For me, it would have to be:
- Factorio
- Rimworld
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Tetris DS
- Disco Elysium
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Minecraft: Java Edition
Stardew Valley
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Geometry Dash
Hogwarts Legacy
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:
- 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.
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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
Sekiro
Lies of P
Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate
Slay the Spire
Balatro
- Stellaris
- Baldur's Gate 2
- Starcraft
- X4: Foundations
- Papers Please
X4 mentioned 👀
No Endless Space 2..? Sad.
I dig it but tough to fit that in my top 5
- Minecraft
- Factorial
- Terraria
- Balatro
- Stardew valley
I'm just going for maximum time sink.
- Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection
- Slay the Spire
- Tetris Effect, Connected
- OpenXCom
- Olli Olli
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"
- Burnout Revenge
- Age of Empires 2
- The Witcher 3
- Monster Train
- Bejeweled Ultimate/Blitz.. Whatever was the last one.
In no particular order:
- Rim World
- Terraria
- Oxygen not Included
- Factorio
- Vintage Story
Half-Life 3 through 7.
DayZ, Minecraft, Cities: Skylines, Age of Empires 2 Definite Edition, Grand Theft Auto 5
I see DayZ, I upvote.
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.
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- Dwarf Fortress
- Fall from Heaven 2
- Minecraft
- ZZT
- Rogue Legacy 2
the best sim, the best 4X, the best FPS, my favorite level-editor engine, my favorite action platformer
- Portal 2
- L4D2
- Minecraft: Java
- Borderlands 2
- WoW 3.3.5a or up to BFA
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.
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
- Any Monster Hunter really, but I'll go with Monster Hunter Wilds
- Subnautica
- Fatal Frame 3
- Tetris
- Ghost of Tsushima
Terraria
Celeste
Expedition 33
Horizon: Forbidden West
F-ZERO GX
About as much variety and quality as I could hope to fit.
- 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
RDR2, Skyrim, Fallout 4, Path of Exile 2, Tetris
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
Quake 3, UT 2004, Heroes 3, GTA2, Beavis & Butthead Hock a Loogie
- 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.
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.
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
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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...
- Civ 5
- Monkey Ball
- Soulcalibur 2
- Tetris Worlds
- Kirby Air Ride
- 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.
L.A. Noire
Mafia 1-3
Master of Orion 2
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.
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
One of them will have to be minesweeper because I can pretty much play it endlessly. The other 4, I'm not so sure. I love some of suggestions other people made.
I've sunk many an hour into Simon Tatham's no-guess Mines, yeah, as well as Slant and various other titles from his free puzzle collection. Try Inertia!
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- Chrono Trigger
- Skyrim
- Super Mario World
- Donkey Kong Country 2
- Teraria
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.
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