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Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before

This might be a slightly unusual attempt at a prompt, but might draw some appealing unusual options.

The way it goes: Suggest games, ideally the kind that you believe would have relatively broad appeal. Don’t feel bad about downvotes, but do downvote any game that’s suggested if you have heard of it before (Perhaps, give some special treatment if it was literally your game of the year). This rule is meant to encourage people to post the indie darlings that took some unusual attention and discovery to be aware of and appreciate.

If possible, link to the Steam pages for the games in question, so that anyone interested can quickly take a look at screenshots and reviews. And, as a general tip, anything with over 1000 steam reviews probably doesn’t belong here. While I’d recommend that you only suggest one game per post, at the very most limit it to three.

If I am incorrect about downvotes being inconsequential account-wide, say so and it might be possible to work out a different system.

Nibodhika ,

Out of Space a cozy co-op game similar to Overcooked but less chaotic.

tigeruppercut ,

Doom II

…wait don’t downvote yet, you’ve gotta play it with the new ray tracing mod

moosetwin ,
@moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

jokes on you, I’ve heard of the raytracing mod

tigeruppercut ,

Curses! Looks like word got out faster than I anticipated, which makes me happy as a doom fan :)

ByteOnBikes ,

Might I recommend Doom Infinite mod?

I’m blown away by its creativity

Blaster_M , (edited )

Sulphur Nimbus: Hel’s Elixir, a $6 (currently) game on itch.io. It started from the idea of an MLP fangame, but early in development evolved into an original setting.

This is a 3D physics platformer adventure with an unhindered flying character. Your hippogriff, Sulphur Nimbus, is an aerial photographer aboard a cargo ship, which is passing a mysterious atoll on the way to their destination. The crew want you to get pictures of the island, which has a castle that’s been abandoned for decades. Unfortunately, after flying over there, a nasty storm builds up and you get zapped by lightning. After a flashback tutorial on how to fly, you wake up on the island shores, your wing is injured, and you have to run to safety, finding out this place is dangerous… so dangerous a resident dogicorn (like a hippogriff, but it’s half dog and half unicorn instead of half bird half pony) has to rescue you when a lovecraftian horror tries to take you down into presumably Hel. Waking up in a castle room, your wing is healed, and you can fly again.

Now the game begins. Clear the boss monsters and rout them out of this island, area by area. Break the curse that binds you to this island. Find out what happened here.

What’s unique about Sulphur Nimbus is the movement. Running, fighting, and jumping has physics to it, allowing for some parkour stuff to be possible, like running up steep inclines and wall jumping. Flight is realistic. There are no arbitrary limitations, other than a regenerating “flap” stamina. If you can get enough speed to take off, and if there’s enough room to maneuver, you can fly. Level designs include lots of caves and enclosed spaces, but also lots of open areas, so being able to fly is a requirement to get through it, while also a challenge. While the game is designed for kb and mouse controls, honestly, a gamepad works very well with this game and is preferred. It also is cross platform, as it is made in java, and includes Windows, Mac, and Linux. The source code is on sourceforge and allows you to build the whole game yourself if you are so inclined.

There’s no other platforming adventure game that attempts this, and I have tried every “become birb” game out there. They all are either bird simulators or use flight as a fast travel, but not as a core gameplay mechanic like this.

nednobbins ,

Just started playing Shapez 2. shapez2.com
Hot damn, is that addictive.

Ilflish , (edited )

Promenade

A short 2D Collectathon in the style of 5th Generation games of the genre. Jump into a 2D world and explore, solve puzzles and overcome challenges to collect gears to take you higher. A beautiful art style and soundtrack make me wonder why this wasn’t talked about more when it came out earlier this year

haris ,

Azimuth

Azimuth is a metroidvania game, and something of an homage to the previous greats of the genre (Super Metroid in particular). You will need to pilot your ship, explore the inside of the planet, fight enemies, overcome obstacles, and uncover the storyline piece by piece. Azimuth features a huge game world to explore, lots of little puzzles to solve, dozens of weapons and upgrades to find and use, and a wide variety of enemies and bosses to tangle with.

It is open source and available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

grrgyle ,

Hoplite (puzzley turn-based mobile roguelike). Here’s a review I found: toucharcade.com/2014/01/08/hoplite-review/

I don’t like mobile games, but this one is really elegant. It respects you as a customer, unlike a lot of mobile games.

Haven’t played in a while, but I really enjoyed it a few years ago.

Wogi ,

Hoplite is good! I’m sorry I downbooped you

grrgyle ,

I guess this game is more well known than I thought

ColonelThirtyTwo ,

Copy Kitty: store.steampowered.com/app/349250/Copy_Kitty/ has a demo

Fun elimination platformer. If you with Kirby did more with the power mixing from Kirby 64, you’ll probably like it.

rustyfish ,
@rustyfish@lemmy.world avatar

Iron Lung. Everyone is gone. Every star, every planet and every moon. The only people left are those who were on spaceships and stations. With one exception: A moon is found, glowing in the light of a star that doesn’t exist and filled with an ocean of blood. Desperate for answers, the new makeshift government sends prisoners in submarines deep into this ocean with a simple task: make it to a hand full of coordinates, take the pictures and make it out alive. Did I mention it’s an ocean of human blood?

This game fucked me up that one night I played it alone. And no, it won’t take you longer. The dev literally says so in the description. About an hour. But it’s cheap and takes you on a crazy ride. By David Szymanski, the mad genius behind Dusk.

Statick ,

Mindustry

An open-source factorio like game. You can play it on PC or your phone, and it has a self hostable server that is relatively easy to setup.

AceFuzzLord ,

Don’t know about broad appeal, but Corn Kidz 64.

Requires a controller, looks like an N64 title, and controls like one as well. Isn’t as long as some games, but it’s long enough that I got hours out of it before finishing. Heard of it from someone on Lemmy a long time ago.

Has 1140 Steam reviews, so I figured it’s just barely above the 1000 reviews.

fernlike3923 ,
@fernlike3923@sh.itjust.works avatar

Chess is a great strategy game that is played between 2 players with many fun variations available!

tetris11 ,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

Grand Theft Auto IV

It’s a little known game from a small publisher originally located in Scotland.

The main premise is that you drive around a city as quickly as possible and go bowling with your cousin. Think Big Lebowski meets Driver. You can also play Pool and Darts in various locations around the town, and earn money doing small side jobs such as being a taxi driver or a paramedic.

tgxn ,
@tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net avatar

I mean, it’s pretty well known 🤣

dwindling7373 ,

I’ve never heard of it but it sounds like an interesting indie game from some rockstar guy. I wish they gave him a bigger budget to build a topdown version set in London.

ByteOnBikes , (edited )

I’m probably in the minority here.

After loving GTA 3 and Vice City and San Andreas, I strongly disliked GTA4. Story was fine, but they really went hard on terrible controls and boring missions.

GTA5 apparently “fixed it” by making the driving more arcade-like, but I forced myself to finish it to get to the ending. Flying was a bore. And again, boring missions.

Maybe I just like the more zany wacky open-world chaos that Just Cause, Mercenaries, or Saints Row provides.

vxx ,

I’m completely with you here. I found it very restrictive coming from San Andreas.

tetris11 ,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

The controls in GTA IV were realistic! Your car tyre would blip the curb and it would affect the stability of the car. Denting the car from every angle resulted in a uniquely deformed mesh that my god would still drive. Pedestrians would bounce off your bumper in unique and interesting ways. It was a simulation paradise.

In GTA V they changed all that, made it more midnight club and arcade-y as you said. You could literally decimate a crowd of people and they’d all die with the same canned animation. Cars would at most lose a door before considering deforming the whole mesh. It just felt dumbed down.

Saints Row is fun, but you play it once and then forget about it because there’s nothing to do once you reach godhood. Mercenaries was great fun, and Just Cause was a physics funbox, I’ll give you that

sparr ,

It’s a Block Pushing Game is a sokobanlike from the creator of Baba Is You. It’s relatively short but has multiple novel mechanics. I enjoyed it enough to create a curses client for it.

PS: If you like Baba Is You, Hempuli publishes multiple new games per month, mostly clever sokoban-likes, at hempuli.itch.io

Crazazy ,

Spheres of Chaos is an old asteroids based game that really ups the ante on trippyness and cool sounds

I should warn you though that it is very flashy, so epilepsy warning is in order

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