Ask HN: What games could you spend a lifetime playing?

Honestly, it's hard to say, since I think I'd get tired of just about anything if I did it for too long/without any changes. Zelda Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are pretty close to me (and I played the former on/off for like 5 years), and I'll always probably be able to play a multiplayer game like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, but a bit of variety will always be necessary.

If gamer populations lasted forever, maybe I could fly helis in BF4 forever. I was top-rated in my state for a while. Probably my single favorite gaming experience overall.

I get a lot of replay out of some single-player games: Rimworld, Slay the Spire, Skyrim, Fallout 3. I just found shattered pixel and I like that a lot, and could see replaying it a bunch. I fly quadcopter sims a lot, too, and still enjoy that a bunch.

It's a replayable game? I won it once but I didn't really see anything new worth replaying.

Counter-Strike. It's like badminton for me. There's decent strategy and such but it boils down to speed, reflexes, and muscle memory/intuition. There's the newer shooters, but CS gets the essence just about right for me.

I used to play FIFA competitively and did quite well. A friend went full pro. But at the higher levels, it's all exploits; you know what ranges are a balance between accuracy and non-performing goalkeepers, you know the unblockable passes.

I played a beat em up online where someone was cheesing through by attacking, then interrupting the attack animations to attack again.

CS uses nearly the same engine year after year and it's been tested through by so many competitive gamers that I'd trust it to work well after 10000 hours of experience.

I wish I could play it on an android tablet.