Do you have a “Forever Game”? Something you could keep playing the same save on forever?

Every few years I think I've found a forever game, and it's something I really always want for some reason. But I don't know, maybe they're an impossibility. Or maybe I just have PTSD from living through the end of SWG.

I don't care if it's an MMO or what. I just want to get something that doesn't end that I could keep playing forever. But then actually do that. For whatever reason I always get to a point where I wrap it up or lose interest and then I will move onto something else eventually.

For me some contenders were The Sims 4, Stranded Deep, Harvest Moon 64 (or probably any title in the Natsume series), SimCity 5 (game turned out to be shit but I wanted to build multiple cities forever in a region all working together) and finally New World.

I envy people who have played WoW or EVE Online or whatever else for 10+ years. While I enjoy trying new games here and there, I wish I could have something that feels more like I've built a legacy, to be able to look back and see years of progress and all the fun experience that went into it.

But barring that, I guess I'll just have to use real life to fulfill that itch for now.

So not games that you just go back to every once in a while or even games that you've played consistently but are essentially new every time (like Monopoly or something). I'm talking about creating some persistent digital world that you play with for a considerable chunk of your own life.