games

I've been enthralled by Valheim lately. It's probably one of, it not the best of the open-world-survival-crafting-RPG genre.

SteamDB is useful, you can see all games on sale and filter by review score and discount percentage.

My reccs:

Cobalt Core - Spaceship combat similar to FTL with amazing vibes. Technically a roguelike deckbuilder but don't let that scare you

Drova: Forsaken Kin - One of the best games in recent years, pixel art RPG with great combat

Songs of Conquest - Spiritual successor to Heroes of Might and Magic III with beautiful pixel art

Pathway - Indiana Jones inspired game where you fuck up Nazis in turn-based combat

SteamWorld Dig 2 - Fun mining game, satisfying game loop, chill vibes

Risen - Probably my all time favourite game, amazing eurojank RPG made by the developers that made Gothic

Someone on hexbear recommend outer wilds to me a while back, I'd like to thank that person..

CrossCode is 70% off

Metaphor: ReFantazio is a very good game.

Sort by "under $5" and grab anything you recognize.

Please Touch The Artwork is a cool relaxed puzzle game based on real paintings (£2.15)

Citizen Sleeper is one of my favourite games ever; a really narrative rich (but not long winded) sci-fi game with fantastic worldbuilding, vibes, and politics that uses a novel streamlined version of TTRPG dice to do decision making and resources stuff. Really sublime (£5.02) The sequel is on sale but is new so is more like £15.

Mad Max is an open-world vehicular combat (and occassional Batman game style parry combat section) game that was the best 7-out-of-10 type game when it game out but has aged well & is genuinely a great bit of canon Mad Max lore and worldbuilding if you care about that series. (£2.39)

Thronebreaker: Witcher Tales is a narrative RPG based around playing Gwent (sometimes with traditional rules, sometimes with unique interest puzzle battles) that has writing as good or better than the Witcher 3. It wasn't a hit, despite being excellent, and so they tried to turn Gwent into Hearthstone later, but Thronebreaker is standalone and still my favourite Witcher game. (£3.39)

Swordship is a fast, roguelite indie 'schmup' where you pilot a superfast boat through heavily sci-fi militarised sea dodging turrents and other dangers. I found it difficult, but addictive with a cool style and soundtrack. (£0.84)

Invisible Inc is a fantastic turn-based strategy heist game with a great art style and really good gameplay. I'm quiet a picky turn-based nerd and this is one of the best. It's also not too punishing (unless you want it to be) and is relatively short to finish a run in a satisfying way compared to longer campaigns. (£3.74)

Steamworld Heist is my favourite of the various Steamworld games. It's basically robot Firefly and a 2D turn-based shooter-strategy game where your pirate captain & crew board ships, fight your way to cargo with a variety of cool weapons (and hats) & escape with it. (£1.13)

Yoku's Island Express is a unique, colourful, joyous platformer-pinball hybrid game where your little dung beetle (with dung ball) slides, pinballs, jumps through a lovely, relaxing island metroidvania world. Just lovely all round. (£3.19)

Sludge Life is a stylised, low-rez, 3D open world adventure game with excellent lofi 90s hip hop meets chillwave vibes and a banger soundtrack including the best in game rapper since Parappa; BIG MUD! (£2.55)

Ape Out is a top-down indie action game where you play as a giant ape escaping its captors and splattering armed mercanaries against walls with a Saul Bass animation style and top drawer jazz-drum soundtrack that syncs with your hits. (£2.55)

Monster Train is probably the best roguelite card game since Slay the Spire with more variation and quicker to get into, where you play the forces of hell trying to protect a big train careening through the seven circles to relight hells fires while battling those irritating crusade-fash coded angels heaven has sent to stop you. (£6.29)

Crypt of the Necrodancer is a roguelite homage to old Zelda (so much so Nintendo eventually had them do an actual Zelda version) that's also a hardcore rhythm game where you move and attack with the beat (and so do all the enemies). As someone who really cannot play rhythm games and never even beat the fourth level I still loved my time with it. It's got an all time banger soundtrack and the best shopkeeper in games. (£1.27)

It's not on sale but theres a new indie Zelda-like called Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo that I'm absolutely obsessed with. It can run on anything, it's basically a fancy gba game

I grabbed Lost Planet and Onimusha off ru tracker the other day, two capcom classics. Lost Planet is a third person shooter while Onimusha is a hack and slash survival horror, if that interests you.

Is there anything you broadly like / dislike? You've given me an excuse to browse it even though I shouldn't be.