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?
Just recently bought Troubleshooter and I love it.
It is a very fun X-COM like game with anime style characters who have elemental abilities like wind, thunder and fire.
The game has an interesting mastery system which allows you to customize your characters by selecting passive abilities from a pool of 600+ masteries, some really cool characters and a great soundtrack.
The best way to describe the game is as a mixture of Final Fantasy Tactics and X-COM.
Also the Korean game studio making the game is very humble and thus they have provided a lot of value for such an affordable price.
Thanks to BandageBandolier from this forum for recommending this game to me when I asked for game recommendations during the Thanksgiving Steam sale.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/470310?snr=2_9_100000_
Can second Troubleshooter. My only complaint with it is the VERY slow accumulation of characters. Even just doing the interesting sidequests alone, you'll be nigh maxed by the time you get a third new party member. If they made a new game with better pacing with all they've learned from dev'ing Troubleshooter, I think it would be amazing, but as it is, it is an enjoyable play.
I played for about 20 hours so far and I still only have four party members.
I agree that this is a valid complaint.
I still love the game and think it is very fun to play but I cannot imagine how amazing a sequel to this game will be with what the devs have learned from feedback.