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
RAGE 2!
I just started playing and can't believe this got crapped on so hard. I've had a hard time getting into new games for months now but this was on sale so I bought it and decided to try it weeks later.
I am having a lot of fun with it. You can definitely feel 'Mad Max' under the hood.
The gameplay is fun enough but the story is so bland, I played 2/3 through it and cant remember a single character's name. Though its better than borderlands 3 (which has even better gameplay) where the story actively makes you not want to play the game.
I did not like the open world of Rage either, it felt "obligatory" and not something worth exploring for its own sake like Mad Max or Shadow of Mordor
Well I don't care about most games stories as I grew up on great writing and I find game writing to be a joke of cliches and shit you see coming from miles away.