For me it was minesweeper clones. I got frustrated one day and decided to learn how to be good at minesweeper. After beating the medium and large boards a couple times I looked on Steam for minesweeper versions, and turns out there’s a whole genre of clones. Some of them are direct clones of the game, while others are very heavily inspired by minesweeper. The two best I played were Hexcells and Tametsi. Hexcells is stylish and is only hexagons (as opposed to the minesweeper squares), while Tametsi has squares, rectangles, and hexagons and is a lot more barebones. However I found Tametsi to be much harder. There were some levels on there that took me an entire day, and I think there’s like 500 levels. 150 levels
I’ve always been convinced that I’m too wimpy to play scary games, even though I got a decent way through Alien: Isolation.
After hearing rave reviews for the Resident Evil 4 remake, I thought I’d give it a try, and I’m super glad I did. It’s probably one of my top 5 games of all time. I immediately beat it in New Game+, then played the Dead Space remake, and am currently working through RE Village. I’m having an amazing time.
I too, am too scared for Alien Isolation. May check out the other ones you listed though
I definitely think Alien: Isolation is the scariest of them all. Resident Evil 4 is more of an action/adventure game with some scary bits sprinkled in. Only one section really got me spooked, and by that point you’ve sort of developed some calluses.
I would recommend that RE4 demo. It’s a great place to start IMO.
Apparently ‘peggle-like rouge-likes’ are a thing. So thats been a fun time for me
Really enjoying roguelikes right now; picked up Hades and Cult of the Lamb when they were on sale and really enjoyed the gameplay. Nothing’s the same every time, which definitely keeps me from getting bored.
Looking into branching out into horror/horror-adjacent games, but I have to pick ones without frequent jumpscares. I’m very, well, jumpy, so I’m leaning towards something more heavy on dread than shock factor. Already looking at getting The Stanley Parable during the summer sale.
I’ve been almost exclusively playing immersive sims and metroidvanias, from all of Arkane’s titles and the System Shocks to Haiku the robot and Lone Fungus. In both these genres there’s a very satisfying loop of exploring everything, collecting items/looting, having some sort of abilities and in the case of imm sims, extensive lore through notes and audio logs. Feels like I can’t play most other genres anymore.
Been very addictive to traditional roguelikes for some time now. Enjoy the learning and mastering experience.
Do you have any favorites? I love roguelikes, I recently have been really enjoying Tape to Tape which is a Hockey roguelike which sounds weird but it’s the most fun sports game I’ve played in ages.
Roguelite. :)
Have a great many traditional roguelike that I like a lot.
to name just a few. :)
Great list! Thanks
I got a VR headset recently and have been having a ball with VR modded games (Subnautica w/ submersed, Gunfire Reborn, Deep Rock Galactic, Fallout 4, etc).
Just picked up Subnautica so I could play VR! What’s this submersed mod? Is it suggested?
I greatly recommend it! For referencre I discovered most of these from this discord. (Flat2VR)
Sounds like hexagons would be easier as you can only have up to 6 adjacent tiles as opposed to 8 with squares.
Besides that, what do they do differently?
Well hexagons are the bestagons
It has a lot of different mechanics. It’s more of a combination of minesweeper with nonograms (aka picross) where the idea is that there is that you can solve all puzzles without any guessing. Check out the Steam page
