Weekly Recommendations Thread: What do you suggest?

I'm currently going through Little Nightmares for the first time. I'm having a lot of fun! It's short and sweet, and if you enjoy good atmospheric tension and not just jump scare city, then try it out!

I’ve got this one on my steam backlog. I played the mobile one and really enjoyed it. Currently going through a SoulsBorne phase but I’m thinking of checking out this one next.

Just got horizon zero dawn (2017) on the steam sale and I am loving it. Only about 2 hours in. It’s been on my list to play for awhile. Glad I’m finally playing it.

It's a great game and the dlc is also a good story. Nothing else really has matched fighting giant robots with a bow and arrow tension.
- Awesome! It came with the DLC as well. Looking forward to it.
Don't make the same mistake I did and think you can specialise in Spear only.

I didn't realise the game was all about the different bows and element types.

Spear is really only good for a few sneak attacks and finishing off weakened robots, but you won't be doing much sneaking about with the spear especially against packs and large robots.
It's pretty good.
It's not perfect, but I think it's one of the very few games where I read/listened most/all the various logs you find throughout the game.

Crusader Kings III. Please don‘t play it if you‘re a busy person or have busy days ahead, it will wreck your schedule.

Noita

Not the first time I tried it, but this time something clicked and I really enjoy it. After getting what to do with the spells I was amazed at variety of weapon you can create. Great game

Also just started Noita. Very confused but very much enjoying dying in new ways lol

Just started playing Tooth and Tail with some friends. It's an arcadey gamepad-oriented furry indie RTS game. It draws obvious inspiration from Animal Farm and Secret of Nimh - it's a bloody revolution in a furry pseudo-Russian setting, where the animals are fighting over the process by which they decide who gets eaten. The single player campaign is dark as hell and excellent. I played through the first two single player campaigns and had 3 other guys who'd never touched it were kicking my ass inside of an hour. Very easy to pick up, which is rare in an RTS.

Just finished off Shadowrun: Hong Kong, it was a really well written story and the RPG mechanics are easy to pick up, the game has some funny UX choices but I could deal with it, and there's tons of content on the Steam Workshop like extra campaigns.

I'm also starting Divinity Original Sin: Enhanced Edition, I played the first release of this when it originally came out and didn't really enjoy it, but I'm excited by the Baldur's Gate III release coming soon, so I thought I'd give a Larian game another go, it's been interesting getting back into it and it's going well so far.

With OpenMW v0.48's (non-RC) release imminent I was reminded of how I've been wanting to give Morrowind a fair try since forever, as I've never really played the game, just seen parts of it as I watched my cousin play many games back then. Last week I actually started playing. I don't know how far I'll be able to get through the game as some of its gameplay mechanics really are rough to get used to. But so far I'm farther than I've ever gotten in the game, so that's something already :).

I came across a philosophical take on Morrowind that not only stuck with me, it pulled me deeper into the game. I don't know the origin of this take, but essentially it's that all the versions of this main character that you play, infinitely varied as played by everyone in the world, have all co-existed in the same infinite cross-dimensional slice of time, which the daedric prince Azura has locked in a time loop. This has resulted in stories of what actually transpired being vague, and most of Morrowind being obliterated after the events of TES III.

There is something both moving and creepy about feeling like I'm contributing to the machinations of this seemingly benign daedra, whose aim is ultimately one of the pursuit of perfection and humanity, which is so impossible to achieve, it can only be expressed like a chronological equivalent of a math equation that approaches infinity, but with the lives of those poor people of Morrowind, and the never-ending reincarnation of Nerevar.
- Creepy indeed yes 😅. But certainly an immersive way to pull yourself further into the world, I imagine. Thank you for sharing!

I'm neck deep into Highfleet right now. It's only 2 years old, but on sale at 15€ I feel it's worth it. If you like Dune and diesel/steam punk, that game is for you. It's far from perfect, but it's a raw diamond imo.

I second this. Really immersive experience and I think the rough interface in the game is a huge reason for the immersion.

Stand back while I blow nobody's mind: Hades is pretty damn good. I'm not a big fan of rogue likes, but they're making each run easier as you upgrade. And I guess also maybe I'm getting better. But it feels like doom in the sense that these mobs should be the ones afraid of you.

I'm playing Far Cry 6. I have a lot more free time now, so I'm finally able to play the stuff I have bought but haven't been able to. I found out that it has mods, so I put in unlimited ammo 😁

I've been playing Tiny Tina's Wonderlands. It's a fun, fantastical take on the Borderlands formula. It's got the improved gunplay of 3 and a better story but from what I've heard the end game is lacking compared to 3 and especially 2.

I picked up X4: Foundations cause of the steam sale, and while its fantastic, my cpu is still too old to run it properly lol. So i went back to play X3 again and hot damn is it just as good and even cheaper. So definitely recommend both of those!

So, if I have a better machine. World you suggest X4 over X3?
- I couldn't really say. There are thing ab X3 that I really missed in X4. I would honestly say to spend some time watching videos ab both games, especially tutorials. If you haven't played any of the X games, this is the best tit bit I can give to give a sense of the game.
  
  For x3 they released a bonus dlc/mod that adds ablut half a dozen pieces of equipment and ship upgrades. Just one of those pieces of equipment, a bit of ship software that lets you set up automatic supplying of multiple factories. Also comes with an IRL 47 page instruction manual...
  
  X3 also got a full fledged free expansion dlc 13 years after its original release.
  
  I would say start with X3 but that's purely out of bias.

Oxygen Not Included.
i just got, it's a technical 2d game where u gotta keep a colony of survivors alive and manage temperature, oxygen, food & germs

Oxygen Not Included is really fun but I feel like 5+ hours in a run everything starts falling apart and I have noooooo idea what I'm supposed to be doing.

I grabbed the Batman pack off the Steam sale - Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, and Arkham Knight. I had played Asylum on PS3 way back when but got stuck on one of the late game fights and never went back to it. Very fun, I'm a pretty casual gamer and it's good at making me feel capable even when I'm just doing average. Almost done Asylum and looking forward to getting into the other two.

Planetside 2 is still one of my favourites of all time. It takes quite some time to git gud, but feels amazing when you do.

Dug back into Dragon's Dogma (2016) recently. Still really enjoy that game. Maybe the best character creator in a non-soulslike single player game, which I think is the itch I was trying to scratch. Currently C$6.39 on Steam (so I'd guess probably US$5 or so).