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

  • FergleFFergleson@infosec.pub
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    21 days 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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      20 days 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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    21 days 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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      20 days 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.

  • esteemedtogami @lemmy.oneEnglish
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    21 days 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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      21 days 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.

  • ytsedude@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    If you haven’t played it, “Stardew Valley” is, like, ruin-your-life good. And I think part of what makes it so faith assuring and life uplifting is that it was made by one dude who has continuously (for YEARS) released huge, free updates for the game. He’s awesome. It feels good supporting him and recommending such a great game to people. :-)

  • finestnothing@lemmy.world
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    20 days 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

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    20 days ago

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

  • Go-On-A-Steam-Train@lemmy.ml
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    20 days 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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      16 days 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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    20 days 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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    20 days 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.

  • polle@feddit.org
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    20 days ago

    Factorio. The new dlc hooked me into a 5h gaming session at one eve. I cant remember when i did that the last time in my life. Probably with 15? But be warned, the game isn’t called cracktorio without reason.

      • polle@feddit.org
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        19 days ago

        The most important setting for me, was to set the enemies as passive. So you can kill them off when you need place and they will never attack you on their own.