I wanted to share some PC games I enjoyed during the pandemic, not new games but fun. If you have any games to suggest please share, they do not have to be on the PC.
this 2 are investigation type games I got on sale and I was surprised that I liked but are not worth full price:
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Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments
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Murdered: Soul Suspect
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Battle Brothers - tactical RPG that I still play from time to time, fun and hard game
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Magrunner - Puzzle games similar to Portal but with cyberpunk + Cthulhu
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Tower of Time - is a crpg that I absolutely loved
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Enderal: Forgotten Stories - you need Skyrim to play but I doubt that is an issue. Great story
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Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem - I actually liked it but the end game needs work and to few talents. Not sure if it is better now, I would not recommend at full price.
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Binary Domain - old school full of action shooter where you kill robots left and right. I think this was famous but I never heard of it so adding it to the list.
I also played DMC5 and Doom but pointless to put on a list since everyone knows about those.
Any suggestions are welcomed.
EDIT: Keep them coming. Compiled list from comment section:
- Bug Fables. Which is literally Paper Mario 64 with more content.
- Hades. SuperGiant Games' (Bastion, Transistor) roguelike
- Total Warhammer 2
- Starsector - 4x strategy and space fleet sim
- Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. - Very polished free roguelike
- Rive - Intense twin stick side scrolling shooter
- Bloodstained : Curse of the Moon 1 and 2 - Old school 8 bit Castlevania clone
- Children of Morta- great Diablo like, best in co-op mode
- Berserk: Band of the Hawk - Also called Berserk Musou
- Tales of Berseria - JRPG
- Ghost of Tsushima
- FFVII remake
- Hollow Knight
- Divinity Original Sin 2
- disco elysium
- soulreaver
- dota
- Metro series
- NDS - "Hotel Dusk" - investigation
- Scrap mechanic
- DCS is a great combat flight sim
- Insurgency and Insurgency Sandstorm are great FPSs
- Simcity 4 modders just released the 37th version of their traffic and network overhaul system called NAM
- Hunt Showdown - battle royal
- Vanquish - Story is a bit out there but it's basically gears of war with insane mobility
- Broforce
- Sniper Elite series
- Total War Rome II and Shogun II
- Doom & Destiny, a JRPG style that's a good time without being too serious
- Lisa, a very unique JRPG.
- Geneforge, a tactical RPG that's maybe 20 years old at this point
- 1001 Spikes, a precision platformer
- Hacknet, a hacking simulation/puzzle game
- Kingdom Come Deliverance if you want a 1st person western RPG
- Final Fantasy 12
- Rage 2
- Sengoku Rance - strategy game masquerading as a porn game
- Towerclimb - a superb platformer, and utterly brutal
- Return of the Obra Dinn - a puzzle/detective game set on a ghost ship
- Aquaria - Indie game and a terrific metroidvania
- Spelunky - Platforming roguelike game
- Intruder by Superboss games - Stealth game
- Trails in the Sky trilogy - JRPG
Still loving Hunt Showdown, although my gaming time is low atm. I was put off by the battle royale marketing for a long time but tried a free weekend and it's actually really good fun.
It's a PvEvP team free for all but I wouldn't say it's a battle royale. You don't have to scavenge for equipment and you don't get to choose your start location, you end up spread roughly equally around the map so it's a lot less dumb luck. Plus you can extract at any time, it's not an automatic fight to last man standing but a risk/reward choice about how much you try to grab before bailing.
The atmosphere is amazing, and the sound is even more so. Which is great because stealth is such a huge part of the gameplay, with tense old school western standoffs where you think someone is in the next room and hold your breath until you hear a floorboard creak on the other side of the door and you both start blasting through the walls and scramble for cover.
The gunplay is good, and very heavily weighted towards making your shots count because the old timey guns are very clunky to cock or reload but will generally drop people in two hits. I like that there's no artificial deviation when aiming down sights, where your sights point is where the bullet goes, which is important given the importance of making every shot count. The attention to detail is great too, every little crack in the old wooden walls and floors can but shot, seen and have things thrown through. Thinks like dummy round decoys will ignite flammables and dynamite detonating faster when they land in fire gives you lots of creative tactical options.