/games/ - Video Games

I'm sure lots of people are in the same boat as me, feeling in the mood to play through a single player game, but not knowing what to choose because there are so many choices, don't own any consoles, etc.

So I wanted to create a thread / list where people can post games are meet the following criteria:
1. single-player
2. are beatable with a story (no pure puzzle games, etc.)
3. are available on pc (including emulation)

Does anyone know of any good video game reviewers? I'm not talking about let's players, I'm talking about actual reviews. Bonus points if 1) Obscure / retro games & 2) ASMR-like, no fast cuts, constant music, etc.

I've always found it quite bizarre how drawn I am to play complete trash, over games that I know I'd probably enjoy & find a great deal of effective, long-term escapism in. As some examples, instead of diving into something like Homeworld Remastered, or Arcanum, or Vampire The Masquerade, or The Witcher 2/3, or Skyrim, or Fallout New Vegas, or the hundreds of available ROMs & ISOs of classic games, all of which I've never played before, I instead, mostly play short, mechanically repetitive, indie trash. Crap like ECHO, or AER: Memories of Old, or Downward, or Styx: Shards of Darkness, and it just drives me crazy. Why do I waste my life playing games that are far inferior to other, better games that I've never played before? It boggles my mind. It's like having a gourmet meal in front of you and choosing to eat from whatever's in the shit encrusted trash can out in the piss covered alleyway instead. If I had to give an answer as to why, I'd say laziness. On some level it makes perfect sense, given my overwhelmingly lazy sensibilities, to play short, inoffensive garbage that I can finish from anywhere to 1 to 10 hours, as opposed to long sweeping games that require many times that amount to get through. It's easier, in a bizarrely masochistic sense, to play a short shitty game, than a long good game. It just feels like too much effort to sit down and play a game that I know is considered a classic and is something I'll probably like. It's almost like the expectation it will be good wears me out on an emotional level and playing something more mediocre & dismissable instead seems far easier & more doable. I have to be in a very unique mood to play a good game, otherwise I just seem to stick to the same sort of bland porridge overflowing on Steam and elsewhere that I've listed above. Anyway, I don't know. I just wish I wasn't like this. I have such copious amounts of time to devote to gaming and the way I waste, piss & squander it away like this, never fails to bother me.

I still haven't even finished Stalker: SoC with the OGSE mod, despite enjoying it quite a bit. Granted I got a bit too bogged down with the side quests (never made it the Red Forest, for instance), and the constant running back between zones got pretty tedious (even with the addition of vehicles, despite how impractical they are given the terrain & enemy spawns). Instead I play shit like Attack of the Earthlings, or Solstice Chronicles MIA, or Tartarus, or soPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Are there fellow wizards out there who feel like this ?
Basically, I am a gamer . I mostly like JRPG's but there are also a lot of other genres that I take. When it comes to competitive gaming, I really am filled with determination to be better than all normalfags , especially those with a relationship with succubi . Whenever I see normals and those coupleshits, I automatically feel rage, rage to crush them in whatever game it is and I will train and train again to defeat them and carry the flag of the wizards, that they can never reach our skills, that our kind is out of their league . Right now, I saw a lot of normals on this game called Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune, it's a racing game and I saw a lot of normals in there and almost all of them have succubi, sometimes even playing with them . I can't wait to humiliate them all, their joy is my fuel, I'm going to take the crown from them away. I will show them what wizards are capable of when it comes to games . We should all make it our oath to be the best gamers ever in every genre imaginable, we are the elite of the games . They can never reach us because they never knew what we went through to achieve such greatness .

i love jeff. he is an underrated vidya shota. more people should play his game.

To find a decent Android game you have to wade through a sea of shit that is Play Store. So share lesser known Android games that you liked. I got:
Battleheart Legacy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFZYCumpvCA
An older single player RPG. Great combat and controls, interesting abilities and character builds, beautiful art, runs well on anything, too. The story is a bit short, but there is some endgame in the form of endless wave arena mode where you can get the best gear and try to set records.
League of Berserk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGtrK7BS8bc
A real time multiplayer dueling game where you basically click on abilities and potions and level your guy. Very repetitive, I found it fun until I hit later levels (25ish?), then it gets extremely grindy. Surprisingly alright community (chat), quite a few players online, though in most duels you fight against bots that use real player profiles. Somewhat p2w but if you spend a lot of time playing it matters less.
Day R - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXf4zbih0Ps
Top-down survival..RPG?. A little similar to Fallout1/2 but more simplistic. You travel from town to town and gather resources, craft items and try not to die. There is an online mode where apparently you can trade and complete quests with other players. Quite repetitive and difficult, I found only the early game fun. No paid items except the insignificant starter premium pack for few dollars.
CSR2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9aYphit-JA
Online drag racing with ridiculously good and smooth graphics and lots of real car models. Beware - it's a heavily pay to win game. The only reason I mention it because you can get a modded .apk with unlimited stuff (that was some Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

heyyo
i'm looking for games that reward me for playing on harder difficulties
i loved the dmc series for this like you get so much out of it
so what games do you recommend me friendos ?

Anyone playing this game?

It has a weird character style, but there's customization and no pay 2 win and almost all content very much for free(for now at least). Or at least that's what I'm reading around.

It's not my style but I was thinking of giving it a try. Anyone playing, is it any good? Would you recommend it?

People has been meme'ing persona for years but I never had any interest because I don't play JRPG/RPG but I got myself a backwards compatible PS3 and now I can play Persona 3/4/5 on a single machine and I think I will give the series a chance.

I also have a hacked PS vita so I can play P4G and the weird dancing games if they're really worth pirating.

What's your opinion about this series? What game should I play first? and any tips for someone who has barely played any JRPG's before?

My dad got me a Playstation and I was gifted an interesting game with smokey, aesthetic and obscure cover. I always loved the obscure, photographic covers over the colourful cartoony ones. It seemed more mysterious that way. The game was Silent Hill.

So the menu screen looked gloomy, but quite primitive, ok, let's play.

A nice intro, wow, some amazing 10/10 music. I replayed that intro many times just to listen to music. A man losing his daughter? Wow, what an interesting story, nothing infantile about superheros saving the world.

A man lost in snow, looking for his daughter. Fog everywhere. At that time it seemed like the most beautiful game. I know now the fog was to save processing power, but at that time it seemed the most mysterious and interesting thing. Due to the fog the world seemed so huge as I felt I could go anywhere, but the game sneakily led me down that alleyway path. I felt so at peace playing, beautiful snow, nice town, no living beings in sight.

"Wow, I have found my perfect game", I naively thought.

But then it all changed. The creepy wheelchair, the sudden darkness, the body, the sudden attack of those little monsters, feeling of helplessness…that was first part that made my heart race.

But at moment when it seems like you lost, you wake up in the bar.

"Phew, another soul" I thought…and then you got the gun and got to explore the town after killing that bird.

It felt nice exploring the town, the monsters were a bit scary, but I got used to the dogs and just shot them. I liked going in people's homes and collecting stuff.

But then I got to school…and then…then I got to hell world…and then I stopped playing for a while. The whole rusty atmosphere and demonic beings lurking in all corners with that terrifying radio sound…it was too much for me. I went to countryside to spend summer at my relatives and forgot about the game til I came back.

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