Recommend me a PC game
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I find myself in need of some new games, but not really seeing much that interests me at the moment so after some recommendations. PC's a i5 8600k with a 1080 graphics card so not top of the line but handles most things except the latest titles, and I also have a first generation Rift.
First off I have very little interest in first person shooters, which cuts out a lot of recent games (and hardware requirements), and tend to prefer builders and strategies.
Stuff I've played recently
- Kerbal Space Program - probably the best game ever in my opinion, hoping the modding community will be as good in KSP2
- Factorio - spent quite a lot of time on Factorio this year
- Witcher 3 - Not bad but gets very samey after a while
- City Skylines - I always get bored about half way through
- Civ - Been a fan since the Colonisation days, not played 6 that much yet
- X series - X2 and X3 were great, X4 was a bit of a disappointment and I never really got in to it
- Elite Dangerous - Massive disappointment having loved Frontier back in the day, far too much running around inside stations
- Dyson Sphere Program - expected to like it having loved Factorio, but lack of planning features is a pain and don't like the third person view
- Hearts of Iron - Loved 3 but it's steep learning curve. Bought 4 but haven't managed to dedicated the time to it to learn it yet
- Beat Sabre - Great game in short periods but not exactly the kind of game to spend weeks on
- Superhot VR - Great fun, too short.
Any recommendations for games I should take a look at?
First off I have very little interest in first person shooters, which cuts out a lot of recent games (and hardware requirements), and tend to prefer builders and strategies.
Stuff I've played recently
- Kerbal Space Program - probably the best game ever in my opinion, hoping the modding community will be as good in KSP2
- Factorio - spent quite a lot of time on Factorio this year
- Witcher 3 - Not bad but gets very samey after a while
- City Skylines - I always get bored about half way through
- Civ - Been a fan since the Colonisation days, not played 6 that much yet
- X series - X2 and X3 were great, X4 was a bit of a disappointment and I never really got in to it
- Elite Dangerous - Massive disappointment having loved Frontier back in the day, far too much running around inside stations
- Dyson Sphere Program - expected to like it having loved Factorio, but lack of planning features is a pain and don't like the third person view
- Hearts of Iron - Loved 3 but it's steep learning curve. Bought 4 but haven't managed to dedicated the time to it to learn it yet
- Beat Sabre - Great game in short periods but not exactly the kind of game to spend weeks on
- Superhot VR - Great fun, too short.
Any recommendations for games I should take a look at?
Looking at that list you look like me but with a better graphics card 
Have you tried the Total War games? Troy is the most recent realistic one (you can turn the mythical creatures off if you want) with Warhammer II being the fantasy one. Having played since Shogun 1 I can say that Warhammer is utterly fantastic and one of the best games ever made - the races are so different to play and yet it's all pretty well balanced.
Staying in the Games Workshop theme Blood Bowl 2 can be fun, it takes about an hour per match. Can get frustrating though.
I know you said first person shooters weren't your thing but have you tried any of the Borderlands series? It's not the twitch-aim high tension FPS game like Battlefield, more of a relax and blow apart loads of weak enemies with a wide variety of guns type of game.
Have you tried the Total War games? Troy is the most recent realistic one (you can turn the mythical creatures off if you want) with Warhammer II being the fantasy one. Having played since Shogun 1 I can say that Warhammer is utterly fantastic and one of the best games ever made - the races are so different to play and yet it's all pretty well balanced.
Staying in the Games Workshop theme Blood Bowl 2 can be fun, it takes about an hour per match. Can get frustrating though.
I know you said first person shooters weren't your thing but have you tried any of the Borderlands series? It's not the twitch-aim high tension FPS game like Battlefield, more of a relax and blow apart loads of weak enemies with a wide variety of guns type of game.
If you like building/strategy - I'd suggest the following:
Rimworld
They Are Billions (lost hours to this)
XCOM2 - (lost countless hours to this, lots of mods)
Oxygen not included (I love 2d stuff)
On the 2D front. Kingdom: Two Crowns is a lot of fun - don't look up guides, half the fun is figuring out what to do. DLC is good.
Rimworld
They Are Billions (lost hours to this)
XCOM2 - (lost countless hours to this, lots of mods)
Oxygen not included (I love 2d stuff)
On the 2D front. Kingdom: Two Crowns is a lot of fun - don't look up guides, half the fun is figuring out what to do. DLC is good.
Useful thread. I'm just finishing Phantom Pain (on one of my kids hand me down PS4s), I've also done Factorio, God of War, Witcher 3, Far Cry, Last of Us, Red Dead etc and I'm about to have two weeks off over xmas so I'm looking for some stuff to play. Had a quick look in my steam list for games I enjoyed and haven't been listed:
Outer Wilds (If you've not played it don't look on youtube for speed runs, if you have played it, definitely do!)
Forgotten City
Horizon Zero Dawn
Cyberpunk 2077 (I liked it at launch, so may be in a minority)
Firewatch
Life is Strange (all of them, but first two are the best)
Couldn't get on with Resident Evil 7, I'm old and crap and it was just too hard.
Outer Wilds (If you've not played it don't look on youtube for speed runs, if you have played it, definitely do!)
Forgotten City
Horizon Zero Dawn
Cyberpunk 2077 (I liked it at launch, so may be in a minority)
Firewatch
Life is Strange (all of them, but first two are the best)
Couldn't get on with Resident Evil 7, I'm old and crap and it was just too hard.
toastyhamster said:
Cyberpunk 2077 (I liked it at launch, so may be in a minority)
I was going to suggest the same as I was playing it for months with little to no problems using a 1080ti card in 4k at first then 2k, however as it is part fps I kept quiet as the OP wants to avoid those, having said that some of the RPG stuff in the side missions is really good and they may be of interest to him (main story is good, though a little short, but suffers from being overly tough if you speed through, else easy if you take your time, but then it's really the story that's important not how challenging the combat stuff is (and stealthing the entire Arasaka compound part can be satisfying).Valheim - BRILLIANT!
Subnautica - One of my all time fav games
Astroneer - Amazing
Far Cry 6 - love this game
Satisfactory - Awesome
Dyson Sphere Program - stick with it
Icarus
Stranded Deep
Tavern Master
Len's Island
Teardown (hysterical with mods)
Force of Nature II - really enjoyed this
They are Billions
Outer Worlds
The Forest
Path of Exile - If you are after the ultimate time sink, 1500-2000 hours just to become a noob at this game
Subnautica - One of my all time fav games
Astroneer - Amazing
Far Cry 6 - love this game
Satisfactory - Awesome
Dyson Sphere Program - stick with it
Icarus
Stranded Deep
Tavern Master
Len's Island
Teardown (hysterical with mods)
Force of Nature II - really enjoyed this
They are Billions
Outer Worlds
The Forest
Path of Exile - If you are after the ultimate time sink, 1500-2000 hours just to become a noob at this game
Loads here I've never heard of so will have to look some up. Played some of the earlier Total War series and quite liked them but hadn't seen the newer one. Quite enjoyed XCOM, although it does get a bit samey after a while, but completely forgot I picked XCOM 2 some time back and haven't tried it yet
Currently on sale if anyone fancies starting thier own space programme
Dave Hedgehog said:
Path of Exile - If you are after the ultimate time sink, 1500-2000 hours just to become a noob at this game
Sounds similar to KSP, I'm glad I bought that from thier store not Steam so I have no record of time spent playing, probably in to tens of thousands of hours over the last 8 or 9 years Currently on sale if anyone fancies starting thier own space programme
RizzoTheRat said:
Stuff I've played recently
- Factorio - spent quite a lot of time on Factorio this year
- Dyson Sphere Program - expected to like it having loved Factorio, but lack of planning features is a pain and don't like the third person view
Have you tried Satisfactory? I love it! Immensely 'satisfactory' factory-building sim, although not sure how well your PC/GPU will cope when your planet-sized automated factory is fully up and running....- Factorio - spent quite a lot of time on Factorio this year
- Dyson Sphere Program - expected to like it having loved Factorio, but lack of planning features is a pain and don't like the third person view
From The Depths is possibly the daddy of all building games. It is quite in depth though, it doesn't have a learning curve it has a learning cliff, thats on fire, with bears on it. Its not as bad as it used to be though as the game actually has some tutorials now and some pre made parts to start you out.
From what I can tell most people just play to build things, there is a campaign to test out your creations but judging how rare some of the achievements are I think a lot of people just enjoy making stuff.
From what I can tell most people just play to build things, there is a campaign to test out your creations but judging how rare some of the achievements are I think a lot of people just enjoy making stuff.
darth_pies said:
Have you tried Satisfactory? I love it! Immensely 'satisfactory' factory-building sim, although not sure how well your PC/GPU will cope when your planet-sized automated factory is fully up and running....
No, but videos look very similar to Dyson Sphere Program which put me off a bit as I preferred Factorio's top down view to DSP's third person.Rimworld is looking like a top contender so far but lots of other suggestions look promising (including satisfactory)
Derek Withers said:
From The Depths is possibly the daddy of all building games. It is quite in depth though, it doesn't have a learning curve it has a learning cliff, thats on fire, with bears on it. Its not as bad as it used to be though as the game actually has some tutorials now and some pre made parts to start you out.
From what I can tell most people just play to build things, there is a campaign to test out your creations but judging how rare some of the achievements are I think a lot of people just enjoy making stuff.
That looks very promising....and bloody hard!From what I can tell most people just play to build things, there is a campaign to test out your creations but judging how rare some of the achievements are I think a lot of people just enjoy making stuff.
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