>>2497386From this list I have played The Long Dark and Valheim, but I'm not a big gamer.
Long Dark is a a more contemporary survival games, there's no plot or anything you just try to survive in a world that's abandoned. It's more realistic than the other stuff on the list, you're not going to be building a fucking fort in the middle of the woods. You'll be scavenging abandoned houses for moldy food, avoiding predators, and boiling snow for water. I got bored of this game pretty quickly because the gameplay loop is very basic, so I don't know if it gets more interesting the longer you survive or something. There's also 0 crafting outside of repairing your clothes and none of the "exploration" feels meaningful (sort of like real life). You'll expend a ton of calories "exploring" just to find a jar of moldy peanut butter and a bottle of soda in a broken down car.
Valheim is technically survival but you can't starve to death and the only real danger comes from the monsters in the woods. Food just increases your HP/Stamina so you can take more hits or do more building before needing to rest, and even then the "resting" is just standing still for a second or two. Gameplay loop here is pretty solid, you have a solid goal you're aiming towards but you can get sidetracked by autistically building houses in the woods forever. As you advance through a biome, your equipment gets better and you can explore more biomes. The world is HUGE, but you'll quickly learn that there's nothing "special" and the world is pretty empty, each new biome is just 2-3 enemy types and 1-2 new crafting materials to make 1 new set of armor and 1 of each weapon type. If you're not looking to explore though, it's definitely a "comfy" game to pretend you're homesteading. You can tame and breed animals for meat and leather, grow your own crops, build your own little village/home. Sometimes I lose entire days to this game just building a cabin in the mountains.
