Video Game Suggestions
A place to find suggestions for video games! For example, you might create a post looking for recommendations for a game to play with a friend, or a game that is easy to play if you just broke your dominant hand. Or you might post a list of games that let you use a whip as a weapon. A lot of rules for conduct here are pretty obvious (don't be a jerk, stay on-topic) so I'll bold the weird ones.
Rules
- Please stay on-topic: post requests for games that match some criteria you specify, lists of games with a certain element, or something otherwise relevant to helping people find games that match certain criteria.
- If you're looking to find the name of a particular game or video game series you forgot, you should go to !TipOfMyJoystick@retrolemmy.com. This community is for fielding suggestions for games, not for finding one specific video game.
- If you're making a post that is suggesting games, it should be a list of games. This is partially to help prevent the community from being overrun by people just suggesting their favorite game, and devs suggesting you play their latest game. This is about posts, not comments. It's okay to comment on a post asking for gaming suggestions with just one game.
- Don’t be a jerk. This covers bigotry and discrimination, which includes but is not limited to homophobia, racism, sexism, etc.
- Please don’t directly link to pirated content.
- When advertising something you have worked on, please use common sense for what is spammy. Self-promotion isn't totally banned: if someone asked for an RPG where you can play a lich, and the game you worked on is an RPG where you can play a lich, you can definitely answer with your RPG. I reserve the right to change this rule to be more specific about what exactly counts as spammy and what does not, but I feel I’ll know it when I see it and trust most posters to operate in good faith.
- Please indicate spoilers when necessary. The following format works on both Lemmy and Kbin, but if you are using an app it may not. See this comment for which apps handle spoilers. Note that spoilers in post bodies will just show the text in the preview if you link the post in, say, Discord, instead of spoiling it.
Spoilers for SomeGame
Something that happened at the end of the game!
Something else that happened at the end of the game!
will appear as
Spoilers for SomeGame
Something that happened at the end of the game!
Something else that happened at the end of the game!
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Thanks so much for including links to these. Aotenjo looks like the kind of game one of my friends would adore cause he loves Mahjong (he plays Mahjong Soul and the Saki PSP games a lot)
It's an excellent game. I would recommend it even to non-Mahjong fans if they enjoy Balatro. It has a good tutorial and help screens to remind you of all the hands.
I can't recommend Tactical Breach Wizards enough, even if just as a filler since you can complete the main story line rather quickly, but it's still really fun.
Does it have replayability beyond the main story?
Yep, after you finish the main story there are still some levels where you can mix and match your team, edit their skills, unlock a bunch of achievements etc., and there are also non-story levels with increasing difficulty, plus a whole bunch of user designed level. The map editor is really neat.
There are great suggestions here, but they are large beefy games. If you want something smaller: Into the Breach
Super Mario RPG is really fun, I like that era game with optional challenge bosses. The PS1/2 Final Fantasy games are good if you like the anime bullshit too (I do mostly). However, the best turn-based gaming experience I've had is Pokemon Black Randomizer, where you can tweak the settings to give gym leaders more Pokemon, 10% higher leveled Pokemon, random Pokemon and move sets. It takes a great base game and makes it challenging and more exciting.
Final Fantasy Tactics.
The game that sort of defined the genre.
And you are in luck. A complete remake is just being released on all major platforms.
Final fantasy 4,5 and 6 are all good.
Fallout and Fallout 2 are great, but not very forgiving.
Chained Echoes
Clair Obscure
Haven't had much time to play games, but those I played over the years, enjoyed and would recommend:
- Bravely Default & Bravely Second (both for the 3DS)
- Child of Light (afaik all versions are the same, aside from DRMs included)
- Coromon (played on Steam / also on GOG, EGS, Switch 1, Google Play and ITunes for the IOS - it's Pokemon if you don't want to give Game Freak money)
- Deeper Down Dungeons (Android from Google Play / Windows version on Itchio should be the same)
- Final Fantasy II (PSP version - also most feature-complete version afaik)
- Final Fantasy VI (SNES version but afaik most versions are mostly the same)
- Final Fantasy VII (2013 PC version / PS1, Win98 & Android versions are mostly the same afaik)
- Final Fantasy X (played all but the PS4 version - can be grindy and repetitive if you go for optionals, though)
- Final Fantasy X-2 (also played most versions - also weaker than X, but still decent, me thinks)
- Final Fantasy XII (also most versions played; does it count as turn-based though? Also while not as repetitive as X, it can be far longer)
- LiEat (English on Steam and Japanese version on Booth as freeware - feels like what RPG Maker games often try to be, but decent instead; also not a RPG Maker game just in case someone gets confused)
- Mary Skelter trilogy (all on Steam, first 2-ish on GOG, Mary Skelter Nightmares has an older version as a separated purchase and a remade version as an unlockable game in Mary Skelter 2, and all games are somewhere between horror, grid-based first person dungeon crawler, turn-based RPG, visual novel and on a lesser degree the further the series went, ecchi)
- Parasite Eve (PS1 - sequel to a Japanese horror book with the same name, though what's important is explained in-game, and if you don't want spoilers for the book, you can find the Kindle version on Amazon JP as パラサイト・イヴ)
- Persona 3 FES (PS2 - harder than the PSP version but more content-complete; still have to play the recent remake)
- Persona 4 Golden (PS Vita / Steam - 2nd weakest plot-wise imo, losing only for Persona 4 Arena, but fun gameplay loop)
- Persona 5 (PS3 / PS4 - story feels kinda juvenile but not as bad as P4G, and art/gameplay loop/game flow make up for it, me thinks)
- Quest of Dungeons (Android & PC versions are on several places; roguelike and little to no plot though)
JRPGs:
- Chrono Trigger
- Earthbound/Mother 3 (skip 1)
- Etrian Odyssey
- Final Fantasy (I recommend 10 as the best entry point)
- Golden Sun
- Live a Live
- Paper Mario
- Persona
Other:
- Balatro
- Mega Knockdown
- Riichi Mahjong (Mahjong Soul for the most popular online client)
- Slay the Spire
- Super Auto Pets
The best turn-based gameplay I've enjoyed recently (maybe ever) is Honkai: Star Rail. If you want something similar to that without the gacha, try the Trails series. It's a continuous story, but they just released a remake of the first game this month.
Baldur's Gate 3, Civilization V, Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre are all turn-based games I've put hundreds of hours into. Since you enjoyed 13 Sentinels, a story-heavy game, I'd steer you away from Fire Emblem Engage for now and more towards FFT or TO if you want stronger story.
Turn-based games I've enjoyed:
Fire Emblem Three Houses, Path of Radiance, Radiant Dawn
Paper Mario TTYD, Super Paper Mario
LotR: The Third Age
Pokemon Legends Arceus
I've searched ddg for Lotr Path of the Fellowship but can't find anything. I see Fate of the Fellowship which is a board game - is that what you were referring to? :o
I was thinking of LotR The Third Age. Got the title mixed up with The Matrix Path of Neo
Oh I see! I remember seeing ads for The Third Age, but didn't realise it was turn based!!!
I was just about to ask the same thing.
I was thinking of LotR The Third Age. Got the title mixed up with The Matrix Path of Neo
Divinity Original Sin 1/2 and ofc Bg3 if you like dnd
Thank you everyone for the recommendations!!! I'll be sure to check out quite a few that caught my eye.
Old or modern?
More recent: Clair Obscur - you've probably heard of it, any description won't do it justice, just watch a prologue you'll be instantly hooked Persona series - pokemon meets mythology and teenager sim with social commentary, start from either 3 or 5 Metaphor Refantazio - same devs but fantasy setting, very pretty and the characters are good Yakuza like a dragon - is a jrpg unlike earlier titles, early game is a hobo sim, later it's kinda like other Yakuza games but with a bit of fantasy sprinkled in. Subclasses are written with humor, story's nice
If you're into more retro stuff: Earthbound is a must play, it's legendary, and has raised a generation of quirky moving story lovers (also, Undertale is inspired by it) Chrono trigger is also a classic
Edit: oh, sory, I didn't realize this post is 2 days old. Lemmy is a bit confusing, I'm new here
There’s a demo for JRPG remake Trails in the Sky that came out recently. It’s mainly character-driven, so it won’t always mesh with everyone. First few tutorial fights feel braindead, but even before the prologue is done you have a few boss battles that can wreck you if you’re not planning any strategy based on the systems they’ve taught.