My friends and I have been exhausting our current library of games and are looking for suggestions. It tends to be pretty hard for us to all meet at the same time. Usually we prefer to do stuff that we can finish in one session on the weekends because one person might have to leave as another person joins. Don’t mind if its new or old, but id prefer it not to be $60 if its going to be a 2hr stint

Games on our current rotation:

  • Civ VI
  • Deep rock galactic
  • CS:GO
  • War thunder

Don’t really play anymore

  • Apex
  • L4D2
  • Payday 2
  • Gmod
  • Day of infamy
  • Insurgency
  • Project Zomboid
  • Foxhole
  • Risk of rain 2
  • Don’t starve together
  • Verdun
  • Killing floor
  • Minecraft
  • Terraria
  • CosmxTi@beehaw.org
    20·
    2 years ago

    Valheim is good even if you can’t be on at the same time. Just slowly build out a world as you would in Minecraft and save the biome raids for when you can get the party together. It’s flexible.

    • jason@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      I opened this thread to see if anyone recommended Valheim, because what you said is exactly what my group does. We’re all dads with jobs and we play when we can, but we schedule 2-3 hour video call sessions to fight the bosses.

      When it comes to Valheim, you need the help, too. Those bosses can be brutal.

    • MollweideianMassacre@lemmy.one
      3·
      2 years ago

      Seconding Valheim. There’s nothing quite like starting with a simple objective, getting it derailed by a deathsquito or something and now you and your besties are trying to Oceans 11 the stuff you lost out of a hostile biome that you sailed to from across the map.

    • illegalsmile
      3·
      2 years ago

      Have to host/rent a server though, unless the host is always on. Love Valheim, but we had a few server issues that forced us to move on

      • jecht360@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        The Valheim server software is super light, especially if you don’t have a ton of players at once. My Valheim server VM is running with 4gb RAM on Ubuntu 22 and doesn’t have a problem with 10 players at once.

        Edit: Just looked at my server and it’s using 1.7gb RAM currently with two players online.

        You could easily set up the server software on an old desktop or laptop and leave it running 24/7.

    • jjagaimo@lemmy.oneOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      Slowly adding these to a list; I think I might start with Valheim and work my way down