I saw a recent post that 60% of playtime in 2023 was spent on games 6 years or older. What 6+ year old games are you playing?

I haven’t stopped playing Overwatch since it came out, still getting on with friends 2 or 3 nights a week and putting in a few hours (and I’m still awful lol). I also still log on to Battlefield 1943 from time to time to get in a few matches.

I also collect retro games so there is a good bit of time there. If anything I’ve struggled to find new games that I’d want to play more than something older and cheaper. I just picked up Dark Messiah for like 2 bucks and its amazing, hard to justify a $60-70 purchase when you can find deals like that on older but still great games.

I saw a lot of the playtime goes to still updated online games like Fortnite and Apex, but I wonder if part of it is that as time goes on there is a bigger pool of games to play. Sure there will always be cutting edge graphics and gameplay, but many people wouldnt be able to tell which indie dropped in 2010 and which dropped in 2024.

JimmyChanga,

Titanfall 2

Oneeightnine,
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Rocket League. I probably play a solid 3 hours of that every single week, and have done for the last two years. Before those two years I probably played a solid 7-8 hours a week. It’s my forever game, the game I play when I’m bored, the game I play when I’ve got a lot on my mind and just want to fill the void in my head with something safe and easy.

dumpsterlid,

I like playing rocket league because it connects me with one of my past lives where I was reincarnated as a rocket soccer car and lived a short but glorious life of rocketing balls, many many eons ago when the universe was still new and full of rocket soccer cars.

I don’t play rocket league superrr often but when I do it sends me right back to that previous reincarnation and it feels like it was only yesterday I was slurping up golden boost juice, slamming aerial shots and trashtalking fools by using friendly chat reactions in a sarcastic fashion.

Rocket league is like riding a bike, the feeling never leaves you.

JulesTheModest,

I’m old school, I regularly play these games:

  • Doom 1/2
  • Half-Life 1 (via Svencoop)
  • Wreckfest
  • Mother 3 (first time playing it, so good)
  • Starcraft 2 (3pl coop campaigns)
  • Amazing Frog? (With my youngest)
  • Angband (I used to play Moria, Larn, NetHack back in the day)
MintyAnt,

Svencoop is still going??

JulesTheModest,

Yup! Still like 20 servers going at a time. I took a few years off but I’m back playing.

fadingembers,
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I’ve been replaying red dead 2 which turns 6 this year :P

vairse,

Almost exclusively Final Fantasy 14 with some Warframe and a smattering of older puzzle games.

sickday,
sickday avatar

Battlefield 3 or 4 and Halo MCC. Also Skullgirls.

dumpsterlid,

Xonotic: om, well it’s based on the darkplaces engine, so yeah, I mean Xonotic in a way is basically as old as 3D multiplayer shooters.

Eador Genesis: like a tighter heroes of might and magic or kings bounty, great with the New Horizons mod.

Beyond All Reason: the latest evolution in a series of Total Annihilation inspired RTS games built on an open source engine.

WinspWW2: a derivative of Steel Panthers, an old DOS hex turn based tactical war game. Yeah there are newer turn based strategy games and perhaps more elegant systems like Combat Mission’s or Operation Flashpoint Red Storm’s simultaneous turns, but the fact stands that WinspWW2 and WinspMBT are from certain perspectives the deepest turn based tactics video games in existence, realistic or not.

Original Peggle and Peggle nights: What do I even need to say, perfection.

Brigador Up Armored Edition: Top down isometric cyberpunk dystopia mech/tank quasi-twin stick shooter. This game is an absolute gem.

Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead: the most interesting open world survival game period, yeah the graphics… barely qualify as graphics but the gameplay and complexity/variety of procedural generation is simply nowhere even close to being matched by any other open world rpg/survival game.

MacedWindow,
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Also a big peggle fan! Have you tried Roundguard? Doesn’t match the perfection of Peggle but it’s very fun.

dumpsterlid,

Yeah I have watched the development of roundgard and pegglin but neither has gone on enough of a sale for me to decide to try em based on the good but not amazing reviews I have seen of them.

There is such a pure joy to the original peggle, it breaks my heart to wonder what Popcap could have become if they weren’t bought by EA.

ekky,

Yo sheet, where’s my Dwarf Fortress gang at?!

Though I guess it’s pretty new on Steam. :P

tacotroubles,

Apparently, for me, the better question is, “Which games newer than 6 years are you playing?” It turns out I dont play many new games, just Elden Ring and Jedi Fallen Order ( which is 5 years old even). Deep rock might squeeze in there, but it just turned 6 years old

RampantParanoia2365,

Rocket League has been a big one for me recently. But I’ve actually been making an effort to play new stuff besides that, like Alan Wake 1&2, Cyberpunk, and Baldur’s Gate 3.

Rentlar,

Factorio kind of? Released 2020 but early access since 2014

Age of Empires 2 DE is a 2019 game but a spiritual successor to a 1999 game I’ve been playing since 2005.

Starcraft 2, Slay the Spire, Call of Duty Black Ops 3, Cities Skylines. You may notice these games all have a big modding scene which adds huge amounts of replay value.

Sid Meier Civ 6 because I get Civ fever every few months. Keep in mind the 2018-2019 expansions Gathering Storm and Rise and Fall were major overhauls of mechanics that really make it feel like a different game.

Lycist,

Playing through Sunless Skies currently. (5 years… but… close enough!)

MacedWindow,
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MODS MODS MODS WE HAVE A RULEBREAKER!!

I’d say early access counts for games that actually release, so you are over the 6 year line! Congrats I guess.

dumpsterlid,

I got partially hooked into sunless seas because I loved the vibe until I realized that the ship gameplay was just kind of ancillary to the game.

Like the board game Sleeping Gods but with a video game strapped on. It seems like Sunless Skies at least partially addresses this though.

Lycist,

Its def 2 games mashed into one. The train/ship gameplay and the narrative. Both are mostly separate things. I don’t mind though, its a blast. Its creepy and convoluted in all the best ways.

I think I’m 70 or so hours into this playthrough, and I haven’t completed a single of the 4 maps yet.

dumpsterlid,

I really think space sci-fi is so limited in the way it imagines space almost always in terms of giant voids of empty vacuums and in a general way that is hard to put into words, the aesthetics of modern space exploration and knowledge. Sure a sci-fi’s ships may be fantastical, but the space the ship is flying through is always the same void.

I really like the idea of space not as the modern scientific understanding we have of it, but rather an extension of the sky into realms unknown, more a question of airships flying to impossible altitudes than a rocket ship traveling through empty space.

Sunless skies definitely peaks my interest in that respect.

Lycist,

Def. The paralaxed approach Sunless Skies takes to their background design leaves you stunned, even in areas where nothing’s going on. In the vast emptiness there is still crazy multi-tiered happenings going on below you.

The artistic designs this game utilized blow me away constantly.

cobysev,

I’ve been replaying Prince of Persia, the old 2008 game, for the past few days. I originally owned it for the Xbox 360 back in the day, but I have a copy on Steam now.

The graphics hold up exceptionally well. Plus, someone in the Steam community had a quick edit that allows you to manually adjust the resolution to any size you want, so I’m enjoying it on my 4K monitor now, even though there’s not a 4K option in the video settings. It looks like this game could’ve released in the past 5 years or so; they put a lot of work into the look and feel of it.

This game is basically Assassin’s Creed before Assassin’s Creed released. Most of the game is spent running along walls, climbing things, chaining movements across multiple surfaces, etc. It’s pretty satisfying to play. And the controls are easier and smoother than the early Assassin’s Creed games.

The only downside is that fights are slow, as you need to chain attacks and defend at precise moments to make decent progress. Everyone has a large health bar, but lower enemies can be ended quickly by just shoving them off platforms.

Fortunately, enemies are few and far between. The game mostly revolves around collecting glowing white magic balls floating throughout the levels. When you get enough, the princess following you throughout the game can unlock powers that allow you to navigate new levels. Each level has an end boss to fight, and as long as you chain attacks and defend well, it’s mostly just a game of patience, picking down their health bar a little at a time. The ultimate goal is to clear all the levels and fight the BBEG who was released at the start of the game.

Like I said, there is a princess following you throughout the game. But it’s not an escort quest; quite the opposite really. She uses her magic to ensure you stay safe throughout the entire game. If you fall off a ledge, there’s a brief cutscene of her teleporting after you and then teleporting you back to a safe platform. If you die in battle, she rewinds time a little bit to when you’re still alive and fighting. She’s mostly able to take care of herself, so you don’t need to focus on her.

Back in the day, I got the sense that the prince you play as was just a snarky, sarcastic asshole, constantly harassing and belittling the princess. It always made me think of Link from that awful 1989 Legend of Zelda cartoon. But since playing through again, I see he’s not that bad. Maybe a bit sarcastic at times, definitely uses humor to deflect conversation, but he’s not the raging asshole I remember him being.

I really enjoyed this game 16 years ago, and I’m still enjoying it today!

MacedWindow,
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This is what I mean by a bigger pool of games meaning you can ignore the new stuff! Especially with fans helping to keep them alive.

I remember people dunking on that game when it came out. I wanted to get it but everyone told me not to and that it was awful. Ill need to add it to the backlog, from your description it sounds like something I’d like.

Ioughttamow,

I’m making my way through pillars of eternity again. Once done I’ll be playing deadfire

MacedWindow,
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I wasn’t able to get into PoE gameplay, but Im excited for Avowed as the lore and world seem very immersive.

Toes,

Currently working my way through Twilight Princess using a modded 4k GameCube version.

Been having a blast.

I just recently beat Borderlands 3 for the first time too.

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