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
Towerclimb is a superb platformer, and utterly brutal. If you beat the first boss in under 8 hours you're amazing. Been out a while, i adore it, but hardly ever see it talked about. I really ought to dig back in.
Aquaria. My first indie game and a terrific metroidvania. Sad there will never be a 2, but the two devs went on to make other titles separately. One made spelunky, the other made might in the woods.
Spelunky. It's great! Platforming roguelike game. There is the old free version, the vastly more polished paid version, and a sequel coming.
DO NOT recommend, but Intruder by Superboss games. Underappreciated stealth game. Closest I'll ever get to the stealth shenanigans of the old splinter cell spy vs merc multiplayer game modes. Very different though, and its biggest flaw is its very very limited playerbase. Haven't played in years, and the difficulty of getting a game is a large reason of why, hence why I cannot recommend.
Added Towerclimb to my wishlist. If you're into precision platformers at all, I'd highly recommend Dead Dungeon. It's nothing too fancy, but it's cheep, cheerful and brutal af