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?
Terraria and Stardew Valley are great games, but the devs' politics leave something to be desired. Rogue Legacy was a good game, but the sequel's got all the hallmarks of leftist convergence already in mid-early-access (reproducing homosexuals, troonery, etc).
I had no idea that Terraria and Stardew Valley devs were woke, nor that Rogue Legacy 2 is shaping up that way too. Shame. I need to do some digging then.
Terraria devs have some neon hair, and there's been plenty of troonery in their immediate circle, if not themselves.
SDV guy is kind of a basic Pacific Northwest NPC when it comes to politics. Hasn't done anything too egregious yet, so I wouldn't necessarily recommend against the game on his politics alone, but the warning signs (primarily gay pandering) are there.