I like community builders and games that I can keep a world for years and grow, watch it evolve. I enjoy Rimworld. ARK evolved series is good.
Bonus if it’s multiplayer capable LAN and not online.
Oxygen not included is nice but mentally taxing sometimes. I prefer laid back chill games with economy and farming. 2d or 3d doesn’t matter. I don’t mind trying indie games. Survival based games are nice. I’m not super pick and choose.
Give me your greatest joy in game form. I’ve heard Stardew Valley is good. I tried it, reminds me of a gameboy game. I could not get into the game. My character kept falling asleep like 14 times in a day.
I’m just going to plug here that Luanti is best referred to as “Luanti plus Mineclonia.”.
My aologies for the Stallman reference.
I find that whether folks enjoy their first outing in Luanti tends to highly correlate with whether they know to try Mineclonia inside of Luanti, first, before the other more esoteric games available.