The best thing about this reply is that literally none of those games are on my list, since I haven’t played any of them (except for a Flash clone of Worms as a kid). That just goes to show the sheer amount of quality gaming that there was.
My list is moreso comprised of console games. In no particular order, and includes some later indie games:
Both Discord and Messenger have shit privacy practices. I’d try out Matrix or Conversations (XMPP). Niether require a phone number to work.
If you don’t mind using a phone number for registration, I’d recommend Signal.
Signal is probably going to be the simplest to use, but the other two are also pretty easy to get up and running relatively speaking.
OMORI is incredible. The gameplay is okay (typical JRPG stuff), the music is okay (I’ve heard better in other games), but the storytelling is some of the best in all of video games, up there with Silent Hill 2 and 3.
The Binding of Isaac is an incredibly addicting game. It’s basically rougelike 2D Zelda dungeons, and upgrades stack on top of each other. It’s the game that I have the most hours in on Steam (specifically the much better-programmed remake, Rebirth). The DLC is great as well, adding a ton of content. Its replayability is damn near unmatched.
Super Meat Boy is just a really fun, fast paced 2D platformer, that is challenging, but fair. The controls are some of the best of any 2D platformer out there, beating out both Super Mario World and Yoshi’s Island IMO.
It includes a shitty PS1 emulator compared to unofficial PS1 emulation, and they took the Bluepoint HD Collection and directly ported it without any new options, not even the option to render at a higher resolution.
Just lazy, more than anything else. With the PC version specifically, fans made quite a few improvements to it with mods very shortly after it was released. The fact that Konami couldn’t implement these same improvements to begin with is just sad.
Hopefully they hire someone compitent this time who can reverse engineer the original PS1/PS2 code. The SH HD Collection and the recent Metal Gear Solid Master Collection both turned out terribly.
Konami famously lost the original source code for the original Silent Hill games, which is a big reason why the HD Collection turned out so terribly, along with hiring Hijinx, who was an unproven development company.
Historically, Konami has shown that they care more about money rather than art. I don’t trust their efforts are going to be any better this time around.
Also, I’m pretty sure PS4 and PS5 both have PS1 and PS2 emulators included in their OS, so they could just release the original versions on those consoles if they so chose. It would leave out Xbox and PC users, though (although PC users can already play these games in HD with emulation and/or fan-made mods to the PC versions).
Where is the setting? I don’t have a Samsung.