I have been in quality the a gaming slump for a while, for various reasons.
What are some games you’d throw at me yo drag me out of this slump?

Entertaining all genres and offers.

Edit: I’m sorry cant answer all of you right now, I’m at work.
But seriously thank y’all for so many quick responses already, I’ll be writing them down when home

  • FergleFFergleson@infosec.pub
    19·
    2 months ago

    The first title that jumps to my mind, especially when you contextualize it around “restoring faith”, is Satisfactory. It’s been a very entertaining and challenging game, but also the development team has been exactly what one (typically) wants from a dev team. They’ve been very transparent about issues, their process, etc. Their interactions with the fan-base have been frequent and open throughout the years of development. Good game + good company. Worth consideration if you like a good factory builder.

    • notgold@aussie.zoneEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Very down to earth people. Telling us they want to go outside in the summer so they won’t be working for a bit was a bit of a stab at us basement dwellers

  • finestnothing@lemmy.world
    14·
    2 months ago

    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

  • scoredseqrica@lemmy.ml
    141·
    2 months ago

    Here are 6 good games I wholeheartedly recommend:

    • Baldurs Gate 3, speaks for itself.
    • Disco Elysium, elevates the whole medium to art
    • Hifi Rush, innovation and entertainment
    • Snowrunner, ok this one’s just for me.
    • The Outer Wilds, very interesting, go in spoiler free
    • Return of the Obra Din, puzzle game like nothing you’ve played before
  • ytsedude@lemmy.world
    121·
    2 months ago

    If you haven’t played it, “Stardew Valley” is, like, ruin-your-life good. And I think part of what makes it so faith assuring and life uplifting is that it was made by one dude who has continuously (for YEARS) released huge, free updates for the game. He’s awesome. It feels good supporting him and recommending such a great game to people. :-)

  • FMT99@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 months ago

    I was going to immediately mention Hollow Knight but I see someone already did. Second thought: Tunic. It’s been a long time since a game hit me as hard as those two.

    For pure fun addictive gaming: Factorio is absolutely nuts. 2D survival craft platforming action: Terraria is still king.

    For space empire building check out X4: Foundations, after almost 10 years under development it’s absolutely amazing (but a huge timesink haha)

    Oh and if you’re into semi-hard-scifi basebuilding you could give Stationeers a look. Sunk quite some hours into that one.

    • villainy@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      The learning cliff of the X games is pretty intense but totally worth it. I made it through and just look at me now! I, err… wasn’t going to do anything better with those hundreds of hours anyway.

  • Gerudo@lemm.ee
    11·
    2 months ago

    Balatro - Even if roguelike isn’t your thing, try it

    Alan Wake 1/2 & Control- if you love creepy atmosphere

    Superliminal - unique 1st person puzzle, think portal vibe

    Bastion - 1st game from Supergiant, best smash-em-up I’ve ever played

    Anything Supergiant for that matter

  • esteemedtogami @lemmy.oneEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    I’ve recently gotten hooked on the Yakuza series. The whole series goes on an aggressive sale pretty regularly on Steam. I’d recommend starting with Yakuza 0.

    • dwindling7373@feddit.itEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      The best thing about Yakuza is that it welcomes many different approaches so you can go have crazy absurd fun, intense cinematic story driven drama, mindless collectible and challenges…

      I think it’s perfect to rediscover what fun in videogame is.

  • Akip@discuss.tchncs.de
    9·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    I take it from your exasperation that you want a game to “just be good already”, from the very start. So I’ll exclude anything that takes too much thought or investment to start having a good time.

    • Deep Rock Galactic
    • Tunic
    • Pacific Drive
    • Gorogoa
    • Hardspace: Shipbreaker
    • Hand of Fate 2
    • FTL
    • Styx: Shards of Darkness
    • House of the Dying Sun
    • Hitman Go and Lara Craft Go
    • VVVVVV
  • Xenny@lemmy.world
    81·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
    7·
    2 months ago

    Baldurs Gate. There is so much content. I’m 150 hours in the game, I play split screen coop with my wife. We each have our characters customized to how we like it. It’s AAA quality. Came at a AAA price, but it’s absolutely worth it.

    And I say this as a FPS/simulation gamer. Totally different genre but they’ve made this game accessible to all. It’s the only game I’ve ever purchased at full price and my steam account is 12 years old.