Video Game Suggestions

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A place to find suggestions for video games! For example, you might create a post looking for recommendations for a game to play with a friend, or a game that is easy to play if you just broke your dominant hand. Or you might post a list of games that let you use a whip as a weapon. A lot of rules for conduct here are pretty obvious (don't be a jerk, stay on-topic) so I'll bold the weird ones.

Rules

  1. Please stay on-topic: post requests for games that match some criteria you specify, lists of games with a certain element, or something otherwise relevant to helping people find games that match certain criteria.
    • If you're looking to find the name of a particular game or video game series you forgot, you should go to !TipOfMyJoystick@retrolemmy.com. This community is for fielding suggestions for games, not for finding one specific video game.
    • If you're making a post that is suggesting games, it should be a list of games. This is partially to help prevent the community from being overrun by people just suggesting their favorite game, and devs suggesting you play their latest game. This is about posts, not comments. It's okay to comment on a post asking for gaming suggestions with just one game.
  2. Don’t be a jerk. This covers bigotry and discrimination, which includes but is not limited to homophobia, racism, sexism, etc.
  3. Please don’t directly link to pirated content.
  4. When advertising something you have worked on, please use common sense for what is spammy. Self-promotion isn't totally banned: if someone asked for an RPG where you can play a lich, and the game you worked on is an RPG where you can play a lich, you can definitely answer with your RPG. I reserve the right to change this rule to be more specific about what exactly counts as spammy and what does not, but I feel I’ll know it when I see it and trust most posters to operate in good faith.
  5. Please indicate spoilers when necessary. The following format works on both Lemmy and Kbin, but if you are using an app it may not. See this comment for which apps handle spoilers. Note that spoilers in post bodies will just show the text in the preview if you link the post in, say, Discord, instead of spoiling it.
Spoilers for SomeGameSomething that happened at the end of the game! Something else that happened at the end of the game!

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Spoilers for SomeGameSomething that happened at the end of the game!

Something else that happened at the end of the game!

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cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/37241738

Not specific, just want to know if this even exists: a city clearing zombie game

Has anyone made a zombie game where you actually clear/retake an infested city? Lots of games have you raid a city to build a base somewhere else, (7D2D, unturned, now Vein, etc.) or just do things in an infested city (Dying Light, RE, etc.) sometimes culminating in some sort of big climax that results in or implies the end of the zombie times, or maybe you just leave, but are there any that have that element of progression where you slowly take more of the map and the zombies aren't just randomly spawned in a radius around the player regardless of how many you knock down? The closest I have ever found was an old flash game from when those were a thing, based around worker placement and resource management.

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So I have been trying to scratch an itch I don't know if I can still scratch. Are there any MMOs that still exist that use numpad movement, have a clunky UI, and really let you immerse in the game (I'm talking about the good old fashioned run across the continent to do anything days. Like Ruins of Kunark days.)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/16885686

Outer Wilds changed my life then Tunic changed it again

Edit: Game Recommendations by the people in the comments:

  • Disco Elysium - @Sibbo@sopuli.xyz
  • Kingdom Come Deliverance - @McFarius@lemmy.world
  • Fez - @TestFactor@lemmy.world, @Glaive0@beehaw.org, @clearleaf@lemmy.world
  • I Was a Teenage Exocolonist - @alltheweird@lemmy.tf
  • Noita - @Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de, @yjr4df0708@lemmy.ml, @Crow_of_Minerva@feddit.it
  • The Witness - @Suppoze@beehaw.org
  • Lingo - @dexa_scantron@lemmy.world
  • Bad End Theater - @Exocrinous@lemm.ee
  • Celeste - @tkk13909@sopuli.xyz
  • Fear & Hunger - @RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world
  • minit - @naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
  • The Forgotten City - @naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com, @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com, @terrifyingtuba@lemmy.world
  • Deathloop - @tills13@lemmy.world
  • The Soulsborne games - @Philharmonic3@lemmy.world
  • Void Stranger - @clearleaf@lemmy.world
  • Baba Is You - @clearleaf@lemmy.world
  • Roguelikes as a genre - @Piemanding@sh.itjust.works
  • The Long Dark - @rbos@lemmy.ca
  • Who's Lila? - @Crow_of_Minerva@feddit.it
  • Cultist Simulator - @Frogodendron@beehaw.org
  • Sorcery! - @Frogodendron@beehaw.org

And some game recommendations by me to add on to the post:

  • Taiji
    • A 2D puzzle game where you slowly unravel how to solve each different element of the puzzles, eventually culminating in a massive puzzle gauntlet. Basically identical in concept and execution to The Witness, but still very much its own unique and fun game.
  • The Golden Idol
    • A puzzle game where each level you must examine a scene to figure out exactly what happened, eventually piecing together the full story over several levels. Don't let the art style put you off, it's an incredibly well done game. Most similar to Return of the Obra Dinn in concept.
  • Stories: The Path of Destinies
    • an action RPG with a branching choice-driven storyline, but not every story has a happy ending... You'll piece together the true story over multiple playthroughs and eventually find the one true path. It wasn't a particularly life-changing game but it was still a lot of fun and worth checking out if it sounds interesting!

Games listed in the image, for those who want a straight list instead of looking at an image:

  • Heaven's Vault
  • Outer Wilds
  • Tunic
  • Return of the Obra Dinn
  • Chants of Sennaar

Additions from commenters on this post:

  • The Forgotten City - @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
  • Blue Prince - @Coelacanth@feddit.nu
  • Breathe of Fire: Dragon Quarter - @adameister@lemmy.world
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I am looking for games that are visually impressive and make use of my 5090 so I can get more use out of it before it becomes second place (though I guess technically its second place to the RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell).

I have already played Cyberpunk 2077, played the heck out of it, very fun, though it has some annoyances so on subsequent playthroughs mods removed those annoyances for me which was great. This game really had a lovely skill tree customization which let you have many different play styles and the free form missions were excellent for letting you complete them in all sorts of ways.

I have also played Atomfall and just have the new DLC left to play through. Its not really that graphically challenging. It was an OK game.

I have also played Split Fiction, which is probably the absolute most fun anyone can have with another person in video game form, especially if one is used to games and the other isnt, but in other cases as well. Very relaxing and high fun to down time ratio.

Played both Robocop games as well. Ok, but not that graphically challenging.

Sort of the big thing I want to avoid is MTXs and marketing dark patterns like FOMO and especially Monetary Dark Patterns. Basically things listed on this website are things I want to avoid

For the record I play on a 4k 144hz monitor and prefer higher frame rates, like 100 ish for comfortable play without eye strain.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36976973

i really love balatro, that games is so addictive, idk why, but i think it has little bit of gambling element i guess ( correct me if im wrong)

please recommend me some games that have any gambling element,

pardon my english :)

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thank you everyone, for the recommendations

ill try them for sure

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I posted a [list of Pokémon games you can play in a browser at !pokemon@sopuli.xyz](https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.zip/post/47994827). I have pasted the list as it is now. If you’re reading this in the future, it’s likely some new games have been added to the linked list that aren’t on the pasted version here.

The pasted list

Credit to this Reddit post by u/Aligatueur, and commenters below who added games. Went looking for some of these to play myself, figured I'd post the resource on Lemmy too.

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Just saw that this web app was available, and I think it seems like a cool idea. It's like a gamified rec engine.

Unfortunately it needs a sign up to start, but looks like there's no email verification right now. And thankfully it runs in web browser, no app needed.

Tried it, and it seems kinda jank. I don't recognize any of the 'experts', and didn't really know what to do with games I already played, and liked, but didn't love. The preferences and special cards didn't seem interesting.

So I dunno. Maybe it'll be useful over time and with more runs. But I thought it seemed neat, anyway and thought this community might be interested.

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I like the story and feel of genshin impact and the fact that it's open world along with the world design

I've tried looking online but most posts are asking for games with similar combat style while I'm looking for games that have story, feel, open world and world design to genshin

Unfortunately genshin is an gacha game and I dislike gacha

I prefer games with female main characters but ones with males are okay

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Bonus points if you can outlevel the current encounters by grinding enough, and for turn-based games.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Elevator7009@lemmy.zip to c/videogamesuggestions@lemmy.zip
 
 

List will update as I learn about more tools. Feel free to recommend some in the comments!

Although this is a community for finding suggestions and not a video game deals community, you might want to know about https://isthereanydeal.com/ and https://www.dekudeals.com/ for tracking sales.

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This list is not exhaustive. Will update with more if I see them. Some things here might not have started as "give me suggestions", like my own post "What is your favorite indie game?" (which is also why I did not initially post it here instead) but considering the replies turned out to be a list of games fitting the parameters set in the title just like a "give me suggestions" post I figured I'd include posts not intended to be suggestion seeking but that could practically be used for it based on their comment section full of games and nothing else too.

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