I have been in quality the a gaming slump for a while, for various reasons.
What are some games you’d throw at me yo drag me out of this slump?
Entertaining all genres and offers.
Edit: I’m sorry cant answer all of you right now, I’m at work.
But seriously thank y’all for so many quick responses already, I’ll be writing them down when home
OldSchool RuneScape restored my faith in the industry. RuneScape was ruined by microtransactions, but Jagex grew an enormous pair of balls and released an older version of the game and started fresh without any of the bullshit.
To this day it’s my favorite RPG. I could write a truly ridiculous amount about why I love it, but I recommend just playing it for yourself.
They still have bonds in Osrs so some of the bullshit is still there, but yes it’s much much better than RS3
I just bought this after playing satisfactory and I love the optimism in this game.
I’m so into it. Sure you can tell it’s made by a small team but I couldn’t tell it was made by 2 people. I don’t like playing with mods but this one worked well with them to get rid of a bit of storage monotony.
Here are 6 good games I wholeheartedly recommend:
- Baldurs Gate 3, speaks for itself.
- Disco Elysium, elevates the whole medium to art
- Hifi Rush, innovation and entertainment
- Snowrunner, ok this one’s just for me.
- The Outer Wilds, very interesting, go in spoiler free
- Return of the Obra Din, puzzle game like nothing you’ve played before
The last campfire, disco Elysium, hue
If you haven’t played it, “Stardew Valley” is, like, ruin-your-life good. And I think part of what makes it so faith assuring and life uplifting is that it was made by one dude who has continuously (for YEARS) released huge, free updates for the game. He’s awesome. It feels good supporting him and recommending such a great game to people. :-)
I just finished Carrion recently that was amazing.
Same here, played it about a month ago, fun idea at its core that’s executed extremely well, very memorable. Unfortunately it’s very short, probably around ten hours for me to complete everything, but it have might gotten stale if it went on too far beyond that without significant gameplay alterations. Probably like 70-80% a puzzle game, 20-30% action. My only complaint is that I don’t really like hearing all the terrified screams, but I’m not sure those could be removed without destroying the immersion.
Different genre, but another indie game I want to mention is Eastward, which is actually something I tried playing after seeing a poster here on lemmy give glowing praise just a week or two after it came out. I think it’s the best pixel art I’ve ever seen. The dialogue and story are wonderful overall, heartwarming at times and creepy at others. The charcters have personality. Overall the appeal for me is that there’s a lot of emotion packed into every aspect of the game.
I think the gameplay is fun, but that’s not the reason the game is memorable and the main complaint people have is that there are many long stretches that are just building atmosphere with minimal gameplay. I didn’t mind that at all, but I was disappointed with how much of the story was up for inperpretation after beating it. I spent most of the game excited to see how the loose ends and parts of the story I didn’t get would be tied together, so it was a let-down when the game ended and most of those questions just weren’t answered.
Factorio. The new dlc hooked me into a 5h gaming session at one eve. I cant remember when i did that the last time in my life. Probably with 15? But be warned, the game isn’t called cracktorio without reason.
I’ve never really gotten into it. Might try again
The most important setting for me, was to set the enemies as passive. So you can kill them off when you need place and they will never attack you on their own.
“Return of the Obra Dinn” is the best Detective-type game I have ever played. Pure inductive, yet always logical reasoning. The setting of an Victorian ship, the 1-Bit artystyle, excellent ost and memorable story really elevate this recommendation to a must-play.
On something from this decade, Balatro is great if you like cards and rouge-likes. But it’s been so popular I don’t think anyone interested hasn’t heard of it yet.
Oh, and as others have pointed out and I’d hate myself for not mentioning it, Tunic is great as well. It’s a love-letter to the instruction book, and makes one really feel like playing an old game and relying on an instruction book, while not being all that great at reading, like some may remember from their childhood. But with modern game design and what others call Dark-soul mechanics (idk, I have never played a Fromsoft game).
Just be sure to switch your A and D keys from rotate to strafe
Play the 1st and 2nd GTA games for free.
Minetest - I think they might have changed the name of this game recently, not sure.
STALKER 2 comes out soon by the way
Play the 2nd elder scrolls game for free!
Map is as big as europe! It’s been ported to unity and it looks a ton better then the OG version. There are yet more graphic overhaul mods you can add like this guy did
Animal Well and Outer Wilds come to mind.
Ooh I notice nobody has mentioned Wasteland 3 - it totally slipped under my radar, it is a fastastic RPG, with a fun story and good combat! :) It’s what I’d love fallout to be :)
Inscription. The less you know going into it, the better.
Baldurs Gate 3
Stardew valley is just fantastic and still receiving free updates.
Grim dawn is an amazing diablo2 style arpg. The dual class system means it has huge replayability. Still getting updates and very reasonably priced dlcs.
Kenshi is a unique gaming experience. If you can get past the jankiness it’s an amazing open world squad game with no story or objectives as such. The story of your characters emerges from the things that happen as you play. Like getting enslaved etc.
I take it from your exasperation that you want a game to “just be good already”, from the very start. So I’ll exclude anything that takes too much thought or investment to start having a good time.
- Deep Rock Galactic
- Tunic
- Pacific Drive
- Gorogoa
- Hardspace: Shipbreaker
- Hand of Fate 2
- FTL
- Styx: Shards of Darkness
- House of the Dying Sun
- Hitman Go and Lara Craft Go
- VVVVVV
