I like boomer shooters and immersive sims, so I picked up Selaco and Fallen Aces. Both are good so far. Selaco has some maze-like levels that can be a bit annoying, but the gunplay is very fun and the level of polish and detail is very high. Fallen Aces is awesome for the amount of ways it gives you to deal with the goons.

Half-Life and Half-Life 2 have plenty of really good mods if you are interested in those, Black Mesa started as just a mod as well.

Some of my favourites for HL2:

• Entropy: Zero Two (on the same level of quality as Black mesa and its free on Steam)
• Nightmare House 2 (now named Nightmare House: The Original mod)
• Half Life 2: MMod

Some of my favourites for HL1:

• Half Life: Field Intensity
• Half Life: Delta Particles
• Half Life: MMod

There are many more that I haven’t mentioned / played myself.

My top four on steam are:

• Garry’s mod - 2800 hours
• CS:GO (CS2 now) - 2100 hours
• Terraria - 1000 hours
• Team Fortress 2 - 555 hours

Same over here :)

Game was fun and had a lot of potential, it’s a shame it didn’t get popular enough.

• Valve
• From Software
• Re-Logic
• Team Cherry
• ppy

I’m a dev, but not a game dev, and I think that open source games that are popular are more likely to stay around, even if the original dev team stops working on it as it can be forked, which is pretty awesome for longevity. Also other “real” open source games: osu! and Veloren.

Steam DB is useful for steam related stuff.

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