I have all my hardware set up, including a new chair. MineCraft and baulders gate 3, terraria, and some freebies are my only games so far. I have a massive console and physical game collection that I love, so I’m really just looking for things that are definitively better on pc, only on pc, or software that I may not know about yet. Free software and game recommendations are always my favorite.
Really just posting here because I thought you would be the best people to find random recommendations from. Usually I would check reddit posts and all that, but I’m here now.
Thanks in advance!
Portal 1 & 2 are really great games
Start saving for an upgrade later.
If you don’t have an Epic Games account, you should make one to take advantage of their weekly free games. Thoughts about the company aside, you occasionally get access to some great games like Borderlands 3 and Prey.
I recommend Daniel Mullins games if you like games that challenge the forth wall. Pony Island and Inscryption were fun. I’ve bought The Hex but haven’t sat down and committed the time to it yet, but it was very highly recommended to me.
If you like games like Undertale, it’s sequel Deltarune is free on Windows. Two chapters out so far.
If you happen to be a Pokémon fan, it’s not really AAA stuff that needs a gaming machine, but I recommend Pokémon Reborn. It’s a fully complete fan game that I’ve been following for years during development. It’s also free to download and supports online PvP and wonder trade.
Congratulations on your gaming pc!
About Pokemon, there’s a studio (Crema) who made a Pokemon-like game called Temtem. Different mechanics (stamina instead of PP, 2vs2 instead of 1vs1 etc). I’m in my second playthrough and I can guarantee there are going to be plenty more. I’d check that out.
There is also Cassette beasts, which is a very good Pokémon like as well
What do you like to play?
Oxygen Not Included and Surviving Mars are both great colony simulators.
Avorion is a good space empire game (fly a ship, build a fleet to follow you, build stations, etc) with custom spaceships you or those on Steam Workshop can build.
Hearts of Iron IV and Stellaris are both great grand strategy games. With Civilization VI being the genre-defining 4X game.
Subnautica is a great underwater exploration game. Amazingly done visuals and a solid story to bring it together.
DCS is an amazing combat flight simulator. And it is a simulator, not an arcade game, don’t expect it to hand-hold (though there are a few modules that are intentionally dumbed down to help out new players). The US Air Force literally uses it for training new A-10 pilots.
Not sure why you’re getting down voted, most of these titles are games I have not looked into and am excited to learn more about. Exactly what I needed.
In case you never modded your consoles, now is a great time to try rom hacks. Emulate your favorite games in a whole new light.
Absolutely. I usually use my ps vita for rom hacks, or my psp for older titles.
If you have Amazon Prime you can go to https://gaming.amazon.com/home click on Weekly Game, and claim The Force Unleashed 2 and other games right now, free to keep.
This is a list of “free to play” games on Steam, you can read reviews and discussions: https://store.steampowered.com/search/?category1=998&genre=Free to Play
Some good free games are Planetside 2, Warframe, Brawlhalla, and Lord of the Rings Online if you like MMORPGs.
If you like driving games and open world, Forza Horizon 5 is on sale for $29.99 on Steam.
If you like city builders, Cities Skylines is well regarded.
If you want a sort of “Minecraft in space” where you can build and fly spaceships and visit entire solar systems each with several huge planets, look at Empyrion Galactic Survival.
When shopping for games I find it useful to search youtube for something like: empyrion gameplay
Watch some gameplay to see if it looks like your sort of game.
Go to https://isthereanydeal.com and sign up for alerts for game giveaways, they will email you. You can gradually build a BIG library just by claiming freebies.
Even though it’s old, Anno 1602 still provides me hours of fun and is remastered in HD. I think it’s $10 or less, so you can get that and a classic Sim City or Sims game.
You could also get the older Baldurs gate games if they’re your thing
Warthunder is free, though once you get pretty into it playing free is insanely grindy.
It’s a… war vehicle simulator, I guess? I mostly play planes, but tanks and boats also exist.
Someone else mentioned DCS. Planes in Warthunder are significantly less simulator, but they’re still not particularly arcade-y unless you’re playing the Arcade mode.
Warframe is also free. It’s kinda hit or miss, but if it hits it really hits.
Great recommendations. I love me some warframe. Only ever played it on ps4.
grabbing the valve complete pack when it goes on sale nets you a billion S tier games for like $5
That sounds like the kind of barging I’m all about. When’s it go on sale?
Probably during the Steam Autumn Sale that starts around November 21st.
Thank you!
If your graphics card is an RTX, get the game Control. It’s god damn amazing.
It’s a nvidia gtx something maybe? I’m not near it at the moment and don’t know anything about anything
Warframe was mentioned, but another good game to try if you like MMOs (or want to try MMOs) is Guild Wars 2. It’s F2P with B2P options.
Also, since you mentioned new chair, do set your station in line with ergonomic best practices.
My last chair was at an intense angel. My back is already feeling better. Gw2 is one of my all time favorite games. Bought it a but agyer it came out and reached the level cap. I tried to get back into it once but sort of “lost my spot”? I gave it an hour or so and never went back. I should jump back in sometime soon.
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Warthunder for tanks and planes, World of Warships for the boats.
Might not be your thing, but both are free and have some fun gameplay.
I have heard of both, could for sure see myself trying them out.
The Witcher 3 when it’s on sale (like 7$ for 120 hours of story content)
One of my favorite games. Loved it on ps4.
