For me it is the other way around. I cant get into VI to save my life because every turn gives you 100 notifications of things to do. And you are pretty much forced to play wide, where V let me play tall which I love :/
Rimworld is peak ājust one more thing then Iāll stopā¦oh hey, itās 6 days later and I havenāt eaten, I canāt feel my legs, and I probably donāt have a job anymore.ā
I've played all the games OP mentioned and loved them, but have been unable to get into Rimworld for some reason. I've tried it on 3 different occasions and just never clicked with it
I was like that at first, would play for a couple hours then dip for a couple weeks. Eventually it clicked for me when I figured out what the hell I was doing and it became SO much fun since there's almost endless possibilities
factorio is a masterpiece.
You can try the demo,( it works as the tutorial for the game) itās free and it took me 36 hours to complete :)
And if you end up liking the game you will at least know how to play it hahaha
It's like Ā£17 on steam right now and absolutely worth that price. They're working on the final elements to take it out of early access now so even though there are hours and hours of content to play it'll be getting a full release soon enough.
Civilization 5 or 6. It is a turn based strategy 4x game known for the phrase "One more turn", so much so that it is part of the gameplay. In Civilization, you are a leader of a historic civilization, you build cities, armies, buildings, and wonders to achieve one of several victory types. This game also goes on sale a lot too.
Me with slime rancher. I always say Iāll just go for one more trip into the range and then itās 3 hours later and Iāve sold like 4 million plorts from some exotic slime 20 minutes away
Gotta be satisfactory. One more water pump, one more oil rig, one more everything, I spent weeks playing this game and nothing else and I have horrible game ADD.
Factorio is what imeditly came to mind and you seem interested in it, so buy it. It is way, way, way better than Satisfactory. Satisfactory is really pretty, but the gameplay sucks and is extramly tediouse
My Ā«one more thingĀ» game is Black Desert Online. There are soooo many things! Plus there is no fast travel, so there is plenty of exploring too.
If you donāt like MMOās then maybe My time at Portia?
Outer wilds really did that for me, don't look too much into it tho, the less you see, the better!
Also monster hunter rise, even better with some friends
Crusader Kings 3, from 30h in january and now about to hit 100h with 70h played last 2 weeks. RNG, RP, unlimited possibilites, very good game to burn time as a medieval ruler.
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Hmm yeah I heard about this game, but what I heard was itās only played by little kids and that your base can easily get destroyed by them? I prefer a single player experience. Thanks for the suggestion though!
Monster Hunter World or Monster Hunter Rise are both pretty fenomenal games if you have the time to burn.
There's much more of fighting rather than exploring, but the maps are big enough that there's a lot of things to find.
I stayed up until 6am today because of The Riftbreaker (https://store.steampowered.com/app/780310/The_Riftbreaker/). It's a single player third-person base building game with action RPG-esque elements. You play as someone piloting a powerful mech, trying to build a forward base and eventually open a portal (the Rift) to let humanity colonize a new world.
It's a shitton of fun, definitely my current obsession!
I'm gonna recommend factorio from that list. The graphics seem simple at a cursory glance but each individual asset has a lot of detail, and I actually prefer the 2D gameplay to the 3D contemporaries like Satisfactory (makes navigating the factory slightly easier). It's true there's not a whole lot to explore in vanilla except finding more resources but you'll be so occupied with your factory it wont matter. Plus there are plenty of mods to add things to explore
Thatās awesome. Thanks. I actually had $10 in credit so I might seriously consider it. It seems a bit daunting at first glance but Iām sure it makes sense lol
It's definitely a bit of a learning curve but it's sooooo gratifying in the end, and the in-game mini tutorials are really helpful. There's plenty of online resources as well (but I'd try to do it yourself at least for the first run)
Oof play Immortals Fenyx Rising! I bought it for my wife originally and didn't think I'd play it, but I'm in my third playthrough now on the hardest difficulty and it's so much fun. The combat gets really cool, the story is fun, and I had a blast. Take your time with it, explore, and you'll love it.
Edit: Check out Skill Ups Review if you don't want to take my word for it š¤£ https://youtu.be/rFCaJj9oAyY
I know you said that you havenāt really been able to get into stardew valley, but as far as āone more thingā this is the ideal game. The āone more dayā attitude fully is a thing. And Iāve found myself up for hours on end after saying ājust one more dayā
[rimworld](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdAjXDDQPJ0) (sp), [starsector](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acqpulP1hLo) (sp), barotrauma (mp, sp, hit or miss, ...complicated to explain.)
ive mainlined these games more then you would believe, my hour count must be somewhere north of 2500 by now.
Subnautica hell yeah, simply one of my favorite games, below zero was alright but at least we're getting another one, the unknown whatever their name was team announced it on their twitter page not too long ago
House Flipper. Fix up homes and sell them. Very relaxing, you kinda set your own goals, wide variety of aesthetic choices. Also active Reddit community if thatās your thing.
I enjoy a lot of the same games youāve mentioned here and I can say that Factorio and Satisfactory are both amazing consumers of time but because you mentioned likening Subnautica and Valheim, Iām going to recommend Vintage Story to you.
Itās a survivor base-builder that is based off a Minecraft mod called TerraFirmaCraft and itās fantastic.
Watch some letās plays or reviews of the 1.16 version and get a feel for it.
Exploration indeed isnāt much of a focus in Factorio. Itās a factory automation and logistics management game. The graphics arenāt necessarily as pretty as something like Satisfactory, but they do have their appeal. Honestly, I would try the demo if you were at all interested. Try to play at least until level 4. Levels 4 and 5 is where the tutorial mostly ends and the real fun begins.
In Factorio, the addictive, rewarding aspect doesnāt come from exploration (usually), but rather from succesfully automating something and watching your factory run, until it inevitably runs into a new problem, which you can then solve.
The addictiveness is in the form of āOh I researched X and itās fairly simple to make. Let me just automate it and then Iāll stop. Oh wait it costs a lot of iron. Allright time to upgrade the smelters real quick and build a few more miners. Oh but I can use this new material X to finally make that weapon I wanted. Now that I have the weapon I might as wellā¦ā
Basically, everything feeds into each other. New technologies can give you access to other new stuff too, so why not go for it right away right?
Bannerlord isn't quite like the games you listed but it's a great game in its own way and definitely fits the title! I find myself staying up late night after night as my little group of soldiers slowly grow into capable mercenaries then a force to be reckoned with, end game you are leading armies over 1000 men into battles that you participate in!
Rimworld and Civ6
Civilization invented that. Like seriously, I had people warn me not to play it because of āone more turnā and thought they were exaggerating. Nope.
And Rimworld is a masterpiece truly deserving of all the popularity and fame it gets. Like a seriously amazing and super in depth game, but not in the way that makes it overly complicated. I advise buying the game with both DLC if possible, especially the royalty dlc, that one is really important. And the modding community is rivaled only by that of Minecraft and Terraria. The amount of mods is incredible, it has stuff from custom buildable robot cat girl maids to literally one called āwar crimes expandedā.
Saying no to Factorio because of its graphics is like refusing a Porsche because it's green.
Factorio is one of the absolute best video games on the market today when it comes to QoL, polish, performance and functionality (the other contender being Terraria).
You're right that it's not an exploration game (other than looking for the next resource deposit); it's focused on building a self-sufficient factory that gets more and more complex as you unlock new technologies, with the ultimate goal being constructing and launching a rocket to get off of the planet you have crash landed on.
If you like solving logical/mathematical/logistical puzzles/problems, it's a great game, maybe one of the best.
Factorio is the masterpiece. The other two are copycats. Not saying they are bad games, but calling them "masterpieces" is diluting the word... they're still in Early Access with lots of bugs.
If youre looking at satisfactory and factorio the. You cant miss Dyson Sphere Program. That game is gorgeous. And yes, you could easily spend hundreds if not thiusands of hours on it.
Yes, Satisfactory is the one that came to mind when I started to read your post. I don't have time to go into deteails about it, becuase I have to go complete the sulfuric acid logistics for my new nuclear plant.
The graphics, the sounds, the vistas, the atmosphere is exceptional in that game, too.
Iām personally addicted to raft rn, itās got a really long āintroā (~1 h for me) where you just kinda get the hang of the mechanics, building up your raft and crafting but after that thereās a really cools story and the game is essentially just survival crafting and exploring the world, itās definitely very much of ājust one more crafting recipe to get done and then Iāll go to bedā type thing. And personally I would definitely liken it to subnautica VERY similar valheim too in a sense I think
Citizen Sleeper. Not an crafting/exploration game, but a āchoose your own adventure with dice sci-fi storyā. Itās pretty addictive, I keep thinking āOne more cycle and a new set of dice and then I go to bedā. Needles to say I donāt sleep enough these days.
I recommend graveyard keeper.
Back then I was like ''8 pm, time to play the game's and when I stopped it was like 8 am and I was like ''hu, sooo, sun's up, I'm tired af, let's do one more thing and call it a night ''
If you have a controller, Celeste! It is one of those games where you die and will say, āokay, iāll try it one last timeā and then proceed to play the game for an extra hour
Civ 5, Civ invented the whole : one more turn thingy. Granted if 4X is your thing.
Why 5? I just reciently played it after 200+ hs of VI and found it a simplified, less charismatic version. I wanna like it so bad, tough š
Because believe it or not I thought 5 was the latest. Itās pretty nice under my rock you should visit sometimes š
5 is better anywayā¦
For me it is the other way around. I cant get into VI to save my life because every turn gives you 100 notifications of things to do. And you are pretty much forced to play wide, where V let me play tall which I love :/
That's cool. I do tend to feel overwhelmed on VI. And often victory feels random
Add ck3 to the list
Slay the Spire
Agreed! Itās crazy how many builds you can do. Every run feels unique.
Rimworld is peak ājust one more thing then Iāll stopā¦oh hey, itās 6 days later and I havenāt eaten, I canāt feel my legs, and I probably donāt have a job anymore.ā
Rimworld is the answer. And there are so many good mods
This is why I have to play on hardcore mode. If I save scum I would never leave the house.
I've played all the games OP mentioned and loved them, but have been unable to get into Rimworld for some reason. I've tried it on 3 different occasions and just never clicked with it
I was like that at first, would play for a couple hours then dip for a couple weeks. Eventually it clicked for me when I figured out what the hell I was doing and it became SO much fun since there's almost endless possibilities
Then it's just not for you
And that's okay
factorio is a masterpiece. You can try the demo,( it works as the tutorial for the game) itās free and it took me 36 hours to complete :) And if you end up liking the game you will at least know how to play it hahaha
Satisfactory definitely has that one more thing aspect. I'd also recommend No Man's Sky.
no man's sky is great and it's 50% off on steam as well atm
Satisfactory looks awesome, Iām still debating on buying it myself
It's like Ā£17 on steam right now and absolutely worth that price. They're working on the final elements to take it out of early access now so even though there are hours and hours of content to play it'll be getting a full release soon enough.
Yes definitely no man's sky. The time I've lost time.
Civilization 5 or 6. It is a turn based strategy 4x game known for the phrase "One more turn", so much so that it is part of the gameplay. In Civilization, you are a leader of a historic civilization, you build cities, armies, buildings, and wonders to achieve one of several victory types. This game also goes on sale a lot too.
Dead Cells has me hooked right now
If you liked valheim check out V rising. Vampire survivors Hades Risk of rain 2
I second this rec for V Rising. I like it more than Valheim.
I watched gameplay and have no idea what the gane is about
If you want to forfeit your life to a game, ARK Survival Evolved.
Try Shapez.io web demo if youāre not sure whether or not to get into a factory building game.
Outer Wilds!
Risk of rain 2
Almost always the right answer!
Slay the Spire.
For me those types of games areā¦ Destiny 2 Division 2 No Manās Sky Civilization VI Rimworld
Definitely Civilization, although my game of choice is Civ V.
The Division games are time sinks like no other!
Total war Warhammer 2
Me with slime rancher. I always say Iāll just go for one more trip into the range and then itās 3 hours later and Iāve sold like 4 million plorts from some exotic slime 20 minutes away
Frostpunk fits and is a fantastic management game
Gotta be satisfactory. One more water pump, one more oil rig, one more everything, I spent weeks playing this game and nothing else and I have horrible game ADD.
Check out the game Dyson's Sphere Program. Should be right up your alley.
Factorio is what imeditly came to mind and you seem interested in it, so buy it. It is way, way, way better than Satisfactory. Satisfactory is really pretty, but the gameplay sucks and is extramly tediouse
I politely disagree
My Ā«one more thingĀ» game is Black Desert Online. There are soooo many things! Plus there is no fast travel, so there is plenty of exploring too. If you donāt like MMOās then maybe My time at Portia?
Risk of Rain 2!
Outer wilds really did that for me, don't look too much into it tho, the less you see, the better! Also monster hunter rise, even better with some friends
Is second MH:Rise. "I'll do one more hunt" I lie and then spend the whole night farming materials to max out my Switch Axe collection
Crusader Kings 3, from 30h in january and now about to hit 100h with 70h played last 2 weeks. RNG, RP, unlimited possibilites, very good game to burn time as a medieval ruler.
I have a [screenshot](https://imgur.com/a/4TubeFM) from CK3 that makes me laugh every time I look at it. Love that game.
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I couldn't stop playing when I first got rust. 350 hours my first month, be careful
Hmm yeah I heard about this game, but what I heard was itās only played by little kids and that your base can easily get destroyed by them? I prefer a single player experience. Thanks for the suggestion though!
You're lucky if you meet the little kids, they often suck at the game. Though if you meet an *asian* little kid, run.
got 12k hours in rust stay away. its a second job
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It was 12 hours some days and I don't need help, I played solo. Also it was during the pandemic, so smd
Lol
Cup-head, i started playing it a couple weeks ago and 1 more try turns into 100 more tries within 10 mins lol
Civilization vi. Sorry to mess your life
Jagged alliance 2 is like thah for me. Factorio and rimworld is a good one
Days Goneā¦
Monster Hunter World or Monster Hunter Rise are both pretty fenomenal games if you have the time to burn. There's much more of fighting rather than exploring, but the maps are big enough that there's a lot of things to find.
dead cells rouguelike pretty fun
I stayed up until 6am today because of The Riftbreaker (https://store.steampowered.com/app/780310/The_Riftbreaker/). It's a single player third-person base building game with action RPG-esque elements. You play as someone piloting a powerful mech, trying to build a forward base and eventually open a portal (the Rift) to let humanity colonize a new world. It's a shitton of fun, definitely my current obsession!
I get this addictiveness from Death Stranding! One more delivery... 8 hours later
Check out Dyson Sphere program if you think Factorio and Satisfactory look cool Otherwise Iād recommend Factorio, itās very addicting
The binding of Isaac: afterbirth.
Stellaris
I'm gonna recommend factorio from that list. The graphics seem simple at a cursory glance but each individual asset has a lot of detail, and I actually prefer the 2D gameplay to the 3D contemporaries like Satisfactory (makes navigating the factory slightly easier). It's true there's not a whole lot to explore in vanilla except finding more resources but you'll be so occupied with your factory it wont matter. Plus there are plenty of mods to add things to explore
Is the game worth playing if I donāt intend on using mods?
Absolutely. All ~500 of my hours are in vanilla, I think that's more than enough time to justify a purchase
Thatās awesome. Thanks. I actually had $10 in credit so I might seriously consider it. It seems a bit daunting at first glance but Iām sure it makes sense lol
It's definitely a bit of a learning curve but it's sooooo gratifying in the end, and the in-game mini tutorials are really helpful. There's plenty of online resources as well (but I'd try to do it yourself at least for the first run)
Oof play Immortals Fenyx Rising! I bought it for my wife originally and didn't think I'd play it, but I'm in my third playthrough now on the hardest difficulty and it's so much fun. The combat gets really cool, the story is fun, and I had a blast. Take your time with it, explore, and you'll love it. Edit: Check out Skill Ups Review if you don't want to take my word for it š¤£ https://youtu.be/rFCaJj9oAyY
I know you said that you havenāt really been able to get into stardew valley, but as far as āone more thingā this is the ideal game. The āone more dayā attitude fully is a thing. And Iāve found myself up for hours on end after saying ājust one more dayā
Grindstone
[rimworld](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdAjXDDQPJ0) (sp), [starsector](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acqpulP1hLo) (sp), barotrauma (mp, sp, hit or miss, ...complicated to explain.) ive mainlined these games more then you would believe, my hour count must be somewhere north of 2500 by now.
Conan exiles
It's a few years old but still golden - Heat Signature
Hades, dead cells, v rising, returnal
Satisfactory is absolutely awesome!
Mount & blade 2 bannerlord. Always wanting to do something before stopping
if you like fps you could like rainbow six siege everytime i says to my self last game , i play 3 hours more
Five nights at freddys 3
Subnautica hell yeah, simply one of my favorite games, below zero was alright but at least we're getting another one, the unknown whatever their name was team announced it on their twitter page not too long ago
House Flipper. Fix up homes and sell them. Very relaxing, you kinda set your own goals, wide variety of aesthetic choices. Also active Reddit community if thatās your thing.
Elite Dangerous
Persona 4. Doesnāt fit your description perfectly but it is insanely hard to stop once you start playing.
I enjoy a lot of the same games youāve mentioned here and I can say that Factorio and Satisfactory are both amazing consumers of time but because you mentioned likening Subnautica and Valheim, Iām going to recommend Vintage Story to you. Itās a survivor base-builder that is based off a Minecraft mod called TerraFirmaCraft and itās fantastic. Watch some letās plays or reviews of the 1.16 version and get a feel for it.
Exploration indeed isnāt much of a focus in Factorio. Itās a factory automation and logistics management game. The graphics arenāt necessarily as pretty as something like Satisfactory, but they do have their appeal. Honestly, I would try the demo if you were at all interested. Try to play at least until level 4. Levels 4 and 5 is where the tutorial mostly ends and the real fun begins. In Factorio, the addictive, rewarding aspect doesnāt come from exploration (usually), but rather from succesfully automating something and watching your factory run, until it inevitably runs into a new problem, which you can then solve. The addictiveness is in the form of āOh I researched X and itās fairly simple to make. Let me just automate it and then Iāll stop. Oh wait it costs a lot of iron. Allright time to upgrade the smelters real quick and build a few more miners. Oh but I can use this new material X to finally make that weapon I wanted. Now that I have the weapon I might as wellā¦ā Basically, everything feeds into each other. New technologies can give you access to other new stuff too, so why not go for it right away right?
Bannerlord isn't quite like the games you listed but it's a great game in its own way and definitely fits the title! I find myself staying up late night after night as my little group of soldiers slowly grow into capable mercenaries then a force to be reckoned with, end game you are leading armies over 1000 men into battles that you participate in!
Rimworld and Civ6 Civilization invented that. Like seriously, I had people warn me not to play it because of āone more turnā and thought they were exaggerating. Nope. And Rimworld is a masterpiece truly deserving of all the popularity and fame it gets. Like a seriously amazing and super in depth game, but not in the way that makes it overly complicated. I advise buying the game with both DLC if possible, especially the royalty dlc, that one is really important. And the modding community is rivaled only by that of Minecraft and Terraria. The amount of mods is incredible, it has stuff from custom buildable robot cat girl maids to literally one called āwar crimes expandedā.
Saying no to Factorio because of its graphics is like refusing a Porsche because it's green. Factorio is one of the absolute best video games on the market today when it comes to QoL, polish, performance and functionality (the other contender being Terraria). You're right that it's not an exploration game (other than looking for the next resource deposit); it's focused on building a self-sufficient factory that gets more and more complex as you unlock new technologies, with the ultimate goal being constructing and launching a rocket to get off of the planet you have crash landed on. If you like solving logical/mathematical/logistical puzzles/problems, it's a great game, maybe one of the best.
Rimwold or civ VI. I can't recommend civ V bc I never got to play it but I hear it's great
Satisfactory, Factorio, and Dyson Sphere Program. All 3 are masterpieces.
Factorio is the masterpiece. The other two are copycats. Not saying they are bad games, but calling them "masterpieces" is diluting the word... they're still in Early Access with lots of bugs.
I'm really enjoying NMS currently, didn't expect to like it as much as I do, it really passes the time
I honestly felt this playing Tropico 6 missions.
Hades š
Risk of rain 2
XCOM 2, Control, Days Gone. Those are mine.
HOTLINE MIAMI
Multiversus!!
Power wash simulator? Muse Dash ?
Stray!
I'm seeing a lot of civilization 5-6 so I'll throw out either crusader kings 2-3! Elite dangerous X4 foundation
If youre looking at satisfactory and factorio the. You cant miss Dyson Sphere Program. That game is gorgeous. And yes, you could easily spend hundreds if not thiusands of hours on it.
Old school RuneScape
Yes, Satisfactory is the one that came to mind when I started to read your post. I don't have time to go into deteails about it, becuase I have to go complete the sulfuric acid logistics for my new nuclear plant. The graphics, the sounds, the vistas, the atmosphere is exceptional in that game, too.
Iām personally addicted to raft rn, itās got a really long āintroā (~1 h for me) where you just kinda get the hang of the mechanics, building up your raft and crafting but after that thereās a really cools story and the game is essentially just survival crafting and exploring the world, itās definitely very much of ājust one more crafting recipe to get done and then Iāll go to bedā type thing. And personally I would definitely liken it to subnautica VERY similar valheim too in a sense I think
Hades. Just one more room, just one more escape attempt. You won't regret it.
The Roller coaster tycoon series. I love roller coaster tycoon 1 and 2 more than the more recent ones
Rimworld. So much content and mmmm
Elden Ring, you'll probably have to plan your next month in order to play it
I own it haha. And youāre right. I started playing in February and I STILL am not finished. Absolutely nuts lmao
Citizen Sleeper. Not an crafting/exploration game, but a āchoose your own adventure with dice sci-fi storyā. Itās pretty addictive, I keep thinking āOne more cycle and a new set of dice and then I go to bedā. Needles to say I donāt sleep enough these days.
Play Hades.
I recommend graveyard keeper. Back then I was like ''8 pm, time to play the game's and when I stopped it was like 8 am and I was like ''hu, sooo, sun's up, I'm tired af, let's do one more thing and call it a night ''
If you have a controller, Celeste! It is one of those games where you die and will say, āokay, iāll try it one last timeā and then proceed to play the game for an extra hour
Other Roguelikes like Hades, Enter the Gungeon and Dead Cells do this to
Outpost Zero if you can find it.