Come on, lets think of the most boring game concepts possible :D

[Roofstone]

Desert bus, except you are a passenger... And you are blind and deaf..

 

[SoloStoffe]

You play as a villager in the middle-east, and all you do is live your life as a normal villager would. There is an ultra exclusive radom event that can happen that causes a foreign military convoy to go through and look for suspicious activity. The game is also a complete free-roam, but if you go too far from the village, you will most likely die from dehydration.

 

[TheLoneBeet]

An open-world city but it's just three or four different buildings copy-pasted around the map. You can't drive any vehicles. You can't commit crimes or you'll be immediately arrested and it'll be GAME OVER. You simply walk around listening to NPCs conversations. Also, the NPCs are all voiced by the same two people. Played in first-person view. You win when you've heard every word the NPCs have to say. All of them.

 

[AlternatePFG]

I've played forklift truck simulator 2009.
Easily the most boring game I've tried.

Forklift Truck Simulator 2009 is so overrated, 2010, 2010 is where it's at.

 

[Shakomaru]

Desert Bus.

 

[Akytalusia]

http://www.kloonigames.com/blog/games/4mins33secs

the game is called "4 Minutes and 33 Seconds of Uniqueness" and is hands down, without a doubt, no contest, absolutely the most boring game possible. this is indisputable.

/thread.

 

[Psychoid]

What, no one's mentioned the "Watching Paint Dry" game?

You win if you sit through the time it takes for the paint to dry. To make sure you don't cheat by just leaving your game on while you go do something else, you have to press a button/wiggle the controller at random, small visual prompts so it's sure you're looking at the screen at all times.

Aww, this was going to be my suggestion too.

You could have the wall get less shiny very... very... slowly... as the paint dries.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

How about a game where you basically totter about all day, but at night monsters come out and wander aimlessly around.

It's not really the concept that makes a game boring, so much as the execution.

To be fair, if the game added maybe, Procedurally generated infinite worlds to wander through..... and allowed you to ....like, build anything you want; then, yeah I might consider buying that.

OT: Uhh.....a game where you are an inhabitant of Fantasy world. And you play as the "NPC" that mans the item store right outside the cave where the final boss lives. So you get to See heroes going in there ALL THE TIME, and hear their hwls and shrieks of pain all day.....but can't do anything about it cause you're a worthless wimp who can't lift the sword in his shop.

 

[ThePirateMan]

What, no one's mentioned the "Watching Paint Dry" game?

You win if you sit through the time it takes for the paint to dry. To make sure you don't cheat by just leaving your game on while you go do something else, you have to press a button/wiggle the controller at random, small visual prompts so it's sure you're looking at the screen at all times.

Now also in slow-motion!

 

[HiC]

What, no one's mentioned the "Watching Paint Dry" game?

You win if you sit through the time it takes for the paint to dry. To make sure you don't cheat by just leaving your game on while you go do something else, you have to press a button/wiggle the controller at random, small visual prompts so it's sure you're looking at the screen at all times.

and if you don't press the button within 3 seconds, it starts again

 

[olliefrom1990]

The Sims 4.

 

[Irriduccibilli]

Testscreen simulator. It's not only boring, but also annoying as hell

 

[SageRuffin]

A guy who sits on his ass and eats ramen noodles all day.

Does that work?

 

[imnot]

Theres this huge war right! and you are in charge of writing the condolence letters to mourning widows!

 

[Dfskelleton]

A game where you play as a lipid in a human's skin, and you must perform the tasks that lipids do for the entire game.
Off Topic: 2000 POSTS!!! AW HELL YEAH!!!
wait, why am I celebrating?

 

[krugerrand123]

A game where you live the life of a protozoa.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

A game where aliens invade our planet during a time of great global turmoil, and you play an elite set of marines who have to shoot from behind cover at the invading foot soldiers, despite the alien ships having weapons that could wipe whole cities off the map.

No, wait, we have that already.

Ooh! A game where you drive for 8 hours in a bus between two desert cities, with no other drivers on the road, where the bus persistently lists, and you have to stay focused less the bus crash off the road!

Damn, the game industry really jumps us on this one.

How about a game where you have Aliens are invading a troubled world, and you have to be a politician arguing over whether or not the alien invaders are really worth considering as a threat to the nation, or just the Hollywood leftist agenda trying to confuse the nation. You encourage the party to not take any action in supporting the leaders of the world in defending the world, and lead us to a stalemate between the two two factions, where in the middle of this bureaucratic roadblock, the aliens get bored and blast us all to hell, starting with politician Camera Face, so that they don't even have to apply the destruction special effects. And you do everything from your office desk, and your aide comes in occasionally and takes some of the papers from your 'out' tray.

 

[BFEL]

"A game where you're filing your taxes."

you mean EVE online? oh wait thats filing you taxes...in SPACE! because that clearly livens it up!

 

[Andsre]

Count to 1,000,000,000 - THE GAME!

Press a button untill you reach 1,000,000,000 presses. Each button press is accompanied with a yawning sound effect.

Also this:

Knew this would pop up sooner or later.
Still...
http://www.clickquest.net/

It's actually real!

 

[Hister]

How bout a game where your char has to sleep.....real time and with no way to fast-forward