Open Ended Games You Love

[Guinea]

I've been known to talk a bit of crap about Halo, but damn do I love the multiplayer. I could play it all day tbh.

Stardew Valley is the definition of kick back and relax. I can play it all day too. Same goes for some of the Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons games.

Minecraft is always a fun time, it just doesn't really get old to me.

Smash Bros. is the goat of fun times.

Tropico is one hell of a time sink, if you like city builders I say it's the best one.

Cruis'n Blast is my favorite arcade racer, it's dope af!

What are some games you could just sit down and play and enjoy that don't exactly have an end?

 

[TheSoulWalker TheSoulWalker]

For a game I can do bite-size runs, I would say Tony Hawk for sure

For a game that I beat that has no end after beating the game I would say Oblivion

For a Tycoon game I would say Roller Coaster Tycoon

For a Cozy Game I would say Animal Crossing

 

[Guinea]

For a Cozy Game I would say Animal Crossing

Shame on me for not adding Animal Crossing in the OP. I play it all the time!

 

[Questless Knight]

NR 1 stardew valley + it´s so damn mod friendly I mean you got Ridgeside Village + Stardew Valley Expanded. Both that expand the game vastly.

Minecraft Java edition "bedrock sucks ass" The games is endless and got WAST amount of mods and new ones keep coming out. Favorite mods must be Industrial craft 2 sadly lastest game version it works on is 1.19.2 "no I don´t like the other tech mods IC2 is the best in my opinion. Then also Terrafirma craft is wonderful.

Conan exiles is a fun and wonderful game and as a huge Conan fan I love it.

Ark survival also a favorite fun game and the kid me would love a game where you catch and breed Dino´s Well adult kid me love it.

No man sky has become such a epic vast game for sci-fi nerd and always fun to play.

Not sure if they count but Heroes of might and magic II and III best TBS games ever made and you can play them endlessly.

 

[Dr.Kisaragi]

Harvest Moon

Dance Dance Revolution

Yeah I am that old enjoying this game.

 

[Guinea]

No man sky has become such a epic vast game for sci-fi nerd and always fun to play.

I've been thinking about picking this up. It looks amazing, but it would definitely trigger my megalophobia.

 

[LiberoVulpesLiberoVulpes's icon]

OpenTTD, digital crack.
Dwarf Fortress, loosing is fun.
Mount & Blade Warband, digital crack medieval nerds edition.

 

[Graw]

Dwarf Fortress(pre-steam version)

Cataclysm DDA but I've heard more recent versions have gone kind of too far with the realism. The dev's a bit nuts. Apparently the Bright Nights mod is apparently decent though.

I used to play Minecraft years ago before Microsoft bought it but I haven't played it for a long time now.

Neverwinter Nights has a bunch of large open ended multiplayer servers and the game itself is designed around custom modules so technically there's the potential for endless gameplay.

Sid Meyer's Pirates was pretty fun from what I remember but I do remember it getting pretty repetitive. Also, I don't know if they count as open ended or not, but I also always liked the Civilization games and played a lot of Civ 2, 3 and Alpha Centauri when I was younger.

I remember playing one of those open universe spaceship games, I can't even remember how long ago now, sometime in the 2000's I think. It wasn't part of any of the big series like Elite or anything like that. I think it was a smaller series of games but I remember the graphics were good and I liked the control setup. You could seamlessly swap between star trek style maneuvering and more realistic space physics by turning inertial dampers on and off. I remember trying other similar games but the controls were either too much or too basic but this one was just right. Complicated enough to feel like operating a real space ship but simple enough to still be fun and not an exercise in solving physics calculations. It did eventually get kind of boring though. I wish I could remember the name of the game. I think it was part of a series that was basically just the same game but continuously updated. I think the one I played was version 4 and when they updated to version 5 I couldn't play it anymore for some reason. Maybe I'd pirated it, probably. I feel like it was probably made by smaller developers but I really can't remember. None of the other space ship sims I've played since then have had a control system quite like that one.

On the note of spaceship sims, I also enjoyed Oolite, an open source remake of the original Elite, it's a bit basic and repetitive but still pretty fun to pick up and mess around with. Last time I played it, which was quite a while ago, there were a lot of mods available to expand the game and add content and improve the graphics.

 

[Questless Knight]

OpenTTD, digital crack.
Dwarf Fortress, loosing is fun.
Mount & Blade Warband, digital crack medieval nerds edition.

Man I grew up with TTD still have my boxed copy somewhere. OpenTTD is brilliant. One of the best Taycoon games I ever played and sadly I yet to play one that is as fun. All newer games don´t make it like that game and try to add some new shit I don´t care about.

Forgot to add Dwarf fortress and Rimworld.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

Dunno if it really counts, but I always come back to get lost in Falout New Vegas/Tale of Two Wastelands every so often.

Games with tons of New Game+ cycles like Nioh 2 tend to suck me in forever too.

If we're talking multiplayer, I'm a big fighting game fan and have been playing stuff like Third Strike, Garou, SSF2T and others competitively for 18+ years now.

 

[PSVitaForever]

I've been thinking about picking this up. It looks amazing, but it would definitely trigger my megalophobia.

Do it! I got it on Switch day one and put it on mega easy mode just to enjoy the main story, and I think after I sold it it received more and more free updates to an already HUGE world with endless planets but also lots of space stations full of aliens that give you quests and space battles and buildings to explore on the planets' surface and creepy empty ruined ships and so on. If you're good (I'm not) with this kind of games where you have to manage resources, it's like heaven!

 

[TranslationIsLost1.5]

uh gta (specifically V)
i mean it is an open-ended game to do crime and whatever the hell you want