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[Girlinhat]

So I work some 12 hour days.  Before/after work I might have an hour or two free to split up between food and leisure, and enjoy gaming.  I'm looking for something with incremental progress that can go on forever.  Minecraft is one example, as you can just build gold and iron structures for as long as you can mine.  Rimworld is also fun, with trading bringing in fresh materials you can simply spend time slowly scratching up the edges of quality.

Any other great games that have an 'endgame' but no 'end'?

[Vendayn]

Tycoon games might be a good choice.

Rollercoaster tycoon 1 (and 2) would fit. I didn't like 3 at all (my friend didn't either), but a new one is coming out. Rollercoaster tycoon 2 is really awesome though of the three.

Cities Skylines maybe, but you probably know that one, can let things run for ages and rack up tons of money. It has good mods too.

Then there is a lot of other tycoon games out there. And a bunch of dwarf fortress-like games could be an okay choice.

[Shadowlord]

A MOBA, like Heroes of the Storm, which IIRC you can play in 15-30 minute increments?

X3:TC or X3:Albion Prelude, which are like singleplayer MMOs in how long it takes to progress at all.

[Girlinhat]

Cataclysm:DDA, kinda? It has no end but the 'endgame' can be a little bit easy in terms of enemies - cars and firearms are just that strong. But the crafting and building systems are great.

C:DDA was definitely on my list.  You can always grab more CBMs or build a base bigger.  I want to get an immortal character going who can build a metal wall around a survival camp and keep it maintained with vehicle mounted laser defenses.  Then allow hordes to become increasingly strong and have my walls deal with it.  Or build a farming base several map tiles across.

[itisnotlogical]

Kerbal Space Program. You can always build a bigger, more complex mission, especially in Career Mode where you unlock parts and contracts gradually get harder. It might seem like there's "only" a few celestial bodies, but considering that you can send probes, satellites, manned rovers, resource miners, science missions, communication satellites, etc. to every one of them, you'll be plenty busy for a long time. And that's just the unmodded game.

[Ultimuh]

Stardew Valley, a farming game heavily inspired by Harvest Moon.
There is a story mode but it can done at any time and there is really no end even after you "complete" it.
Also, it is confirmed that there will be a multiplayer update some time in the future, if that sort of thing interest you.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Starbound could also be said to be infinite, since Terraria got a mention.

If you don't need infinite progression (as in, no escalation) or combat and don't mind ridiculously low-res graphics, you could try to dig up Noctis IV (Noctis IV CE, specifically).

Space Engineers kinda combines Noctis with Minecraft, same basic principles. Medieval Engineers is a more, well, medieval version of the same thing.

Any of the numerous "massive multiplayer online vehicular combat simulators", which are usually not simulators except for War Thunder, usually have an "end tier" but the grind to get there stretches on forever if you choose to pay them no money.

And adding to the "not infinite but might as well be", a game called Disgaea was recently released for the PC. It's a turn-based tactical jRPG hailing from the days of Playstation 2 (refurbished for the rerelease), which has a few fun mechanics and no level cap for progression. You can complete the story, but there is always bigger things you can take on via the Item World (you literally go into an item and tactical-battle it out to upgrade it) and similar challenges.

[boyoentukboyo]

You can grind forever in Darkest Dungeon.. i guess?

[bluephoenix]

You could try "the long dark" a survival game set in northern Canada. There is no end game there.

[ChairmanPoo]

Mount and blade?

[Blaze]

Elona.

Then there's the browser games like Candy Box, A Dark Room, Cookie Clicker, Swarm Simulator, Clicking Bad, etc, etc.

Oh, and some flash games like GINORMO SWORD.

[Drakale]

Disgaea.

[Sonlirain]

City builders?

Caesar 3. Pharaoh, Zeus, Emperor. Sim City (preferably 4), Cities Skylines, Dwarf Fortress, Gnomoria.

Tycoon games?

Transport Tycoon deluxe (The open source version is free). Railroad tycoon (2 or 3).

Survival?

UnReal world.

[spümpkin]

Stardew Valley, a farming game heavily inspired by Harvest Moon.
There is a story mode but it can done at any time and there is really no end even after you "complete" it.
Also, it is confirmed that there will be a multiplayer update some time in the future, if that sort of thing interest you.

This. I usually have a really short attention span when it comes to games, but I've been playing this for days on end.

[Vattic]

The endgame is incomplete, but Factorio fits the bill pretty well. I tend to play with the RSO mod which spaces out resources greatly to encourage large train networks. It's essentially 2D technic mod minecraft; Build and optimise a giant factory. You would have to make your own goals after a point, but there is a lot of content.