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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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Baby Hands.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/708820/Baby_Hands/
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.
Not exactly the same, but I get similar vibes (if slightly more adult) from Squirrel With A Gun.
This looks fun, let’s wait for it to be released.
Yeah, I’m slightly miffed there’s no release date yet…
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
You could buy a VR headset from another company?
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.
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Eh we have a dedicated machine for it. Just been lazy.
VMs will always have a performance hit.
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Not saying ya do, just saying an identical system would run at a higher framerate and more even frametimes if Windows was running natively.
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.
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
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.