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 :)
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.
Cave in mountain side then surrounded by a forest with grizzly bears.
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.
- Any Monster Hunter really, but I’ll go with Monster Hunter Wilds
- Subnautica
- Fatal Frame 3
- Tetris
- Ghost of Tsushima
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.
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
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
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)
Half-Life 3 through 7.
- Chrono Trigger
- Skyrim
- Super Mario World
- Donkey Kong Country 2
- Teraria
DayZ, Minecraft, Cities: Skylines, Age of Empires 2 Definite Edition, Grand Theft Auto 5
I see DayZ, I upvote.
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.
- Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection
- Slay the Spire
- Tetris Effect, Connected
- OpenXCom
- Olli Olli
- Burnout Revenge
- Age of Empires 2
- The Witcher 3
- Monster Train
- Bejeweled Ultimate/Blitz… Whatever was the last one.
- 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
- 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.
