Games with the highest replay value for me:
In no particular order:
Half-Life 3 through 7.
For me, it would have to be:
Can I mod them? Because if so
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.
Gotta be one of the Paradox strategy games. I have two reasons for this: the first is that a good game unavoidably takes ages on them, so they have staying power; the other is that I know how to mod them, so I can make myself new scenarios once I get fed up of it. I'll bring Crusader Kings 3 and Victoria 3 because I like them but haven't yet played them much
I'll add in Assetto Corsa and Dirt Rally 2 for some driving. Both have very high skill ceilings that I am nowhere near, so that gives me a lot to do. I also don't own a wheel, so if I get that as part of the deal then that'd be fun to try. These two also have an odd bonus for me: they both have courses set near my home. I can sort of visit them by playing when I get a bit homesick
Lastly I'll have Deep Rock Galactic for low effort shooty fun. I can't always be putting mental energy into games
There are games I like as much or more than these five but which lack the replayability for this scenario. Like I adore Outer Wilds, but you can only really play it once
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
WipeOut 2097(XL)
Tetris (arcade) or Karate Champ (arcade) or Speed Rumbler(arcade)
Descent II
Simon Tatham Puzzles collection
Roguelites are the way, fam:
You'd better bring a copy of the Noita wiki with you so that you can decipher what half the late game stuff is/does. Or even just where it is. Although I suppose if you have basically unlimited time, you could just do your alchemy from first principles
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.
Sekiro
Lies of P
Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate
Slay the Spire
Balatro
Quake 3, UT 2004, Heroes 3, GTA2, Beavis & Butthead Hock a Loogie
Modded morrowind,ultrakill, metal gear rising, modded Minecraft, modded skyrim
the best sim, the best 4X, the best FPS, my favorite level-editor engine, my favorite action platformer
Honorable Mentions:
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.
Those would be the extremely moddable games with a good all around base set for replayability, so for me:
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.
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.
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
RDR2, Skyrim, Fallout 4, Path of Exile 2, Tetris
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
Silent Hu ter 3
Mass Effect Legendary edition. (Yes you said no compilations, so if I have to choose one it would of course be 2)
Rimworld
Kerbal Space Program (with a USB stick full of mods that I smuggled in up my butt)
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...
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:
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)
To be honest, it wouldn't matter. I'd be too busy enjoying my new primitive survival adventure and quoting lines from the Gold Top commercial. It is the big game.
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
