Weekly Recommendations Thread: What do you suggest?

I have been in a FTL kick lately. I've gotten all the achievements but I want at least 4 wins per ship. Slug B kicking my ass.

Elden Ring. I had never played a FromSoft game before so I really had no idea what I was getting into. I played through it seven times with my main character, got the platinum trophy, and then spun up a new character on my sons playstation account to platinum it for him as well.

Definitely got value for my money on that purchase.

I did a lil haul on Steam summer sale - Horizon Zero Dawn, Assassin's Creed Unity, The Surge 2, The Division and Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines

I can recommend both The Surge games if you enjoy soulslikes, they're nice sci-fi variations on Dark Souls gameplay, though definitely easier than fromsoft games

I'll probably play Unity first unless my missus decides to co-op The Division with me

I've been playing Subnautica: Subzero for a bit.
But my game crashed yesterday and it doesn't really save unless you save manually, which I forget to do size I can just put the Steam Deck in sleep and resume so I lost a few days progress.

I guess I'll play something else while I get over it.
Still not sure what to pick up next.

I just got Quake, and I enjoy every minute of it

Venetica: old eurojank action RPG. It shows its age and the jank is real. But underneath all that is a fresh theme, cool atmosphere and interesting story. Also, it's 1€ during the Steam sale.

I just started playing Divinity Original Sin 2. It’s been a lot of fun so far and I’m enjoying it. I’m considering adding Baldurs Gate 3 to my wishlist since they seem similar even though that is based on D&D.

I just started Prey. I really liked Dishonored 1 and 2 and I love sci-fi, so I'm looking forward to it.

This one kind of surprised me, but I have been hooked on Fight Night Champion. I noticed it on game pass and remembered having a good time with the older games in the series so I gave it a shot. The legacy mode in this game is surprisingly in depth and offers a lot of different ways to improve your skills and upgrade your boxer. The AI beat my ass pretty regularly until I started messing with different styles and techniques. At the end of the day it's still just two dudes beating each other with their fists, but it's a blast.

Cyberpunk 2077. 2 years after its disastrous release, it's a really good game. As someone who has played a lot of RPG games, I think this is probably one of the best (if not the best) RPG I've ever played.

I'm on a pretty good PC (with an RTX 3060 + 32GB ram), so my graphics are pretty good. This game has beautiful graphics, emotionally touching storyline (the only game where I started tearing up during the ending) and really fun gameplay (with tons of different playing styles).

Is it worth $60? Not sure about that, but it's definitely worth $30 (sometimes there is 50% off during sales, for example during the summer sale on Steam that's currently active).

If you're on PS4 or an older Xbox, then I don't know whether you'll get the same magical experience as I have, because I read some bad reviews about the performance on older consoles. But moderate PCs and PS5 should be able to run the game nicely and allow you to be completely immersed into the world of Cyberpunk 2077.

Duke Nukem 3D 20th anniversary remaster.

The levels are well designed, I hadn't noticed before how interconnected the areas in a given map are. On some maps, the end is visible from the spawn point.

The occasional puzzles and jump quests are fun, but the best part is the total carnage you cause along the way. Thoroughly played the freeware version decades ago so there's an element of nostalgia for me, it's been fun to dive into the full game after all these years through the remaster.

Currently on a factory game kick, so I'm playing Factorio and planning to get Dyson Space Program afterward. There was also a REALLY good abstract factory game I used to play on the Ubuntu software market but I can't remember what it's called.

I'm playing Lego Jurassic World with my 4year old daughter.

We finished Jurassic Park after 1 year (she was 3 years old that time so patience was really tested, specially on parts that needs both of us to be coordinated).

Its hard to find time for us to play together, and she has been very patient with me because I travel 240kms dialy for work.

I just picked up x4: foundation in the steam sale and am really liking it! Ive never really gotten into a space sim before but im really enjoying having other pilots and ships doing my bidding 😊

I'm still playing;

Elder Scrolls Online (2014) $5.99 at -70%

I haven't bought a subscription the whole time I have been playing it, for months now and now that I understand enough systems I genuinely don't need it. That being said, I bought the High Isle Collection which is not longer on sale on Steam due to the new expansion. Collection's come with the game + several expansions, which adds a significant amount of content.

The combat is a little sub-par, but the voice acting is very good and there is a substantial amount of quests to do in the base game alone. It's more of a chill and play MMO, most PVE enemies are fairly easy.

There is no levels to the enemies, they are the same level as whatever you are, the level caps at lvl 50 with an alternate system after like in Destiny. This Champion Points (level) is applied to all characters that are lvl 50.

Killer Instinct (2013)! Booted it up again just yesterday and it just felt so damn good to play.

I started up The Sinking City after looking through my PS5 purchases. I bought it months ago and totally forgot about it.

Unfortunately, I do recall there being issues with the publisher and something about sales of this game being basically a "fuck you" to the talent who made it (which I only heard about after buying it).

The game itself is pretty dope. I love the detective work you actually have to put in; especially if you turn the detective difficulty up so it's not hinting at how and when to use things. Really great CoC tabletop conversion. Just be sure to support the actual devs if you decide to find it!

Currently playing rogue legacy 2 and I must say, the gameplay loop is so satisfying. There are even options to make your runs easier on the fly and revert back to defaults before the boss fight, if you wish to hasten your grind.

Assassin's Creed Unity, mods and modern PCs fix almost all the issues the game had on launch. The remaining problem is the render distance still being a lot shorter than a modern PC can manage.

I'm playing Halo 3 on PC. I've played it a lot on xbox360 back in the day, and it really is a treat. Bringing back lots of happy memories of coop and a time when I had time for online matchmaking.

I've yet again fallen back into grim dawn. Recently got my conjurer to 100, my second pet class to hit that milestone. Running through the forgotten gods expansion before i move into ultimate difficulty.

Sniper elite 4 for $6 (5 is good too, and $20) is everything I wanted MGSV to be. It's its own game so the stealth mechanics are different (sound is a major factor), and the gunplay is much more reliant on sniper rifles (though I use a silenced pistol a lot too, plus melee takedowns), but it's every bit comparable in terms of an excellent stealth engine with responsive, engaging AI. Where it shines is that unlike metal gear, which was forced out before it was populated, the mission areas are huge and jam packed with enemy action. If the ground zeroes map was a little bigger and built out into a full game, that's how Sniper Elite feels.

Also, because they can, you can snipe grenades off of enemies to explode them, and they'll chain to other environmental explosives (I haven't seen this in 5; not sure if they removed it or I just haven't noticed an enemy with a grenade on them), and the sniping is extremely satisfying with slow-motion x-rays of the body parts hit (also can be turned off) and good physics based on bullet drop, wind, velocity, etc.

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Jump Ultimate Stars for DS, shamelessly giving you the discord game if you wanna play online.

I just started Final Fantasy 7R, it’s my first Final Fantasy, and I‘m really enjoying it so far!

Currently in Act 3, really like the world and characters so far.

I got Skyrim SE and have been really enjoying the Wildlander mod pack off of Wabbajack (an auto mod installer so I don't break everything)

It basically makes it a more survival focused game, removes level scaling and makes everything feel quite a bit more deadly.

I've only made it to lvl 12 so far but have really been enjoying building myself little camps and trying to survive a much more deadly world.

Xenoblade chronicles X. I picked it up again recently after leaving it untouched since forever ago. The game was just a perfect storm of being impossible for me to play when i first got it on pre-order, both because it has really complex systems I didn't get, and because I had extremely limited time on the sole TV in the house by nature of other people not wanting to watch jrpg side questing for hours on end.

I recently got a new phone and was looking for some new games, out of the handful I downloaded that looked interesting* I got in to Alto's Odyssey the most, and have been playing that more than any of my other games this week. I actually just had my best run so far!

*Was looking for something similar to Sky: Children of the Light, which I really really loved (and I generally hate having other real players in my game unless it's like a board game, but strangers just helping each other out was nice) until I started getting chased by dragons and drowning and shit and it wasn't fun anymore. If anyone has suggestions for anything that feels as chill and friendly as that game, that's a beautiful world to explore with some goals (so not like Wilderless, which is nice but gets old quick) but nothing too competitive or stressful (and just for android, my pc is in need of an upgrade and couldn't handle much lol), let me know!