I have all my hardware set up, including a new chair. MineCraft and baulders gate 3, terraria, and some freebies are my only games so far. I have a massive console and physical game collection that I love, so I’m really just looking for things that are definitively better on pc, only on pc, or software that I may not know about yet. Free software and game recommendations are always my favorite.
Really just posting here because I thought you would be the best people to find random recommendations from. Usually I would check reddit posts and all that, but I’m here now.
Thanks in advance!
If you don’t have an Epic Games account, you should make one to take advantage of their weekly free games. Thoughts about the company aside, you occasionally get access to some great games like Borderlands 3 and Prey.
I recommend Daniel Mullins games if you like games that challenge the forth wall. Pony Island and Inscryption were fun. I’ve bought The Hex but haven’t sat down and committed the time to it yet, but it was very highly recommended to me.
If you like games like Undertale, it’s sequel Deltarune is free on Windows. Two chapters out so far.
If you happen to be a Pokémon fan, it’s not really AAA stuff that needs a gaming machine, but I recommend Pokémon Reborn. It’s a fully complete fan game that I’ve been following for years during development. It’s also free to download and supports online PvP and wonder trade.
Congratulations on your gaming pc!
About Pokemon, there’s a studio (Crema) who made a Pokemon-like game called Temtem. Different mechanics (stamina instead of PP, 2vs2 instead of 1vs1 etc). I’m in my second playthrough and I can guarantee there are going to be plenty more. I’d check that out.
There is also Cassette beasts, which is a very good Pokémon like as well
Check out the Factorio Demo. It’s free and the biggest Demo I know. You can probably get 10-20 hrs in it alone and if it’s fun you can buy the full game for 35 bucks
You can get Fallout 4 and Metro Franchise Bundle for $19.58 at GOG.
Here are my recommandations on what is better on PC because of the advantage of mouse and keyboard vs controller by genre:
Strategy: the first thing I wanted to do when I bought my PC is to play Age of Empire 2 and Starcraft 2 and they still are the top games of the genre. It’s night and day compared to their console games like Halo Wars. I recommend also the Civilisation series.
Simulators: Cities Skylines and Microsoft flight simulator are fun games and nothing looks like it on console.
MOBA: AFAIK, MOBAs like DOTA 2 and League of Legends only exist on PC because it’s unplayable on controller. I don’t like these kinds of games, but it’s still something that you won’t find on console.
FPS: A mouse let you have better control on your aim, but it’s less relevant in games with crossplay multiplayer where the aim assist on controller is strong like in Apex Legends and Halo Infinite. Recently, a lot of people enjoy Battlebit.
Although Cities Skylines is the goat city builder it’s not the cheapest game in the world with all of the DLC which adds a huge amount to the game. I’d definitely wait it out with CS2 right on the horizon. If you can get the first game on a wicked sale it’s still worth it but CS2 is looking amazing!
Warthunder for tanks and planes, World of Warships for the boats.
Might not be your thing, but both are free and have some fun gameplay.
Warthunder is free, though once you get pretty into it playing free is insanely grindy.
It’s a… war vehicle simulator, I guess? I mostly play planes, but tanks and boats also exist.
Someone else mentioned DCS. Planes in Warthunder are significantly less simulator, but they’re still not particularly arcade-y unless you’re playing the Arcade mode.
Warframe is also free. It’s kinda hit or miss, but if it hits it really hits.
Great recommendations. I love me some warframe. Only ever played it on ps4.
Warframe was mentioned, but another good game to try if you like MMOs (or want to try MMOs) is Guild Wars 2. It’s F2P with B2P options.
Also, since you mentioned new chair, do set your station in line with ergonomic best practices.
My last chair was at an intense angel. My back is already feeling better. Gw2 is one of my all time favorite games. Bought it a but agyer it came out and reached the level cap. I tried to get back into it once but sort of “lost my spot”? I gave it an hour or so and never went back. I should jump back in sometime soon.
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grabbing the valve complete pack when it goes on sale nets you a billion S tier games for like $5
That sounds like the kind of barging I’m all about. When’s it go on sale?
Probably during the Steam Autumn Sale that starts around November 21st.
Thank you!
In case you never modded your consoles, now is a great time to try rom hacks. Emulate your favorite games in a whole new light.
Absolutely. I usually use my ps vita for rom hacks, or my psp for older titles.
Portal 1 & 2 are really great games
Oxygen Not Included and Surviving Mars are both great colony simulators.
Avorion is a good space empire game (fly a ship, build a fleet to follow you, build stations, etc) with custom spaceships you or those on Steam Workshop can build.
Hearts of Iron IV and Stellaris are both great grand strategy games. With Civilization VI being the genre-defining 4X game.
Subnautica is a great underwater exploration game. Amazingly done visuals and a solid story to bring it together.
DCS is an amazing combat flight simulator. And it is a simulator, not an arcade game, don’t expect it to hand-hold (though there are a few modules that are intentionally dumbed down to help out new players). The US army literally uses it for training new A-10 pilots.
Not sure why you’re getting down voted, most of these titles are games I have not looked into and am excited to learn more about. Exactly what I needed.
The Witcher 3 when it’s on sale (like 7$ for 120 hours of story content)
One of my favorite games. Loved it on ps4.
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Xonotic
Heroes of the Storm
Wakfu
Super Tux
Super Tux Kart
Tuxmon
Pokémon rom hacks
The Battle for Wesnoth
OpenRA
OpenTTD
OpenRCT2
FreeDoom
FreeCiv
Warsow
Metro Exodus/Divinity 2 if you like making your own content (SDK available)
Hedgewars
Golf with Friends
The Dark Mod
Oolite
I feel I covered whatever game niche you prefer
I’m super excited to check some of these out. This is a really great list. I tried super tux kart on an old pc of mine and it went terribly. Pokemon emulators have always been my jam, mostly on mobile until I discovered infinite fusion. I left what games I like vague on purpose just to find lists like yours. I enjoy a ton of diffrent games and really want to see new stuff. Thank you!
The metro games. It is a survival horror genre, the first 2 games being linear and the last one open world (not ubisoft bullshit openworld, but an actual good one). The story, atmosphere and gameplay are all amazing, specially in Exodus.
https://www.gog.com/de/game/metro_franchise_bundle - currently 8.99 euros for me, I am 100% sure you will enjoy it for the price, all 3 are fucking amazing.
