Vice City, Front Mission 1 & 3, Metal Max Returns...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Star Ocean 2

Illusion of Gaia

Diablo 2

Final Fantasy 8 (and the other ps1 era ones to a lesser degree)

Fallout 3, NV, & 4

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Since setting up emulation on my steam deck, I've been playing way too much SSX tricky...

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • Halo 2, I know most cutscene quotes by memory
  • X3: Terran Conlict, huge time waster, janky, infuriating and I love it
  • ~~Chromehounds~~ (not really, I lost the CD and my X360 is dead (Armored Core ain't got shit on Chromehounds, fight me))
  • Crysis 2, better looking graphics than all the AAA games *I* have seen in the past 3 years
  • Terraria, it's Terraria
  • Starbound, it's Terraria but in space
  • Valheim, it's Terraria but you're a 3D lowres viking (it's low resolution textures exhalt my love for normal mapping)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fallout New Vegas

Skyrim

GTA 5

Red Dead Redemption 2

Rome Total War

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Coincidentally, New Vegas was the first 'resource-heavy' game I played to test my new Steam Deck. Played great and still holds up. I try a different way to kill Benny every time! This time, he ended up as a slave for Caesar. Benny, vidi, vici!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Skyrim Dragon age origins Zelda breath of the wild

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
  • Spyro series
  • Mass Effect series
  • FFX
  • Metal Saga (PS2)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Steamworld Dig 2

Have finished it 3 times already and there will be a 4th time for sure

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I generally go back to the nostalgia-filled retro titles from the nes-psx eras or for a more modern experience I'll lean into Mark of the Ninja, Guacamelee, or FTL. I've also put an embarrassing number of hours into the new Tomb Raider trilogy and Breath of the Wild. BotW counts as vintage these days, right?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The ones that I find myself going back to the most in the last decade are indie classics. Hyper Light Drifter, Kerbal Space Program, FTL: Faster Than Light (I just realized all these titles sound similar, but they're a 2D character action game, a spaceflight simulator/shipbuilder, and a very unique strategy game, respectively, and they're all among the best in their genres). Also, as a horror game fan and a Resident Evil fan in particular, I keep replaying the Resident Evil 2 remake from 4 years ago; easily one of the best horror games ever made.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

For me, Minecraft is not single player, I mean, I always play it with other people , I know it's only for me 😁

My games are Zelda link to the past, s. Mario world and xcom apocalypse. I replay them at least every two years

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me it's house flipper.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Shenmue and Shenmue II are probably the games I've played the most over the years.

Then it's on to the Telltale series of games and especially The Wolf Among Us.

In general I'm more of a "play lots but complete few" person.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

At the moment, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. The one I've revisited the longest and most often is Dragon's Dogma.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
  • Minetest
  • Silent Storm (S2 & S3)
  • Fallout
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The Binding of Isaac. Around 1000 hours between the original and Rebirth.

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