The only 10+ years old game I still return to for significant lengths of time is Guild Wars 2. Yeah yeah I know, it's not a single player game, but as far as I am concerned it might as well be. Also I return when there is new content, so I might be cheating there.
Every now and then I return to Magicka and then stop playing after enough crashes. Renegade Ops is also a favorite of mine (did a complete playthrough on Steam Deck last year). It's been a while since my last run of Crysis but I really enjoy replaying it (just the first game though, the sequels did not do the same for me), spicing up the experience with a couple of mods.
Landing on planets used to require the Horizons expansion. Since 2020 it's included in the standard edition. Maybe you tried it a long time ago without the expansion ?
Nowadays getting out of vehicles to walk around requires the Odyssey expansion.
I played it on Game Pass when it was available there and found the campaign to be an worthwhile experience with some nice set-pieces. I agree with OP that treating it as single-player is the best way to enjoy this game.
The endgame grind grew tedious real quick and I stopped playing after a couple of hours of that.
Both games are have roughly the same numbers, on Steam anyway
The playerbase is still large enough to find matches pretty easily in both cases. Darktide has been such a disappointment I am kind of glad significant updates are still coming to Vermintide 2 (5 new maps, for free, in the last 12 months is pretty good for a 5 years old game).
I use VSCode myself nowadays, but I have some colleagues who prefer Qt Creator for C++ development (our builds are based on CMake and GCC/CLang). It is open source and not tied to developing with the Qt framework.
Fun fact: this series started as a VR Oculus-exclusive title Chronos which acts as a prequel to Remnant: From the Ashes. It was later ported to flat screen as Chronos: Before the Ashes.
Anyway Remnant was a solid co-op title, it's good to know that Remnant II is a worthy sequel.
Well if large streaming services are off the list, then you could act as one. For instance you could host a Jellyfin instance and make it available to your "someone who is not tech savvy". On the client side, Jellyfin is very much click and watch. But you take on the burden of being the service host and provider of content.
I am not sure you can find "something that just works" reliably over time without ensuring that yourself.
Yup, I do miss the "TGS Co-Optional Podcast" too. I'm still listening to "Cox & Crendor in the morning" but it's something of a nostalgia trip.
You could give "The Jeff Gerstmann Show" a try. He's been running a solo operation since he was fired from Giant Bomb last year. His insights into the video game industry are second to none, even though the solo act might not be to everybody's taste.
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The only 10+ years old game I still return to for significant lengths of time is Guild Wars 2. Yeah yeah I know, it's not a single player game, but as far as I am concerned it might as well be. Also I return when there is new content, so I might be cheating there.
Every now and then I return to Magicka and then stop playing after enough crashes. Renegade Ops is also a favorite of mine (did a complete playthrough on Steam Deck last year). It's been a while since my last run of Crysis but I really enjoy replaying it (just the first game though, the sequels did not do the same for me), spicing up the experience with a couple of mods.