Pulled from my Top Playtime on Steam (so you know you’ll get your money’s worth if you like them!)
Factorio (Even though the DLC is pricey, it at least doubles the playtime. Though, like RW below, it takes a lot of content/concepts from fan-made mods.)
RimWorld (Though I dislike how many DLCs they’re pumping out and how much is basically taken from mods.)
Terraria
Mount & Blade (Warband 1 & 2 are prime)
Kerbal Space Program (NOT the sequel)
TerraTech (The original is a better experience)
Both the Pathfinder games
Grim Dawn
The Riftbreaker
UnderRail
Mindustry (Open source/free, but deserves the support from buying it on Steam.)
No Man’s Sky (They’ve gone above and beyond in shaping up since the clusterf release.)
The Long Dark
Rise to Ruins
Space Pirates and Zombies (1 and 2 are both great, in their own ways.)
Caves of Qud
Tales of Maj’Eyal
STALKER (I’ve heard bad things about #2, but the rest are great, high replayability with Anomaly.)
Psuedoregalia I think has some of the best movement in any game. I was sad for it to be over, I needed more. I love games that leave room for “breaking” the intended path if you can find the right places to push the movement tech to its limits. Not many games do it.
CrossCode is a personal favorite of mine. An action RPG heavily inspired by retro games.
Library of Ruina is a great non-roguelike deckbuilder. Technically it’s a sequel, but it’s not necessary to know anything about Lobotomy Corporation to get the full enjoyment of its story. At most you can just look up LC’s true ending if you aren’t interested in brutally hard management sims.
Tactical Breach Wizards is a really intertesting mix between a turn-based tactical game and a puzzle game.
The Last Caretaker and StarRupture are pretty fun if you like the factory survival type game. TLC is something really special IMO. The boat aspect is just so much fun.
Bloodthief is great, fast paced with an extremely high skill ceiling. Unlockables give you something to strive for and the level based structure makes it easy to quickly pick up and put down. Some other games I see people recommended here that I love are Signalis, Pseudoregalia, and Sayonara Wild Hearts.
Signalis is the best modern take on the old Resident Evil formula I’ve ever played, hands down. Pseudoregalia is a blast to play, the movement and tech in that game are unrivaled. I thought about comparing it to some Mario games, but that wouldn’t do it justice. Sayonara Wild Hearts is short but beautiful, there is nothing out there like it and it probably has some deeper meaning to read into.
Okay. I’m keeping my commitment, but I’m going to need help.
Everytime Ubisoft makes the news for being idiots, I buy another Indie game.
I’m going to need your recommendations for great indie games.
Because Ubisoft has recently gotten me through my wishlist.
Zero Sievert - single player extraction shooter and you can customize the difficulty with granular controls
Little Rocket Lab is like Stardew + Factorio. It’s chill and fun.
Pulled from my Top Playtime on Steam (so you know you’ll get your money’s worth if you like them!)
I’d like to add Satisfactory to this list.
The Riftbreaker is fun and graphcally nice to look at. For city builders, I’d also like to suggest:
Lets be real here… Factorio probably has more time played than all the others combined right? lol
All combined? No. Top in playtime by a very large margin over #2? You betcha! 😁
Amazing. Thank you!
Cassette Beasts
Pseudoregalia
Return of the Obra Dinn
Chants of Sennar
Gloomwood
Psuedoregalia I think has some of the best movement in any game. I was sad for it to be over, I needed more. I love games that leave room for “breaking” the intended path if you can find the right places to push the movement tech to its limits. Not many games do it.
I think the formatting is a markdown thing… try using double line breaks if you edit or just next time
…what kind of game is that?!
In case you haven’t deciphered where the cut off points are:
Yeah, I was just poking at what I assumed was a day off the cuff response. Didn’t occur to me they might have tried formatting it, and failed.
Thanks for breaking them out!
There’s like 4 games without separation in there
Commas are a premium feature now.
Microtransaction based single purchase
My client shows the returns I added to it… oh well, maybe Lemmy requires carriage returns ;)
Updated my post after a long day at work! :) sorry y’all
Thank you!
Gloomwood is great. It feels a lot like classic Thief in the best of ways.
Here are my recommendations then:
CrossCode is a personal favorite of mine. An action RPG heavily inspired by retro games.
Library of Ruina is a great non-roguelike deckbuilder. Technically it’s a sequel, but it’s not necessary to know anything about Lobotomy Corporation to get the full enjoyment of its story. At most you can just look up LC’s true ending if you aren’t interested in brutally hard management sims.
Tactical Breach Wizards is a really intertesting mix between a turn-based tactical game and a puzzle game.
Thanks!
The Last Caretaker and StarRupture are pretty fun if you like the factory survival type game. TLC is something really special IMO. The boat aspect is just so much fun.
Thank you!
TLC is so good
Bloodthief is great, fast paced with an extremely high skill ceiling. Unlockables give you something to strive for and the level based structure makes it easy to quickly pick up and put down. Some other games I see people recommended here that I love are Signalis, Pseudoregalia, and Sayonara Wild Hearts.
Signalis is the best modern take on the old Resident Evil formula I’ve ever played, hands down. Pseudoregalia is a blast to play, the movement and tech in that game are unrivaled. I thought about comparing it to some Mario games, but that wouldn’t do it justice. Sayonara Wild Hearts is short but beautiful, there is nothing out there like it and it probably has some deeper meaning to read into.
Thank you!
No problem. If you try any of these, keep me in mind and let me know what you think.
Monster Train 2 if you like card games. It’s got a load of content and replay and they recently released a patch today to add more!
Oh, good call. I loved the first Monster Train. Thank you for the recommendation!
Senua’s Sacrifice
Thanks!
Sayonara Wild Hearts if you want a short but very cool musical game
Thanks!
Awesome game
Terra Invicta is amazing. It’s as if Paradox made an X-Com grand strategy game. The developers were clearly passionate about their game.
Thanks!
Brotato
Thanks!
signalis if you haven’t got it
Thanks!
Derail Valley Simulator and Vintage Story have gotten me through the last year or so.
Thank you!
Lethal Company is a fantastic game imo.
Thanks!