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What's the game you play when nothing else sounds good? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 days ago by perishthethought@lemm.ee to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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Do you have a game you play over and over, when nothing else fits your mood? That game that is infinitely re-playable, somewhat the same every time and somewhat new and interesting?

For me it's the games in the Orcs Must Die series. But mostly OMD 3. I play the mode called Scramble, where you have to beat 5 rounds of orcs, and they get harder and harder as you progress. There are random things to make it harder (nerfs) and you can choose 1 thing per round to make it easier (buffs). I've probably played that something like 300 times now since I beat the main game + DLCs a long while ago. I go into a special mental state while playing, since I know it all so well, and just zone out for about an hour each time.

Patient gamers, what's your "I will keep playing this game for the rest of my life" fallback?

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Europa Universalis IV. There are tons of countries to play, lots of variation each time, and so many options for self challenges (e.g. accomplish goal by year).

The only thing that would get me to stop playing is if EUV is good, and then only a few years and DLC in. Even then, I could see myself coming back to it.

[–] Arkive@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

EU4 is one of mine as well. Been slowly working through the achievements, but they keep adding more!

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago

Yeah, I was up to 20% or so, and now I'm around 17% since I didn't play much for the last year or two. I think they'll announce a sequel soon, maybe I'll actually make progress.