Any kind of game
EDIT: changed from suggested to mentioned and made the title more clear
Well that rules out pretty much every video game. So here’s my favorite card game instead.
It’s called Illimat. It’s very strategic but easy to finish a game in under an hour. It’s essentially a game of pattern recognition and “harvesting” sets of cards. The goal is to harvest the most points each round.
Fitting into the overall theme of farming, there are four fields to harvest from, and each field is in a different season. Players can change the seasons by playing special cards, and the seasons affect the types of actions that may be performed in each field.
Everyone I’ve played with has enjoyed this game.
Star Control 2: The Ur-Quan Masters
The original creators are doing a follow-up!
After the lackluster “sequels” (Star Control 3 and Star Control: Origins) that were made largely without the original developers input, I had pretty much given up the franchise for dead till now.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pistolshrimp/free-stars-children-of-infinity
For those of you not in the know, you can get Star Control 2 for free on Steam and see what the pinnacle of DOS adventure gaming was all about :D
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2645580/Free_Stars_The_UrQuan_Masters/
Yep, I backed the Kickstarter and hang out in their Discord. Wasn’t sure on the rules about promoting stuff like that so I didn’t mention it. :-)
So if I’m not counting close friends recommending games to me as “mentioned on the internet” probably Crystal Project, according to Steam. Otherwise, we’d need to go back to things that I was told about by family members way back in the day that I both like and haven’t seen mentioned online since, which is trickier. Thief The Dark Project, possibly?
If you haven’t played Thief: The Dark Project I recommend it and its sequels. Don’t play Thief (no subtitle) though, it’s AAA garbage.
Hammershlagen
Bounty Bob on the C64 was goood.
No One Lives Forever
To this day I have no idea why I bought it. And I bought it close to its release date. I would only do that if I had been absolutely obsessed for months with previews and stuff. But I remember none of that.
And still it ended up becoming one of my all time favourites.
Are you talking about 1 or 2? I always thought 2 was better and introduced a load of mechanics (to me at least) that are commonplace nowadays. This was the first FPS game I played where getting found during a stealth mission didn’t completely ruin everything. And the concept of unkillable enemies that you can only run from.
Definitely 1. The second one wasn’t bad. I mean, nothing beats a katana fight in trailer a flying through a tornado. But something about that game was always missing for me. I couldn’t lay my finger on it (apart from Cate’s actress changing). And I hate the endlessly respawning enemies.
Game of the year! Is it just you or is it hot in here?
Either way I think you need a cold shower!
Tf2 maybe ? Honorable mentions: Tetris, Dwarf Fortress, stormworks, bg3
You have never seen anyone recommend Baldurs Gate 3 or Dwarf Fortress?
Your original question reads like it’s limited to this thread, not games you’ve seen recommended anywhere and everywhere
The way I interpreted your title was “has not already been mentioned in this thread”. Every game ever made has been recommended, idk how you expect people to answer this lol
I tried to make the title more clear
I dont think every person has seen every game being recommended. I havent heard anyone mention the game I Wanna Maker
Not every person has seen every game being recommended or just mentioned on the internet. But they’ve likely seen every game, they played themselves, on the internet, except for pre-internet or analog games that they never looked up somehow.
If that’s what you’re looking for, that is an interesting question, but I’d assume that most answers here are just as incorrect as this one.
New title is much more indicative of your intent.
From your original comment I thought you meant just not recommended at all (ie no ads, never seen a comment or video online, etc) and was like… how would I have played the game if it wasn’t somehow recommended, how would I have heard of it?
I think you’re looking for smaller games that aren’t constantly being recommended online, which is much less restrictive, haha
Looks like I miss understood the question.
A saw every one of them recommended. However I didn’t play them because of these recommendations.
All time biggest time sinks are probably Civilization 2 and Factorio.
Biggest time sink you’ve never heard of is Ancient Dungeons of Mystery, a one-man Roguelike dungeon delving passion project.
Civ II was peak of the series imho… Immersive gameplay trumps graphics
You have never seen Factorio being mentioned on the internet?
Do you play ADOM?
You never read comments you reply to till the end?
Freelancer, very fun space sim that didn’t quite seem to get popular enough
Actual recommendations, but bring your friends AND beer:
Super SMASH Tv
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
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Only if you’re a masochist because you REALLY REALLY like flying through rings then Superman64 is probably the best game there is
Zombies Ate My Neighbors was a masterpiece. It had somewhat similar gameplay, graphics and humor to one of my other favorites that I’ve never seen mentioned - Herc’s Adventures on PSX. Not sure if they were the same studio or something?
Edit: So I looked it up, and yeah, both made by LucasArts within a few years, so likely the same team or at least a lot of crossover.
I never played that one! If it’s by the same team then I’m sure it was good. I loved Zombies Ate My Neighbors.
It’s really good. I think it’s on the PSN store now if you have a PS4/5. It’s a greek mythology-inspired take on the same gameplay, except it’s one large map that you unlock in bits kind of Metroidvania-style. Has this unique death mechanic where the first several deaths don’t count… if you can fight your way out of Hades.
A game that I’ve never seen mentioned online but I played the shit out of is Metal Fatigue. RTS game with huge robots. Fucking dope
I never see Cultist Simulator recommended but it’s one of my favorites. It really captures the idea of studying the esoteric arts, and has a surprising amount of world building given how simple the presentation is.
Cultist simulator made me depressed. I simply cannot play it.
Each Anno Domini game consists of 336 cards, with a description of a historical event on one side of the card and the year (and sometimes specific date) in which it happened on the other. All Anno Domini games can be played as a standalone item or mixed with some or even all other editions.
In Anno Domini, each player receives nine cards (or fewer, if you want the game to be shorter) and may look only at the descriptions. In turn, players place a card on the table, trying to place their card in chronological order to those already present. Instead of adding a card, a player may claim that the order in which the cards have been placed is incorrect. In this case all cards are turned over and the correct years revealed.
If the order is correct, then the doubting player receives two cards and skips a turn. If the order is incorrect, then the previous player – who accepted the order as correct or made it incorrect through her own placement – receives three cards. The first player with no cards remaining in hand wins.
The Anno Domini game series exist only in German.
The Sexy Brutale!
It’s a murder/puzzle game and I really enjoyed it.
I really liked that game!
Xcom 2.
A friend recommended it to me because he thought I would like it. It’s my favourite game and I have 100% it.
