Kenshi.
The world is brutal, but its possible to pay for some company, buy some slaves, or maybe, juuuuust maybe, find a quirky friend.
Kenshi.
The world is brutal, but its possible to pay for some company, buy some slaves, or maybe, juuuuust maybe, find a quirky friend.
Damn. First Kenshi recommendation I've seen in the wild.
+1 for Kenshi
Hahah, there are dozens of us, dozens!
But no seriously if you can get past the extremely weird ... basically early 00's style mmo control scheme... for what nowadays you'd expect to be third person ARPG controls.... Kenshi is an absolutely incredible game, and it's got a lively modding scene as well.
"Binary Domain" is an option. You are almost all the time accompanied by 1-3 NPCs of your Team. The game also has a, more or less working, voice System to talk to your team through your microphone. That way you can give orders and have some small talk. The game is quite good, give it a try.
For squad mates that function better, Star Wars Republic Commando is a damn fine FPS.
True, but I think that the microphone communication that Binary Domain offers is a unique feature that OP will appreciate.
Cult of the lamb - build a cult?
Sky - a cutesy online exploration game that pppl team up in. I know it's not single-player - but it's kinda singlemulti?
RPGs come immediately to mind. Your partner in Disco Elysium is more competent than the main character for reasons that will be immediately obvious. Bethesda's RPGs are also open world, and while you'll start out alone in them, you get permanent companions pretty quick (especially if you know where to look). They also get more chatty in the world and more character development in the later games. Fallout 4 more so than Skyrim more so than Fallout 3, for example. Starfield makes you swap them out if you do the main story, which I don't know if you'll like or not.
For a dedicated shooter, I think Titanfall 2 has the most protective companion I've seen in the genre. Get this one on sale, since it has its robust multiplayer priced in, but it has an excellent--if a bit short--single-player campaign.
untitled goose game.
One of my favorite aspects of the Borderlands series (I played all of them single-player) is that they didn't make me feel lonely.
The atmosphere is very lonely, but there's always some radio chatter or cooky interaction that manages to lighten things.
Katamari Damacy. You'll never be alone again.
Shitpost level reply: Any of the Gradius games.
One of the power ups you can buy is literally to dispense friends (options) which follow you around and shoot alongside you. You can crank out as many as you want, at least within reason. And in some of the Parodius games they are literally little dudes. Or depending on your character, little octopi, cats, or penguins.
Dyson Sphere Project, even without the multiplayer mod you are "connected" to the rest of the player base with the Galaxy View.
Factorio, and Satisfactory scratch a similar itch, but on smaller scales. IIRC, both of those games have multiplayer built in.
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