Video Game Recommendations

I've played through Vampire Survivors and gotten all of the achievements.

After doing all of that, I can easily recommend this game. It's not hard to pick up, but man is the gameplay loop great. It's very easy to lose track of time, especially once you become good enough to get to the time limit in a run.

It's also pretty cheap to get.

So, I've been looking for some campy action games. I looked down the index of games listed under the trope and I've either played them already or they didn't catch my eye. I'm personally a big fan of action games, and I just know there's more campy shit out there than just Bayonetta and Devil May Cry. Any recommendations?

Godhand.

Edited by M84 on Jan 16th 2023 at 2:18:07 AM

Bunch of neat stuff has come out in the last couple years. Here's a handful of titles that have jumped out at me:

Chernobylite - AKA I Can't Believe It's Not STALKER. Lot of visual and gameplay similarities, but its game structure is mission focused, with smaller recurring locations and a home base to build up. Surprising effort going into the story with some decent dialogue, but also plenty of open-map action, unpredictable situations, and a bunch of interesting gameplay quirks.

Void Bastards - System Shock 2 as a black comedy roguelite in space. You play a series of expendable convicts rehydrated and tasked with scavenging parts from a ship graveyard. A good-in-short-burts kind of game with some novel gadgets, good ship design, and creative enemies. The Stanley Parable narrator (Kevan Brighting) helps with the game's chipper-yet-disturbing tone, and it's Extremely British in some amusing ways.

Touhou Mystia's Izakaya - Cutesy restaurant management in a place where insane magical duels happen daily. Real nice pixel art presentation and cheery soundtrack, and its interface and mechanics are easy to grasp with a pretty generous difficulty curve. The game gives you time to make decisions, and later gameplay elements complement rather than complicate the basics. Super charming, very accessible, and a reasonable asking price.

Teardown - Voxel-based sandbox destruction game where you're breaking stuff to stay out of jail (long story). Tunnel through elaborate maps to pull off heists, flatten buildings, or just drive a bulldozer through a minimall. No extraneous elements to worry about - any car in a map can be driven and there are no NP Cs to get in the way - it's just a game about strategic property damage with physics on loan from Red Faction: Guerilla.

Stray - Functionally an adventure game with a novel, adorable hook. Basically you're in the Nier: Automata future, but you're a cat and basically don't notice until you get separated from your pack. The resulting adventure takes you through a city of (mostly) friendly robots with a cargo cult mentality towards humans. Bite-sized and gorgeous, it's beatable in a weekend and is famously a very accurate depiction of cat behavior.

Time Break Chronicles - Chrono Trigger and FF 6 broke into the Roguelite Labs one day and this is the result. You play Canadian Doc Brown getting help from herself to stop not-Cthulhu with the help of a gacha-size collection of heroes; combat is turn-based JRPG, but with surprising depth and some clever twists. No grinding to worry about, just point-to-point fights, team composition, and resource management.

La Pucelle Ragnarok - The PSP re-release finally got a PC port a few months back. For those who missed this one, it's Disgaea but your team are a bunch of do-gooders who beat up monsters until they join your party. If "redheaded French girl who joined the church to punch skeletons" isn't enough, it's still a well-made TRPG that got some nice improvements with the re-release. It honestly baffles me that this game never got sequels.

I want a political simulator that’s basically similar to NationStates except it gives you access to all issues from the beginning & you can change your answers whenever you want.

Been trying out Shadow Empires(note: the trope page kinda oversells how crapsack the world is considering even before oceania there is at least one planet type that isn't death world :p) and while I'm confused of how it works, I'm curious to find more recent games like it

I don't know if this is the right thread for this but I kinda wanna play the Project × Zone games via emulator, has anyone else here played them? Are they any good?

TIL that plate armour actually makes a lot of little noises when it moves, which is something you basically never hear in games.

Which is really silly when you have something like someone in armour sneaking up on people.

Edited by Redmess on Apr 7th 2023 at 5:51:31 PM

Huh? That's a non-sequitur for this thread.

Edited by ShinyCottonCandy on Apr 7th 2023 at 12:48:14 PM

Oops, I meant to post in another thread.

At Project × Zone: The games are a lot of FUN that's for sure. They're jam packed with references and in-jokes but you also won't be completely lost if they're talking about characters you've never heard of (And they WILL talk about characters you've never heard of) to keep the dialogue breezy.

As for gameplay, it's a unique time-based juggling mechanic layered into the grid-based strategy. I never exactly was challenged by it, but the frenetic animations where good enough to keep me invested until the next bout of character interaction.

Hey, anyone got any RPG Card Game recommendations that aren't Roguelike or Roguelite? There's nothing wrong with the Roguelite Deckbuilder genre, but I've sunk about 500 hours into both Slay the Spire and Monster Train so I'd like to play something where I actually get to keep the cards I grab.

I think SteamWorld Quest might be up your alley. Got RPG and cards and no roguelike elements :)

I recommend Omega Strikers if you want a relatively chill and fun online PVP game.

Griftlands and Roguebook play out like Slay the Spire, but are both Roguelikes.

Edited by AxolotlFan on May 7th 2023 at 4:22:16 AM

neon white. it’s a pretty cool fps focused on mobility and speedrunning

Is the Dead Age games any good?

Hey guys so I'm here to recommend a game I'm currently playing called Atomic Heart. I thought to bring this game up for recommendation because while it may have receive controversy for how it depicts the Soviet Union, it's a really fun first person shooter, akin to Bioshock, and it actually reveals that the game is not pro-Soviet Union like at all (that's my opinion). Anywho it's a fun game which I recommend, especially since this is the first game Mundfish has released (and hopefully not the last)

Edited by G-Editor on Sep 5th 2023 at 12:24:39 PM

Just got done with the demo for The Fabulous Fear Machine - this new horror themed RTS game coming out next month. Very strong reccomendation, especially if you like Creepshow, Tales from the Crypt, and Plague Inc.

I just finished playing the game Death's Door I thought it was a very fun game to play with. I definitely reminding me of Dark Souls though it is certainly shorter and more easier to play, especially since you retain the souls you collected, even after you get killed. Overall, I'd strongly recommend this game to anyone who wants of play a souls-like game that's easier to handle.

Okay, I’ve played the full version of Fear Machine. It is still good. Strong recommendation for spooky month.

...What does that have to do with recommending video games for people to play, or seeking recommendations for what games you should play?

Or Fridge Horror, for that matter?

Shiny Cotton Candy E3 the game convention. I recommend you guys to read my rant.

1. It’s a major wall of text. 2. I still can’t tell how it’s on topic for this thread.