These are the end times

There was no hope of survival

This is how you died

Project Zomboid, so pretty fucked!

Stardew valley is basically what I want out of my life, so I might not leave

Minecraft. Honestly, send me into the wilderness where I can build a little log cabin by a lake, make furniture, and live off the land. And the only people around are some zombies who don't try to talk to you. Keep your million.

I think I would enjoy an entire year in The Stanley Parable tbh

As a Forza addict, I think I'll be just fine.

I'm well travelled, own several starships, and am mostly fluent in gek. Of course I have to fend off daily attacks by pirates and sentinels.

Not sure how I would live in hollow knight silksong exactly do I have to be a bug or would I be myself situated above the zones.

I'm squid!

My last game was StarCraft so I'd be dead via ling rush within the first three minutes.

Edit: StarCraft 2

Project zomboid on easy settings (low amount of zombies, zombies are dumb, high amount of loot and easy skill gain). I'd take it. Even regular settings would be a dream in comparison to dealing with state violence, so I'd be pretty happy.

Depends on how Night City treats me. Not sure I wanna chromed for a year's stay.

It’s rimworld.

I don’t want to be a cannibal.

As long as Ghandi doesn’t nuke me I’m good

Outer Wilds.

In 22 minutes I and everyone else am dead.

Overwatch. It looks fun from the outside, but I'm forced to participate in short matches where I repeatedly die, come back and kill cute yet soulless people all day long, for a year.

I started eating people on day 3. There is a hole were my humanity used to be. A hole that can only be filed by trembling, bloody, screaming flesh. The hamster was first. He was easy. Then, month after month, I got through the rest of the roster, each one with a different bottle of wine from the Paris deathmatch map. Now my appetite, form and spirit have grown beyond what is humanly conceivable. When the map loads and they see me, they all run and shriek as my many mouths start tearing through their ever fresh, juicy bodies. As if they too were starting to remember their unending, inescapable demise.

One day it will end, but in the meantime I need to feel their bones break and heartbeats fade on my tongues. Such delicious marrow. Such delicious broth.

Overwatch.exe

Warframe for me. I don't think I would have very good chances of making through a whole year.

Pretty good, tbh. I've been playing Palworld and I think I'd do okay, even if I got dropped into a permadeath server. Yeah you gotta grind, but you don't really have to do much of anything, the pals do basically everything for you.

Civilization. I can't escape it.

>Helldivers 2

... No thanks, I think I'll stay poor.

I’m ok with it. Gotta catch em all

Satisfactory.

A year might not be enough, come back in at least 3.

Stardew Valley? I mean... Sure.

Runescape is so easy nowadays that this seems fine, I could avoid combat skills and become a fisherwoman, eat lobster all day.

I'm a chess piece.

Let's play a really slow game here...

I would find it very... Satisfactory.

So I get a million dollars and I'm stuck in a house banging 6 women for a year. I think my wife would wonder where I disappeared to for a year but the million would probably smooth things over.

Persona 5, so deeply pessimistic, cynical japan

Game I've been playing the last couple of days is high-ish-magic medieval-style fantasy, which isn't the worst world to live in. Question is whether the protagonists have been through the area yet, otherwise there's nonzero risk of dying from supernatural creature attack or evil cults, on top of goblins and orcs which probably aren't any worse than historic "barbarian" attacks but deadly all the same.

If it means to completion, then Paper Mario would be pretty cozy. If just last game played, SuperTux would be nice too. Yay! :3

Played a "Hell on Earth" run on Killing Floor 3 last, so I'm well and truly fucked.

It was Ultrakill. Here's the intro text of this game for context:

> Mankind is dead.

> Blood is fuel.

> Hell is full.

I don't think I'm surviving an hour there, lol.

I don't even know what would happen with Balatro, do I get to be a Jimbo? Could I be Blueprint, or do I just get to the something useless like Matador?

Baldur's Gate 3...

Yeah, I'd take that bet.

Seems that would be Anomalous Coffee Machine. I guess that would depend on which character’s place I have to take

I like that people assume they'll be the main character and not just a random NPC.

For instance in GTA you might just have your current life while some gangsters buy burgers.

You mean I can like, be in VrChat? Like my character, and my friends, and all these amazing places to go to? Dude sign me up, that's my escape from reality.

I opened elden ring for the first time In years Yesterday, there could be worse games, plenty of safe places to hide

Darktide. Yeah I'm not taking the money.

Hol up while I download LSL5

I don't think I'd survive 5 minutes, let alone a year being bombarded with blocks from Beatsaber. Unless I can stand next to the track.

Kerbal Space Program. I'll probably die but at least I'll (likely) get to see space and go out in a blaze of glory

Took a pause from Helldivers 2 (wouldn't have lasted 10min) to play a Librarian "organize thousands of books" casual game.

I could live quite nicely.

Tunic! So, cute but also deadly?

RDR2 for me as well. At least there's options. I would probably play it safe by ditching the gang before I contract tuberculosis and just live as a hunter up in the mountains. The mechanics of the game would make that quite easy compared to IRL.

Alternatively, the epilogue does seem nice.

I know I shouldn't say that loud... I'm bit rich in cute hentai game. Now all on Palapagos know I'm horny.

Hmm...

Not bad, I guess. At least if I'm in my own city, we're pretty set, food and water are both being produced onboard. I guess I'm a bird person now?

Portal 2 cooperative edition. My partner may drive me insane, but at least I am virtually immortal.

Depends if I play as my character or myself.

Baldur's Gate 3 as my character would be great, his stats are high, he's rich, he's hopelessly in love

Baldur's Gate 3 as myself, I would die, almost immediately, possibly on my way out of camp while tripping and hitting my head on a rock

Frostpunk... yeah no

Witcher 3. I might be a little fucked, but I think I'd have fun before I died. Maybe I could get lucky and be one of the rich folks in a city and live peacefully for a year.

music is illegal but i get to beat up cops

Just HAD to play a Helldivers 2 match last night didn't I.... Well I mean zomboid with 1 out of 5 zombies being a runner probably ain't gonna do me no favors either.... I'm boned

Looks like I picked Power Wash Simulator back up at the right time

Social Democracy: an alternate history, so depends on if I can change things or if I have to live through otl

That actually sounds pretty ideal. I'd just do what i do in the game anyway. Ride my horse, pick flowers, collect skins, camp. Occasionally go into town to get supplies and unload my furs.

But I'd end up in Spiderman. Do i get to be Spiderman or just some shmo on the street?

Noita. I'm so dead. At least it will be spectacular, unexpected or both...

Playing as myself, I wouldn’t survive 10 minutes in Megabonk.

Baba is you I think was the last one. So like, I could become all walls or space, or might accidentally make myself nothing… so a fraught existence for sure

Well, I would be royally screwed. I cannot explain why at all due to major spoilers, but I would be stuck in Pokemon Rejuvenation. If you have played the game up until the current final chapter or at least know the story, you know why I am royally screwed.

All I can say is being in the official pokemon game with the most villainous and successful evil team would be paradise because at least I know nobody really ever dies, NPC or otherwise.

Megaman battle network 3, im in heaven

how's life there?

Honestly, pretty grimdank

PUBG. Im gonna get murdered a lot, but at least death isnt final, given respawns exist. At least the pubg maps are quite large and interesting to explore.

I would be in Slime Rancher 2. I would be doing pretty alright! I can stay at my ranch and tend to my adorable slimes.

Making food and stuff. Hoping the killer happened before me. The Game is "Kiosk". Shot Horror Game - can recommend

Stay a while and listen!

Celeste

Do I have to climb the mountain? Can I respawn? Can I dash? So many questions... I would love to parkour around if I didn't die. But most of my time would probably be spent just living in a cabin or something.

Factorio. It would be pretty nice but I'm not sure my human me is prepared to deal with the bugs... A tough decision.

Ah, you're fine. The last game I played was Warframe. I am proper fucked.

I'm playing star trucker right now so I'd be golden. Just one year of hauling cargo, customizing my rig and doing the occasional EVA to salvage expensive jetsam. Where do I sign?

Getting mauled by a farmbot IRL any% wr.

I get to live in medieval Bohemia for a year? Jokes on you I do reenactment I'm all about this shit.

I'm screwed, Super earth is calling. I can't not pick up the phone (Helldivers 2) (regardless of what role I'm in even not as diver but a civie I'm screwed)

Last game I played is Hitman, so as long as I’m not a target, enforcer, in 47’s way, or in the world of a kill everyone run, I think I’d do just fine. I guess it depends on the map, but it’s mostly just the real world. So not much change I don’t think. If I can choose which map and my reason for being there I might not wanna go back actually.

This is all assuming I can explain it to my family. I’m not sure I actually wanna miss a year of my baby’s life, so in actuality I would never do it, but if I had to do it, I think I’d do just fine.

oh no yesterday i was testing something and opened minecraft with only the 'nox: renoxed' mod installed

this is gonna be fun, as long as i can respawn and am not a human in the game

Stuck in a medieval post-apocalyptic North America. Not good. (CK3 After the End mod)

Mystic Towers...

I can fart, scratch my ass, sniff my fingers, and pick my nose, and there's not any human around to make fun of me.

Still gotta fight off the monsters though, but it's a chance I'm willing to take for a million bucks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUkRQxqBWNk

DayZ. I'm dead, unless I can find enough bullets and a car to stand on top of.

God of War (2018). Fimbrulwinter hasn't started yet, and he stays away from populated areas. So long as I don't do anything to piss off the Odin and his kin I should be fine

Just one year in Stellaris?

Hmm... my empire, or someone else's?

Beyond All Reason: statistically i’ll spawn as a tick and live a short life of probing enemy defenses with single-file human wave tactics.

i wouldn’t consider that to be too terrible. It’s beautiful and you can entertain yourself nearly endlessly outside of the narrative.

Unfortunately for me I last played 76 to see what had changed. And I’d definitely go mad since i’ve basically done and seen it all outside of some builds i want to try.

Misericorde. I think I could spend a year in a late 15th C nunnery where they mostly like to drink wine and play chess.

Planet coaster 2

So, pretty fun!

The Sims… I guess depending on who’s playing it could be good or bad

Well that depends, am I the "main character", if so do I start at the beginning or where I left off?

I mean, either way in satisfactory I don't require sleep or food or drink, unless I take damage and need to eat some nuts or berries. So just avoid the local wildlife until I get the hover pack.

I remember my first time playing and not wanting to wander too far from the grassy spawn because of all the hostile fauna and unfamiliar terrain.

Now with the hover pack, a full island-spanning rail network with power pylons, dimensional depots with packaged fuel and a jetpack, I'm constantly zipping across the place and half the time I have no idea where exactly I am but I'm just hopping over the wildlife and on the off chance something hits me and I'm offended, I'll toss a nuke at it before flying off.

I just unlocked the nuclear pasta milestone and am currently working on getting the nuclear power situation sorted while I wait for my very slow factories to pump out the space elevator bits.

I could do without ADA trying not to sound like GLaDOS-lite, but I can live with an annoying bot.

The other game I played today was Project zomboid, and as the title card says every time you start a new game, "this is how [I] died"

Legit didn't even last 5 minutes in my starting character in a new world today. Looted the spawn house, leveled a little bit of carpentry and cooking, then got bit in the fucking driveway because I miss-timed my swing. I had a shotgun and axe, too...

Wandering Alchemist. There's people now roaming around the world buying potions, and I can harvest random plants, shove them into a potion, and they'll buy it. Seems good. I'm making money! Maybe! Real life but with people just going "I'll buy a potion with shielding and energy in it!"

Palia! I'd gladly live there for even longer!

GTFO

I’m fucked

Fire Emblem Awakening doesn't seem too bad a place to take a vacation.

Sudoku. I'm in an insane difficulty puzzle. Bottom left square, number seven that you'll never find without Nishio.

Say what you will about attraction mechanics and FOMO, but logging in to do Star Trek Online event daily missions keeps me sittin' pretty in all these hypotheticals.

Cyberpunk? Night City can't be THAT bad, can it? (It can)

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Crap

City of Heroes. I was playing a Gravity/Storm build last night, so I'll be flying around, and throwing things and people all over the place.

There's many different ways it could go, hopefully I don't get deep space dementia or get attacked by giant alien spiders while I'm there

Pathogenic. I'm fucked.

Last one I played is Pikmin (1), back in 13 August. I'll do fine (unless I am pikmin-sized)

Dwarf fortress lol. I think if I did not have a family I could go there for free for a year. Benefits: I can get some cool skills relatively fast and they seem to be having a jolly good time in the Inn.

Palworld. Eh, I don't hate it: farming, catching some pals now and then, idealic environments and weather. As long as I steer clear of the big legendary pals I should have no problems.

Juno new origins

probably gonna end up being killed in an accident but at least I can fly some sick rockets

Life in Sanctuary is rough, especially after the destruction of the Worldstone. I've been staying in Westmarch, which should be pretty safe until my year is up.

I tried learning magic, but it only seems to work for people born here, so I'm working as a blacksmith. I'm the greatest metallurgist in the world and have "invented" the steam hammer. They don't have potatoes but the food is otherwise decent.

But not a day goes by that I don't regret this decision. I didn't have a chance to tell my wife and kids where I was going... they probably think I'm either dead or left them. My job and likely my home will be gone. My dad might be gone too. Don't get me wrong, a million dollars is a lot of money. But I already had a good life and fear I may have wrecked it.

I think I may have accidentally brought corona with me here. No need to tell anyone about that one. I just hope nothing comes back home with me.

Cheek Breeki I V Damke! I die in the first anomaly.

Darkest Dungeon. Uhm. No thanks!

ignoring pinball, i think mindustry would be fun even if i die a lot :3

The room is dark.

I hear what sounds like an instrument, and some other noise...

I can hear the crowd quietly enjoying themselves.

All of a sudden the lights go up. By some unusual force, my arms raise up.. and down... and up.. and... I'm swaying.... I can't control it. The person next to me seems to be doing the same thing.

I look around and notice that we all are.

Then I hear it. Thud, thud, thud, thud, thud, thud, thud, thud... The kick drum sets the beat.

Not long after, the bass guitar...

Then I see something flying overhead. A huge, green UFO.

The guitarist plays a note and with it, the UFO explodes.

2 more UFOs fly down in quick succession - and both explode.

Then it happens. It must have been at least 30 UFOs. Green, Orange, Red, Blue, Yellow, Yellow, Blue, Green... Some were flying in pairs.. Some even 3 aside.

Hardly any of them were getting destroyed. Most flew right overhead as the band played. Well, I say the band played - the guitarist was fucking awful.

Dead by Daylight so hell no... Life would be a literal nightmare.

ignoring pinball, i think mindustry would be fun even if i die a lot :3

Played through the Simpsons arcade with friends. So I guess could be better could be worse.

Disco Elysium. I think I'll be okay, it's just going to be a miserable year.

Hmm iracing so if the races I go into are clean I'm pretty happy with that trade, if I get stuck in lower splits with people intentionally wrecking others, im probably dead in a few days lol

Anything but New Vegas!

The Organ Trail. Hope I make it!

RoboCop: Rogue City

Am i the main character in this scenario, or a random NPC or mob?

Disco Elysium.... that will be an interesting experience

Star craft 2? Not even for a billion