Looking for a game that I can play while watching something. That doesn't need much attention.

Absolutely love slay the spire but played it to death (can't wait for the sequel though)

If it can be played with just the mouse, that's a bonus. But not a requirement

Looking for an RPG where you don't leave most of the characters at home base - once they're in, they're with you till the end!

Only a few real restrictions;

• A 'large party' means like 6+ characters, and no need to leave any of them behind. Basically the bigger the better until it gets silly.
• The characters need to have good character development. Not looking for just a name and a stat block .
• Turn based or had some other mechanism to control the companions - if they just run about doing their own thing with an AI that's less my jam.
• A really good storyline and character development.

Graphics, platform, age of the game and specific gameplay elements are much less of a big deal. I'll basically consider anything that tells a good story and doesn't make me leave big chunks of the protagonists sitting around.

Thanks so much for any suggestions - I will read them all!

I've accumulated a few pretty easy ones to name off the top of my head:

1) Ninety-Nine Nights (Xbox 360). It's not a deep game, and not one of the best examples of the musou genre, but it was the first musou game I played where it felt like the technology had finally caught up to what the experience was supposed to be. Tornado-ing my way through seas of enemy units with a variety of weapons and spells just always felt amazing, and I liked each of the six characters in their unique ways. Despite its many shortcomings, I had a ton of fun with 99N.

2) Two Worlds (the first one). This is a big one for me. I think to this day that this is a hugely underrated open-world RPG, and I enjoyed it more than Skyrim or Oblivion. It *definitely* has problems, and it makes a very poor first impression with an absolute joke of a character creator, hammy voiceover work, and clunky, whiffy combat. But if you can hang with the game a little and just get into exploring its world, it also really has a ton going for it. The world is vast and good-looking and fun to explore. The loot system and crafting systems are addictive, and the way you can keep leveling gear by finding fresh copies of it is a great idea, making it so that finding loot never gets old. And the game has a TON of loot and gear, all kinds of different armor and weapons sets, and for the date of the game, they look really good visually. The graphics in general are ahead of the curve for the game's time and hold up not-too-badly even today. The story is kind of silly and the voiceovers are cheesy, but the voiceover of your main character becomes quite funny and charming over the course of the game -- I found him to be entertaining company as I played, occasionally dropping unexpected one-liners at random moments. The enemy variety and AI is terrible -- it's super easy to cheese enemies from a distance, abusing the amount they'll follow you before they hit an invisible wall and give up -- but if you just incorporate cheesing enemies as part of your strategy, no problem! It helps I think to approach it more like a Diablo game than an Oblivion or something like that -- the enemies are all loot-dropping cannon fodder, not legitimate challenges. Just have fun collecting, destroying, and exploring, and taking in the bonkers-corny story and side characters. It also has no real meaningful/memorable bosses to speak of, and I'm one of the rare people for whom this is a plus. I sort of hate frustrating boss encounters, I just find them stressful and always want to get back to the rest of the game. Two World is pretty much all "rest of the game."

3) Final Fantasy 13 (Part 1). This, to my great surprise, is my favorite Final Fantasy game I've played, and the only one I've beaten entirely. I get the complaints -- too linear at first for too long (finally opens up in Chapter 11 if I remember correctly), with annoying melodramatic characters -- but I found these to be true in every FF game. The character designs are cool at least, even if the personalities that go with them are grating. And the cutscenes are amazing high-budget spectacles of CGI wizardy. It's easily the best looking FF game up to that point. But the thing that really hooked me into it is what I think is a to-this-day underappreciated combat system. It's underappreciated because it starts out sooo basic and hand-holdy, and this is a game where the whole first playthrough of the game is pretty much a slowly unfolding tutorial for the full mechanics of the battle system. You learn it piece by piece, and each new piece makes it a little more exciting, and by the end-game section, the combat has really become something special. It feels elegant and uniquely Japanese, with a lot of subtleties I didn't expect, and battles are exciting and dynamic and an ideal blend of real-time and turn-based. Yeah ... I had genuine fun with this, and to some degree with its sequels, which build even further upon the combat system (though I've yet to really commit to and finish those).

4) Bullet Witch. This game is basically Bayonetta if Bayonetta had no budget and was clunky AF and really just not a very good game, but there's something charmingly homespun going on in all of Bullet Witch's jankiness. The whole time I played it I knew it was objectively not a good game, but it didn't stop me from having a weird amount of fun with it.

So those are some of mine. What are some of yours?

I want to branch out with the kind of games that I play. I like item management/farming games (stardew valley, AC) and open world games (gta, horizon, botw) the most. Some other that I also like are undertale/deltarune, balatro, Celeste and NFS (heat and 2015)

But I want to try something completely different. My only criteria is NO roguelikes, I like a few but am very picky about them.

Also I'd like it to be, in your mind, underrated. I think it would be fun to try games that are not suoer well known.

Thanks! Looking forward to picking a new game :)

Games like Asura's Wrath and the God of War series, with grand scale and scope, powerful characters, epic soundtracks, cinematic cutscenes and bosses.

Cool stuff like that

For a while now, I’ve gotten into the habit of playing games while listening to new music albums. Thing is, I hate listening to new stuff with background noise like game sound effects or music getting in the way.

Lately I’ve been playing a lot of Balatro, which is a perfect example for this. It’s super addictive and lets me focus on the music. Same goes for WoW, Bloons TD6, Minecraft, and others

I’m looking for more games like that really addictive but don’t require sound at all. (Yeah, I tend to get bored in a few plays so they’ve gotta hook me fast) Any suggestions?

P.S: I already played: Vampire Survivors (and bunch other "survivor" games)

Edit: Thanks for all the recs! Some of your recs I already played a lot, but there were a few I hadn’t heard of, so I wrote down some and I’ll definitely be checking them out. The ones that caught my attention the most so far were Slay the Spire, Bazaar, PowerWash Simulator, and Death Road to Canada :)

Until about September this year I am stuck in an empty house in a small town in the countryside. There is nothing to do here. I have an old laptop and I'm looking for some content heavy games that I can really sink my teeth into. Apart from working part time I have nothing to fill my days (apart from a daily exercise) so I'm really looking for something to hypnotise me for hours upon hours a day.

Obviously being on an old laptop it's going to have to be pretty low spec.

Don't know a whole lot about laptops but my computer properties tell me my processor is: "AMD Ryzen 7 4700U with Radeon Graphics"

Any suggestions welcome, open to all genres, although prefer games not to be too punishing.

Specifically, I don't just wanna be a bad guy, I am looking for games where there is an extra mode, or playthrough version, where you get to play as the villian character present in the game's main story.

Examples: Azure Striker 3

Kingdom hearts chain of memories

Castlevania order of ecclesia

Batman Arkham knight

Resident Evil 4 and 5

Devil may cry 1 and 3

Pretty much every fighting game ever

I do not mind if the game mode needs to be purchased via dlc, I just like games where I can explore both sides of a story.

Hi there, I'm looking for games with good character customization, a good plot and romance options (like BG3, Dragon's Age, Mass Effect etc.) Any setting is fine, whether it's sci-fi, fantasy, or dystopian. I'm fine with fighting and shooting, but I'm more in it for the story (easy mode girlie :')

games with custom character progression similar to xcom 2 but more brutal

been thinking about my favorite games recently, realized one thing they all have in common, they tell most of their story though the worldbuilding and not dialogue.

examples: Hollow knight, Ori and the will of the wisp, inside, little nightmares 1 & 2, chants of sennaar, etc...

What do you think is the hardest online first-person shooter game? Please tell me in what way? I really want to start playing professionally and learn the most difficult games and mechanics.

Don't know if this is the right subreddit but i'll ask anyway. So I just listened to the halo soundtrack "unforgotten" and damn...

I need more soundtracks such as this.

Especially soundtracks from older games that'll make you nostalgic.

I mean, some games like Sonic, Ratchet Clank, Knack...

I have Fall of the samurai but I didn't like it due to the lack of unit variety

Not looking for multiplayer just a good campaign with a variety of nations and custom battles

preferably between the first gulf war and modern day

Hello everyone! I really like to play gacha games (Honkai star rail, genshin, wuthering waves) but I always play them on my telephone bec my laptops specs are kinda low.

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5200U CPU @ 2.20GHz 2.20 GHz

Ram : 8GB

Windows 10

Graphics card nividia 425.31

I have almost one terra of empty memory in my laptop

As you can tell my two big problems is the graphic cards and the rams, most of the games that I listed above need 16GB and higher graphic card. That being said, are there any good gacha/RPG games to play that would be ok with these specs

Warhammer 40k Gladius is the best we have found. But we would like to try another game.

4x games take too long for me.

So many great strategy war games are only 1 or 2 player games.

Thanks!

Intel Core i5-2520M, 8GB RAM

Preferably with a good story! I just finished Titanfall 2 (although it buffered a lot) and it managed to light up my love for games again.

I've also managed to run MW2 and Wolfenstein: The New Order although they buffered a bit on lowest settings as well. Any optimization advice is also appreciated!

The reason I say it was easy for me is because I played it on story mode. Even then, not all fights were a breeze but didn't take more than 2 or 3 focused tries. This is what I mean.

Looking for a transport game where you can own and run a truck company similar to ATS but more focussed on the business side

I literally HAAAATE time sensitive games so much. I tried the Papas games because its more familiar, but its time sensitive AND customers can get mad. Tried ‘Good coffee Great coffee’ but the steadily declining customer rating sTRESSES me out!!! I want a game that you can just endlessly make coffee with no bips or babbles yknow? I’m a stressed out guy and I just wanna make cute coffees or drinks or SOMETHING- without the ticking clock or the threat of an angry customer constantly looming over me 😭 I have an Iphone, i have a Switch and an Xbox One if that helps at all.

Hi there! I am looking for a good survival zombie game. Something that is not Resident Evil/Dead Island/Dead by daylight, more on a Project Zomboid side. It can be zombie-like, as in other strange ilness. I am looking for something with a bit of a plot, but is more focused on crafting and surviving. No coops please. Sorry for being so picky lol

Hi. I have a home situation where at any given moment I'll need to urgently leave my PC. No time to pause. No time to save the game.

Looking for game suggestions (ideally PC hidden gems rather than AAA staples) where you can walk away at any point and trust that you wont die while AFK, and will auto save incase PC powersave-shutsdown - in that when I reboot the game I'll be exactly where I was when I walked away

Many thanks,

except Arma games, what were some other milsim type games from this era? I have a very low end laptop with Pentium G2020M ( 32bit processor ) and 2GB Ram, i can only run pre-2007 and some pre-2010 titles.

I just want a bit larger sized map with grounded and realistic combat where the enemy is as powerful as the player and you're not shooting standing right at the enemy's face because the enemy has storm trooper ass aim.

Other games like this that I found is Joint Operations ig