I have been in quality the a gaming slump for a while, for various reasons.
What are some games you’d throw at me yo drag me out of this slump?

Entertaining all genres and offers.

Edit: I’m sorry cant answer all of you right now, I’m at work.
But seriously thank y’all for so many quick responses already, I’ll be writing them down when home

  • Nakedmole@lemmy.world
    4·
    7 hours ago

    Roguelite:

    FTL - Faster Than Light

    Dead Cells

    Nova Drift

    Hades

    RPG:

    Divinity: Original Sin 2

    Disco Elysium (pirate this game, it was “stolen” from the devs, they wont see the money if you buy this game anyway)

    Those are some of my all time favorite, superb quality, labor of love titles. Are you also interested in couch coop games?

  • RangerJosie@lemmy.world
    2·
    8 hours ago

    Mechwarrior 5: Clans

    Its been fantastic. Loved the hell out of it and cant wait for more.

    The Clan Invasion hasnt been in a MW game since the mid-90s. And those Clan Mechs are B-E-A-Utiful in a modern engine like Unity.

  • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    12 hours ago

    If you haven’t played them, Shovel Knight, Hades, and Stardew Valley are all perfect 10s.

    Like, I almost didn’t comment out of a sense of “well those ones don’t even need to be mentioned”

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    12 hours ago

    Starsector

    Just be sure to switch your A and D keys from rotate to strafe

    Play the 1st and 2nd GTA games for free.

    Minetest - I think they might have changed the name of this game recently, not sure.

    STALKER gamma mod pack

    STALKER 2 comes out soon by the way

    Play the 2nd elder scrolls game for free!

    Map is as big as europe! It’s been ported to unity and it looks a ton better then the OG version. There are yet more graphic overhaul mods you can add like this guy did

  • polle@feddit.org
    121·
    1 day ago

    Factorio. The new dlc hooked me into a 5h gaming session at one eve. I cant remember when i did that the last time in my life. Probably with 15? But be warned, the game isn’t called cracktorio without reason.

      • polle@feddit.org
        1·
        8 hours ago

        The most important setting for me, was to set the enemies as passive. So you can kill them off when you need place and they will never attack you on their own.

  • Tudsamfa@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 day ago

    “Return of the Obra Dinn” is the best Detective-type game I have ever played. Pure inductive, yet always logical reasoning. The setting of an Victorian ship, the 1-Bit artystyle, excellent ost and memorable story really elevate this recommendation to a must-play.

    On something from this decade, Balatro is great if you like cards and rouge-likes. But it’s been so popular I don’t think anyone interested hasn’t heard of it yet.

    Oh, and as others have pointed out and I’d hate myself for not mentioning it, Tunic is great as well. It’s a love-letter to the instruction book, and makes one really feel like playing an old game and relying on an instruction book, while not being all that great at reading, like some may remember from their childhood. But with modern game design and what others call Dark-soul mechanics (idk, I have never played a Fromsoft game).

  • Xenny@lemmy.world
    121·
    1 day ago

    Cyberpunk 2077. It was hated on release but it really has made a comeback after 2.0 was released.

    I think cyberpunk really puts so many triple A titles to shame when it comes to the quality of the characters and quests.

  • Akip@discuss.tchncs.de
    10·
    1 day ago

    Try rimworld! You don’t need any of the dlcs for the first couple of successful runs. Just the base game takes you to I would say 85-90% of the experience (ideology is a good upgrade for later). Side effects include, playing too long into the night, dreaming about the game during your sleep and day dreaming about it during whatever else you doing until you get back to playing.

  • finestnothing@lemmy.world
    20·
    2 days ago

    I love indie games - here’s my favorites list!

    Terraria
    Deep rock galactic
    Factorio
    Dwarf Fortress
    Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (free and open source - check it out!)
    Stardew Valley
    Starbound
    Rimworld (I much prefer dwarf fortress, but I found this first and got a few hundred hours in it too)
    Battlebit remastered

    • Christian@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      18 hours ago

      Same here, played it about a month ago, fun idea at its core that’s executed extremely well, very memorable. Unfortunately it’s very short, probably around ten hours for me to complete everything, but it have might gotten stale if it went on too far beyond that without significant gameplay alterations. Probably like 70-80% a puzzle game, 20-30% action. My only complaint is that I don’t really like hearing all the terrified screams, but I’m not sure those could be removed without destroying the immersion.

      Different genre, but another indie game I want to mention is Eastward, which is actually something I tried playing after seeing a poster here on lemmy give glowing praise just a week or two after it came out. I think it’s the best pixel art I’ve ever seen. The dialogue and story are wonderful overall, heartwarming at times and creepy at others. The charcters have personality. Overall the appeal for me is that there’s a lot of emotion packed into every aspect of the game.

      I think the gameplay is fun, but that’s not the reason the game is memorable and the main complaint people have is that there are many long stretches that are just building atmosphere with minimal gameplay. I didn’t mind that at all, but I was disappointed with how much of the story was up for inperpretation after beating it. I spent most of the game excited to see how the loose ends and parts of the story I didn’t get would be tied together, so it was a let-down when the game ended and most of those questions just weren’t answered.