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

  • FergleFFergleson@infosec.pub
    23·
    2 months ago

    The first title that jumps to my mind, especially when you contextualize it around “restoring faith”, is Satisfactory. It’s been a very entertaining and challenging game, but also the development team has been exactly what one (typically) wants from a dev team. They’ve been very transparent about issues, their process, etc. Their interactions with the fan-base have been frequent and open throughout the years of development. Good game + good company. Worth consideration if you like a good factory builder.

    • notgold@aussie.zoneEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Very down to earth people. Telling us they want to go outside in the summer so they won’t be working for a bit was a bit of a stab at us basement dwellers

  • finestnothing@lemmy.world
    20·
    2 months 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

  • Gerudo@lemm.ee
    18·
    2 months ago

    Balatro - Even if roguelike isn’t your thing, try it

    Alan Wake 1/2 & Control- if you love creepy atmosphere

    Superliminal - unique 1st person puzzle, think portal vibe

    Bastion - 1st game from Supergiant, best smash-em-up I’ve ever played

    Anything Supergiant for that matter

  • scoredseqrica@lemmy.ml
    181·
    2 months ago

    Here are 6 good games I wholeheartedly recommend:

    • Baldurs Gate 3, speaks for itself.
    • Disco Elysium, elevates the whole medium to art
    • Hifi Rush, innovation and entertainment
    • Snowrunner, ok this one’s just for me.
    • The Outer Wilds, very interesting, go in spoiler free
    • Return of the Obra Din, puzzle game like nothing you’ve played before
  • FMT99@lemmy.world
    14·
    2 months ago

    I was going to immediately mention Hollow Knight but I see someone already did. Second thought: Tunic. It’s been a long time since a game hit me as hard as those two.

    For pure fun addictive gaming: Factorio is absolutely nuts. 2D survival craft platforming action: Terraria is still king.

    For space empire building check out X4: Foundations, after almost 10 years under development it’s absolutely amazing (but a huge timesink haha)

    Oh and if you’re into semi-hard-scifi basebuilding you could give Stationeers a look. Sunk quite some hours into that one.

    • villainy@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      The learning cliff of the X games is pretty intense but totally worth it. I made it through and just look at me now! I, err… wasn’t going to do anything better with those hundreds of hours anyway.

  • polle@feddit.org
    13·
    2 months 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
        2·
        2 months 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 themselves.

  • ytsedude@lemmy.world
    141·
    2 months ago

    If you haven’t played it, “Stardew Valley” is, like, ruin-your-life good. And I think part of what makes it so faith assuring and life uplifting is that it was made by one dude who has continuously (for YEARS) released huge, free updates for the game. He’s awesome. It feels good supporting him and recommending such a great game to people. :-)

  • Xenny@lemmy.world
    131·
    2 months 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.

  • esteemedtogami @lemmy.oneEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    I’ve recently gotten hooked on the Yakuza series. The whole series goes on an aggressive sale pretty regularly on Steam. I’d recommend starting with Yakuza 0.

    • dwindling7373@feddit.itEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      The best thing about Yakuza is that it welcomes meny different approaches so you can go have crazy absurd fun, intense cinematic story driven drama, mindless collectible and challenges…

      I think it’s perfect to rediscover what fun in videogame is.

  • Akip@discuss.tchncs.de
    10·
    2 months 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.

  • Tudsamfa@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 months 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).

    • Christian@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 months 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.