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• Anno 1800: Very complex city builder/resource management game, absurdly beautiful. I suck at it but it's fun.
• Control: Fantastic soundtrack and surreal story that intertwined real world events with a dark sci-fi fantasy world, also part of the Alan Wake universe.
• Command & Conquer Remastered: Great remaster of both the original C&C and Red Alert and expansions. Stays true to the original games with some minor interface and hotkeys improvements. Lets you switch between modern and classic graphics on the fly, too.
• Fallout 3, New Vegas, 4 and 76 (ok 76 is an online shared world experience but I liked it way more than 4 TBH)
• Goat Simulator: What a video game should be. Dumb fun with a lot of stuff to explore and wacky physics to experiment with. Like a classic N64 or PS1 experience but with better graphics. I don't know if it comes with the expansions but they are entertaining parodies of other genres too.
• Pillars of Eternity and Pillars of Eternity 2: classic pause-style CRPGs with great writing and storytelling.
• Quantum Break: Same devs as Control and Alan Wake, absurdly good storytelling with live action TV episodes in between acts that blur the line between fiction and reality. Gameplay is kinda average but the concept is awesome.
• Rise of Nations: This is a classic RTS, runs great on modern systems. Like a combination of Civilization and Age of Empires but better than both imo. Base campaign is your standard take over the world fare, but then there are various historical campaigns like the Alexander the Great conquests and Cold War.
• Sniper Elite Resistance: Actually haven't played this yet but the series overall is a very solid third person shooter/stealth series with some of the best sniping mechanics in the genre.
• The Saboteur: Older GTA-style game where you play a resistance member in WW2 trying to liberate France. It has really cool visual design, where oppressed areas are dark and gray but areas that you've liberated are colorful and lively again.
• Vampire Survivors
• Watch Dogs 2: One of the best games in the genre, the world feels so friggin alive and there's a lot of ways to interact with it for fun. Like starting a gang war that ranges on down city blocks or just messing around with NPCs. Solid story too.

Balatro if you're looking for an insanely addicting game. You don't need to know poker to play it. Just what a Flush, Straight, Full House is, so don't let that stop ya.

Celeste if you'd like a high quality 2D platformer with a sweet story and good music. Gameplay is really tight and there are optional challenges throughout if you want 'em.

Control if you want a good 3rd person shooter with super powers and a good story. Very entertaining aesthetic and tone.

Donut Country if you feel like something short and sweet. Good lazy day game.

Dredge if you want a fishing game mixed with Lovercraftian horrors. The core gameplay is catching fish, managing your inventory space, upgrading your boat.

Firewatch if you're down for a well written and acted looker of a walking sim.

Inscryption if you want a weird card game that's a lot more than it seems at first.

Inside if you'd like a stylish 2D puzzle platformer that is all about creepy vibes.

Psychonauts 1 & 2 if you want a funny classic 3D platformer. First one's gameplay is a aged, but the comedy is still pretty great. Second plays a lot better and the writing is on par with the first.

Sea of Stars if you'd like a good ass modern old school JRPG.

Unpacking if you're after a short cozy game about unpacking stuff. It's partly a puzzle game and had a pretty good story going on in the background told in a unique way.

Powerwash Simulator is a genuine 10/10 game

Played almost ALL this, but I'd heard amazing things about Dredge! You're on!

Crash is more like "2D platformer adapted to 3D" rather than a typical 3D platformer.)

I second the recommendation of South of Midnight. Although with a warning that it's a sad game.

I also recommend Grounded and Grounded 2 if you're into survival crafting games. Fantastic games where you're shrunk down to the size of an insect and have to fight all kinds of hostile insects.

I didnt start playing grounded until right before the final update and was genuinely blown away by it, I had just thought it was a colorful kids game

legitimately great game, and the wolf spiders were more frightening than any enemy I have seen in years. RE/Souls/dead space/whatever have nothing on them

I would play the first now instead of 2, I put 38 hours into 2 already >_> but it just entered early access and feels a bit barren after the years of updates 1 had.

It is still missing a lot of the equipment/items and even tech levels of 1, and there isnt just stuff everywhere yet, the only notable new thing added so far is a rideable ant and that isnt worth all the missing things.

( as an aside, I put ~10 hours into dredge and just couldnt get in to it I like chill games, but the gameplay loop just wasnt satisfying enough for me, which was odd because it seemed like something I would like)

( as an aside, I put ~10 hours into dredge and just couldnt get in to it I like chill games, but the gameplay loop just wasnt satisfying enough for me, which was odd because it seemed like something I would like)

I tried grounded years ago around when it finally came out of early access and it seemed like a typical co-op game balanced for co-op but not for single player. Did they balance it out more? Seem to remember I kept getting knocked out and losing everything because I didn't have a co-op partner to revive me. It was a couple years ago and I didn't play it for long so I can't really remember clearly.

Got my first town in Manor Lords set up pretty well, just need the population to grow so my militia can grow. Town 2 is just starting to make weapons for its militia and town 3 is just starting out.

South of Midnight!

Dredge has been really fun!

Does the amount of days matter? I've been playing kinda conservatively I feel like

There are some optional quests where you have to bring specific fish to one npc within a certain timeframe, otherwise the fish die. That is the only time specific thing, and it doesn't lock you out of any achievements or story progression.

I think those quests actually did fail after a certain amount of days passed, but they patched that out.