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  • darkestd@reddthat.comEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    Kenshi is back on sale for 12$. It’s a special kind of special, but someone out there might connect with it. Lots of yt videos to get a feel for gameplay.

    • dustyData@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 day ago

      This is one of those games that I love the description, love the sales pitches, streamers do a good job of promoting it. In paper I should love this game, but it just doesn’t gel with me. There’s something about video games that just cannot be conveyed through video or text.

  • Vespair@lemm.ee
    616·
    3 days ago

    Celeste is 75% off and is a near-masterpiece of a game.

    Portal 1 and Portal 2 are on sale again of course on the chance you haven’t yet hit these absolutely classic legendary games.

    Persona 4 Golden is 40% off and is awesome, and Persona 5 Royal is 60% and is even more awesome.

    Metal: Hellsinger is 70% off and while it isn’t a GOTY type game, it’s a hell of a lot of fun if you’re a contemporary metal music fan.

    but my biggest recommendation is probably gonna be

    Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale at 80% for only $3.99 (US) which is an completely underrated hidden gem of a game and a huge recommendation for anyone who likes quirky cozy-hybrid games or who, like me, spent way too long on the shopkeeper segments in RPGs like Torneko Taloon’s chapter in DQIV.

    edit: why in the world would anyone ever downvote a personal recommendation comment? Weird behavior, fam

  • Psythik@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 days ago

    Can anyone recommend a good multiplayer shooter with a high player population? (Either 2D or VR is fine.) Or any non-MMO, non-role-playing PvP game that is mostly online and has populated servers? Something my 37-year-old ass can just jump into and play a quick match without having to dedicate my life to it?

    Getting sick of all the PUBGs, Counter-Strikes, Call of Duties, and Overwatches/Marvel Rivalses. My best gaming memories were during the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 days. I never had more fun in a shooter than when I was playing Rush. But unfortunately EA never managed to recapture that same magic in the sequels. After the 2042 flop I quit Battlefield for good.

    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      I went back to the finals, i played the beta a lot but kinda lost interst at launch. It’s a really fun, solid and pretty shooter.

    • yuri@pawb.social
      5·
      2 days ago

      BattleBit Remastered is legitimately the tightest battlefield-like fps i’ve ever played, better than name-brand battlefield even. it fills the exact same niche for me.

      i play with mic off and still manage serviceable communication with a squad of randies pretty much every game. there’s relatively frequent balance updates, so the meta isn’t focused on any one single playstyle. it’s exactly what i imagine an fps made by fps-junkies to look like.

      Also playing support actually feels rewarding, and i think that’s proper rare in multiplayer games.

      e: fuck hahah just kidding apparently it was abandoned by the devs. last update 15 months ago, rip to my favorite fps :c

        • yuri@pawb.social
          3·
          2 days ago

          this is the worst way to find out my favorite game had a scummy dev the whole time lmao

          there’s reviews from February that say you can still find populated servers, but that might be region dependant and you almost certainly won’t have a choice for gamemode.

          guess we’re both just waiting for the next next good battlefield game 🙃

    • Barrymore@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      2 days ago

      Due Process is a multiplayer competitive shooter similar in vein to Counterstrike or Rainbow Six Siege, but the maps are somewhat procedurally generated (there’s tilesets and certain rooms layouts for every map) meaning there’s no consistant strategy and sniper points to meta game. You play as defenders guarding a bomb or attackers breaking into the building to disarm the bomb, switching sides after 3 rounds. Rounds last 2 minutes with an extra minute given at the start to plan out the strategy. The economy of weapons works in that all the guns for 3 rounds are all available at the start and only the living players get to bring weapons to the next round. The original devs are no longer working on it I believe, but it is being updated and maintained by volunteers.

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      2 days ago

      Operation Harsh Doorstop is my favorite fps, it is a semi-realistic vehicle big map shooter… but it has mod support and mods like Casualfield (which has active multiplayer servers) have much more Call Of Duty like gameplay. It is free, no live service crap. Even if you don’t like where the vanilla game is right now, keep your eye on it, it is an easy platform for other shooters to be modded on. Player population isn’t huge but there are consistently full servers. I also don’t think the realistic nature of the game makes it less accessible than a game like battlebit, since there is such a specific gun meta at certain ranges in arcadey games like battlebit, and everything happens so fast with constantly rushing smg players… it is actually really hard to break into when you are playing on even normal pub servers. Apex Legends is in my opinion the worst game with this. In a game like OHD though, an assault rifle with a scope can do pretty much anything well enough, though you might prefer a more specific kit for a situation, but there isn’t this crazy focus on constantly changing weird metas and gun balances to pump up paid skins for a gun that was just added… This is just a free moddable big map vehicle shooter with a server browser and barebones singleplayer, which is awesome.

      https://store.steampowered.com/app/736590/Operation_Harsh_Doorstop/

      Halo Infinite I grew up with Halo 1-3, I don’t have any special love for 343, but Halo Infinite big team battle is the best halo multiplayer has ever been. Capture the flag is amazing with the warthogs the way they are balanced in halo infinite, I can’t stand microsoft lol but damn halo infinite is in a nice state now.

      Splitgate Ok, player population isn’t massive, but this is a realllllly good game, even outside the portal gun mechanic. The gunplay is great and the jetpack is tuned perfectly. Can’t recommend it enough!

      https://store.steampowered.com/app/677620/Splitgate/

      Easy Red 2 Alright now I am just straight up lying, this game never has huge concurrent numbers, but you can give large numbers of forces commands pretty easy in the interface (like you can drive a half track up to an objective and order your squad to dismount and assault). It is another WW2 game… but this game actually strives for historical specificity in lots of areas that aren’t usually covered in WW2 games. There is a great diversity of armor, vehicles and fighter planes, the games is a blast and is a steal at around $10. Cross platform tooo!!! Great for bot bashing.

      https://store.steampowered.com/app/1324780/Easy_Red_2/

      Xonotic is the best arena fps ever, playerbase is HUGEEEE E

      https://xonotic.org/

      ok but I love it

  • rosahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    132·
    2 days ago

    my reccomendation? whatever’s on gog

    in all seriousness, you can’t go very wrong with games made by valve, portal especially.

  • MortUS@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    3 days ago

    Talos Principle is $5

    Talos Principle 2 is $15

    Highly recommend both games!

    • eRac@lemmings.world
      6·
      2 days ago

      Both combined is $15.58. That doesn’t include the excellent expansions for either game though.

      They are the only portal-likes (chamber-based player movement puzzlers) that I’d place on the same level as the Portal games.

      • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        Imo they’re better. Portal was more groundbreaking because of when the first one came out, what valve was doing at the time, because everybody played it, and because of its connection with other games at the time.

        But now, it’s just a very good game that (re)introduced portals as a concept into pop culture and repopulatized and proved that AAA puzzle games were possible.

        Talos, on the other hand, is a philosophical indie sleeper, and more of a social experiment. I don’t like comparing it to portal, because most people see portal as an insurmountable peak with an impenetrable meme forcefield. And yeah, portal is great. But the Talos games are something very different and stands all on its own.

  • ThePancakeExperiment@feddit.org
    91·
    2 days ago

    I got myself and can recommend:
    Returnal (29.99€) (Rogue-like shooter),
    Wisper (6.99€) (Open world exploration) and Crossroads OS (3.74€) (Puzzle game).
    I can further recommend:

    Studio System (8.84€) (Horror),
    With My Past (6.59€) (Puzzle),
    Signalis (13.99€) (Horror).

      • Psythik@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 days ago

        I went in blind and gave up after about 3 hours. I have no idea what the fuck is going on, which makes it too easy to die to the same thing over and over again, because I can’t remember which paths lead to progress and which ones lead to death.

        Outer Wilds is a game for normies with a good memory and proper motor skills.

        • MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org
          2·
          2 days ago

          If you’re still willing to give the game a shot, there is the expiditon log in your ship which keeps that’s off all your discoveries and keep bulletpoints on the important bits of knowledge. It also allows you to track the corresponding location should you wish to visit it again to dig deeper.

          I think it’s expected to be overwhelmed at first. Maybe try to stick to one clue and follow it trough before going out into a another part of the world.

    • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
      51·
      3 days ago

      I’ve still never beaten it. I’m near the end I’m pretty sure. Great game.

  • spicystraw@lemmy.world
    14·
    3 days ago

    Here’s what I picked up during the Steam Spring Sale:

    DOOM - $1.99 (90% off)
Stray - $18.99 (40% off)
Undertale - $0.99 (90% off)
Celeste - $4.99 (75% off)
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order - $4.99 (90% off)
Red Dead Redemption 2 - $14.99 (75% off)
NieR: Automata - $15.99 (60% off)
Hades - $9.99 (60% off)
Devil May Cry 5 - $19.79 (67% off)
  • TwoHardCore@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    I’m enjoying Railway Empire. It’s on for 75% off the base game and pretty good deal for the entire DLC & Japan collections.

    If you love time-wasters with some challenges, then I’d recommend it.

  • DeadUncle@lemmy.world
    332·
    3 days ago

    Noita is currently 60% off and is hands down the best game I have ever played (kind of). It is ridiculously brutal and you will die very often but you have the potential to get ludicrously powerful as well. The game will cheese you so don’t be afraid to cheese it back. In has so much content that beating the final boss for the first time is considered beating the tutorial.

    Also if the some aspects are too bullshit for you there is a variety of mods to fix these, and there is absolutely no shame in using them.