15 Video Games You'll Play For The Rest Of Your Life

5. Elite: Dangerous

A space-adventure, trading and combat simulator, Elite: Dangerous has something for everything. The game revolves around collecting resources and trading them in order to make improves to your ship, but the possibilities are endless. It features an incalculable amount of different scenarios, and the mass-multiplayer aspect means players can actively impact the story, change the course of the game and effect everything from resource prices to the influence of each of the game's factions.

You can complete bounty hunter missions, you can focus on trading resources or you can complete missions for each of the various factions. The game allows players to explore galaxy of some 400 billion star systems, meaning that you'll never run out things to do, places to see or adventures to have. Honestly, it's almost like a second life.

 
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Formerly an assistant editor, Richard's interests include detective fiction and Japanese horror movies.