The most common way this comes up is in "survival" games. You browse the environment for health and ammo, and then burn it all up facing massive hordes of zombies (or, ARC, or whatever monster of the day is). I've also seen it in other types of games, like in the newer Zeldas where you get dozens of types of weapons, none of which can be repaired.

Something I love about these patterns is that they get you to adapt and shift your playstyle naturally. You aren't granted transforming ammo that fits whatever weapon you hold - you must use what's available, even if every option from grenades to flamethrowers ends up being fun.

They provide the fun of looting, as well as a method to expend that loot in a way that maintains the cycle. Nothing irritates me more than the red "inventory full" message, so I make an effort to expend my resources quickly, and a lot of these games reward the player in turn for it.

So, this tends to fit a lot of major/mainstream singleplayer story-based games like Resident Evil, as well as traditional shooters like Half-Life in which all your weapons maintain an ammo count. I'm curious what other unexpected games come up that satisfy this itch, even providing creative ways to encourage "dumping resources" in a rapid way, just to give you empty slots to fill up again.

I hope I don't brake any rules, but recently I saw a stream of ATS, and I thought of playing again some ETS2 for Christmas.
I have the Italia, France, Beyond the Baltic sea, Road to the Baltic sea and Iberia, And I was thinking to get West Balkan or Greece.
Which would you recommend getting?

Also Nordic Horizon wasn't already in game? how come its a DLC now? Because I remember doing deliveries with double wagon.

cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/37241738

Not specific, just want to know if this even exists: a city clearing zombie game

Has anyone made a zombie game where you actually clear/retake an infested city? Lots of games have you raid a city to build a base somewhere else, (7D2D, unturned, now Vein, etc.) or just do things in an infested city (Dying Light, RE, etc.) sometimes culminating in some sort of big climax that results in or implies the end of the zombie times, or maybe you just leave, but are there any that have that element of progression where you slowly take more of the map and the zombies aren't just randomly spawned in a radius around the player regardless of how many you knock down? The closest I have ever found was an old flash game from when those were a thing, based around worker placement and resource management.

I occasionally try to play co-op games with my retired dad. He's pretty inexperienced with games (outside of playing a handful of Atari games when he was a kid) and isn't the most coordinated. It can be difficult to find games he can play and even more difficult to find games which will still be engaging for me.

What are some co-op games that are simple enough for someone unfamiliar with games to get into but which aren't going to bore? Also, they either need to be Switch games or games which have both a Mac and PC version.

So I have been trying to scratch an itch I don't know if I can still scratch. Are there any MMOs that still exist that use numpad movement, have a clunky UI, and really let you immerse in the game (I'm talking about the good old fashioned run across the continent to do anything days. Like Ruins of Kunark days.)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/16885686

Outer Wilds changed my life then Tunic changed it again

Edit: Game Recommendations by the people in the comments:

• Disco Elysium - @Sibbo@sopuli.xyz
• Kingdom Come Deliverance - @McFarius@lemmy.world
• Fez - @TestFactor@lemmy.world, @Glaive0@beehaw.org, @clearleaf@lemmy.world
• I Was a Teenage Exocolonist - @alltheweird@lemmy.tf
• Noita - @Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de, @yjr4df0708@lemmy.ml, @Crow_of_Minerva@feddit.it
• The Witness - @Suppoze@beehaw.org
• Lingo - @dexa_scantron@lemmy.world
• Bad End Theater - @Exocrinous@lemm.ee
• Celeste - @tkk13909@sopuli.xyz
• Fear & Hunger - @RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world
• minit - @naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
• The Forgotten City - @naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com, @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com, @terrifyingtuba@lemmy.world
• Deathloop - @tills13@lemmy.world
• The Soulsborne games - @Philharmonic3@lemmy.world
• Void Stranger - @clearleaf@lemmy.world
• Baba Is You - @clearleaf@lemmy.world
• Roguelikes as a genre - @Piemanding@sh.itjust.works
• The Long Dark - @rbos@lemmy.ca
• Who's Lila? - @Crow_of_Minerva@feddit.it
• Cultist Simulator - @Frogodendron@beehaw.org
• Sorcery! - @Frogodendron@beehaw.org

And some game recommendations by me to add on to the post:

• Taiji
  • A 2D puzzle game where you slowly unravel how to solve each different element of the puzzles, eventually culminating in a massive puzzle gauntlet. Basically identical in concept and execution to The Witness, but still very much its own unique and fun game.
• The Golden Idol
  • A puzzle game where each level you must examine a scene to figure out exactly what happened, eventually piecing together the full story over several levels. Don't let the art style put you off, it's an incredibly well done game. Most similar to Return of the Obra Dinn in concept.
• Stories: The Path of Destinies
  • an action RPG with a branching choice-driven storyline, but not every story has a happy ending... You'll piece together the true story over multiple playthroughs and eventually find the one true path. It wasn't a particularly life-changing game but it was still a lot of fun and worth checking out if it sounds interesting!

Games listed in the image, for those who want a straight list instead of looking at an image:

• Heaven's Vault
• Outer Wilds
• Tunic
• Return of the Obra Dinn
• Chants of Sennaar

Additions from commenters on this post:

• The Forgotten City - @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
• Blue Prince - @Coelacanth@feddit.nu
• Breathe of Fire: Dragon Quarter - @adameister@lemmy.world

Exactly as the title asks. I'll start, though. The link I placed in the URL section should potentially help with explaining it better than I can. For those unaware

If for some reason you don't get that, I can provide it here: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=YqBX87fq_RU

For the above, this is a video by CoculesNation, of which I believe I've gone ahead and edited (I forgot if I did that one or not).

The hidden gem FPS I'd recommend big time is the AFPS known as Xonotic. If you're part of the Linux gaming community, you've likely heard about it. For those completely out of the loop, I'll catch you up to speed here.

Xonotic is a Free Software (as in FSF approved) AFPS (Arena FPS) made in the Doom 1 derivative engine called DarkPlaces. It's the same engine used in Nexuiz Classic (which Xonotic is a fork of), and Rexuiz (a continuation of Nexuiz Classic, also a form of Rexuiz).

The licenses for these games are GPL-2.0 or later, per the compatibility with the id Tech 1 engine... also GPL-2.0+ licensed.

In terms of gameplay here, think Quake-style movement with Unreal Tournament customization. The movement is extremely fast Quake-style stuff with even CPMA (air turning), weapon combos that are satisfying, and for some reason, even designed with defrag in mind (as there's an active community of pro defrag players in Xonotic). I focus on instagib, though, as that's my current focus.

If y'all have any other ideas, feel free to express them here. I'd be happy to look into them as well, and see if they're worth playing for either myself or Neigsendoig.

I am looking for games that are visually impressive and make use of my 5090 so I can get more use out of it before it becomes second place (though I guess technically its second place to the RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell).

I have already played Cyberpunk 2077, played the heck out of it, very fun, though it has some annoyances so on subsequent playthroughs mods removed those annoyances for me which was great. This game really had a lovely skill tree customization which let you have many different play styles and the free form missions were excellent for letting you complete them in all sorts of ways.

I have also played Atomfall and just have the new DLC left to play through. Its not really that graphically challenging. It was an OK game.

I have also played Split Fiction, which is probably the absolute most fun anyone can have with another person in video game form, especially if one is used to games and the other isnt, but in other cases as well. Very relaxing and high fun to down time ratio.

Played both Robocop games as well. Ok, but not that graphically challenging.

Sort of the big thing I want to avoid is MTXs and marketing dark patterns like FOMO and especially Monetary Dark Patterns. Basically things listed on this website are things I want to avoid

For the record I play on a 4k 144hz monitor and prefer higher frame rates, like 100 ish for comfortable play without eye strain.

got a new job and enjoy it but damn i am mentally exhausted after work. i want to play a game to decompress and regain energy to do other things with my day when i come home, a game i can pick up without learning too much and being overwhelmed at the beginning. most of the games i own right now are not like this and require lots of learning or thinking so oof.

I just love how in Paint the Town Red you can just select a level and fight people, especially in goofy ways. The gore sometimes grosses me out, though.

Bonus if they feature multiplayer!

EDIT: (Sorry for the late reply!) Thanks for the recs!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36976973

i really love balatro, that games is so addictive, idk why, but i think it has little bit of gambling element i guess ( correct me if im wrong)

please recommend me some games that have any gambling element,

pardon my english :)

edited :

thank you everyone, for the recommendations

ill try them for sure

"Love finds you when you least expect it".

I've come to the feeling that romance isn't always that great of a back-box marketing topic. Dating sims are dime-a-dozen visual novels, often cycling some tiring tropes. Optional romances often treat people and relationships as "features" to be picked up as desired and discarded, rather than a give-and-take relationship too complex for numbers in a simulation.

One unfortunate result of making a thread like this is that by posting suggestions, they all immediately become spoilers. Sometimes, it's not that big of a spoiler, as someone might guess it anyway, or it might not harm the appeal of the game overall - especially if it's built around some generally enjoyable adventure.

So: What adventures have you been on where you were surprised by a romantic subplot, especially ones where it had a surprising effect on the rest of the story?

I'm looking for something new to play with my squad and bring us back together. But our tastes are starting to meander apart a bit. And I'm hoping for an online game (ideally cross platform Xbox/PC, but PC only would be fine.)

The short version: We loved DMZ, we played Warzone in Urikstan, Urzikstan Zombies, and now Warzone: Verdansk 2, and PUBG both in BR and in bot/custom mode. I'd love something like Ghost Recon Wildlands with less narrative constriction, and more shaped like a BR or extraction game, but PVE and just our squad. (Not really something wave-based like Helldivers.) We're also known to rarely hop into a Minecraft server together.

The longer version I wanted to type out more than I wanted to sleep right now: COD: Warzone 2's DMZ mode is an extraction game with a fine mission pool (collect # items running quests, several unique missions, dailies, weeklies, season missions, and a few low intensity boss/special unit runs,) a good map (wide variety of areas that are thematically cohesive, random NPC generation in areas so they usually feel fresh,) COD "action movie feeling" gunplay, low intensity crafting (under the guise of trading items for gear,) and a wonderfully simplified inventory system made friendly for my console user buddies. (Every item was one slot, and the number of slots depended on the size of your backpack, but maxed at like 9 so it wasn't crazy wild on a controller.)

After a little over a year they basically stopped advancing it, and we went back to the typical Warzone battle royal mode. The next map, Urzikstan, was okay. We also played the Zombies mode in that, which was DMZ with fewer missions and PVE alongside other squads in the server. Then they switched the BR map to Verdansk, which was fine for a brief detour but it's old by now.

Of my squad, one really liked Urzikstan's Zombies mode because it was very low intensity, but us other two didn't like it that much. But now the other is more feeling PUBG matches (sometimes BR, sometimes just bot matches where we rampage over everyone, again, less intense.) And I can't get them both excited in another PVP game because we're just not that sweaty/good anymore. We're in our late 30s and 40s and nothing captures the lax feeling of early DMZ that was very casual friendly with occasional spikes of tense gunfights. (It Became all PVP by the end of a couple of seasons.)

I'm looking for something in the shape of those games we like, with that top tier world especially. It doesn't have to be a new game either. I'd love something like Ghost Recon: Wildlands. (The last time we tried that we all bounced off of it, sadly, as it was so narratively strong.) But something with a nice sized interesting map (again, comparing it to Warzone,) with good map variety, and a good mission pool, would be phenomenal. But I just don't know of anything. And I'm just hoping I've missed something that'll be obvious to someone else.

Thanks.

Turn based games tended to be something I sort of stopped getting into as I got older. Despite really enjoying games that involve tons of strategy and thought like Hitman or 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim, I struggled more with games that are turn based. I've tried to get back into them with stuff like Pokemon and the occasional board game sim that I play with my friends, but I just know there's games out there I'd like a lot more.

I do want to give Fire Emblem, Bug Fables, and Sea of Stars a try at some point soon. Was just wondering if there's anything else I'm missing.

Tried using American Truck Simulator. After several (in-game) moving violations, I have realized I will need to git gud at this game before I can actually unwind with it. (Turns out driving with mouse + keyboard is much harder for me than real driving!) Any recommendations for things to play to relax you for sleepytime?

I posted a [list of Pokémon games you can play in a browser at !pokemon@sopuli.xyz](https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.zip/post/47994827). I have pasted the list as it is now. If you’re reading this in the future, it’s likely some new games have been added to the linked list that aren’t on the pasted version here.

The pasted list

Credit to this Reddit post by u/Aligatueur, and commenters below who added games. Went looking for some of these to play myself, figured I'd post the resource on Lemmy too.

• https://statle.fun/
• GPX+ (Global Pokédex Plus) : https://gpx.plus/
• PokeFarm : https://pokefarm.com/
• PokeHeroes : https://pokeheroes.com/
• PokeIdle : https://pokeidle.net/
• Pokémon Hatching Center : https://richardpaulastley.github.io/PHC/
• PokeClicker : https://www.pokeclicker.com/
• DelugeRPG : https://www.delugerpg.com/
• ~~UnovaRPG : https://www.unovarpg.com/ Closed.~~
• Pokémon AutoChess : https://pokemon-auto-chess.com/
• PokeGen RPG : https://www.pokegenrpg.com/
• Pokémon Plasma : https://pokemonplasma.com/
• TPPC : https://www.tppcrpg.net/
• Eclipse RPG : https://eclipserpg.com/
• Pokémon Vortex : https://www.pokemon-vortex.com/
• Showdown : https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/
• TCGOne : https://tcgone.net/
• Pokemon TCG Simulator : https://pokemonsim.com/
• ~~Pokémon Rise : https://pokemonrise.com/ Closed.~~
• PokéBox : https://pokebox.net/
• PokeExp (French only) : https://pokexp.com/
• virtuadopt : https://www.virtuadopt.com/
• Pokémon Clicker (little game) : https://www.mtchs.org/wp-uploads/StudentWork/ClickerGame/
• Poliwager : https://poliwager.net/
• The Pokemon Kingdom : https://tpkrpg.net/
• Pokerogue : https://pokerogue.net/
• PokeDoku : https://pokedoku.com/
• Pokedle : https://pokedle.com/
• Pokengine : https://pokengine.org/
• PokeNexus : https://poke-nexus.com/ (Previously Pokemon Planet)
• PikaGame : https://hackedcrusade.itch.io/pika-game
• Pokemon Creed : https://pokemoncreed.net/ (Non tested)
• Pokemon Dusk Reborn : https://pkmnreborn.com/ (Non tested)
• Pokemon Comet : https://pokemon-comet.net/

Just saw that this web app was available, and I think it seems like a cool idea. It's like a gamified rec engine.

Unfortunately it needs a sign up to start, but looks like there's no email verification right now. And thankfully it runs in web browser, no app needed.

Tried it, and it seems kinda jank. I don't recognize any of the 'experts', and didn't really know what to do with games I already played, and liked, but didn't love. The preferences and special cards didn't seem interesting.

So I dunno. Maybe it'll be useful over time and with more runs. But I thought it seemed neat, anyway and thought this community might be interested.

I like the story and feel of genshin impact and the fact that it's open world along with the world design

I've tried looking online but most posts are asking for games with similar combat style while I'm looking for games that have story, feel, open world and world design to genshin

Unfortunately genshin is an gacha game and I dislike gacha

I prefer games with female main characters but ones with males are okay

Bonus points if you can outlevel the current encounters by grinding enough, and for turn-based games.

Hey everyone! I'm on the hunt for some incredible story-driven games—ones that pull us into their world with gripping narratives, deep characters, and immersive gameplay. Some examples of what I'm looking for include the Homeworld series, the Horizon series, The Last of Us, some Indiana Jones or Tomb Raider games, etc. So I'm not too picky about the genre.

If you've played any unforgettable games with amazing storytelling, do tell! What games had you hooked from start to finish?

• Blobun (itch.io link) (Steam link)
• Bunhouse (Nintendo Switch link) (Steam link) (Xbox link)
• Bunny Park (Steam link) (link for what I believe has links for all other platforms it's on)
• Bun Snap (itch.io link)
• Chemical Eruptions and Bunny Consternations (itch.io link)
• Cinnabunny (Steam link)
• Lapin (Steam link) (Xbox link)
• Little Bunny 2 (there doesn't seem to be a first one) (itch.io link)
• Marron's Day (itch.io link) (Nintendo Switch link) (Steam link)
• Moonlight Rabbits (Steam link)
• Rabbit Simulator (Steam link)
• Rusty Rabbit (Steam link)
• Yeah Bunny! (Google Play link) (App Store link) and its sequel, Yeah Bunny 2 (Google Play link) (App Store link)

I also mod !bunnies@lemmy.world, and there I maintain a list of fictional works about bunnies, with a video game section. I have pasted the list as it is now. If you're reading this in the future, it's likely some new games have been added to the linked list that aren't on the pasted version here.