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?

shadowSprite,

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.

Poggervania,
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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.

Thunderdonk4444,

CS2 & super auto pets

Cqrd,

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.

chunkystyles,

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.

LNRDrone,

Path of Exile for sure, not sure about the second though. Maybe Dark Souls 2, Elden Ring, or maybe XCom 2.

NimbleSloth,

Path of Exile and Rocket League

baggins,

The store tab and the library tab

superduperenigma,

I feel attacked

ULS,

Don’t worry I have potion!

kratoz29,

It must be awesome hoarding all those games huh?

loudWaterEnjoyer,
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This one

krafty,

Satisfactory and Titan Quest

KarthNemesis,
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Rain World!!!!!
Second place is hard to do though! Oxygen Not Included, I guess?

Xenny,

Oxygen not included has infinite replayability. I find so much joy just watching the plants grow in that game.

KarthNemesis,
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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.

Poopfeast420,
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Nioh 2 and Satisfactory

CaptainBasculin,

TF2 and TF|2

makmarian,
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Skyrim and Half-Life 2

VerseAndVermin,

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.

itsnicodegallo,

Does BG3 not? I used tons of mods that seemed regularly updated.

VerseAndVermin,

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.

itsnicodegallo,

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.

whereBeWaldo,

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

VerseAndVermin,

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.

scrubbles,
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Satisfactory & Mass Effect

Breezy,

Mass effect legendary edition is one game with 3 games inside, so does that still count?

scrubbles,
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech avatar

…I count it

kethali,

Assetto Corsa (assuming mods are included) and Factorio (again, with mods, but to a lesser degree).

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