I really like Vanquish if you’re looking for a challenge

Nier Automata, the less you know about the game before playing the better

Slay the Spire, one of my favourites roguelite with The Binding of Isaac

If you like music games DJMAX Respect V

VA-11 Hall-A, a really good visual novel

Shin Megami Tensei V, I like to think it like if Pokémon wasn’t a kid game but an edgy RPG

And lastly 2 new indie games, Shogun Showdown and YiXian, both really good roguelikes

Roguelite:

FTL - Faster Than Light

Dead Cells

Nova Drift

Hades

RPG:

Divinity: Original Sin 2

Disco Elysium (pirate this game, it was “stolen” from the devs, they wont see the money if you buy this game anyway)

Those are some of my all time favorite, superb quality, labor of love titles. Are you also interested in couch coop games?

Mechwarrior 5: Clans

Its been fantastic. Loved the hell out of it and cant wait for more.

The Clan Invasion hasnt been in a MW game since the mid-90s. And those Clan Mechs are B-E-A-Utiful in a modern engine like Unity.

• Timberborn
• Talos Principle (2)
• Shapez 2
• Astroneer
• …

Inscription. The less you know going into it, the better.

Baba is you, great little puzzle game

If you haven’t played them, Shovel Knight, Hades, and Stardew Valley are all perfect 10s.

Like, I almost didn’t comment out of a sense of “well those ones don’t even need to be mentioned”

Starsector

Just be sure to switch your A and D keys from rotate to strafe

Play the 1st and 2nd GTA games for free.

Minetest - I think they might have changed the name of this game recently, not sure.

STALKER gamma mod pack

STALKER 2 comes out soon by the way

Play the 2nd elder scrolls game for free!

Map is as big as europe! It’s been ported to unity and it looks a ton better then the OG version. There are yet more graphic overhaul mods you can add like this guy did

Viewfinder if you enjoy Portal style games

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.

“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).

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.

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.

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