Try Deep Rock Galactic. A fun space dwarf extraction shooter with a pretty decent vibe.
And it is on sale right now ;)
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Try Deep Rock Galactic. A fun space dwarf extraction shooter with a pretty decent vibe.
And it is on sale right now ;)

Bless your soul for including the meme template!
Beat me to it! thank you!

Runs on Linux… my arm hurts
The graphics aren't smeary... My arm fell off but it's still jorking it
That’s dedication
I felt this way with Baldur's Gate 3.
100% I first 🏴☠️my way through bg3, then was like “bruh I genuinely wanna get the achievements this is so good wtf” and ended up buyin*on steam, but even was still so over satisfied that I sprung for the deluxe upgrade
congratulations you found indie games
Indie game it's where it's at. these are just the boring standards these days
Chess
And suddenly you notice you're back in 1995
4/5 are irrelevant to most games I play tbh. Factorio story is simply automate the extermination of the bugs.
Plenty of those TBH. Only a few dick companies add micro transactions, easy to avoid.
BG3

Knowing my luck it would turn out to be a PvP game.
No Man's Sky and Satisfactory keep me coming back. Cozy and itch scratching without being harassed for the latest microtransaction.
That said, if a game does have microtransactions without jamming them at my eyeholes, and I'm not missing anything without them, also acceptable.
Satisfactory has me fully in it's grasp right now lol. Current project is a giant vacuum tube to take me back and forth to where the coal miners are, because the steel ingot supply has become erratic.
What game?
These days, probably Expedition 33, but there lots of others every year. Probably moreso than 15 years ago by raw numbers.
People over focus on AAA budget games, but there are several indie and AA budget games that are comparable or even surpass production quality of AAA games 15 years ago.
AAA budget these days should really be called like S-tier budget. In 2010 and earlier, the top end of budgets were like $50-100 million ($70-140 million after inflation) including marketing. Budgets started ballooning after that and hese days, top end budgets are more like $500-700 million)
Expedition 33 is great. Checks all the boxes from the meme, plus has a banger of a sound track!
The Hollow Knights would be my first guess
Could be anything from Stardew Valley to Baldur's Gate 3.
Loads of them if you stay away from multiplayer slop.
Exactly. Micro transactions are rare to nill in single player and indie games. 98% of AAA can suck it.
I just started playing wildmender from my backlog. Probably from a humble bumble.
Totally up my alley. Got my wife a copy and now we're playing it together.
Sandbox survival with a storyline and quests
This is me after modding out all the elements of Cyberpunk I hate.
Its weird, but Cyberpunk took such a while to grow on me because the gameplay near the start is super unfun because of how weak your starting weapons are and how spongy the enemies are.
Like if you play on the easier settings, the AI are just brain dead stupid, but at very hard, the enemies at first take forever to kill and its just a boring game of shooting, hiding behind cover and healing, waiting for your heals to recharge behind cover, and repeat.
The game basically only starts to truly be fun in my opinion in Act 2, which is kinda the majority of the game without any spoilers.
spoiler
I will never meet Hanako at Embers
Atomfall was a bit of fun though. Clearly not a game of the year candidate but fun, no MTXs and the best difficulty settings I've ever seen. You get so many options to remove or add things that you find fun or don't find fun.
Like, I realized I wanted to collect all of the [thing I don't want to say for spoilers sake] so running out of breathe while running just became annoying because it was never a combat constraint in the first place, so it only served as a minor realism boost. Turned that off pretty quickly.
Game must be for DOS with all those green flags
Armored Core 6
Basically, any indi game.
Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader for me.
I got sucked into the two Pathfinder games they made, I want to wait out Rogue Trader's last DLC before playing it
90s games.