I’m a casual gamer who’s been largely inactive for the past few decades, and so I’m looking for some some good game recommendations. I don’t mind if they’re old as long as they came out after 2003 (because that’s when graphics of many games really started improving), maybe between 2008-2019. I’m also quite a picky gamer.

Here is a list of games that I’ve played before and that I liked (in no particular order):

  • The Stanley Parable
  • Counter-Strike: Source
  • Counter-Strike Global Offensive
  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
  • Grand Theft Auto V (just started playing this one)
  • Freeways
  • The Wizard’s Pen
  • Need for Speed: Most Wanted
  • Need for Speed: Heat
  • Shadow of the Tomb Raider
  • Simon Tatham’s Puzzle Game Collection
  • Minecraft
  • Hamsterball
  • Sifu
  • Tekken 6
  • SuperHOT
  • Papers Please
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
  • Accelerator (by TenebrousP)
  • The Professional
  • Paraopticon
  • Socrates Jones: Pro Philosopher
  • ir:rational
  • Viewport
  • Lyxo
  • Shadowess (by playchilla)
  • Duet (by Kumobius)
  • Chain Reaction
  • Gumslinger
  • Intersectiion Controller
  • Little Alchemy
  • Magic Survival (by Leme)
  • Spy Tactics
  • Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil
  • Cyclomaniacs 2
  • Learn 2 Fly 2
  • Piano Tiles 2
  • The Sims 3
  • Plants vs. Zombies
  • Tetris (on Facebook)
  • Solitaire on Windows 7
  • Space Cadet Pinball
  • Purble Place

Here are games that I’ve played that I didn’t like:

  • Quake II RTX
  • Doom (1993)
  • Counter-Strike 1.6
  • Left 4 Dead
  • Half-Life
  • Speed Dreams
  • Assault Cube
  • Terraria
  • Minetest
  • Xonotic
  • Piano Tiles
  • Geometry Dash
  • Payback 2
  • Touchgrind Skate 2
  • Pixel Wheels
  • NBA 2K11
  • Defense of the Ancients
  • Dota 2
  • Sim City 2000
  • OpenRCT 2
  • OpenTTD
  • The Sims 4
  • Doki Doki Literature Club
  • Tetris (any other implementation I’ve tried)
  • Solitaire on Windows XP

Here are games I would like to avoid:

  • Battle Royale / Deathmatch- style games (Fortnite, PUBG, etc.)
  • MOBAs (League of Legends, Mobile Legends, etc.)
  • Hero shooters (Overwatch, Rainbow Six Siege, etc.)
  • Games with fantasy-based elements (Skyrim, The Witcher, Souls games etc.)
  • RPGs
  • Side-scrollers / Shoot-em-ups / Top-down games
  • Platformers
  • Horror/supernatural games (Resident Evil, Silent Hill, etc.)
  • Management games (Civilization, Cities: Skylines, etc.)
  • Artillery games
  • Outer-space/post-apocalyptic games (Halo, Fallout, etc.)
  • Cookie clickers / Walking simulators
  • Rhythm games
  • Sports games
  • Game adaptations of existing media (Star Wars games, Arkham games, etc.)
  • Board/card/gambling/collectible/gacha games\
  • Games that have microtransactions/required DLCs
  • Text adventures / Visual novels
  • Trivia games
  • VR games

Other than that, everything is fair game. I don’t have any aversion towards graphic language/gore/sex.

My tastes might be too specific, but I hope someone here may be able to provide me with a recommendation!

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      1 year ago

      Oooo once I have my dedicated VR machine set up, I’ll give this a shot. I won’t run Facebook code on my main machine though lawl

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          3·
          1 year ago

          I have an Index, I would never touch an Oculus.

          The game is Facebook code. I uninstalled Beat Saber when FB bought it, I don’t touch anything Facebook…. I miss Beat Saber so much though.

      • oldGregg@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 year ago

        If you’re tech savvy enough, I play VR exclusively in a windows VM for this reason

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          1 year ago

          Eh we have a dedicated machine for it. Just been lazy.

          VMs will always have a performance hit.

          • oldGregg@lemm.ee
            2·
            1 year ago

            VM’s will always have a performance hit

            I haven’t had any problems with it

            • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              1·
              1 year ago

              Not saying ya do, just saying an identical system would run at a higher framerate and more even frametimes if Windows was running natively.

              • oldGregg@lemm.ee
                2·
                1 year ago

                I get you, but the device can only render at its max frame rate, I don’t personally get satisfaction out of higher numbers than optimal.Either way I’m not worried about the less than 5% frame difference Ive got in testing. If I do, I can dual boot into my VM.

                • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Totally fair! I’m just saying, none of my devices can surpass 144FPS on an Index, so it’s definitely better to boot native. It’s a lot more than 5% when you’re trying to hit as high of framerate as you can on an index hahaha

                  • oldGregg@lemm.ee
                    1·
                    1 year ago

                    I think the disconnect here is, if your host is linux, there’s virtualization built into the kernel. You can use QEMU/KVM for virtualization at as close to bare metal as possible. My only loss is that’s I pass through 14 out of the 16 cores of my CPU. The virtual machine gets a physical dedicated 3090ti the host OS can’t touch. It’s less than 5% fps loss at any framerate, including the missing 2 cpu’s. The higher the framerate the lower % difference.

                    You get the full performance of the graphics card. That’s why I started with if youre tech savvy enough, but I should’ve elaborated.

    • greenmed123@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      Wow! This would have been right up my alley if it wasn’t for the need of a VR headset! I’ll try to revisit this game in a few months once I get myself some gear.