I haven't seen a thread on this yet, so let's do this! I always recommend RimWorld for base building/management, as well as Hades for a magnificent hack and slash roguelike. I also highly recommend Noita -- a roguelike where every pixel is made of some kind of simulated substance -- dirt, lava, acid -- and you find and edit magic wands as your primary way of attacking and affecting the world. I also picked up the Phoenix Wright trilogy during the fall sale. I've been enjoying it, but sometimes it can definitely be too finicky in an old-school way, like wandering around aimlessly until you show a witness a random trading card or something. Decently fun, though, for sure. I'm not mad at paying $17 for 3 of the games.
What about you? What are you playing? What do you recommend?
I can second Rimworld. It's a bonus that the game's developer has a history of standing to the gender studies hacks in the games media.
These days I'm playing a lot of The Sims 3 and a lot of their content is on sale, so I'll probably snap that up even though I feel dirty about supporting EA. If I knew how to pirate the stuff I would, but maybe it's good to send EA signals that people like TS3 better than the shit sandwich they're serving up with TS4. It feels so wholesome without tranny Sims. If you want degeneracy in TS3 you gotta mod that shit in.
The post is long gone now, but the dev team told a troon modder to shove off years ago (he begged them for gibs), and in response he sperged out and replaced all the textures in all his mods with ads for his troon scam charity before deleting his account. I did a write-up back on Reddit KIA2 years ago when it happened.
Devs have been fairly based for a long time. There's a robust mod scene (not that the game outright needs modding - it works well). Ideology is a solid expansion (wasn't much a fan of Royalty).