Since the normies are starting to do their GotY thing.
I think mine’s Hardspace: Shipbreaker, although 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim continues to grow on me.
Return of Obra Dinn. Such an incredible experience.
Disco Elysium.
I missed it when it came out, but it’s an amazing game. An amazing amazing game.
Me too! I’m playing it right now. I’ve been surprised how many times it’s made me laugh out loud. For such a bleak looking game it can be quite funny at times.
I was amazed at how good a reflection it is on the nature of investigative police work, and what makes a detective a detective.
It’s not the gun or the badge (you start off without either), it’s not the innate authority (you start off in a humiliating predicament) it’s not being able to call upon the might of the state (your fellow police officers barely bother picking up the phone).
No, what makes a detective - maybe even the best detective on the force - is the willingness to do the work. To observe. To inspect. To interrogate. To pound the pavement day after crappy day. To completely give oneself up to the task of figuring out what the hell happened, and follow the clues wherever they lead.
It’s probably the best cop game ever made.
I was almost not going to respond with Outer Wilds, since it feels like I played forever ago. But apparently I only played it in June of this year, so that’s my choice. It’s one of my favorite games now, if not my favorite game ever.
It’s so good, in fact, that it’s helping me get over this weird anxiety I have of talking about my hobbies with other people (including my closest friends). Outer Wilds is so good that even though I hate talking about games I like, I still feel the need to recommend it to people. And now that the floodgates are open I feel a bit more comfortable talking about my other favorite games, like Baba is You, which I got another person to play as well, and The Messenger, which I’m playing now and loving it.
If you liked outer wilds I would check out Forgotten City. I just started it, but it has a similar feel. It’s more piecing things together through dialouge rather than exploration but has a similar “the whole world is a puzzle” vibe with the a kinda rouge lite experience of needing to use what you learn each cycle to progress further.
Will check it out! Thank you for the recommendation!
Also "return of the obra dinn " very different type of game but just magic
Probably Hollow Knight.
Saying Crusader Kings III feels like cheating cause I‘ve just been playing it for a long time.
Mass Effect Legendary Edition (the full trilogy)
Kenshi. Unlimited replayability and modability.
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I also played through this for the first time this year and liked it alot.
The reviews for the game didn’t do it justice. It wasn’t breathlessly paced like the first Mass Effect game (which I liked), but it was really quite fun.
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Super Mario Odyssey. It’s mostly extremely fun, controls well, with only occasional camera angles and poor checkpointing infuriation lighting its copybook.
I’ll share three based on how much I want to play them again soon
- The Last of Us Part 2
- Kena Bridge of Spirits
- Days Gone
Can’t believe the hate that days gone gets. Except for the walking cut scenes fuck them
Probably ‘Talos Principle’. I still haven’t finished it though. A tier puzzle game for me. Maybe S tier by the time I finish!
Second one just came out
🙀 😸
Autonauts, Astroneer, Factorio, Minecraft. All great games with excellent replay value IMO.
I don’t know if it’s the best, but the oldest games I’ve played this year are:
- Montezuma’s Revenge
- Commander Keen
- Zelda (NES)
I’m also looking for an old game I had on a 5" floppy back then… a fast-paced vertical scrolling shootemup/bullet hell, possibly with “Goose” in its name…
That and a Space Invaders-like that sounds like Galaxian, but is not Galaxian…
Similar concept, but possibly from the 90s, and your ship had a retractable claw to catch power-ups, and some sort of vertical sidebar in its UI with your score, wave progress, etc.The last one sounds like Galactix? Screenshot here.
Now that I think about it, that was probably my introduction to shmups. Either that or Axelay, not sure which I played first.
YES! That’s it.
Likely one of my first shmups too.
Thanks a lot, I’ll fire it up in dosbox eventually.B:\GX1.EXE
I gave Fallout 4 another try recently, after only playing a few hours of it a couple of years back. I ended up getting sucked into it. So far, I’ve only used a couple of quality-of-life mods, like a high FPS fix and allowing Dogmeat to be a companion alongside any other companion, which the game had unimplemented code for.
I’ve tried multiple times to get into this fallout having liked the others from the first but I just hate all that base building crap that it keeps trying to force on you.
Is there a mod to remove all base building quests so I can just ignore that shit?
Try Sim Settlements mod. It doesn’t remove the settlements, but it makes it interesting.
Instead of doing everything yourself, you can plop down plots for different purposes and then the sellers build it themselves over time.
You can also opt for a pre-made town footprint by choosing a settler as mayor.Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll check it out and give fallout 4 another try once I’ve finished what I’m playing currently. Having them just do it all themselves sounds much more appealing to me xD
It gave me a reason to wanna check back on settlements because it would change while I was away doing other stuff.
It’s also much less bunker-dorm-with-turrets.There are also mods so that settlers actually defend themselves, cutting down on a lot of babysitting.
Most of the base building quests are completely optional. There is a mod that automates base building, turning it more into something like SimCity. I haven’t tried it out, but it’s a top mod over on the Nexus site.
Something about this game gave me awful motion sickness. Tried tweaking some of the config files to no avail as well
Grounded, The Forest.
Good on a steam deck.
Probably Mass Effect Legendary Edition
