Some of these I haven’t watched in a while, so the order could be different after rewatching them:
I like drama and slice of life the most.
I haven't seen a blatant cheater / bot ever since they did the update that banned a ton of them. They used to be in every single casual match and I would have to join a community server.
Half-Life and Half-Life 2 have plenty of really good mods if you are interested in those, Black Mesa started as just a mod as well.
Some of my favourites for HL2:
Some of my favourites for HL1:
There are many more that I haven't mentioned / played myself.
My top four on steam are:
The next season was announced in December of 2023 and it’s changing studio to Wit Studio, so hopefully they do a good job of it. I’ve rewatched it and it’s great for being both relaxing and engaging at the same time, planning to read the light novel at some point.
Re:ZERO or Ascendance of a Bookworm (underrated in my opinion).
Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 -> Fedora Workstation -> Fedora Silverblue -> NixOS
Game was fun and had a lot of potential, it’s a shame it didn’t get popular enough.
You can still get the Retroarch Citra core if that works for you.
Based Chihayafuru, shame that it seems to have stopped like half way through the manga.