The video game industry is filled with plenty of competitive games, whether it’s sports titles, PvP shooters, or fighting games. Yet, sometimes you may want to play something where you aren’t forced to compete with others.
This naturally points you in the direction of single-player story games. However, most people can’t play the same story-based game regularly, as once you’ve beaten it a few times, you grow tired of it. Thankfully, there are other non-competitive games that don’t have a traditional ending, so that you canplay them over and over again. Here are some of the most notable ones.
In the ordinary survival mode in Minecraft, you’re placed in an open world containing trees, grass, dirt, creatures, and various other things. From here, you may pretty much do what you want, from mining to building to exploring. You may also have to do a bit of fighting, too, since not all the creatures in the game are friendly.
you’re able to turn the dangerous ones off, though, if you desire. Alternatively, you can enter creative mode, which also removes the danger while giving you everything you need to build what you want. There is no forced objective or person to compete against in either mode, so you just play how you want.
Palworld may look like Pokemon, but it’s a completely different game. This is an open-world survival game that takes place in a land filled with Pals. These Pals are colorful, little creatures that you fight and capture. Those you’ve ‘convinced’ to join your side can help you in various ways. You can even build your own little community of the creatures and set them to work. There is also the possibility of using them as food.
Now, some of this may seem deranged, but that is kind of the point, as the game is humorous in nature. Humor isn’t something you usually see in a survival game, so it’s a nice change of pace.
At the start of Stardew Valley, you inherit a rundown farm, and it’s your goal to build it back up. So, every day, you can spend time cleaning it up and planting new things. However, that isn’t what you have to spend all your time doing. After all, the game gives you plenty of freedom. Therefore, if you don’t feel like farming for a bit, you can do some fishing, talk to people, visit the mines, or walk around and explore.
There are so many options, and you’re in no rush. After all, there isn’t an obligation for your farm to be the best humanity has ever seen, nor is there a time limit for making it as good as you’re able to.
The Sims is one of the most well-known gaming series ever, so you likely don’t need much explanation of what you do in The Sims 4. The basic premise is that you create and look after people as they live their lives. So, it isn’t always the most chill game since you need to attend to their needs and generallymake sure they don’t die.
Yet, like in real life, you aren’t really competing with anyone; you’re just trying to allow your Sims to live the best life they can. This means advancing in their careers, building relationships, and generally having a good time.
Astroneer allows you to experience what it is like to be a cute little astronaut. You travel to different planets and do a bit of terraforming to acquire resources. With those resources, you can craft all sorts of different things that help with exploration, survival, and more advanced crafting.
There is a way to finish the game, but even once you do, you can continue afterward. It is a sandbox game, after all, so you never come to a definitive end where you can’t continue any longer.
Whoever decided to name this game ‘Raft’ was smart, as there is indeed a raft, and the entire experience revolves around it. You’re placed on the wooden raft in the middle of a seemingly endless body of water. This isn’t just the ocean. The world has flooded, so this raft is your home now. You can build it up using resources you find from the water to make the place a bit more roomy and livable. You also need to eat and keep yourself safe from sharks.
While it may sound like you’re stuck on the raft, there are actually places you’re able to find that haven’t been flooded. Therefore, you can visit them and explore to your heart’s content. The only real goal is to keep yourself alive; what else you do is up to you.
Deep Rock Galactic is a cooperative first-person shooter that puts you in the boots of a dwarf miner. As them, you need to go into procedurally generated levels and complete whatever objectives you’re given. There is a range of different types of missions you will be tasked with. In all of them, you will occasionally have to stop what you’re doing to fight a bunch of monsters coming your way.
It can get pretty chaotic, but it’s a lot of fun. Co-operating with your team is key, as is utilizing each team member’s tools, since each miner class has its own equipment.
In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you travel to a beautiful island that will serve as your new home. You don’t live there alone. There are plenty of other villagers on the island, too, whom you’re able to interact with. They’re all anthropomorphic creatures that have distinct personalities—some ofthe best in the Animal Crossing seriesfeature in New Horizons.
Along with meeting your neighbours, there is plenty to do on the island, from scavenging for food to building up your house (which starts as a tent). There are no real obligations, and you can do everything at your own pace.
