I always somehow find my way back to playing No Man’s Sky. No matter what I do, game I play, activity inside or outside of gaming, NMS is always there to play and chill. Sometimes I go on creative and spend a week amassing the perfect color coordinated team of ships, crew, frigates, and freighter.
That and every content update we get for free!
Heat Signature. Top down stealth shooter but gameplay’s more puzzle. With some rouge-lite stuff going on. I keep coming back because it’s so pick-upable. There’s absolutely nothing between “start new game” and picking your mission. Nothing at all to disrupt your gameplay for a scene you’ve seen 10 times before etc, just you and a nebula full of fantastic emergent gameplay.
You migh get a mission where you need to assassinate a dude, for example. Maybe you bring your assault rifle and execute everyone with impunity. Maybe you stealth through with a wrench, clubbing fools down before murdering your target. Maybe you bring a cloaking device and sneak through the ship, leaving no sign, 'till you deploy a trap that will teleport your target into space. Maybe you steal his whole ship and turn him over for the client to deal with. Maybe you steal a completely different ship and fire into your target’s ship 'till he’s killed.
Love it.