Try mastodon if you have not. Most servers are moderated way better and there are cooler people there anyway. :3

5,500 hours in Team Fortress 2 and over 6k in Guild wars 2. I do not regret any of it. Had lots of fun and even met my wife in gw2.

You only lose time when you do things you do not enjoy.

Realizing you are not really enjoying something is a whole other discussion ofc.

Dorfromantik is a great one which was a big hit in Germany. Dunno if its widely known elsewhere but it should be, since it is a simple chilled coop Puzzler based on a cozy videogame.

The next two are not coop all the way but Mysterium and Treasure Island are pretty fun and invoke the same teamwork feeling around the table, if someone is content on beeing the GM.

In mysterium you have one person as a ghost, that sends visions to the other in form of abstract art cards, to find out how he died.

In the latter, one person plays Long John Silver and the other have to find his treasure on an Island (duh:), before he escapes prison and gets it himself.

It is meant to be played against each other, but if you tweak the rules a bit is very nice as a coop experience. Especially for kids, since you can draw on the whole map to mark down places that you rule out. Very nice family game for all ages.

I agree that most gamemodes do not play that way, and the classes are more restrictive to be a pure arena shooter.

But playing soldier or scout in gamemodes like Koth and PlayerDestruction scratch that itch enough for me to count.

Fast respawn and itemspawn management, combined with good map knowledge feels like good old quake 3 or UT sometimes.

Then you have dozens of rocketjumping maps in the server browser, which no game i know of has these days.

Team fortress 2 is still going good even if the only updates are from the community in terms of maps.

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Guild wars 2! Giant map to explore and alright story in the free to play part.

Even if you pick different backrounds and race you can port to the other starting maps and the story connects everything later on.

It also gets more difficult so dont think it is always easy like in the starter zones.

And it is one of the old school f2ps thats still good without paying if you wanna try it out.

But if you spend money on an expac you keep it and dont have to pay for a savegame like WoW.

One of the rare MMOs that values your time and money.

Very fitting meme if you remember the harrasement scandal at riot a few years back.

As an alternative that does not require booster packs or such nonsense i can highly recommend Compile and the Vale of eternity. Both very good cardgames that capture different feelings of playing a deckbuilder.

Never cared for CCGs since they are by definition pay to win.

If you want to scratch a similar itch, and have not already, try Guild Wars 2.

It does have microtransactions, but only because they have no subscription fee and they are mostly cosmetic with a few rare exceptions.

It also has no FOMO except cosmetics from certain festivals, which you can also buy in the next year.

It is still the best MMO on the market IMHO, because it values your time and money compared to other games in the genre.

Wish she was on mastodon instead… Really enjoyed her tweets back in the days.

Guild wars 2 has so much variety i would not know where to start. Would just search it on youtube and find the fitting mood i guess.

That people still pay monthly for save games has always been wild for me.

First thing that always comes to mind is King of Tokyo. Everyone i have played that with wanted to play it again after it was done.

Even bought 3 copies over the years as gifts. Very fast, easy to learn and most importantly teach to young and old.

Tokaido is very chill but can be cutthroat like monopoly, if you want to get competitive with it.

Treasure Island, which is like Scotland Yard but with a treasure and a map you can draw clues onto. Kids love that one even when it can be a bit complicated for some.

We always play it as a team and as the bad guy you gotta nerf the clues a bit, because it is meant to be played against each other.

Speaking of teamplay, Pandemic is a well known puzzle classic for every collection.

Aswell as Dorfromantik, which is similar to the Videogame but just as good with some friends and family that likes endless puzzles.

As for good Cardgame alternatives there is Scout, which is way better than Uno IMHO and the newer Secret Tip i can give to everyone that is into CCGs, but do not want to buy endless Booster packs named The Vale of Eternity. Very tight and simple engine builder where you get a good Card game right out the box.

Got quite the large collection and know a bit about it so i hope it helps. Can also recommend the Shut up and sit down youtube channel, that highlights a lot of great games.

Cheers

Monopoly is such a boring game with bad mechanics. It is what people play if they do not know better and i know back then we had not many alternatives.

But if you play it nowadays you are missing out on some amazing boardgames compared to that. Settlers of Catan and Uno are very outdated aswell IMHO.

Guild Wars 2 as well. :)

Played the demo last year and instantly bought it now. Very chilled out game so far.

Read a sentence about immortality in a shadowrun book decades ago.

Was something like: “Immortality would be hell for most people, since they dont even know what to do with themselves on a boring sunday afternoon.”

Maybe not so similar but more like Xcom is The last Spell.

Can highly recommend that and it is weird not many people are covering it.