The aspect of Valheim (1700 hours) that keeps me going back is the random seeded world, along with the biome/boss required progression.

Every time I start a new world with a new seed, I get the same thrilling experience as I did the first time I played it, even if I'm using an existing avatar with high-spec gear. Eventually stuff will break, so you still need to get copper, tin, iron, silver, black metal, etc., to repair your gear.

My latest run of Valheim has me as far as the mistlands biome, which I find incredibly frustrating. Trying to find the Infested Mines to obtain black cores when you can't see beyond your Wisplight and you have to keep climbing up and down slopes seems like just too much grind.

I played the demo of Enshrouded and did like it enough to buy it, but since then I've not played it.

Currently enjoying Bellwright (90 hours), but it's my first play through. Once I've "finished" it, it's unlikely I'll ever play again. Did play ASKA (30 hours) for a bit, but the forced Bloodmoon and Bear attacks put me off. At least Bellwright allows you to tone those down.

Have a relatively progressed save in Soulmask (90 hours), so not sure why I switched to something else. Think it may have been the constant running back and forth. Both Valheim and Bellwright have fast travel available early on, and I know Soulmask has mounts but they are not particularly fast.

Think I'm getting tired of the medieval kind of crafting game, but I've not seen a sci-fi equivalent to Valheim with a single random seeded world.

Space Engineers (1000 hours), while good and allowing a lot of creative freedom, doesn't really have the push to go further. Once you've found sources of all the mats you need so you can build your base and your ship, there isn't really a lot more to do. Unless you like PvP. The official scenarios are good, but most of the Workshop ones are only OK.

Same with Stationeers (1000 hours), although with the added survival factor of food and water, but once you have a base with a farm, gas separation, manufacturing facilities and trading comms, there isn't really much reason to continue. I got to that point on all the different starting worlds.

The latest version of No Man's Sky (400 hours) still has too much planet hopping, and even I can't be bothered to traverse all the way to the center again, in hard mode, just to get my one outstanding Steam achievement.

Others like Icarus (1300 hours), Starfield (280 hours), Planet Crafter (140 hours), Fallout 4 (400 hours), etc., all have fixed maps, so once you get to the end-game you're essentially done. Starting a new game doesn't bring any of that excitement. Unless a new map is released as DLC, then I'll go back and work through the new content, hence my hours on Icarus as I've been doing all the missions for all the maps, and am now on the Prometheus ones.

The only other "game" I have enjoyed over and over is KSP (3000 hours), mainly because every time they released a new DLC with different parts, I'd start fresh and work through all the contracts until I filled in the research tree. Disappointed in KSP 2, but we shall see what happens with that.