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If you were going to be stranded on a desert island, and for some reason you could bring 5 video games with their required hardware and means to power them, what would they be? No compilations or online multiplayer if you want to be a purist about it, but I'm still interested if you have thoughts about them :)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Modded morrowind,ultrakill, metal gear rising, modded Minecraft, modded skyrim

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

In no particular order:

  • Rim World
  • Terraria
  • Oxygen not Included
  • Factorio
  • Vintage Story
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Stellaris Kerbal Space Program Dead Cells Grim Dawn Against The Storm

Honorable Mentions: ΔV: Rings of Saturn We Who Are About To Die

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)
  • Minecraft
  • Factorial
  • Terraria
  • Balatro
  • Stardew valley

I'm just going for maximum time sink.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Can I mod them? Because if so

  • minecraft
  • skyrim
  • terraria
  • dark souls 2
  • hollowknight (so i can finally get those speedrun achievements)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Half-Life 3 through 7.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Quake 3, UT 2004, Heroes 3, GTA2, Beavis & Butthead Hock a Loogie

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Island: A Game of Survival

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Lately:

Balatro

Tetris

Absolute Drift

art of rally

SnowRunner

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, all the best survival guides start with "find the nearest tree and punch it a couple of times"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

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)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Transport Fever 2

OpenTTD

Factorio

Factorio

Factorio

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

Probably something like this:

  • Slay the Spire with mods
  • Kerbal Space Program with mods
  • Trackmania 2020 with all maps from Trackmania Exchange downloaded
  • Path of Exile
  • Cities: Skylines or Planet Zoo (with mods)

I'd also like to bring Factorio (with mods of course) but I'm not sure what to replace

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)
  • Rimworld
  • HoI4 with Mods
  • Vic3 with Mods
  • CP2077
  • maybe Satisfactory
[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

L.A. Noire

Mafia 1-3

Master of Orion 2

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago
  • 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.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

Terraria

Celeste

Expedition 33

Horizon: Forbidden West

F-ZERO GX

About as much variety and quality as I could hope to fit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Dark souls 3 / dlc

Elden ring / dlc

Armored core 6

Armored core 4 Answer

Terraria (with tmod loader)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Cave in mountain side then surrounded by a forest with grizzly bears.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
  • Dwarf Fortress
  • Rimworld
  • Baldur’s Gate 3
  • The Witcher 3
  • The Binding of Isaac
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago
  • 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...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago
  • Any Monster Hunter really, but I'll go with Monster Hunter Wilds
  • Subnautica
  • Fatal Frame 3
  • Tetris
  • Ghost of Tsushima
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
  • Chrono Trigger
  • Skyrim
  • Super Mario World
  • Donkey Kong Country 2
  • Teraria
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
  • 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago
  • Burnout Revenge
  • Age of Empires 2
  • The Witcher 3
  • Monster Train
  • Bejeweled Ultimate/Blitz.. Whatever was the last one.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago
  • Portal 2
  • L4D2
  • Minecraft: Java
  • Borderlands 2
  • WoW 3.3.5a or up to BFA
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the rundown. My biggest problem is that the literal only copy I have is from the DRM-free Humble Bundle from way back then (I gave away the Steam key to a friend of a friend), which is on a higher version than with what Multiverse is compatible, so I've never been able to play it all these years even though I've been itching to try.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

My man you bought it, just get yourself a downgraded version from the web.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
  • Katamari Damacy
  • Halo 2
  • Civilization II
  • SimCity 2000
  • Crazy Taxi
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Every new version of Civ, I hope they reintroduce live action advisors like the ones from Civ II.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Shattered Pixel Dungeon

WipeOut 2097(XL)

Tetris (arcade) or Karate Champ (arcade) or Speed Rumbler(arcade)

Descent II

Simon Tatham Puzzles collection

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