Most replayable games according to Steam reviews (Single Player focus)

[Antimatter]

User Kynslagh on Steam created a list to measure the replay value/bang for buck of games by the percentage of 100+ hour reviews they have compared to total reviews.

Raise a hand if you're one of them (I certainly am, for quite a few games from this list, from Skyrim, to BG3, to Rimworld).

(65,2%) Europa Universalis IV
(55,3%) Total War: Warhammer 2
(54,4%) Rimworld
(52,5%) Hearts of Iron 4
(49,0%) Civilization V
(47,8%) Stellaris
(45,1%) Dominions 5: Warriors of the Faith
(45,0%) Factorio
(43,6%) Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
(42,4%) Empyrion: Galactic Survival

(39,6%) Terraria
(37,6%) Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous
(37,5%) Kerbal Space Program
(36,7%) X4: Foundations
(36,6%) Battle Brothers
(35,9%) Kenshi
(35,5%) Space Engineers
(35,4%) Football Manager 2024
(35,3%) 7 Days to Die
(34,7%) Divinity: Original Sin 2

(33,9%) Victoria 2
(33,9%) Battletech
(33,4%) UnderRail
(32,6%) Tales of Maj'Eyal
(32,3%) Library of Ruina
(32,0%) Stationeers
(31,7%) Baldur's Gate 3
(31,4%) Grim Dawn
(31,0%) Stormworks: Build and Rescue
(30,9%) Amazing Cultivation Simulator

(30,8%) Oxygen Not Included
(30,8%) Dark Souls 3
(30,1%) The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
(29,9%) Crusader Kings 3
(29,9%) Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children
(29,7%) Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
(28,9%) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
(28,9%) Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
(28,7%) Elden Ring
(28,2%) Fallout: New Vegas

(27,9%) XCOM 2
(27,6%) Stardew Valley
(27,6%) Farming Simulator 2022
(26,9%) Thea 2: The Shattering
(26,8%) Slay the Spire
(26,7%) Captain of Industry
(26,2%) Euro Truck Simulator 2
(25,9%) Starbound
(25,8%) Panzer Corps 2
(25,6%) Neverwinter Nights

(25,1%) Cities: Skylines
(24,0%) They Are Billions
(23,9%) Satisfactory
(23,8%) Terra Invicta
(23,6%) Geometry Dash
(23,4%) Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
(23,1%) Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord
(23,1%) Dyson Sphere Program
(23,0%) Age of Wonders 3
(23,0%) Mordheim: City of the Damned

(22,8%) Transport Fever 2
(22,8%) BeamNG.drive
(22,6%) Nioh 2
(22,5%) Project Zomboid
(21,9%) Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes
(21,6%) Defense Grid: The Awakening
(21,5%) Craft the World
(21,3%) Pillars of Eternity
(21,2%) Across the Obelisk
(20,8%) Dragon Age: Origins

(20,6%) Galactic Civilizations IV
(20,5%) ADOM (Ancient Domains of Mystery)
(20,3%) Master of Orion
(20,3%) Disgaea 5
(20,2%) Nuclear Throne
(20,2%) Red Dead Redemption 2
(20,0%) Valheim
(19,7%) Warhammer 40000: Rogue Trader
(19,7%) Steel Division 2
(19,5%) Enter the Gungeon

(19,4%) Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
(19,3%) Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game
(19,1%) Endless Space 2
(18,8%) Kingdom Come: Deliverance
(18,4%) No Man's Sky
(18,1%) Spelunky 2
(17,8%) My Time at Sandrock
(17,5%) Risk of Rain 2
(17,2%) SnowRunner
(17,2%) Darkest Dungeon

(17,2%) Sims 4
(16,9%) Starfield
(16,8%) Wartales
(16,7%) Phoenix Point
(16,7%) My Summer Car
(16,5%) Prison Architect
(16,4%) Stonehearth
(16,4%) The Long Dark
(16,4%) Titan Quest
(16,1%) Anno 1800

(15,5%) Stranded: Alien Dawn
(15,5%) Medieval Dynasty
(15,4%) Railway Empire
(15,3%) Endless Legend
(15,3%) FTL: Faster Than Light
(15,1%) Sword of the Stars: The Pit
(15,0%) Banished
(15,0%) Gloomhaven
(14,7%) Cyberpunk 2077
(14,5%) Empires of the Undergrowth

(14,4%) Atom RPG
(14,3%) Surviving Mars
(14,2%) Planet Zoo
(14,1%) Tactics Ogre: Reborn
(14,1%) Rain World
(14,0%) Project Hospital
(13,8%) Don't Starve
(13,8%) Cossacks 3
(13,2%) Against the Storm
(13,0%) Old World

(12,7%) Northgard
(12,6%) Noita
(12,4%) theHunter: Call of the Wild
(12,4%) Clanfolk
(12,3%) Vagrus - The Riven Realms
(12,3%) Urtuk: The Desolation
(12,1%) Octopath Traveler II
(12,1%) Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II
(12,0%) Mindustry
(12,0%) Coral Island

(12,0%) Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion
(11,8%) Hollow Knight
(11,6%) Timberborn
(11,5%) Planetbase
(11,3%) Gunfire Reborn
(11,2%) Dawn of Man
(11,2%) Juno: New Origins
(11,1%) Chrono Ark
(11,0%) Wasteland 2
(10,7%) Hitman World of Assassination

(10,6%) Jagged Alliance 3
(10,5%) Dwarf Fortress
(10,5%) The Last Spell
(10,5%) Subnautica
(10,4%) Monster Train
(10,2%) Going Medieval
(10,2%) Car Mechanic Simulator 2018
(10,0%) Torchlight 2
(10,0%) Songs of Syx
(10,0%) Remnant II

Honorable mentions:
(9,1%) Farthest Frontier
(8,7%) Dead Cells
(8,7%) Graveyard Keeper
(8,5%) Teardown
(8,2%) Outward
(8,1%) Stoneshard
(8,0%) Exanima
(8,0%) Foundation
(7,9%) Rogue Legacy 2
(7,8%) Streets of Rogue
(7,7%) Vault of the Void
(7,7%) Nova Drift
(7,6%) Mist Survival
(7,5%) Hades
(7,4%) Derail Valley
(7,3%) Skul: The Hero Slayer
(5,3%) Into the Breach
(5,1%) Bellwright

 

[WarChiefZeke]

People love their simulation games, it seems.

Going through my own list showed me results I didn't quite expect. Here are my most played games:

Injustice 2: 664 hours (and counting). I am a highly competitive player in this fighting game and this doesn't surprise me. I still try to keep my skills with Gorrilla Grodd and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sharp.

Elder Scrolls Skyrim Special Edition: 599 hours. Needs no explanation. Between my time on VR and console, this is higher. I have another 200 hours in VR.

Fallout 4: 200 hours. 200 hours wasted, I did not enjoy the game.

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2: 190 hours (and counting). I don't even like anime or dragon ball z all that much. But, there are 3 things l love in video games:

- Create-a-characters, especially in fighting games

- Fighting games with rpg mechanics and build crafting

- RPG games with social elements

It has all 3 of these characteristics to one degree or another. And it does not rehash the same anime we all know and love, it is it's own story in the future. Great.

Marvel Midnight Suns: 248 hours. Well spent. Has many of the same features I like about Xenoverse.

Tyranny: 195 hours. One of my favorite RPGs of all time. It feels like an indie game but the concepts behind the world itself are fantastic.

 

[JustKneller]

At this moment, I have 2059 hours in Terraria. Sometimes I think of what else I could have done with that much time: become fluent in a couple new languages , earned an extra bachelor's degree, cured cancer. But, I'm not mad about it. That game got me. It's not a lot of time when you consider the game's been out since 2011, though. That works out to only an average of 150 hours a year or around 90 minutes a week.

I haven't done a lot of games on that list. Haven't even heard of many of them, but I can claim finishing and replaying Civ V and Fallout: New Vegas,

 

[O_Bruce]

I have 226 hours in Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 (I wouldn't say it is necessarily a "single-player focused game", as while you can beat it in a single player, multi is very much encouraged)

Pillars of Eternity, 274 hours. Well, it takes me a while to finish playthroughts, not to mention ones I haven't finished or I have abandoned

The Witcher III - on Steam I have only 1 playthrough in progress, 67 hours. But, I mostly played Witcher III on GoG, and that doesn't count towards steam playtime

 

[WarChiefZeke]

I have 226 hours in Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 (I wouldn't say it is necessarily a "single-player focused game", as while you can beat it in a single player, multi is very much encouraged)

It's not important really, but I consider xenoverse one of the most single-player friendly fighters since the golden age of fighting games in the PS2 era (think Soul Calibur 3 or Mortal Kombat Armageddon)

One reason is just the sheer amount of story and branching quests. The storyline that has each episode change in big or small ways depending on your trainer was particularly well done. Gotenks actually had me laughing, it was totally appropriate.

Second is because of the huge modding community, and that bricks your online. I found Master Roshi's old transformation from Dragon Ball (where he gets really large) and a fighting style that purely uses a sword, to go with all my sword special moves. Using both makes me look like some He-Man barbarian, I'm having quite a bit of fun with it.