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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Sarcasmenul@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

Im tired of having to spend thousands of hours to stand a chance against others, im tired of video games turning into a second job. Im tired of playing against sweatlords who systematically abuse every single exploit they know of to ruin servers and destroy people’s fun. Im tired that every new game has to be an esport now. Im tired.

So yeah im fully done with mp games. However i still like games, and recently i realised i basically only enjoy singleplayer games. So yeah, Anyone got good/niche/unknown singleplayer game recommendations?

EDIT: im an idiot i didnt specify what sort of games i enjoy lol. Sadly ive already played disco elysium, i actually got 100% on it on steam, hah.

Recently I played Control, and i consider that title to be one of the best games ever made, so i really enjoy that kind of game but oddly the RE4 remake that resembles Control bored me so bad I turned it off 2 hours in. Basically I really enjoy shooters and games woth very strong narratives.

But my favorite game by far has to be RE:Village, that game blew my tiny mind, everything about it was amazing, the impeccable art direction, the gunplay, the enemies and the story, just chefs-kiss. But by far the greatest thing about that game was the winter mood, i played it in the dead of winter and love the season, it genuinely shaped my expectation of what video games should be like. I also had a lot of fun hunting treasures and prizes down.

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[-] Yurt_Owl@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

My love for control got me playing the rest of remedy games. Definitely recommend all of them. Alan wake 1 can be a bit if a drag to play but set it to easy and enjoy the narrative imo best thing to do.

RE Village got me into playing all the other RE games, silent hill, signalis, soma, penumbra, amnesia

[-] Sarcasmenul@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

RE Village got me into playing all the other RE games, silent hill, signalis, soma, penumbra, amnesia

Same here, and even after playing through the RE franchise i still consider village to be the crown jewel of the series, its such an immaculate game, it combines the very fun action movie sequences you expect from RE with a very touching story of a dad going ballistic to save his daughter, i admit i teared up once i got through that damn boss and got the final cutscene. And then I played RE4 remake immediately after and the , uh, very 2000s writing and got bored 2 hours in and uninstalled michael-laugh

[-] roux@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

~~I think I saw something about an Alan Wake remake if you want more of the world that Control exists in.~~

One of my favorite hidden gem game series from the last couple of years is Supraland. It's a first person metroidvania. You play a meeple in a kid's sandbox.

If you want to spend every waking minute learning how to optimize production of widgets, may e check out Factorio, Dyson Sphere Program, or Satisfactory. I don't kbow what it is about factory games but they click with me. I'm playing Satisfactory right now and started to give up on it becausey first coal generator system was bottlenecking hard but these kinds of games stay with me after I'm done playing at my computer and I found myself running some numbers and decided my belts couldn't keep up with both coal miners so I split them and also split my coal generation into 2 sub-plants, jump started it back up and bam I had consistanr power that mh starter mall couls finalky finction with without blowing a fuse evey 2 seconds. It was really rewarding and only took me 10 hours to figure out lol. These games aren't for everyone but if you like figuring out engineering stuff, ratios, and optimizing systems id say check it out.

My other suggestion is Borderlands 3 because I love the series lol. I know it's cringe but the series has a place in my heart.

E: I guess Alan Wake 2 is the new one I was thinking of. I'm not super familiar with the franchise.

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

I don't play multiplayer games really. I used to play them a lot but I realized I absolutely can't stand playing games whenever someone else wants to. I often found myself playing a game just because other people wanted to even when I didn't. So I just stick to single player games and sit in invisible mode most of the time.

[-] Ocommie63@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Play Lunacid, it is a dungeon crawler in the vain of kings field. It’s great and I had a lot of fun with it. Here is the manual: https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/1745510/manuals/Lunacid_Manual-compressed.pdf?t=1698723873

[-] Sasuke@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

the game you're looking for is spider solitaire for the windows xp

[-] Sarcasmenul@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

I’m more of a Purble palace fan meself, actually joker-troll

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The only PvP multiplayer game I ever had fun playing was Zdaemon CTF. Zdaemon still exists, but people barely play deathmatch any more, let alone CTF. CTF in general is an excruciatingly slow and tedious game mode in most games, but the absurd lightning pace of Doom made it excellent, along with the custom maps and the unlicensed pop music midi soundtracks.

[-] Hazmatastic@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Most modern multiplayer games are designed to milk you as dry as possible and that is about it. It's a red flag when they:

  • Involve microstransactions
  • Have a premium currency
  • Incentivize regular play (daily/weekly challenges)
  • Have Seasons and passes
  • Have subscription models
  • Regular paid expansions

And that describes just about every big multiplayer game on the market.

Embrace the single player experience. Or embrace small and indie multiplayer games.

[-] D61@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago

Spiral Knights and ~~Die2Night ~~ MyHordes are the only MMO/MO games that I've ever really enjoyed playing for any length of time and enjoyed enough that I will take a years long break and fire things up again.

System Shock 2 and Clive Barker's Undying are pretty narrative heavy FPS style games.

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago

I've been playing project zomboid with a couple of friends. It's a great single/multiplayer game. And cheap.

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