Here’s an idea that won’t cost anything: Browser games! There are tons of great Incremental games playable for free on a browser, and plenty of other games too.

I gotta see some pics of your megabases

In the early days it was the most complex, but then Pyanodons overtook it. I’d really like to try out Pyanodons someday when I have a more stable career.

Have you ever built a megabase in Bob’s and Angel’s?

6 or 7 runs of Bob’s and Angel’s? That’s crazy, why did you play it so many times? I gotta get back to attempting to build a mega base in my save :)

That’s insane. I’ve beaten Bob’s+Angel’s (with a limp to the finish line) in 123 hours. There are many hundred items and thousands of total recipes, many with byproducts in B+A. How is Pyanodons that much longer?

This might be cheating but I’m assuming mods/DLCs to a game count as part of the game.

1. Factorio. Pretty much endless amount of stuff you can do with mods on top of a top-tier base game.
2. Minecraft, also for the mods.
3. Geometry Dash. So many user created levels and the highest skill ceiling of pretty much any game.
4. Asetto Corsa, or whatever the most realistic, moddable car racing sim there is. I don’t play this game but I don’t want that genre to die.
5. Really struggling to think of anything else so I’m just gonna go with another fun, replayable, moddable game: Balatro. Edit: After reading other responses and me forgetting some games I think Skyrim would be a better choice here.

No no, sell them for 376, 554, and 732 UbiPoints^TM. Gotta buy that extra pack.

It’s more akin to trying to drive a semi truck with a semi truck motor but then something drops and there’s a ton of friction like an unintentional tractor pull. Even the best chips on the market display subpar performance.

Similar story here with my SN30 Pro+. It was great the first year then the Bluetooth stopped working consistently, then the wired mode also stopped working consistently a year later.

Definitely boycott paying real money for lootboxes or games with real money lootboxes.

If you’re not paying, then it’s just a factor to consider, the companies won’t care about you much

Not really. The one exception I made in recent times was Cities Skylines 2 after I had 400+ hours in the original, and that was only due to a 30% off sale days before release. Though I wouldn’t recommend it for most, I still have 42 good hours in it so it was worth my money.

Otherwise I’m a very patient gamer.

Wow! I’ll stick to pure vanilla until I beat the game at least.

Of course lol. What kind of mods do you like?

What were you doing in the game with all those hours? 100%'ing it with every race?

I’m playing on survival mode. I don’t want any tips for now, thank you! How do you have so many hours? My most played game (Factorio) is only 800 hours.

How many hours do you have in it? I’m just getting started and I’m barely out of the tutorial, looking for food to survive.

I’m trying something new to me: Skyrim.

Pro-developer never needs to be anti-consumer. They are staunchly both right now.

When was the last time you used it?

Also use Heroic launcher to bypass the bloat.

I’m gonna have to agree. It used to be about the most slow and bloated thing in existence, but they actually fixed a lot of performance issues last time I checked. It’s still slow, but in the same time period Steam on Windows decided to add a pointless splash screen increasing the load time by 4x, letting Epic take the W by a wide margin in load times, while responsiveness is a draw.

Yes, I know that Steam is more feature complete and consumer friendly which is why I still prefer to buy from Steam when possible.

You forgot: The videos often have absurd challenges that most gamers would never try, like for example trying to beat Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire with only a physical attacking Abra.

$259/mo??? I expected the price of a couple streaming services, but this is more like car payment territory.

Got this a couple weeks ago. What a garbage way to promote your cloud AI.

The interesting thing is that although I’ve almost never spent money on a gacha system and haven’t played much gacha systems recently, my brain subconsciously craved for more but in a safer way.

That’s why I created the JavaScript weighted playlist for myself: A random selection of songs from my music library where some songs play (much) more than others. Getting a super rare song is akin to getting a top tier drop. Additionally, the playback rate is randomized to a normal distribution, giving the tiny chance that a rare song can play with a wild playback rate. And if that wasn’t enough, some Geometry Dash related songs can randomly skip to the next song, simulating watching someone try to beat some demon level.

I’ve created a skinner box for my brain that sometimes causes me to waste hours just clicking on the “next song” button to see what shows up next. My wallet was not harmed in the process (although it might soon be because I want it to work on a portable device, but that money would go to some niche open source hardware thing rather than a greedy gacha publisher).

I spent way too much time with Bob’s+Angel’s with SpaceX, 160h in and I just unlocked the final tier of modules and now I need to scale up the whole base to get enough science to make the millions of science I need to research everything.

I haven’t even started Space Exploration (which is very different than SpaceX = Space Extension), but I won’t have enough time to play that before the Factorio DLC comes out…

Pokémon music. Especially the route themes and battle themes. If I had to list the bangers it would take hours

Not that much when the weather is great motorcycle riding weather, but I’ve just gotten to level 16 in Palworld and beat the first 3 boss fights.

I’ll try to do that. Thanks for the tip!

I can’t wait to see this technology in motorcycles and micro mobility vehicles. It will be a mushroom in Mario Kart IRL. And imagine this tech on drag bikes/cars

I’ve finally began to play Palworld, which was on my bucket list for a while. I’m still a noob that’s level 8, and I don’t know how to make my pals in my base do specific tasks (planting instead of grazing)

ROG phones have this and a headphone jack.

Let me know how it could improve! I’m always looking to try to make it better.

TIL. I’ve used the app for 30 months, and somehow never found out about that.

I thought pocket casts was proprietary.

I don’t want to toot my own horn too much here, but I’m developing a card game that is much more roguelite than rougelike, with strong meta-progression. It’s all free and open source and playable at superspruce.org.

If you like strong meta-progression, you might also like incremental games, such as Cookie Clicker, Antimatter Dimensions, and Realm Grinder. These games are satisfying due to the pure progression you experience within them.

To be fair, I don’t expect the sequel’s base game to have more content than the previous game with all its DLCs, but I do expect the base game to have at least as much content as the previous game’s base game.

I stand corrected. My brain must’ve been switched off at the moment.

You have a Samsung, so you can avoid Google’s UI dumbing down.

Can we talk about how space inefficient the UI is? It takes up the entire screen to essentially show 6 buttons. And I bet like the Internet toggle that it moves the buttons around when it detects new networks

If you wanted that, you’d simply just leave Bluetooth toggled on and take it off your top quick toggles.