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?
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Factorio. I don't even need a second pick
The expansion, presumably
Indubitably
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Yeah I mean you're not gonna have time to eat or sleep, let alone play an entire other game.
I need a change of scenery once in a while. I've been on a slow Dwarf Fortress - Factorio - Minecraft loop for about the last 15 years. Currently playing Minecraft, specifically the Enigmatica 6 Expert modpack which I started nearly 2 years ago.
I've never heard of Enigmatica before. The last expert modpack I went through was FTB Interactions, which also took me about 2 years to complete.
How is it?
The store tab and the library tab
I feel attacked
Don't worry I have potion!
This one
It must be awesome hoarding all those games huh?
factorio and rimworld. I can't believe that combo isn't here yet.
Perfect combo.
I'd spin that slightly, and go with Satisfactory and Dwarf Fortress.
I guess that means I like having a third dimension.
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.
Tabletop Simulator might be cheating too
Farmframe is pretty solid pick. Ever growing amount of content to play and collect, plus the gameplay is fun. For me it's kind of missing a reason to farm all the stuff though, but I've also stuck with it on and off about 9 years now
To be honest, I stopped being a “qualified player” a few years ago. Nowadays I load up a nice long Survival round, usually against Infested to chew on, with whatever Frame I’ve forgotten how to play, to enjoy the loop without stress. So I’m not in it to farm all the stuff either. Or, I’ll play the story quest if a new one is out, since they are pretty well scaled for solo play and/or give you what you need.
Other than that I just can’t compete. I tripped some time ago and didn’t keep up with the latest meta builds, so now I struggle to have the things “required” to effectively participate in public sessions or the latest missions. And don’t even get me started on Rivens, Shards, Liches or whatever.
If I join a Zariman round I’ll probably die. Not as much now that I have Titania, but I’m also not clearing rooms in a single volley like everyone else.
I’m a filthy casual and I still find a way to have fun, so there’s something there worth keeping.
RetroArch ;)
That's an android app, why waste a steam game on that when you can get it out of steam?
I get the point you’re making, but I still wanted to point out that RetroArch is multi platform, not just Android.
The same could be said about any game with any non-Steam availability. I don't think that was OP's intent. That being said, emulators surely were not the intent either.
If this counts then my first game is explorer.exe
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Fallout 4 and Civ VI
Easy
Are you me?
I have 1300 hours in FO4 and almost 8600 in Civ6.
Slay The Spire for replay value and Rocket League for "pvp" itch.
Factorio.
Second game: Factorio, with mods enabled.
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.
So I'm going for longevity. These two definitely wouldn't be my first choices for top games.
Elder Scrolls Online and Minecraft. There is enough story, social, and creativity that I would hope it works out.
Once Baldurs Gate 3 gets solid modding, and assuming modding is allowed, that takes a spot.
Minecraft is not on steam unfortunately and I don't know how wise it is to choose a multiplayer only game like ESO since they will eventually shut down the servers
Ah forgot the steam part.
I figure I would get bored of ESO in 15 or so years when it closes. I suspect any game will lose me at a point. For the time it's online, it would offer a lot.
I'll sub Minecraft out for No Man's Sky. Valheim was close to taking the spot but it just doesn't ring as fun when friends aren't around. I would pace myself big time.
Does BG3 not? I used tons of mods that seemed regularly updated.
I could be wrong, I haven't modded yet, but I think official support is in the future. That's when I suspect it will really shine.
I just looked it up, and the first thing that came up was a ton of articles about a series of tweets Larian put out today explaining that they're working on official mod support, but that they'd like to ask people to stop being toxic assholes and threatening their devs.
So I guess they don't have official mod support, but the mods that are and have been out for months are amazing. I highly recommend Native Camera Tweaks, WASD Movement, 5e Spells, and Hexblade Warlock (gish class that makes your spellcasting modifier and melee stat both Charisma so you're SAD instead of MAD on both Str/Dex and Int/Cha). There's also a bunch of other QoL mods that are worth getting too.
I would say noita and beatsaber.
Yeah, if I could only play that I might eventually beat it
I was also gonna say Noita, it's so good, especially now with some new mods
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.
Dwarf Fortress and Dota 2
Satisfactory & Mass Effect
Mass effect legendary edition is one game with 3 games inside, so does that still count?
........I count it
Terraria and Starbound bc mods
I have a very specific taste
Starbound is such a good game, just wish steam had cloud save for it.
The Long Dark and Valheim
Skyrim and Half-Life 2
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
Binding of Isaac (flash) Binding of Isaac Rebirth
Literally thousands of hours of entertainment, pretty much
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.
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?
Does it have to be Steam? Or any two games?
I mean you can map literally anything into Steam.
Slay the Spire would be the first slot where a lot of others could fill the second.
Have you tried Balatro yet?
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.
Dwarf Fortress and No Man's Sky. I wanted to say Satisfactory instead, but felt it might be too close to Dwarf Fortress in nature and that would make it hard to want to play either game if I was burned out from one of them.
I came to say Dwarf Fortress. I could gush about it for a long time. It's a very special game. This was the only game that came to mind for this question. Especially knowing that the brothers are only about half way done with all of the features they want to add to the game. And I'm not exaggerating here. They're on version 50 and the consider version 100 to be feature complete.
I'm so glad they found another programmer.
What do you mean i love paying $60 for a game and then being asked to buy a $20 dlc and new cosmetics cough cough EA, Ubisoft Microsoft cough excuse me. Indie games will always have a special place in my steam library and its in recently played tab.
Probably age of empires and MCC.
Torchlight2 and totalAnnihilation
Tell me you've played Spring RTS (especially Beyond All Reason)
TF2 and TF|2
No man’s sky and palworld
the talos principle 1 and automobilista 2
Terraria and I can't decide between Skyrim, Fallout New Vegas or BG3.
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.
I only need one and is called "Space War" 🧐
Hahahahhahahha
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.
path of exile
ten years of updates and still going stronger than ever and it’s free - always new content every quarter
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)
Team Fortress 2 with either Deathmatch Classic or Ricochet....
Factorio now, and I'll save my second one for Factorio Space Age when it releases.
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.
Stardew Valley (maybe not that if I can just use the Android version), Hyperbolica, Portal 2?
Battletoads and Frog wars.
Slay the Spire. I probably don't need a second.
Civ 6 and I'll sell my other slot to the highest bidder.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Octopath Traveler 2
Nioh 2 and Satisfactory
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.
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.
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:
Assetto Corsa (assuming mods are included) and Factorio (again, with mods, but to a lesser degree).
Path of Exile and Rocket League
Path of Exile 1 and 2. Not much would change
Planescape torment and HoMM III (yes I will take the bundle, thank you)
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.
Oh dwarf fortress is a good pick!
I've only played it for a handful of hours to see how it's actually played. It's certainly a game that rewards the effort you put into it.
Dirt Rally 2.0 (with my sim rig and VR headset).
I don't need a 2nd game.
Dwarf Fortress and Factorio.
Stellaris and Rimworld. Replace Rimworld with Minecraft if including non-Steam games.
Minecraft and retroarch.
Minecraft is on Steam?
Yep
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.
CS2 & super auto pets
Satisfactory and Titan Quest
Quake Champions and Monster Hunter Rise
Path of Exile for sure, not sure about the second though. Maybe Dark Souls 2, Elden Ring, or maybe XCom 2.
siege and tekken 8
Civilization 5 and Space Engineers
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.
Apex and Rimworld
What if no other people pick Apex as one of their two games? Lonely servers.
Skyrim and Minecraft. But we'll see what happens after the creation kit for starfield comes out, might change one of my games
Would choose those 2 because it would let me kinda bypass that limit
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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.
Valheim and Starfield.
Monster hunter world and satisfactory
Oxygen Not Included and Baldur's Gate 3 for the 1 month out of the year I take a break from ONI.
Is Oni the one that Quinn dunki wrote the A-I for?
Killing floor and chivalry. It'd be like Valhalla.
Rain World!!!!!
Second place is hard to do though! Oxygen Not Included, I guess?
Oxygen not included has infinite replayability. I find so much joy just watching the plants grow in that game.
It was close for me between ONI and Darkest Dungeon, but I've basically "solved" DD to the point where I need 120 (I counted) constantly rotating mods to even have anything to challenge me.... I'm not sure I'd ever "finish" ONI! I feel like i've barely scratched the surface, and i've put in hundreds of hours. (I love them both, though.)
That it's cute and has so many little random thoughtful details like how the hatch eggs are as big as the hatches (ouch) definitely helps too.
Honestly, I'd be pretty sad with zero city-builders. And Rain World is non-negotiable, hahah.
Grim Dawn* and Rat Party.
Arma 3 and GTA VI
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? 👀