Yeah it is (even though I'm terribly at it ) Another shout for the HOMM games, I personally have spent most time playing IV, brilliant game.
I didn't suggest a genre as I'm up for trying New things. saying that, ill be dusting off civ4 this week. Thanks for the suggestions, will look into tourchlight, sc2 and Diablo 2 for the next trip.
Well, Diablo 3 certainly isn't it. I second a lot of the above recommendations, though. Specifically Torchlight, the Fallout series and Borderlands. Some older games, especially from GOG, might also be a good choice.
Command & Conquer series (until Generals;Zero Hour, don't even look at anything newer) Age Of Empires series Warcraft 3 Black & White The Sims (don't like it myself, but is quite the time waster) CS 1.6 / Source CoD (Campaigns are OK) Max Payne DiRT Colin McRae Dungeon Defenders (will take you a while before you can set up defenses on your own, otherwise just kill things) As said: GTA Fallout Elder Scrolls (Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim) Torchlight Humble bundles? (not sure if some of them require online) Any decent Emulator (Gameboy/PS/SNES/etc) for some old school goodness
A civ game would be perfect. Tuen based so you can afford to stop playing/looking at the screen for as long as you need.
Got Amnesia and LIMBO from the Humble Bundle, I already have LIMBO but don't have the guts to play the Amnesia, hit me up on it if you want.
I am really in to "Kings Bounty" and "Forged Alliance" at the moment. I am also trying to play Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion but I keep getting distracted.
a great little game ive played numerous hours on is creeper world. basically a tower defence game but the "water" really makes it interesting. http://www.kongregate.com/games/whiteboardwar/creeper-world-training-sim
You can play any game in your Steam library offline. Once the games have been patched and validated you can choose the offline option. If you haven't got the internet connected to your machine at the time it jumps straight to a screen for going offline. Singleplayer games I play this way include: Skyrim Rage Saints Row the Third Deus Ex Human Revolution Just Cause 2 All are good games of different genres.
Until STEAM requires you to login again to verify your account. Which can happen more often than you think.