I saw a recent post that 60% of playtime in 2023 was spent on games 6 years or older. What 6+ year old games are you playing?
I saw a recent post that 60% of playtime in 2023 was spent on games 6 years or older. What 6+ year old games are you playing?
I haven't stopped playing Overwatch since it came out, still getting on with friends 2 or 3 nights a week and putting in a few hours (and I'm still awful lol). I also still log on to Battlefield 1943 from time to time to get in a few matches.
I also collect retro games so there is a good bit of time there. If anything I've struggled to find new games that I'd want to play more than something older and cheaper. I just picked up Dark Messiah for like 2 bucks and its amazing, hard to justify a $60-70 purchase when you can find deals like that on older but still great games.
I saw a lot of the playtime goes to still updated online games like Fortnite and Apex, but I wonder if part of it is that as time goes on there is a bigger pool of games to play. Sure there will always be cutting edge graphics and gameplay, but many people wouldnt be able to tell which indie dropped in 2010 and which dropped in 2024.
For me it's more like 95% or more. In the last year I've played
- Factorio (heavily)
- Halflife
- Halflife 2
- Portal 2
- Supreme Commander
- Rimworld
- World of Goo
- Untitled Goose Game
- Railway Empire
I don't think I've played many games that are younger than 6 years.
Most of the good games have been made already
Factorio kind of? Released 2020 but early access since 2014
Age of Empires 2 DE is a 2019 game but a spiritual successor to a 1999 game I've been playing since 2005.
Starcraft 2, Slay the Spire, Call of Duty Black Ops 3, Cities Skylines. You may notice these games all have a big modding scene which adds huge amounts of replay value.
Sid Meier Civ 6 because I get Civ fever every few months. Keep in mind the 2018-2019 expansions Gathering Storm and Rise and Fall were major overhauls of mechanics that really make it feel like a different game.
Left4Dead2, the greatest game ever made.
I've been replaying Prince of Persia, the old 2008 game, for the past few days. I originally owned it for the Xbox 360 back in the day, but I have a copy on Steam now.
The graphics hold up exceptionally well. Plus, someone in the Steam community had a quick edit that allows you to manually adjust the resolution to any size you want, so I'm enjoying it on my 4K monitor now, even though there's not a 4K option in the video settings. It looks like this game could've released in the past 5 years or so; they put a lot of work into the look and feel of it.
This game is basically Assassin's Creed before Assassin's Creed released. Most of the game is spent running along walls, climbing things, chaining movements across multiple surfaces, etc. It's pretty satisfying to play. And the controls are easier and smoother than the early Assassin's Creed games.
The only downside is that fights are slow, as you need to chain attacks and defend at precise moments to make decent progress. Everyone has a large health bar, but lower enemies can be ended quickly by just shoving them off platforms.
Fortunately, enemies are few and far between. The game mostly revolves around collecting glowing white magic balls floating throughout the levels. When you get enough, the princess following you throughout the game can unlock powers that allow you to navigate new levels. Each level has an end boss to fight, and as long as you chain attacks and defend well, it's mostly just a game of patience, picking down their health bar a little at a time. The ultimate goal is to clear all the levels and fight the BBEG who was released at the start of the game.
Like I said, there is a princess following you throughout the game. But it's not an escort quest; quite the opposite really. She uses her magic to ensure you stay safe throughout the entire game. If you fall off a ledge, there's a brief cutscene of her teleporting after you and then teleporting you back to a safe platform. If you die in battle, she rewinds time a little bit to when you're still alive and fighting. She's mostly able to take care of herself, so you don't need to focus on her.
Back in the day, I got the sense that the prince you play as was just a snarky, sarcastic asshole, constantly harassing and belittling the princess. It always made me think of Link from that awful 1989 Legend of Zelda cartoon. But since playing through again, I see he's not that bad. Maybe a bit sarcastic at times, definitely uses humor to deflect conversation, but he's not the raging asshole I remember him being.
I really enjoyed this game 16 years ago, and I'm still enjoying it today!
I am commonly playing several old games...
Unreal Tournament 2004
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Age Of Empires II
Borderlands 1
Borderlands 2
Fallout New Vegas
Just Cause 2
Postal 2
Red Faction Guerrilla
Saints Row The Third
Currently working my way through Twilight Princess using a modded 4k GameCube version.
Been having a blast.
I just recently beat Borderlands 3 for the first time too.
I still like to give Doom a spin.
Right now I'm playing stalker so a few more than 6 years old.
Super Punch Out! it's been one of my favorite games to just pick up and play since it came out in like 1994! I never have beaten the Bruiser Brothers at the end and I am perfectly ok with that lol
hmm, on top of my head id say i can think of minecraft, skyrim, openttd and titanquest.
i also played a bit of lego starwars the complete saga, battlefront 2 (the og one), ksp and dwarf fortress.
i also sometimes play dota 2 but im not sure if i played any in 2023.
if early access counts, also factorio.
I've just started gaming again after a 30 year hiatus, I bought a cheap PC which would have been ok 6 years ago so I've been working my way through games of the year that my potato can handle. I've really enjoyed Dishonored 1 and 2. Skyrim I've spent some time on. Titan Quest, Halo, Bioshock, Hollow Knight, Mass Effect. Having a great time with all these.
Minecraft and Kerbal space program, though it is current Minecraft, which is quite different to the same game several years ago
Minecraft and Breath of the Wild
I just finished the 1st and 2nd bards tale....it was free on Xbox. IMHO, better than some of the newer dungeon games
Stardew Valley and Minecraft, mostly. I played through Morrowind and Fallout 4 recently too.
Thief: The Dark Project
It's from 1998... Plenty of community updates still keep it visually appealing, and there's a host of freely available campaigns that keep it interesting.
I prefer old school games that focus on intrinsic level design and atmosphere rather than online mashing.
I'm ripping and tearing in Doom 2 megawads... until it is done.
Planet coaster
Terraria and Stardew Valley still slap. I think Rimworld makes the cut now, especially if you consider the beta. I'm currently playing through fallout 4 again because I haven't done so since I built my new rig last year and I'm curious to know exactly how many mods I can cram into a playable experience.
After Baldur's Gate 3 I did a run in Divinity: Original Sin 2. That's a more difficult game with the same engine. It's definitely 6+ years old.
I played a campaign in XCOM2 pretty recently.
Come to think of it, almost every older game I play has a sprawling and active mod community. Maybe that's why.
I’ve still been playing Civ V because up until recently I didn’t have a computer that could run Civ VI. Once I finish my current campaign I’m going to finally try out VI, but I think that actually might also be 6+ years old.
I’ve also gotten back into playing the old original Star Wars Battlefront games. And I’ll usually play through both Portal games every few years.
DotA 2 is old as fuck but literal game changing updates happen almost yearly
Yo sheet, where's my Dwarf Fortress gang at?!
Though I guess it's pretty new on Steam. :P
Fallout: Tale of Two Wastelands and Borderlands 2, recently.
It's some backlog for me, but also some just solid as hell live services that have been around a while:
- Path of Exile
- The Messenger
- Warframe
- Yakuza 0
- Sea of Thieves
- Into the Breach
SoT and The Messenger both turned 6 just this year, so they're squeaking by, but I suppose the thrust of the idea is still there
Apparently, for me, the better question is, "Which games newer than 6 years are you playing?" It turns out I dont play many new games, just Elden Ring and Jedi Fallen Order ( which is 5 years old even). Deep rock might squeeze in there, but it just turned 6 years old
just finished another solid bloodborne playthrough, gotta love the logarius wheel and whirligig saw
RDR2 and Factorio
Took about a decade off gaming and Needed some "new" games in the pandemic. Bought some new games last year, Skyrim ultimate everything in a bundle, also bought Fallout 3-new Vegas bundles. Skyrim was awesome and I played it for about a year, FO 3 was ok, loving 4, heard New Vegas is the best.
Other than that I play super old school, emulator games for SNES, N64 when I have a bit of time.
I have a weird philosophy where I don't try things until they're about 10 years old, games, TV shows, etc. I figure I am pretty much guaranteed an epic experience if people are still talking about it at that point.
I'm never not playing Skullgirls. Somehow still going, Marie DLC just dropped last week.
Software Inc (Early access since 2015) Raft (EA since 2018, full release 2022)
Gran Turismo 4
Titanfall 2
I've been replaying red dead 2 which turns 6 this year :P
AC Origins
Victoria 2. I like 3, but I've got a heavily modded megacampaign with my friends going and I don't know 3 well enough to tweak it yet. 2 is still a great game.
Also Assetto Corsa. Competizione looks fun but I like driving stuff other than GT cars
Didn't realise before but this seems right. This year I am playing persona 4, Celeste and the witcher, all more than 6 yrs old
Battlefield 3 or 4 and Halo MCC. Also Skullgirls.
Xonotic: om, well it’s based on the darkplaces engine, so yeah, I mean Xonotic in a way is basically as old as 3D multiplayer shooters.
Eador Genesis: like a tighter heroes of might and magic or kings bounty, great with the New Horizons mod.
Beyond All Reason: the latest evolution in a series of Total Annihilation inspired RTS games built on an open source engine.
WinspWW2: a derivative of Steel Panthers, an old DOS hex turn based tactical war game. Yeah there are newer turn based strategy games and perhaps more elegant systems like Combat Mission’s or Operation Flashpoint Red Storm’s simultaneous turns, but the fact stands that WinspWW2 and WinspMBT are from certain perspectives the deepest turn based tactics video games in existence, realistic or not.
Original Peggle and Peggle nights: What do I even need to say, perfection.
Brigador Up Armored Edition: Top down isometric cyberpunk dystopia mech/tank quasi-twin stick shooter. This game is an absolute gem.
Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead: the most interesting open world survival game period, yeah the graphics… barely qualify as graphics but the gameplay and complexity/variety of procedural generation is simply nowhere even close to being matched by any other open world rpg/survival game.
Rocket League has been a big one for me recently. But I've actually been making an effort to play new stuff besides that, like Alan Wake 1&2, Cyberpunk, and Baldur's Gate 3.
Just recently I started replaying “VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action”. I'm also working on Rune Factory 4 Special - the remake is only 4 years old, but the original is from 2012. I still periodically fire up Castle Crashers from time to time, and I have yet to give up on my much-procrastinated attempt at Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (the Xbox 360 version).
There are many others, but that's just off the top of my head.
GZDoom! It just doesn't get boring to shoot demons for half an hour. I'm playing Volatile Material and Doom Infinite at the moment.
Star Wars the old republic.
I played the absolute FUDGE out of KoToR back in the day, and played SWTOR at launch. But coming back to it after a decade plus just lets me enjoy the story. I won't say its a perfect MMO, because its just not. But oh gawd does the story get good!
MHW and Warframe
Almost exclusively Final Fantasy 14 with some Warframe and a smattering of older puzzle games.
Rocket League. I probably play a solid 3 hours of that every single week, and have done for the last two years. Before those two years I probably played a solid 7-8 hours a week. It's my forever game, the game I play when I'm bored, the game I play when I've got a lot on my mind and just want to fill the void in my head with something safe and easy.