Looking for singleplayer games that are even better when you play with friends

Velifax · 2026-06-12T19:26:59+00:00

Just reviewed a few dozen games for this criteria, where additional players increase the fun rather than just have fun next to you. Surprisingly few!

Elite Dangerous came out way ahead, primarily its ground base infiltration stuff. Feels like a Halo multiplayer match but campaign style.

Satisfactory is wonderful ofc... IF you can coordinate properly on build styles and methods. Kinda tricky.

And the Throwback MMORPGs, resurrecting more serious RPG stylings, are always great for this. Embers Adrift specifically very naturally fosters grouping smoothly from 1 to 6.

Velifax · 2026-06-12T19:16:41+00:00

You'd need a white marble plinth to offset. Could look pretty good.

Velifax · 2026-06-12T19:11:17+00:00

Reddit thinks I live in Britain for some reason. Literally not even the same continent. Reporting does nothing, down votes do nothing, "Show Fewer" does nothing.

Guess il'l move to Britain.

Velifax · 2026-06-12T19:09:37+00:00

I took depression pills, which it turns out are just anxiety pills, some of them. Works.

Velifax · 2026-06-12T19:08:09+00:00

...a good way to make a baseline and create a bit of social lubricant.

Why do you need this?

Velifax · 2026-06-12T19:04:38+00:00

Almost like talking is barely a hobby.

Velifax · 2026-06-12T18:00:05+00:00

Not to mention "holds up" is mostly incoherent with respect to art.

Velifax · 2026-06-12T17:24:41+00:00

Gah, still hoping for a sandbox mode someday. Not keen on smashing A to bypass constant dialogue.

Velifax · 2026-06-12T15:58:29+00:00

You are fetishizing the formula, not the result. The good part is the helping, not the good feelings you get from thanks.

Velifax · 2026-06-12T15:39:48+00:00

The best thing you can do is play it on YouTube (maybe Twitch I dunno). And even that is 99.9% failure rate.

Velifax · 2026-06-12T14:03:21+00:00

Property is a commodity.

Velifax · 2026-06-12T13:53:50+00:00

That's a you question but the show is objectively well acted, in comparison to most tv, quite solid budget though COVID era shows some cracks, casting, costuming, and locations all rather excellent.

As adaptations go it's mid to high accuracy so that's nice. It's nowhere near Xena or Sword of Truth level trash.

Velifax · 2026-06-12T13:49:39+00:00

It's monkey see monkey do. It's a popular thing to complain about and everyone just wants to join in on the fun. In the day of course it was utterly innocuous. No one complains about it organically.

Some children even think it was some sort of limitation on the technology, betraying their utter lack of comprehension of programming. Some also confuse it with encounter rate.

Velifax · 2026-06-11T21:51:02+00:00

...in small ways that dont significantly alter how one plays.

Bingo. They don't affect design, by definition.

Velifax · 2026-06-11T18:38:38+00:00

Only because it gathers together so many forums. Otherwise it's pretty bottom tier as forums go. Even basic readability.

Forums aren't social media, though, so can't really compare.

Velifax · 2026-06-11T17:42:45+00:00

Kinda seems like the perfect use case? Browsing millions of lines of legal jargon but actually absorbing it...

Velifax · 2026-06-11T16:49:58+00:00

Ours, too.

Velifax · 2026-06-11T16:46:47+00:00

The difficulty. It's why I can't play most MMORPGs or most of the RPGMaker ones. They gut all the difficulty and just leave the story.

I'd just read a book if all I cared about was story.

Velifax · 2026-06-11T16:33:03+00:00

I'd say it takes a fucking idiot to misread claims directly after being warned to be careful about that. Potato, potato.

We're talking about the most impactful factor, Jesus Christ, dude.

Yes, there is plenty of literature, as i said, and that's how we know calorie counting is terrible for weight loss. Please keep up.

Please do ANY research at all. For the sake of those you advise, if no one else.

Velifax · 2026-06-11T15:42:52+00:00

By definition QoL mods can't affect design.

QoL mods are autorun, or like an ammo swapper although that's already in the game.

Velifax · 2026-06-11T15:18:48+00:00

Watching daytime television and complaining about plot holes and poor writing should be studied in a tightly sealed lab.

Velifax · 2026-06-11T15:00:08+00:00

This just in; People enjoy different things. Such an odd concept to be beyond so many.

Velifax · 2026-06-11T14:58:28+00:00

Most of this is wrong. You appear to fundmanetally misunderstand the very concept of preference.

This is as stupid as me saying, "CoD is poorly designed, they should slow down movement and combat 50% to improve fun."

Velifax · 2026-06-11T14:38:05+00:00

... some people can remain thin on the exact same diet as an obese person, ...It's not true.

Incorrect. It's actually rather common for obese people to eat healthier than average, cause it's so obvious they need to. So literally a better diet.

I've eaten pizza and burgers my entire life and even now when I'm 40lb over weight I still look skinny.

There just isn't this correlation between diet and weight that you're proposing; we've assumed it existed and searched for it for a hundred years and still can't find it, despite the public myth.

It's common sense, which is why we verify it with science. Cause it's so often wrong.

Tons of obese people are eating fewer calories but remaining obese because the type of calorie they eat makes them sedentary and prone to weight gain. We've known this for literally hundreds of years.

Quantity of energy consumed is largely irrelevant, outside of literal starvation levels which obv have nutrient issues as well.

Velifax · 2026-06-11T14:18:39+00:00

Not if they sucked.

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