As their name suggests, forever (or evergreen) games are games that don’t have a finale or culmination, as in “The End”. These games have a very high replayability factor (meaning we enjoy playing them over and over again).
Forever games are also timeless. We can pick up these games anytime , be it the day they were released, or a few years later, and play them for months or years. We can even stop playing for a while, pick them up again years later, and they’d still be fun and relevant.
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Slay the spire. Any roguelikes really
Civilization V is it for me I think. Very cozy, very comfortable. Not playing on the highest difficulty, just playing fun civs with half the brain turned off. Like solitaire.
I also have a save file of Football Manager 2017 that I still come back to now and then. That save got me through some rough times back in 2017 and I played it super intensely then. Formed some strong emotional attachment to some of those pixels.
These days I don’t really play it but I have a hard time letting it go. Sometimes I fire it up and just browse through the menus a bit and then quit. Like checking in with some old friends. It’s really a testament to how unhealthily obsessed I was for a while there, I guess.
If you’d have asked me this question when I was a teenager I’d have absolutely said the FM series as a whole. From 12-18 it was basically the only game (series)I played. On my school holidays me and my brothers would spend 8-9 hours a day just… playing our individual games. We’d walk into each others rooms with questions about transfers or formations, or if we had a vital game we’d all crowd around the others screen to experience what was going on. Absolutely amazing memories that’ll both never be forgotten, but also never reproduced.
I think mine is probably Rocket League. I’ve been playing it since day one back in 2014. Multiple console generations and platforms, thousands of hours playing solo and with my brothers. It’s been nearly ten years and I’m still putting in 3-4 hours a week, every week.
Rocket League has burrowed its way so deep into my mind that I unconsciously perceive the aesthetics of football to be a rip off of Rocket League but with tiny balls and no rocket cars.
Yeah it has to be RL. I too have been playing for 10 years and still trash.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
Factorio, hands down.
Surviving Mars, I really love it.
I haven’t seen anyone talk about this one in quite a while. Gorgeous soundtrack.
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Solitaire
Minecraft, of course. Been playing it for what, almost 15 years now? Which is insane to me. Still pick it up once a year or so and spin up a server with my brothers.
Spelunky 2 would be closest for me, I think.
Survival mode of the Long Dark, I start a new sanbox every winter with no exceptions. Mods make it even better imo.
I suppose Dwarf Fortress would qualify, but I tend to get tired of everything sooner or later.
Minesweeper and circloO was good to play on my phone for a few weeks when away from my PC.
Oh and almost forgot about Caves (the traditional rogue-like on Android). I occasionally come back to that one, but get frustrated pretty quick now.
