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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

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 weeks ago

Hollow Knight is a total work of art.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The first title that jumps to my mind, especially when you contextualize it around "restoring faith", is Satisfactory. It's been a very entertaining and challenging game, but also the development team has been exactly what one (typically) wants from a dev team. They've been very transparent about issues, their process, etc. Their interactions with the fan-base have been frequent and open throughout the years of development. Good game + good company. Worth consideration if you like a good factory builder.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

Very down to earth people. Telling us they want to go outside in the summer so they won't be working for a bit was a bit of a stab at us basement dwellers

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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 remastered

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Just 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Fuckin Josh man. He is hilarious and terrifying.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't forget that soundtrack too.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Second for Alan Wake/Control Universe games. Quantum Break is fun too and also by Remedy, and more action adventure.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago

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
[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

Baba is you, great little puzzle game

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago

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. :-)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago
  • Katana ZERO
  • Hades
  • Satisfactory
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've never really gotten into it. Might try again

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I've recently gotten hooked on the Yakuza series. The whole series goes on an aggressive sale pretty regularly on Steam. I'd recommend starting with Yakuza 0.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

The best thing about Yakuza is that it welcomes many different approaches so you can go have crazy absurd fun, intense cinematic story driven drama, mindless collectible and challenges...

I think it's perfect to rediscover what fun in videogame is.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago

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
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"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).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I just finished Carrion recently that was amazing.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

The last campfire, disco Elysium, hue

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Dave the Diver and Dredge come to mind.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Seconded. Just beat dredge the other day and MAN, what a different kind of gameplay, but I found it really interesting.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

GreedFall. Old school RPG that flew completely under my radar. It has a 00s Bioware feel to it, before the dark times. The graphics aren't perfect, etc., but it's a really fun game with a decent story (so far).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Let’s go with A Monster’s Expedition Through Puzzling Exhibitions!

Humanity has died through hubris and climate change, and Human Englandland is all flooded. Now it’s the age of monsters! And one monster is touring the now-outdoors old Human Englandland museum, which is an archipelago cause flooding and such. All the bridges washed out, but there’s convenient trees! Let’s go see the museum.

Pushing logs from trees into adjacent water is the point of the game, but it has some of the simplest yet best mechanics about it that I’ve seen in a long time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

Animal Well and Outer Wilds come to mind.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

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 :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

They still have bonds in Osrs so some of the bullshit is still there, but yes it's much much better than RS3

[–] GetOffMyLan 5 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Roguelite:

FTL - Faster Than Light

Dead Cells

Nova Drift

Hades

RPG:

Divinity: Original Sin 2

Disco Elysium (pirate this game, it was "stolen" from the devs, they wont see the money if you buy this game anyway)

Those are some of my all time favorite, superb quality, labor of love titles. Are you also interested in couch coop games?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

On Android (and probably other systems), Death Road to Canada is fun, funny, challenging, and comes with no BS.

[–] targetx 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Horizon Zero Dawn is my all time favorite game (a remastered version is coming out next week so might be a great time to jump in). Celeste is a 2D platformer and also really great. Been having fun with Zelda ToTK and Astrobot as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I loved HZD so much on PS4, it is a great world, really good sci-fi story and awesome character progression. It feels so good to easily take down machines that you struggle with at the beginning, it never gets old to tear off parts and weapons to use against them. The DLC for it was a great addition.

Needless to say I jumped into Horizon Forbidden West as soon as it was released, and it did not live up to my expectations! The second go around everything feels so forced, I gave up midway through.

Solid recommendations throughout this thread…

[–] targetx 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Well said! And now on PS5 it plays so great at a smooth 60 fps, amazing stuff. I frequently start the game just to wander around and fight the machines. At ultra hard it can still be quite challenging even after all these hours.

The remaster seems to be really well done as well according to early reviews, so looking forward to putting even more hours into it :-) hope they made the inventory management better as that is basically my only issue with the original.

I do agree the first has the better vibe and story but I think you'd still enjoy finishing Forbidden West and the Burning Shores DLC. The ending was interesting and if you stopped halfway through you might not even have seen some of the new enemies yet! How far did you get?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Viewfinder if you enjoy Portal style games

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Starsector

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 gamma mod pack

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

I mainly like PvP games and I am really enjoying Valve’s Deadlock

[–] Nithanim 2 points 3 weeks ago
  • Timberborn
  • Talos Principle (2)
  • Shapez 2
  • Astroneer
  • ...
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Baldurs Gate 3

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Inscryption. The less you know going into it, the better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Nier Automata, the less you know about the game before playing the better

Slay the Spire, one of my favourites roguelite with The Binding of Isaac

If you like music games DJMAX Respect V

VA-11 Hall-A, a really good visual novel

Shin Megami Tensei V, I like to think it like if Pokémon wasn't a kid game but an edgy RPG

And lastly 2 new indie games, Shogun Showdown and YiXian, both really good roguelikes

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