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

  • esteemedtogami @lemmy.oneEnglish
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    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
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      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.

  • FergleFFergleson@infosec.pub
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    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
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      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

  • FMT99@lemmy.world
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    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
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      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.

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    On Android (and probably other systems), Death Road to Canada is fun, funny, challenging, and comes with no BS.

  • finestnothing@lemmy.world
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    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

  • Go-On-A-Steam-Train@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Ooh I notice nobody has mentioned Wasteland 3 - it totally slipped under my radar, it is a fastastic RPG, with a fun story and good combat! :) It’s what I’d love fallout to be :)

    • Kyle@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I just bought this after playing satisfactory and I love the optimism in this game.

      I’m so into it. Sure you can tell it’s made by a small team but I couldn’t tell it was made by 2 people. I don’t like playing with mods but this one worked well with them to get rid of a bit of storage monotony.

  • Akip@discuss.tchncs.de
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    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.

  • Xenny@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • Tudsamfa@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    “Return of the Obra Dinn” is the best Detective-type game I have ever played. Pure inductive, yet always logical reasoning. The setting of an Victorian ship, the 1-Bit artystyle, excellent ost and memorable story really elevate this recommendation to a must-play.

    On something from this decade, Balatro is great if you like cards and rouge-likes. But it’s been so popular I don’t think anyone interested hasn’t heard of it yet.

    Oh, and as others have pointed out and I’d hate myself for not mentioning it, Tunic is great as well. It’s a love-letter to the instruction book, and makes one really feel like playing an old game and relying on an instruction book, while not being all that great at reading, like some may remember from their childhood. But with modern game design and what others call Dark-soul mechanics (idk, I have never played a Fromsoft game).