- Minecraft
- Factorial
- Terraria
- Balatro
- Stardew valley
I'm just going for maximum time sink.
this post was submitted on 18 May 2025
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In no particular order:
- Rim World
- Terraria
- Oxygen not Included
- Factorio
- Vintage Story
Roguelites are the way, fam:
- Noita
- FTL: Faster Than Light
- Slice & Dice
- Death Road to Canada
- I've never actually played it yet, but maybe S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, or else possibly Infested Planet or RimWorld
Any time someone mentions FTL, I use it as an opportunity to let people know about the Multiverse mod. It's been praised by the original devs and is like 4x bigger than the base game.
It's set 20 years after the first game and adds hundreds of new ships and weapons, several new races, new sectors, thousands of new events, new win conditions, new achievements, everything. It's essentially FTL 2.
If you liked the original FTL, seriously check out Multiverse, it's breathed new life into the game in a way I've never seen another mod do.
Thanks for the rundown. My biggest problem is that the literal only copy I have is from the DRM-free Humble Bundle from way back then (I gave away the Steam key to a friend of a friend), which is on a higher version than with what Multiverse is compatible, so I've never been able to play it all these years even though I've been itching to try.
My man you bought it, just get yourself a downgraded version from the web.
I'd rather just play other games as I don't feel good about doing that, partly because I don't want to deal with any malware risk due to confidential information on my personal PC.
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Shattered Pixel Dungeon
WipeOut 2097(XL)
Tetris (arcade) or Karate Champ (arcade) or Speed Rumbler(arcade)
Descent II
Simon Tatham Puzzles collection
Minecraft as a reference guide for how to survive on said island.
Animal Crossing so I have someone to talk to.
Elden Ring to remind me how bleak and hopeless everything is.
Solitaire and Minesweeper. In case I get bored.
Yeah, all the best survival guides start with "find the nearest tree and punch it a couple of times"
Half-Life 3 through 7.
Games with the highest replay value for me:
- Civilization 4
- Heroes of Might and Magic III
- Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri
- TES3: Morrowind
- SimCity 2000
Can I mod them? Because if so
- minecraft
- skyrim
- terraria
- dark souls 2
- hollowknight (so i can finally get those speedrun achievements)
DS2 gets hate for that agility bullshit, which wasn't completely undeserved. But that game is one of my favorites of the whole souls Bourne collection.
- Burnout Revenge
- Age of Empires 2
- The Witcher 3
- Monster Train
- Bejeweled Ultimate/Blitz.. Whatever was the last one.
Why does it have to be a desert island? I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating… and it gets everywhere.
Cave in mountain side then surrounded by a forest with grizzly bears.
Kerbal Space Program with mods
Cities:Skylines with mods
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
Dota 2 (I would be playing against and programming my own bots for it)
Trackmania with all current maps
Terraria
Celeste
Expedition 33
Horizon: Forbidden West
F-ZERO GX
About as much variety and quality as I could hope to fit.
- Any Monster Hunter really, but I'll go with Monster Hunter Wilds
- Subnautica
- Fatal Frame 3
- Tetris
- Ghost of Tsushima
- Portal 2
- L4D2
- Minecraft: Java
- Borderlands 2
- WoW 3.3.5a or up to BFA
- Katamari Damacy
- Halo 2
- Civilization II
- SimCity 2000
- Crazy Taxi
Every new version of Civ, I hope they reintroduce live action advisors like the ones from Civ II.
GIVE ME MORE SOLDIERS, NOBLE LEADER, SO WE MAY SHEATHE OUR SWORDS IN THE BEATING HEARTS OF OUR ENEMIES
Quake 3, UT 2004, Heroes 3, GTA2, Beavis & Butthead Hock a Loogie
- Dark Souls + DLC
- Metroid Prime
- Super Metroid
- Persona 3 Portable
- SMTV:V
Edit: Might swap DS for Sekiro
Those would be the extremely moddable games with a good all around base set for replayability, so for me:
- Rimworld
- Mount&Blade bannerlord
- Crusader Kings 3
- Civ 6
- Luanti (and if have to choose a single game for it, Mineclonia I suppose)
As long as I can also archive some amount and variety of mods for each, of course.
If mods aren’t on the table, I think it would still look pretty much the same, except maybe civ 5 in place of 6, and in place of luanti perhaps Witcher 3, or 4 if it manages to release before this thing.
Edit: Actually hold that a bit: I need Stellaris there, especially if mods are ok. But even without. I’d skip luanti/witcher for that.
- Rimworld
- HoI4 with Mods
- Vic3 with Mods
- CP2077
- maybe Satisfactory
No Man's Sky, but without any other players. More or less how I play it anyway 😁
Street Fighter 2: Champion Edition on the MegaDrive
Red Dead Redemption 2
EA FC/FIFA/whatever
Tetris
Age of Empires 2 Transport Tycoon Deluxe Ufo: Enemy unknown (x-com) Might and magic vii Heroes of the might and magic 3
If I could smuggle more it would be: Starcraft, Red Alert 2, Teenagent, Master of Orion 2.
L.A. Noire
Mafia 1-3
Master of Orion 2
- crawl stone soup. A classic rogue like.
- elden ring + dlc. Big masterpiece of the genre.
- the binding of Isaac (+ all the dlc). Huge rogue lite. Lots of stuff I haven't unlocked yet.
- monster hunter (maybe world? I liked rise too though).
- if I could have online, guild wars 2. Otherwise, maybe the original doom. Especially if it comes with a map editor, fan made maps, or Oblige to randomly make maps.
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Silent Hu ter 3
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Mass Effect Legendary edition. (Yes you said no compilations, so if I have to choose one it would of course be 2)
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Rimworld
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Kerbal Space Program (with a USB stick full of mods that I smuggled in up my butt)
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Fallout 4 (with a second USB stick full of mods smuggled in up my butt)
Why didn't I put them on the same USB stick? You're guess is as good as mine...
Modded morrowind,ultrakill, metal gear rising, modded Minecraft, modded skyrim
State of Decay 2
Sid Meier's Civilization V
Stellaris
Terraria
Retroarch as I currently have it set up
Subnautica if Retroarch is beyond the scope of this.
I would consider Ark or some version of Mount & Blade as well. Minecraft might also be an amazing time killer.
- Stardew Valley
- Skyrim
- ADOM
- Burnout Paradise
- Vegas Solitaire (or I think a decent Solitaire collection is a fair exception to that one rule because you can get many games out of a pack of cards)
Stardew Valley, Skyrim and ADOM for games that you can keep going back to over years and playing in different ways and still discovering new things. Vegas Solitaire for more of a mindless time passer when you don't want something immersive and involved. Burnout Paradise for something in between complex and mindless and something different once in a while.
Edit: I hope I eventually get rescued though because there's a LOT of shorter titles that I'd miss.
- Stellaris
- Kerbal Space Program
- Dead Cells
- Grim Dawn
- Against The Storm
Honorable Mentions:
- ΔV: Rings of Saturn
- We Who Are About To Die
Island: A Game of Survival
Lately:
Balatro
Tetris
Absolute Drift
art of rally
SnowRunner
Minecraft: Java Edition
Universe Sandbox²
Subnautica (never played it, but heard it's fun so I might like playing it in a desert island surrounded by ocean)
Deltarune (I'd have all the time in the world to wait for the next chapters)
ENA: Dream BBQ (same as above)
Transport Fever 2
OpenTTD
Factorio
Factorio
Factorio
Probably something like this:
- Slay the Spire with mods
- Kerbal Space Program with mods
- Trackmania 2020 with all maps from Trackmania Exchange downloaded
- Path of Exile
- Cities: Skylines or Planet Zoo (with mods)
I'd also like to bring Factorio (with mods of course) but I'm not sure what to replace
Do one of those minecraft modpacks with a thousand mods count as a compilation? Because you could take out over 80% of them, and create a bunch of smaller packs for variation.
Tetris, Dwarf Fortress, Quake (if I can bring tons of mods,) Portal 2 (if I can download use maps,) and probably Baldurs Gate 3 so I would finally play it.
If I can't bring all those additions, then substitute Portal 2 with Kerbal Space Program. But I'd keep Quake.
Dark souls 3 / dlc
Elden ring / dlc
Armored core 6
Armored core 4 Answer
Terraria (with tmod loader)
- Dwarf Fortress
- Rimworld
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- The Witcher 3
- The Binding of Isaac
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