This game is like so simple yet so enjoyable but also complex at the same time.
I love it
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Is there a way to play it other than embracing the RNG of locations/choices?
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Well, you can rig most choices in your favour by having crew/systems/whatever (hint: Level 2 Medbay as soon as possible) which unlocks their Blue Options (which usually have a guaranteed good outcome) and there is an Augmentation which reveals major hazards. Depending on what kind of Sector you're in you can sorta predict which events you can get (each event has its own list of Sectors it can occur in). Also most events just have the option of leaving and not getting involved (Giant Spiders in a space station and you don't have a Cloning Bay or Blue Option? Yeah, might wanna pretend like you didn't see that.), although in that case you don't get any rewards either. ;)
After beating the game on Hard with every ship, I can safely say that the events I ran into were much lower on my concern list than ending up facing an enemy that exploits one of my ship's weaknesses early in a run before I had an opportunity to patch that weakness out. Or a Breach missile stunning my pilot and setting the place on fire, that's not very nice either. ^_^'
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Zila seems to know what he's talking about, cause my info is less useful lol
I've only beat the game on easy and the strat I used was to simply encounter as many planets as possible in the first two worlds. If i was happy with the setup I had I would roll with it. I kinda liked the RNG aspect of it because it made it seem like a fresh run each time. With that said, medium difficulty destroyed me, so there's that lol
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the only problem with this is that so much depends on taste. I don't like farming games, so My Time at Portia just doesn't do it for me.
If anyone is into old-school tile-based RPGs, I highly recommend Wizardry 7.
But for someone more into tactical games, I can't stop raving about Mutant Year Zero
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yeah i tried my time at portia yesterday for an hour because i only heard good things about it, but i have to say that it is just kinda boring
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There's also this cute game called Bloodborne, but I hear it's too easy.
As Everybody's Gone to the Rapture got released to Windows, Bloodborne remains the single PS4 exclusive walking sim. Another reason to pick it up.
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I really loved SOMA. The game lasts 10 hours, but i think about that probably more than 100 hours.
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SOMA was absolutely brilliant; I thought Amnesia was a bit overrated until the last hour or so, but I loved SOMA from beginning to end.
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Amnesia was good because of that awesome sound design imo. SOMA is great because of the story that makes you think like "What would i do", at least that is the case for me.
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Theres 153 best flash games (of my carefull picking) on armorgames.com
Sonny & Sonny 2
Sift Heads World Act 1/series
Warfare 1917 & Warfare 1944
Dont Escape 2
Raze 1, 2, 3
The Last Stand, 2, Union City
Toxie Radd (play only on easy, higher difficulty increases kill count requirement, not good thing)
Daytraders of the Dead
Cursed Treasure series
The Breach
The Road of the Dead 1 & 2
Colony
Stick War 1 & 2
Crush The Castle series
More Zombies
Exit Path
Give Up
Sierra 7
The Final Deathwish
Larry and the Gnomes
zOMGies series
Kingdom Rush series
Necronator series
Zombotron series
Legend of the Void 1 & 2
Echoes - Operation Stranglehold
Earn to Die series
Madville
Infectonator Survivors
A small talk at the back of beyond
Rebuild 1 & 2
Theres more if you can get trough these first.
Dead Frontier Outbreak 1 & 2
https://www.kongregate.com/games/jaggedbladesoft/dead-frontier-outbreak and https://www.kongregate.com/games/JaggedBladeSoft/dead-frontier-outbreak-2 create account for fullscreen and play at night/dark.
Willing to emulate? PSP emulator has gems to play.
Patapon 1 & 2, Pursuit Force & PF Extreme Justice, Dead Head Fred, The Godfather: Mob Wars, Twisted Metal Head On, Killzone: Liberation, Resistance: Retribution, God of War Chains of Olympius, GTA Liberty City Stories & Vice City Stories, i forgot lots more but il add them if you check these out.
The old command and conquer games, for free, campaign and multiplayer functional
https://cnc-comm.com/
Renegade X, fan remake of C&C Renegade
https://renegade-x.com/
Steam
Killing Floor 1 & 2
GTA 3, Vice City, San Andreas, IV, Episodes from Liberty City
Arcanum
Total Annihilation
Command and Conquer Pack Bundle
Warhammer 40K Dawn of War Master Collection
Dead Space 1 & 2
Condemned: Criminal Origins
Enter the Gungeon
Darkest Dungeon
Saints Row 2 & 3
Dead Island
Shadow Warrior
Anomaly series
Death Skid Marks
Far Cry 2
Double Dragon Neon
Flatout 1 & Ultimate Carnage
Renegade Ops
Manhunt
Retro City Rampage DX
Warhammer 40K Space Marine
Streets of Rage 1, 2, 3
Sonic franchise
Bioshock Remastered 1 & 2
The Takeover
Dead Rising franchise (except 4)
Dying Light
Golden Axe 1, 2, 3
Comix Zone
I have so much more on steam to recommend, lets just see if you go trough these first though.
I have ample amount of Sega Genesis games to recommend right here on this emulated website if youre interested, saddly it doesnt seem to work for me personaly anymore http://game-oldies.com/
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https://armorgames.com/settings/favs do they show up or do i have to write their names?
They don't show up, and judging from the url the page is not shareable (lacks any kind of account info, so will open the user's own favourites)
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Damnit. Well, thanks for letting me know. Il have to type the names then but i dont want to if their not going to be played. Il list a few, the very best on the website.
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You could do some screenshots of the list if that is faster; typing in so much could be tiresome.
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I dont know how to do that, effectively anyway, and im too lazy for complicated work. Anyway, its done, help yourself to them aswell if youre interested, i feel like these are the best flash games on the best flash game website (to me anyways) im very picky at what i favourite, thats how ive kept track of them. I recommend playing these before 2020 as Flash is getting discontinued. Fucking sad, end of an era.
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I just tried it out....dude... are you serious? Youre going to miss THAT? Im going to have to tell you to play those games i mentioned, their SO MUCH better than...amorphous+.... like, by miles... haha, i cant believe you would miss a slime slasher... geez.
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Finish a big nest and then you'll see what is great about it, it will become a lot more than it is at the start :P managing, avoiding and deliberately colliding various slime types, avoiding being slown, frozen, burnt, blinded, dissolved, cracking the shell of a boulder to finally kill it :D still possible it's not your type, I loved how simple the mechanics are yet how much attention it needs -animation-locking yourself with a slash instead of dodging later can mean sure death, and playing against the higher-leveled enemies was like bossfights. Ticked all kinds of boxes for me :)
(my favourites on Kongregate, though haven't played there for close to a decade)
Also looked into Armorgames a bit, you actually can share your favourites!
https://armorgames.com/favorites/[username_here]
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I dunno about it mean, its just so primitive, basic, simple, low quality, low effort, cheap, uglly, simplistic, repetetive... if this is something youre going to miss, hear me out then when i say, you would cry and weep when these games ive listed would be gone, if they would be gone, accesability has been reducing as times have went on and gotten harsher, some games becoming unplayable already, shit... well, if you say so but its just that the first impressions realy felt bad to play. It might not be my type but then again, i enjoy a game like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsIchPiOE04 (which is one of the games i recommend btw, not as good as some other games obviously though). It is simple and attention needing, but then again, most if not all games are, heh. Kongregate... could be touted as better as it has a bigger and wider selection for sure, but i just like armorgames for the quality of games it has on there. So we can actualy share favourites? Cool well if you can access them, then only do that once you play trough the names i listed and if you hunger for more, then check out those favourites, just dont expect anything else as highly regarded, i pretty much listed out the absolute besties, not all of them could be that but they are there for sure.
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Actually, your visual novels recommendations are not bad, I've bought few games from it.
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Ty glad to hear Thats why i posted it Here :) although i have to say that a Lot of really good VNs arent in Steam so they are Missing in the list as Well
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Yeah, I know. I think it is because usually characters in Japanese VNs are too young for Steam moral standards.
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i am not too sure about that check out Maitetsu they are literally little kids :O and it is on Steam
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Hey,
I will ask you to remove link to curator. You can list here games you really enjoyed (like other users did), but can't link to curator, youtube etc. Advertising is allowed only in the giveaway descriptions.
It may change after SG updates it's guidelines, as there is point that allows users to post links to relevant information, even when it has their yt, curator etc in it. But in current version of guidelines it's still disallowed.
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/ffcDF/proposed-guidelines
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Oh boy, I kinda like doing these lists :)
Not very known games that deserve more love:
- NaissanceE: It's free now, you don't have an excuse anymore, just give it a try. Let's just say that is rare to find a game that can communicate it's ideas almost purely through level design.
- InnerSpace: If you can get through the slightly disorienting perspective this is a really nice flying/puzzle game.
- NO THING: Brutally (at times) hard and spartan game that actually delivers an interesting story while killing you repeatedly.
- Refunct: First person platforming in its purest form, and it works!
- Slipstream: Is there an Outrun shaped hole in your library and in your life? This will fill it.
- Submerged: What you get when you take a game about exploring and remove the combat, a relaxed open world game where you can discover stuff at your own pace.
- The Vagrant: Technically an RPG, except it's actually more akin to putting a DMC-like combat system inside a 2D world slightly reminisent of a metroidvania. It somehow works and I found it enjoyable all the way through.
"Black sheeps" that are actually quite good:
- DmC: Devil May Cry: Pretend that the rest of the DMC franchise isn't there and give this one an honest chance. Sure, it's cringey, but game looks and plays great.
- Remember Me: Quite ironically everyone forgot that this game exists. I liked the story and the more original parts of the gameplay (customizable combos and memory remixing segments) and it looks gorgeous.
- Yooka-Laylee: Ehm, sure it isn't perfect but I completely fail to see why people were so harsh with this one, it's a good 3D platformer as far as I'm concerned.
- Sonic Lost World: The biggest sin of this tittle was comming out right after Sonic Generations. This is neither a momentum nor boost based Sonic game so it falls right through the cracks and gets hate from both sides of the fandom. What we have here actually is a very interesting approach to 3D platforming that operates within a 2D mindset and just protudes the third dimension by distorting the levels into weird shapes and relativizing the direction of gravity as it sees fit. Rarely I see someone take note of the fact that this is probably the game where Sonic has the largets moveset of his entire carrer, outside of fighting titles of course.
- Mighty No. 9: Ok, this one is actually deeply flawed but the critisism went way overboard. This game is nowhere nearly as bad as the internet might led you to believe, it's just not as good as it was promissed to be.
This took much more time than what I expected.
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I haven't played Yooka-Laylee, but from what I've seen those who enjoyed it will probably also enjoy A Hat in Time.
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Pretty accurate guess, I also loved A Hat in Time. It's actually way better, Hat Kid moves incredibly smoothly and controls are ridiculously precise.
The thing is that I don't really need to gush about that game cos it already gets plenty of love, well deserved love that is, but if I'm gonna suggest something I preffer to bring forth games that usually get either over-looked or a bad rep.
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My last two games I played were Dungeon Siege 3 (why the hate?) and A Short Hike. I recommend playing them.
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I have a few to recommend...but for now just one:
Unreal...PC gamer criticized this game in their review as having 'weak weapons and obscure level design'. What the reviewer did not take into account is the fact that you have crash-landed on an alien planet...so an obvious level design makes no sense on a planet no-one has ever been to, Weapons are excellent btw.
Download the Unofficial patch, maybe the high-res textures and enjoy a game that makes you think and explore.
The music, lighting and atmosphere are still amazing and rarely have I played a game that makes you feel so alone.
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I LOVE the original Unreal. Used to install and play through at least once a year a while back. Razorjack is mt favorite weapon in there. Nothing more satisfying than banking a headshot from around a corner.
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Yorkshire Gubbins. It's short, but also is also very funny. The robot in particular was perfectly done, and it's by far the best example I've seen of pixel-art lip syncing.
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Let's see... the less widely known games I've played in recent (or not so-resent) times that I think more people should try out:
CrossCode - A top-down Sci-fi-ey Action RPG with great, fun and challenging combat, creative and interesting puzzles and a very good story. Also a lot of video game jokes because the story takes place inside of a game. Has a Demo on Steam and also a Web Demo (of a very old version of the game, but it's still good) if you don't feel like downloading a Demo. ^_^
Epic Battle Fantasy 4 - Funny lighthearted Turn-Based RPG parody which turned out to be a very well designed, fun and strategic Turn-Based RPG itself. You can play the entire game for free on Kongregate though the Steam version has bonus (non-story-related) content.
Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal (and the first and second games too) - Tower Offense Games where you not only need to defend from the enemy, which is a fluid-like substance which flows through the level, but also push back against it to reach your objectives while managing your energy usage. It's basically a mix between Tower Defense and Real Time Strategy. There are short Demos for all 3 games. (And the spin-off but I haven't played that one yet to recommend it. :P ) This also functions more or less as a Web Demo.
Space Run - While on the subject of Tower Defense games here's a somewhat more standard one. Although I'd describe the game more as Action Tower Defense since you need to micromanage your turrets and resources. It's also pretty funny. (...No, this one doesn't have a Demo. :P )
Dustforce - Ninja Janitor Simulator. Nah, just kidding... Actually that is a pretty good description. A very challenging and fun plarformer. (Warning: Pretty hard, so probably not for the faint of heart. ^_^' )
Cargo Commander - It's an Action Platformer. Just... look at the Trailer, ok? I really can't think of a better way to describe this one than the way its Store page already does. :P
SpaceChem - (Warning: Very Hard.) It's kinda like an automated assembly simulator. Except you're assembling molecules (in a, let's be honest, purely sci-fi-ish way). It also has a very Lovecraftian story going on if you don't end up giving up at some point that is. ;D (Game's also on sale right now, so that's a bonus.)
Ok, I should probably stop before I just start listing games in order of playtime...
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I also enjoyed Cargo Commander, a simple idea, done well.
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Have been meaning to play CrossCode since it left early access, you made me remember it.
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+1 on Crosscode. If you like jrpg and mmorpg theme (it's a single player game just themed like mmorpg) it's awesome. I don't even like mmorpg much but i enjoyed it very much.
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Pretty much every Zachtronics game is really cool (probably because I love puzzle games xD).
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Now that Beyond Two Souls is available on PC...
I highly recommend it. Reviews were mediocre, but I remember finishing this game with a friend in one sitting and have never stopped thinking about that story...it was so unique and captivating. It's not the best game I have ever played but it was one of the best experiences I have ever sat trough. It's like playing a really good series and memories of this game triumph over that of even better games. I really can't describe it. Just play it yourself :D
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Bloodstained Ritual of the Night but not switch version yet
Catlateral damage if you're bored af and need to be a kitten
Persona games. Play them.
Smash ultimate, great fighting game
meow
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Xenonauts, Planescape: Torment, Divinity Original Sin, Jagged Alliance 2, Wizardry 8, Arcanum: of steamworks and magik obscura, Fallout 2.
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Ori and the Blind Forest. It's a great platformer-metroidvania. And now it has historically lowest price on Steam.
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Some games that I don't often see mentioned:
The Stanley Parable - https://store.steampowered.com/app/221910/The_Stanley_Parable/
The narrator is SUCH a hoot; really appealed to my sense of humor.
Flipping Death - https://steamcommunity.com/id/genkicoll/recommended/626660/
and Stick it to the Man by the same devs (link in my review for Flipping Death above). These games are fun and different and absolutely delightful!
The Swapper - https://steamcommunity.com/id/genkicoll/recommended/231160?snr=1_5_9__402
A brilliant puzzle game with a narrative that will really make you think.
Max: The Curse of Brotherhood - https://store.steampowered.com/app/255390/Max_The_Curse_of_Brotherhood/
It's a side-scrolling platformer that FEELS like it's 2.5D. Love the puzzles, love the monster, just love the overall feeling of the game. Great fun!
Valiant Hearts: The Great War (etc) - https://steamcommunity.com/id/genkicoll/recommended/260230?snr=1_5_9__402
Valiant Hearts: The Great War is a moving journey that kept me guessing 'til the end, and had me happily learning about the first World War (history is NOT my forte, but I enjoyed it in this game.) Totally worth having to deal with UPlay.
That's probably good for now, back with more later if you like~!
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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, vanilla or not, with or without tilesets. I'm just really addicted to it right now.
Still a pretty cool game for a turn-based, zombie survival game. Make your own death mobile (driving in a turn-based game, yes), loot and clear the whole area/city/country, survive for a whole year, build your own fortress (tedious stuff), live near a radioactive place and get mutations OR eat those goode mutagens, or become a cyborg just to end up getting f'd by the machine. I just wish that the melee combat works just like in Dwarf Fortress but I think that'd make the game a bit messy.
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If you thought Planescape: Torment was great, Disco Elysium should be on the top of your wishlist. :)
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it's at the top of my "I should be able to afford this in five years" list
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If you like Undertale you should try Oneshot
If you like Oneshot there is a new game called grimms hollow you will also like.
If you know of any similar games to these, please let me know :D
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probably the game I've been trying to recommend the most in the last 15 years (among other very little known games of course) - Riviera - The Promised Land, non-region locked of course if you want the cassette and you're not American or Japanese since it never came out here in Europe just to say (I know about an European PSP port but I've always played it on GBA, DS and GBA emulator owning an American cassette), it's always been one of my favourite games ever, not only in the RPG field.
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So,as usual, I was sitting here, waiting for my time to leave for the theater, and I had an idea.
Why not have a topic where SG recommends games to other users here?
They don;t have to be your favorite ones nor do that have to be on steam.
Why not have a topic dedicated to the recommendation of games to others?
Since I got it last week and have been playing it a lot, my first will be My Time at Portia. No idea why it's so addicting
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