Elite Dangerous

Kerbal Space Program

Civilization

Factorio

The factory must grow
Just... One... More... Turn...
I would disagree about KSP, at least for the first hundred hours or so probably. You're actively learning and adventuring, and discovering new things. After that, once you're figuring out how far you can push things or installing RP-1, you're right.
- I once spent 40 hours testing a Duna lander
Football Manager.
- I would love to get into Football Manager or OOTP Baseball but I hate the yearly-purchase monetization scheme. I wish there was a good indie alternative, or something that scratches a similar itch.
Runescaaaaape, you casual.
Minecraft

me with Satisfactory

and maybe now Space Station 14 - nah that game is definitely still fun, a multiplayer experience like no others (well, like 13 I guess)

the blue game is amphetamine abuse

Aka Rocket League.

Oh, shit, that reminds me, I have to finish my dailies.

But did you get the free Anaconda from Hutton Orbital?

All I got was the coffee mug.
- I flew all the way out there and forgot to check the landing pad size. It was such a bust.
You got the Anaconda? Must have been before they switched to the Federal Corvette

Man I'm still not sure if I like it

Inara up, playing the stock market freighting shit around and mining stuff. Hundreds of hours though so there's that

Every fucking game i play:

Star citizen (so much to unpack here fuck)

Tarkov (seriously it's only the second game on here, please put me out of my misery)

The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. franchise. (Get out of here stalker)

No man's sky

Factorio

Stardew valley

Rust

And last but certainly not least: project zombiod (this ones new to me, dammit how do I stop tripping, this is my fifth bleed in the last 15 minutes. )

I've heard of project zomboid, it was described to me as "cataclysm: dark days ahead, with graphics, but less mechanical depth", haven't tried it yet, but I do love CDDA, so I think I will eventually.
- Oh dear lord, a new rabbit hole to jump down...

No Man's Sky

Was about to say this. I can't tell you what exactly I like about the game, but I keep feeling compelled to play it

Minecraft back in 2012/2013

Really ? I always knew I was having fun in Minecraft from the very beginning.

Terra Invicta

Rimworld, but I am having fun, I'm absolutely sure of it. The best fun of my life. Which is fucking concerning.

I feed the bodies of dead raiders to my pigs and GITMO-ed a Space Racist into giving up his bigoted ways.
I'm not sure how I feel about calling the experience "fun".
- For a long time I'm running goodie-two-shoes settlements and I love it. They're not woe of non-violence people, they will shoot you if you come with raid, but then they will patch you up and release you back with gifts. They make artisinal food, drinks, and drugs and then sell and gift them to everyone, and they never ever commit any warcrimes. It makes me feel nice inside, knowing that my guys are making life on a rim slightly better.

Me killing time with Game Dev Tycoon at work.

It's such a simple spreadsheet simulator. You can't even see what your games look like but I haven't been able to put it down for the last few days. I already played, beat, and got bored of it years ago. But it makes the last hour at my job feel like 15 minutes, so I went back to it.

RN It's Starwdew Valley. I keep staying up all night being like "Just... One more day and I'm done." 🤣

Every time I look up something I can't figure out, I am presented with a bunch of tangenital items that I haven't even seen yet and I've been grinding the game for two weeks now. And CA just announced it was getting more! This unassuming retro farming game is fucking massive. 😵‍💫

And that's without mods!

I haven't played E:D since before Odyssey released. I lost interest when they stopped supporting VR for the new content.

I did get a Fleet Carrier though. I wonder if it's still there or if I ran out of upkeep money.

Good game, shame it's a live service though. It will probably just die if/when they turn off the servers.

I'm not sure what you're talking about when it comes to VR. They never stopped supporting VR... Like at all. Odyssey also has full VR support and has since launch. I am genuinely confused as to why you think that
- The new on-foot FPS gameplay that they added with Odyssey didn't get first class VR support. You can keep your headset on, but you have to switch to a regular control method and control the game as though it's on a 2D monitor even though you're wearing a 6DOF headset with motion controls available. For anyone that's played VR, this is the worst kind of experience and very disappointing.
  Making first-class VR controls is a lot of extra work, probably, but for a game that was sold as a flagship VR title when the original Oculus came out, it just leaves a bad taste for all the VR players, who felt like FDev were leaving them behind.
  Maybe they've added better support now, but I wouldn't know about that as I haven't played it. On release it was a disappointment for VR players.

My first experience with this phenomena was rollercoaster tycoon

I hate how I didn't even see the post title and immediately thought of Elite

Me too. I bet some younger folks might have thought of Elite Dangerous though

Path of Exile after you hit a five digit playtime

FFXIV

I'm a huge FF fan, and 14 has a lot of praise so I had a go. I enjoyed FFXI somewhat so I thought maybe 14 would be enjoyable, but no matter how long I stuck around I just couldn't figure out if it was fun. I spent a lot of time making number go up, but when I stepped away from the computer I felt like I hadn't achieved anything.

I played through the base game. The first expansion. Began the second expansion. I reflected on my experience and I couldn't even tell you what the game was about. It's just walk here, click an NPC, walk there click an NPC, fight battle, repeat. And the battles are so boring; the expectation is that you learn the ideal rotation of attacks and abilities and you just apply that to 99% of battles and make sure to do them efficiently - if you can't do that you are labelled a noob.

Maybe the difference between 11 and 14 was that I did 11 with a friend, so it felt like I was spending time with him, whereas I did 14 by myself.

Much as I love XIV’s story, I really needed to break up story progression with other content, just for variety. I leveled up all crafters, did many daily raids, etc.
- I tended to go do some Golden Saucer stuff because I just wasn't that interested in the crafting levels. I never really need anything crafted; playing solo the gear you get in msq is more than enough.

Ah yes, Rust

I'm still new to rust. Barely cracked 2,000 hours.

I've been playing Elden Ring for the first time (also my first fromsoft game). Yeah....

Cities Skylines for me. I don't play it often because I will get sucked in and come to at 3am, realizing that I've not eaten in 16 hours and my traffic isn't any better.

Thats Europa Universalis 4 for me.

Sounds familiar.

Looking at you, Dota 2.

And Starcraft 2

And WC3

And smash melee

DotA when it was a WC3 custom map.

Silksoon

Two more days brother

Kenshi

Path of Exile? Dat you?

FF11 followed by Guild Wars. I would probably have many more if I didn't get old and more responsibilities. When those came out, I was still living at my parents' home for a few more years. I remember playing all night, and my parents got up and got ready for work, and I would go to bed just to avoid the shame and immediately go back on when they left.

Traveling to Beagle Point be like