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
Hollow Knight is a total work of art.
I love indie games - here’s my favorites list!
Terraria
Deep rock galactic
Factorio
Dwarf Fortress
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (free and open source - check it out!)
Stardew Valley
Starbound
Rimworld (I much prefer dwarf fortress, but I found this first and got a few hundred hours in it too)
Battlebit remasteredJust to jump onto this comment: Factorio just released a major expansion this week.
In a similar vibe, Satisfactory just left early access a few weeks ago.
Not only did the DLC just come out, but the base game also got a free major 2.0 update
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Balatro - Even if roguelike isn’t your thing, try it
Alan Wake 1/2 & Control- if you love creepy atmosphere
Superliminal - unique 1st person puzzle, think portal vibe
Bastion - 1st game from Supergiant, best smash-em-up I’ve ever played
Anything Supergiant for that matter
Bastion is one of the most beautiful games I’ve ever played, both art-wise and theme-wise. The entire end of the game was just chills and tears for me.
Don’t forget that soundtrack too.
I will never be able to!
Second for Alan Wake/Control Universe games. Quantum Break is fun too and also by Remedy, and more action adventure.
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
Cyberpunk 2077. It was hated on release but it really has made a comeback after 2.0 was released.
I think cyberpunk really puts so many triple A titles to shame when it comes to the quality of the characters and quests.
Damn, I hadn’t heard that, that’s actually really nice to hear!
I was going to immediately mention Hollow Knight but I see someone already did. Second thought: Tunic. It’s been a long time since a game hit me as hard as those two.
For pure fun addictive gaming: Factorio is absolutely nuts. 2D survival craft platforming action: Terraria is still king.
For space empire building check out X4: Foundations, after almost 10 years under development it’s absolutely amazing (but a huge timesink haha)
Oh and if you’re into semi-hard-scifi basebuilding you could give Stationeers a look. Sunk quite some hours into that one.
The learning cliff of the X games is pretty intense but totally worth it. I made it through and just look at me now! I, err… wasn’t going to do anything better with those hundreds of hours anyway.
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. :-)
- Katana ZERO
- Hades
- Satisfactory
Try rimworld! You don’t need any of the dlcs for the first couple of successful runs. Just the base game takes you to I would say 85-90% of the experience (ideology is a good upgrade for later). Side effects include, playing too long into the night, dreaming about the game during your sleep and day dreaming about it during whatever else you doing until you get back to playing.
Baldurs Gate. There is so much content. I’m 150 hours in the game, I play split screen coop with my wife. We each have our characters customized to how we like it. It’s AAA quality. Came at a AAA price, but it’s absolutely worth it.
And I say this as a FPS/simulation gamer. Totally different genre but they’ve made this game accessible to all. It’s the only game I’ve ever purchased at full price and my steam account is 12 years old.
The 2nd one is multi-player as well.
“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).
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
Dave the Diver and Dredge come to mind.
Seconded. Just beat dredge the other day and MAN, what a different kind of gameplay, but I found it really interesting.
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.
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 :)
