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
Holy shiet, Sengoku Rance, my boi, is in the list, i am proud, really.
Now for the recomendations:
Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Blens in well the Classic RPG aspect with the fact that you are building your kingdom from scratch, politics, wars and nasty assassination plots included
All the Yakuza Series, but start with 0 if you wanna taste it. It's an awesome Beat'n up game if comic moments and breath taking plot and presentation (Dynamic Intros for the Win)
Stardew Valley - Be your inner farmer and relax your body for all the killing
Metal Gear Rising - The best Hack n Slash, you can't go wrong with it
If you have a Switch and like Tactical RPGs, Fire Emblem 3H is a good pick, nice mechanics, characters and world building, the only downside is that the your character is a bland mute avatar with no personality, but the NPCs around him make it less suferable
Also, if you like Action MMOs Phantasy Star Online 2 is going to be released at Steam day 5, so go check it
I did not like Kingmaker. Ranting cause I love CRPGs and having one in Pathfinder was a dream came to true for me. The loading screens when doing any kingdom stuff was enough to make me hate it but on top of that most companions were insufferable. I found it funny how you release that couple from slavery and both try to hit on you right there after killing the salvers. Or the dwarf and elf were such soft annoying with no balls. The dialogue was so cringe even with other characters - although this may be do to the writers being Russian. I had to go back and play NWN2+expansions and Arcanum just to get the bad taste out of my mouth.