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Noita never reached the levels of fame and notoriety that it deserves. It should be mentioned in every “Best Roguelike” game list.
Now, it’s definitely rated high by those who play it, with Overwhelmingly Positive reviews, but it never got its mainstream spotlight.
Age of Mythology is one that I very rarely see talked about anywhere, it has a pretty good single player campaign. I also think more people should try out Caesar 3, albeit using one of the more modern fan made patches for reasonable zoom distances and other quality of life features.
The 2008 Prince of Persia.
What was expected to be a start of a series revival, flopped and ended up with a kinda messy PC port, platform exclusive DLC epilogue and eventually abandonment in favor of return to sands of time mythos.
Meanwhile it is my favorite entry in the series - with amazing art direction, and lovely character development and vocal performances by two main characters. The gameplay is a cross of guitar hero and parkour - it's much more rhythm based and perhaps less expensive, but pulling off a perfect run feels soooo good.
I love the game so much that even though I'm not a YouTuber, I created a full playthrough and published it - just so I can stop wanting to play it again every few years.
Dyson Sphere Program. Factorio and Satisfactory tend to get all the press, but DSP is AMAZING.
It's in early access, but it's one of the most polished early-access games you'll find. They're currently working on a large combat update that should drop in December. Price-to-value ratio is ridiculous. It's $20 and I have 155 hours in the game.
Days Gone. Biker in post Zombie Apocalypse. Fucking love it. It was killed by a few bad reviews that obviously only played for a few minutes. The reviews were so wrong it is impossible that it was an accident.
Yes. The bike you get at the very start IS ugly, doesn't handle well, breaks easily, and runs out of gas. That's why you upgrade it.
The map is small? Because you haven't explored anything yet. The map is HUGE. It just isn't fully accessible at the beginning. You know what other game is like that? All of them.
There's no fast travel? Liar. Fucking liar. There is fast travel once you get more than 1 location. Which happens about 20 to 30 minutes in. Literally the second mission is go find the settlement.
The gun is terrible? No shit Sherlock. It's the first gun. Every starting weapon in every game is terrible. Name one, just ONE GAME, that gives you the best final weapon at the very start.
No alternative weapons? Fucking asshole. What do you think all those empty slots on the weapons wheel are for? You have to go get them.
Giving a bad review because your starting gear isn't good is absolutely underhanded willful ignorance hit piece bullshit.
You sound very passionate but also very aggressive. It's almost uncomfortable to read 😅 Will check it out though, thank you.
Yeah. It still makes me angry. A few hit piece reviews from people that didn't play the game, and were just making things up, scared Sony so they canceled the sequel.
But the game is so good and the story is so fantastic that there are serious talks about a movie. Primarily due to the success of Last of Us. If that happens a sequel is possible, maybe even probable.
I think most of the reviews panned it for having a very generic and cliche-ridden plot, but I agree with you, that game is fucking great, the hordes and horde tech are awesome, and I'm sad Bend can't make another one.
Evoland 2: A game paying homage to the history of rpgs, and has a fairly solid set of main characters.
Lenna's Inception: A 2D Zelda clone about the world glitching out and you taking the place of the main character.
Bastion: First game from Supergiant Games (makers of Hades). Fantastic music and voice acting. Fairly good story too.
I feel like Bastion is probably appropriately rated, given that it is very popular, and I think made it onto atleast a few game of the year lists when it was released.
As someone who replayed it recently, I also feel like it did not age gracefully.
Snowrunner. A great combination of both chilled-out & stressful, driving massive diesel trucks at 5mph through woods and rivers delivering logs or girders.
The fact there's no big story and almost zero dialog, just assignments and map markers mean it's a superb 'podcast' game - something you can put it on while you listen to some podcasts / audiobooks.
Not that the game is boring or just a distraction. It's incredibly satisfying finding the best way to navigate through a horrendous woodland or swamp and get all your cargo through safely.
Plus, it has some of the best landscape physics out there. Rushing water really feels accurate. Mud paths get distorted so that it's harder to get through on your way back than before you churned it all up.
A great game. 100s of hours I've sunk into that thing.
Love SnowRunner, and i do play it mostly with podcast or stream open on second screen. Wish I could have a real manual transmission with clutch and all, chassis flexing and better asphalt friction. These would make it even more amazing
Ok this isn't an answer from me but I'm hoping it's somebody else's answer because I've had this game in my library for like eight years and haven't played it: Transistor. It seems like it got really really good reviews and then nobody ever talked about it again.
The reason people forget about Transistor might be the game Hades -from the same studio- which was/is such a huge hype. Got them both in my library, played a lot of Hades but never really got into Transistor because in my opinion it really pales in comparison to Hades.
Got it installed before I checked my replies and I didn't even realize it was them till I started playing! But yeah it's pretty awesome so far, loving the Turn() mechanic, gives me way less anxiety than Hades
Enjoy, gl hf!
Yeah, It's sandwiched between Bastion and Hades. It was fun, a lot of fun in fact, but those two had impacts on the industry.
Metal Gear Solid 5: I wish there were more cutscenes and less repeated content, but the core gameplay was amazing and unique.
Final Fantasy XV, yes it was obviously unfinished but it had a great atmosphere and exploring the world was nice.
Nova Drift, I just can´t stop playing it. It is a roguelite space shooter, based on Asteroids. The game has stylish 2D visuals, huge number of builds, responsive and precise controls, plus a nice dev, who listens to the community. It happens to be on sale right now too.
STALKER - Or at least in North America, anyway. While the vanilla games can be a little clunky and difficult at times, they offer one of the most unsettling and atmospheric experiences around.
There is nothing quite like tucking your tail between your legs and hurrying back to the safety of numbers, or a lonely campfire after realizing the sun is rapidly setting and you're still out there with the shadows. Once you reach that camp or relative safety, there is this strange, mixed feeling of simultaneous security and insecurity as you listen to your temporary companions converse with each other in the glow of a crackling fire while distant creatures howl in the night, and the entire Zone creaks and groans around you like bending metal in the sky.
Those feelings are intensified when conversation abruptly halts and the men around you go on alert, and you remember that nothing stopping those things in the night from wandering right into your camp, or whether/whoever that distant flickering flashlight belongs to from getting a little too close.
And then there is that feeling that follows, after the sun finally rises and you head back out into the strange, abandoned beauty of the world. Never completely safe, always on the edge, but a little more confident after having survived another haunting night in the Zone.
Valheim has some hump.
Tales of Maj Eyal is a roguelike that is on the scale of an epic adventure rather than a single dungeon delve. It has some of the most unique class design I've seen in a game. It has great automation features that let you set trigger conditions for skills. The game has received persistent updates for over a decade now.
Crystal Project is a relatively new JRPG that features some of the best exploration I've ever seen in a game. Also like ToME it has interesting class design. The end game bosses are fun, and actually make you think about your team design, they are generally not brute forceable.
Both games are well received but have less than 10k reviews on Steam, where indie darlings such as Cuphead or Hades have over 100k.
Stacklands. Card based colony builder. Cheap, simple premise, but loads of fun
Ooh, this is my favorite topic to discuss! But I'll keep this short because it's late and I should be asleep by now).
I just wish Praey for the Gods hadn't gone with the survival bullshit. It's almost a Shadow of the Colossus otherwise. Still a ton of fun for the price point and there isn't really anything comparable on PC.
If you like Lunacid, give King's Field: The Ancient City on PS2 a look, it's by FromSoft, and you're definitely a lot less mobile in that game, but the styles are very similar.
The battle for Polytopia is my jam
Hardspace Shipbreaker. You're a wage slave in an orbital junkyard breaking down ships and recycling them... with lasers. They're essentially a puzzle game in 3d, because you have to break the ship parts into their respective bins, but they're all stuck together in weird ways that explode if you do it wrong! The soundtrack is so good (Americana blues, Lotta banjo) that I got it on vinyl.
Star Realms digital
DmC - the reboot one. I could never fully get into the original series (i do like em), but this reboot really grabbed me. I loved the music and the atmosphere. I also liked the whole limbo aspect. I wish we got to see more of this version, the end got me excited to see what could come next. But then they went back with dmc 5 which was so critically acclaimed that they'll likely never look back again, for better and for worse.
Sundered, specifically eldritch edition. It is a great metroidvania with an eldritch twist!
Oni is a game that often ends up as a small cliff note in the greater narrative of Bungie's history, which is a shame since it's actually a really good 3D action game that predates the standardisation that Devil May Cry established.
It's pretty rough around the edges, and hearing about the development hell for this game I can understand why, but if you do end up playing the game you'll find an incredibly engaging combat system that will keep you locked in well after the game ends.
Better yet, you can use cheats to play as any npc and some of them have fully functioning movesets.
The greatest tragedy is the lack of a multiplayer component. It was planned, and advertised, but Bungie West couldn't get the networking down before Take Two's deadline. If there was multiplayer you could be there would be people still playing it today.
However, there is a active modding scene for the game, and with the Anaversery Edition you can easily play Oni on any PC or Linux machine (use wine 2.0, later versions have compatability issues).
It might permanently be over shadowed by Halo CE, but if you like 3D action frames or are a fan if Bungie you owe it a playthough.
Exiled Kingdom for mobile, basically an homage to isometric RPGs of the 90s. The graphics are nothing to phone home about, but the story is decent and the gameplay is great. I've done a couple playthroughs.
Teleglitch: it's a top down sci Fi horror roguelite which has purposely poor graphics that are compensated by a great story and ambiance.
It's one of my favorite games that nobody has ever heard of
Rimworld, it has recently started gaining popularity.
The long drive, great time sink.
Zomboid, but that has really blown up in the past few years.
*checks Steam reviews... 143,535 Overwhelmingly Positive
Totally underrated.
I'm so hyped for the next Rimworld DLC!
Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure.
It's a very cute action RPG made by the developers of the Ys and Trails series.
It's over a decade old and hasn't had an update in equally as long, but I really like playingMe And My Shadow from time to time. It's a 2D platformer where you have to control 2 characters, but the darker shadow version of you can only move if you record their movements by pressing the space bar and moving/interacting with objects and pressing space when you're done to see it move.
It also has a built in level editor and a couple of levels/level packs made by other players.
It is a continuation if the flash game "Haunt The House" that has more levels and is fun when you've got nothing to do and want to pass time
I don't see anyone online talking about it
I really love the whole presentation and much of the gameplay of the "2D in 3D" games such as the original Octopath Traveler (haven't played 2 yet) and Triangle Strategy. Triangle Strategy especially really brought a lot to the strategy RPG table (generally my favorite genre) and I'm surprised at how little it was talked about even if it was well regarded and sold out of almost all my local game retailers from pre-orders alone on launch day (though that could have also been those game shops not ordering many copies thinking it wouldn't sell well).