Games on Steam you recommend

[JongleJingle]

Got a "classic" survival horror game for y'all; think RE4 but slightly worse and it's on a russian boat.

Save 75% on Cold Fear™ on Steam

In a ferocious Arctic storm, distress signals are sent from a mysterious Russian whaler. As leading Coast Guard veteran Tom Hansen, you board to investigate and discover unthinkable horrors lurking beneath the ship's bloodstained decks.

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If you want some cheesy fun, try this one on for size; it's like an 80's action movie on the quake 2 engine. It even comes with a really good expansion pack too! (plus a remake in the works by 3D "motherfucking" Realms)

SiN: Gold on Steam

SiN: Gold has returned! Free update for original owners!

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Also, obligatory shilling for random game I fucking love: F.E.A.R. Get that shit at ANY chance you get; it's a perfect representation of John Woo shootouts in FPS format, and a big inspiration for a project I'm working on. Buy it on GOG tho, cuz otherwise if you get it on steam you are forced to get the kinda OK F.E.A.R 2 and fucking trash F.E.A.R 3. Also, it's like 50 odd bucks.

F.E.A.R. Platinum on GOG.com

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[#TestAccountPleaseIgnore]

Small Indie games worth Supporting:
Derail Valley. Train Simulator but affordable and it's fun. Has both VR and Non-VR Support. Devs seem pretty tightnit with their community and games looking to get a major overhaul and update come April of this year.

Derail Valley on Steam

Derail Valley is a highly immersive train driving simulator, letting you drive trains with your own hands! Deliver a variety of cargo between industries in a vast open world. Earn money, buy new locomotives and try to stay on the tracks!

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Darkwood. Top down horror game with a heavy emphasis on auditory scares to push a psychological horror vibe. Dev also at one point personally uploaded the game to torrenting sites to help promote it due to his low marketing budget. Turned out to benefit him greatly.

Darkwood on Steam

Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.

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Angels Fall First. Made in the old UE3 engine, it's a fun Sci-fi FPS that allows you to combat the enmy on foot, in tanks, by air and in space. Great if you have some buds and a good LAN setup for a overnight LAN party.

Angels Fall First on Steam

From commanding the battle standing on the bridge of your flagship all the way down to tactical infantry firefights - AFF brings together all the combat you ever wanted in a rich science fiction setting. Boarding, pilotable capital ships, deep weapon customization and full AI support included!

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Dear Esther. Walking Sim (probably one of the first big named ones), but does a great job reminding you just how empty and cold the world can be while telling a emotionally moving story.

Dear Esther on Steam

Begin a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.

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The Talos Principle. A mix between the old Myst games and Portal. Have a detached and surral vibe to the whole thing with it using ancient history, mythology and future tech to have the player solve interesting puzzles.

The Talos Principle on Steam

The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).

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Genital Jousting. You can be a dick, or you can BE a dick. Take your prick, it's up in the air really.
Fun nonsensical little party game. Probably not that great right now (unless you have a really fucked up family that has a sense of humor), but you can play its single player mode too.

Save 69% on Genital Jousting on Steam

Genital Jousting tells the story of "John", a penis who needs to find a date for his high school reunion. Genital Jousting is also an online and local multiplayer party game about flaccid penises and wiggly anuses for up to eight players at once.

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[Cyber Floyd]

Neo Scavenger:
An unforgiving roguelike survival game in roughly the same format as Project Zomboid.

NEO Scavenger on Steam

NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.

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[Grotesque Bushes]

Heretic Operative:
Effectively a single player boardgame, a fun indie worth grabbing, espcially if it's on sale. It can be frustratingly hard, even on normal difficulty.

Save 33% on Heretic Operative on Steam

A unique digital boardgame with strategy and narrative elements, inspired by games like Pandemic, Arkham Horror, and Talisman. As a Heretic Operative, a secret mage sworn to oppose the Cult, you must harness the arcane without becoming lost in its power.

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Mount Your Friends:
Competitive multiplayer QWOP with helicopter dick physics.

Mount Your Friends on Steam

Experience the extreme simulated sporting sensation that's sweeping our digital nation! Mount Your Friends is a fiercely competitive sporting event for you to play with your friends in the contextual security of your own home, assuming that your home is not composed of sexual innuendo.

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[Discourteous Discourse]

Twenty bucks might seem like a lot for a game released in 2004, but it's worth it. I suggest getting the unofficial patch, last updated February 2020. VtMB had a buggy release due to being rushed, but the devs and fans came together to repair and polish the game. The plus version of the patch adds content that the devs didn't originally have time to finish. Also, don't play as a Malkavian on your first playthrough. Their curse/insight cannot be fully appreciated unless you've done at least one playthrough with another clan. There's 7 clans to choose from, so plenty of replay value!

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines on Steam

Vampire®: The Masquerade-Bloodlines™ delivers a new type of RPG experience-one that blends all the core elements of a traditional RPG with the graphical richness, immediacy and brutal combat of a first-person action game. The game plunges players into the dark and gritty vampire underworld of...

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[moocow]

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
I just came across this game a few days ago and it's already soaked up 20 hours of my week. It's a city builder set in the 1950-1980's era Soviet Union, and puts you in charge of a planned economy. It's pretty detailed, down to (optionally) individual vehicles tracking their exact fuel levels and refueling requirements and energy production for buildings and facilities, and building individual footpaths between residential blocs and nearby bus stops, entertainment and shopping. Resource production is done in chains (mine raw coal, feed into coal processing, feed into distribution point, feed to coal power plant and sell the remainder, etc.), with resources either being hauled by vehicles or trains or moved via conveyor belt systems. Construction offices oversee and manage construction projects, coordinating resource collection and delivery to work sites.

You build roads and rail networks to move things (and people) around; vehicle and rail traffic moves (from what I can tell) exclusively by your designation of routes and stops, at least up until you start producing (or importing) private vehicles for your citizens to buy. You can import everything your city needs (essential at the start when you're building from scratch -- a coal power plant needs coal but you need a coal mine and processing facility to get coal, but they need power to run...), but the goal is to become self-sufficient and profitable (for the Fatherland, of course).

And there's a sandbox mode too if you want to build to your heart's content without worrying about that pesky capitalist pig "money" garbage.

It's early access, but not not very buggy so far (I've only had one crash, but it autosaves, so no big loss), though it's definitely got a classic eurojank feel to it. The music is fucking fantastic. It runs smooth as butter, 60 FPS, at 4K on my Ryzen 7 2700X and GTX 1080 Ti at maxed out quality settings.

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic on Steam

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is the ultimate real-time soviet-themed city builder tycoon game. Construct your own republic and transform a poor country into a rich industrial superpower!

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[ClipBitch]

Grow a pair and play Kenshi. It's a brutal sandbox game on steroids.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/233860/Kenshi/

 

[Stock Image Photographer]

I'll divide it by genre:

Spoiler: Rougelikes

Nuclear Throne on Steam

Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Fight your way through the wastelands with powerful weaponry, collecting radiation to...

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Nuclear Throne: Fast-paced top-down rougelike with distinct characters, lots of upgrades, and lots of content. Runs can potentially go forever, becoming harder each time around.

Enter the Gungeon on Steam

Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.

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Enter the Gungeon: Like Nuclear Throne, but with a better artstyle and way more weapons to choose from. I think it's more fun than Nuclear Throne, and it has more of a plot.

Spoiler: Platformers

Celeste on Steam

Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.

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Celeste: Climb a mountain using nothing but the abilities to run, jump, climb, and dash. Meet interesting characters along the way and get invested in the protagonist. Surprisingly challenging with a lot more content than you'd think, especially with multiple versions of levels.

Spoiler: Metroidvanias

La-Mulana on Steam

LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said...

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La-Mulana: An archeology-themed game where you play as not-Indiana Jones. Descend into the ruins to rescue (and show up) your father, and save the human race in the process. Some regard this one as too challenging because of the riddles.

La-Mulana 2 on Steam

The long-awaited sequel to La-Mulana, La-Mulana 2 follows Lumisa Kosugi as she explores the ancient ruins of La-Mulana. Desperate to find the cause of the recent slew of monsters appearing from the ruins, Lumisa discovers the "other" La-Mulana: the ruins known as Eg-Lana.

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La-Mulana 2: Similar gameplay and story to the first one, just this time you're playing as not-Indiana Jones's daughter. I don't like this one as much because it's more linear than the first, but it's still good.

Hollow Knight on Steam

Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

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Hollow Knight: Gorgeous and engrossing. It's the best-looking game on this list, and it has the game mechanics to back it up. You'll lose hours to this one, I guarantee it.

Save 50% on Gato Roboto on Steam

Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.

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Gato Roboto: Short, monochrome Metroid homage. You play as both a cat and a cat in a mech suit. What more information do you need?

Axiom Verge on Steam

Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.

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Axiom Verge: The most Metroid-like game on this list. Get stranded on an alien world, and fight your way out. It's not the best looking game, and its difficulty curve is a little unbalanced compared to others on this list, but it's still good.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

Two of my favorite games. Both can be brutal for new players, but are worth figuring out.

Currently under $10 on steam

Darkest Dungeon® on Steam

Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, famine, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope...

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Not on steam but always freefiddy

Releases

Official homepage of Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead open source roguelike game development project. Hosts downloads of game and links to community sites and reso...

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[Wonderful Id]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/402880/Age_of_Barbarian_Extended_Cut/

Age of Barbarian EX is a game that I love the hell out of, even though I can fully admit that it's clunky as shit. The gameplay is functional and somewhat fun, but everything around the edges is fantastic. Silly over the top action, a decent length for the price, a main character that looks like this



and loses her clothes fairly often. Just a great game all around.

 

[TheJelqster]

If you have VR, I recommend the croteam bundle for VR. Serious Sam is a legit good game in VR now

 

[Turnip_Head]

Hollow Knight is really good.
Terraria is good as well.

 

[Freya]

World of Horror is a pretty fun horror RPG made by one guy ALL in paint. It's also in early access right now but it still has a fair amount of gameplay to it.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/913740/WORLD_OF_HORROR/

it's made in paint yet apparently needs intel integrated 4400 minimum to run. how is that possible

 

[Nobunaga]

Not tf2 or any source game thats for sure

 

[Naamaleipuri]

There's a disconcerting lack of trashy JRPG recommendations. So here's a few.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/538680/The_Legend_of_Heroes_Trails_of_Cold_Steel/

And its sequels and prequels, but this is my recommendation if you're new to The Legend of Heroes universe.
A decent enough story, likable characters, good soundtrack, pretty good customization of character stats and an above average combat system that, on harder difficulties, gets really fun. Both the Japanese & English voice overs are solid. The PC version also comes with a Turbo mode with the click of a button for when you can't be bothered to run around the game in normal speed.
The game offers a decent amount of gameplay, even if you don't go into NG+. My playtime clocked over 80+ hours on my first playthrough.

Agarest Series Complete Set on Steam

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All 4 games for less than 35€/$/whatever. Each game can stand on its own merits in terms of gameplay and story. If you enjoy the Fire Emblem series, you should feel right at home with this series too, though the combat system is less tactical.

Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout on Steam

The concept of this title, the latest in the series to depict a new "Atelier" world, is "True-to-life youths that develop together, even if just a little bit".

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Thighza is best grill fite me kunt. The first Atelier game I've bought in 10 years or so. Some don't like the new combat system (it being semi real time based), but I really enjoy it. The main gameplay mechanic aside from combat is Alchemy. You can basically use anything from sticks, stones, berries to monster parts and use them to create potions, bombs and even weapons and armor. In fact I don't believe I ever bought anything during my playthrough. Characters are not terrible, can't say I love all of them, but none of them made me groan in frustration either. The story isn't anything too special, but it's not horrible and has some genuinely good moments. You also have your standard extra clothing options for your characters and some light house customization options.

 

[HumanHive]

Civ IV mod: Fall from Heaven 2

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/mod-fall-from-heaven-ii.171398/

One of the greatest 4x games ever created, and it's FREE (with purchase of Civ IV, mind you).