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Right now, I have installed:

Civ 5

Starcraft II

Legend of Grimrock II

Icewind Dale II Enhanced Edition

Alan Wake

Company of Heroes I and II

Besieged (now this is a bizarre ass game)

Don't feel like any of them. Any suggestions from what you guys are playing?

Are you looking for games of a similar nature, or something completely different? If you can narrow down genres you'd prefer or anything in particular you're looking for I can probably help.
 

I like nearly everything, and had hoped my list of games would give an idea of my somewhat eclectic tastes. I also love TF2, for example. Probably be easier to list what I hate.

Pay to win games.

Most MMO games unless they are free and paying only results in hats or costume changes, with no real gain.

Pillars of Eternity comes out in a couple weeks, and that will keep me satiated until the Witcher 3 comes in May.

 

Given that you like Civ, you might enjoy Age of Wonders III or Warlock 2: the Exiled. I managed to enjoy both of them for a time though I admit I eventually quit both, as they didn't satisfy my particular desires. I probably just need some appropriate mods though.

Since you're not that picky I'll just list a few random games I've recently played that were fun. All the games below as well as the ones above can be found on Steam.

Dungeons of Dredmor: Fun Roguelite RPG with a lot of humor. The classes/skill paths you can choose are ridiculous, funny and a lot of fun. An example of skills you can choose: Necronomiconomics / Emomancy / Magic Law / Fleshsmithing / Archaeology. The Magic Law path lets you fuck with other magic users and Archaeology gives you a free Fedora to start with, and later lets you send named items to the museum for XP. My description does not do it justice though, so I recommend looking into it more yourself.

Path of Exile: Free-to-play, kinda Diablo-esque online rpg. It's got multiplayer but it involves forming a party if you want that and it's not necessary to enjoy the game at all. I like their use of gems which you stick into slots on your equipment to give you various magic abilities. These can then be leveled up through killing monsters with them equipped. It's also got a pretty dark atmosphere which you may appreciate.

I've got more to recommend but typing these descriptions takes a bit (perfectionist, want to do the games justice, etc) so I'll leave you with this for now.

Also, I fucking love Besiege! :O

Toribash.

Toribash is awesome, what belt are you?

If he's anything like me, he's currently an accidental torso molester with cerebral palsy who somehow managed to beat a guy once.

It's always fun to just flop on someone who doesn't expect it.

Killa might point you to the kitty anthro dating sim.

Flew over my head. I'm assuming a reference to something I haven't read. I'm imagining some tentacle porn is involved.

Furry porn.

No, everyone thinks I have a mild obsession with catgirls.

Only catgirl themed visual novel I can think of though is Nekopara, which isn't a dating sim, and isn't really good as a story so I wouldn't recommend it. Couldn't even finish it (and it has tons of catgirls).

Or Hatoful Boyfriend.

Total War: Shogun 2

Tried, didn't like any of the Total War games. Not sure why. Just can't get into them.

Hi i'm new.

Watcha doin'?

 

Kentucky Route Zero. 

Resident Evil - Dead Aim

Skyrim, GTA, and many other games.

If you want realistic shooter, go play ARMA or Operation Flashpoint series

Company of Heroes is probably my favorite RTS game. Do you know that if you click a unit many times repeatedly, they will start to get annoyed and angry? Most of their quotes when annoyed are funny

Pretty much anything by Bethesda.

and @Raven47 HOLY SHIT!!! I DIDN'T THINK ANYONE ELSE PLAYED OPERATION FLASHPOINT!!!!!!

I like realistic and tactical military shooters.

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I though i'm the only one who like to play tactical shooters and like guns, lol

;n; Mtactical=Happy

The only other guy i know to know a more about firearms and it's modifications is you and Delta44

You need to make  your "I"s capital, when referring to yourself.

Oh, thanks.

I've played ARMA and the Day-Z mod with it.

7 days to Die is great, if you can skype your friends and play it with them, but it's still kind of overpriced. If you're going to do that singleplayer you may as well play DayZ. The Forest is also great to play with friends, but the Single-player mode is just as fulfilling.

If you like Comp. of Heroes then you should try Men of War. The game is more 'organic' than common RTS games and there is more emhasis on actual fighting. The infantry can take cover and board buildings and vehicles, it has fully fistructible environs. The game is also available on steam, I guess.

I do play Men of War.

Cool, thanks.

Mount and Blade Warband can keep you busy.

Army of two was a really fun game. You should totally get it if you're into shooters.

Army of Two 40th day weapon customization is awesome.

USE THE THREADED VIEW YOU INCEL!

:/ I highly doubt that whatever you could have possibly corrected that to would have been that damn important.

@Drakoblare, sorry about it

@Drakoblare, never played that game.

Well I was recently playing Icewind Dale 1: Enhanced Edition, so I doubt if that would help as a recommendation considering you're sick of the second one. Of course I thought the second game sucked compared to the first one so there's that.

I was also playing Shadowrun: Dragonfall which is sort of a cool little RPG from what I've played of it, damn thing keeps crashing though.

Pretty sure I or Swift recommended he Geneforge series before. Probably the Avernum and Avadon series as well.

Yeah the Geneforge series I got based on your guys' recommendations and it was really good. I might go check out IWD 1 again. Shadowrun is spectacular. I'm a backer on their new one.

If you're into RPG's I heard the Dragon Age series was great ^ The Witcher series is also a great RPG that looks beautiful, has a great plot, memorable characters, and smooth fighting mechanics. You can play any of them without being left behind on the story, though if you play the first one, your stats for that character transfer to the next game. Heard the Witcher 3 was also coming out, game looks gorgeous if your computer can handle the next-gen graphics.

The Darkest Dungeon is also a new early access game on steam with great drawn art and concept. It's a roguelike RPG that revolves around the psychological effects o you band of adventurers as they wander deeper into various pits and dungeons in search for gold and power. In my honest opinion though, the game is great and has a decent amount of content, but you should wait until it's out of early access.

Cool, I saw that stuff about Darkest Dungeon.

If you feel like having a fever dream but don't want to have a fever, don't want to take drugs, and don't want to wait until you're asleep, EYE: Divine Cybermancy and Pathologic are some pretty fun games. Pathologic if you like a good story-driven games, and EYE if you ever wonder what Star Wars would've been like if Takashi Miike did it. The STALKER games are great if you can get the Complete mod for it.

In terms of what I'm playing I don't think Football Manager would interest you. If it does give it a shot.

Hehe, thanks. What games do you guys currently have installed?

I've been playing a lot of Hotline Miami recently. It's pretty fun.

I play a lot of Counter Strike Competitively ^ Being young has its perks of course, though sometimes, I hop off that to play a couple RPG's or Indies. Kenshi was an alright early access game. It may not be worth the money though, as the concept of the game is great, but the developers update it very infrequently. Think post apocalypse, steam punk, survival in an open world desert. The developers plan to add all sorts of things, from ruins, to wildlife, to different biomes, but for the moment, it's pretty empty. 

It shows a lot of promise though! So I think you should check it out, even if it has its downsides!

For an indie dev team, it's a lot more than consider...Blacklight Retribution or Spiral Knights.  Or Dead Frontier or everything that died recently in the F2P folds.

Meh, I just find the lack of updates from the developer disappointing. The game shows so much promise, but there's like a single small update every month. I would be much more confident in the team if they released a daily or even weekly update, just telling the player something as small as "Fixed a few pathfinding bugs today..." is good enough for me to be honest. As long as the devs are communicating with the public, I'd be a much happier and loyal fan.

Eco, the team for Kenshi is small.  Really small compared to others.

They don't have enough people to spend time talking about what they're doing.  That, and updating really often increases the risk of corrupting saves and unplayable, haywire builds.  Having your player base be stuck with that kind of uncertainty kills the player base.  That, and trying to upload a new build every day takes a lot of time.  By the time one update is made, there would be new fixes.

That's why there are experimental builds, if you haven't noticed.  :P

I believe that communication with the community would definitely be more beneficial for the company in the long run. Though I do see your point and agree with them, letting the community know that you're still going strong on a project gives current users something to look forward to, and promotes the game to new players with its steady progress. 

You're definitely correct though. I'd do like to see more from the devs of Kenshi though. I absolutely loved the steady blog-like status reports on NeoScavenger, a great game created by one man. Sometimes they were short, such as "looked into the variable with irregular bandit spawns..." and others were longer updates on the progression of the story. Noted NeoScavenger is WAY different than Kenshi, both in terms of size and assets, but even a short update on what you did today helps.

My main concern really though is that there are so many early access games on steam, and so many of them are left unfinished, in a slow stasis of development (after all, why rush when you're getting paid for an unfinished product?) and I don't want to see such a great game like Kenshi get ruined. :P

Well currently I either have these installed or I swap them around every now and then:

30 Second Life
80 Days
A Dark Room
Avadon Series
Banner Saga
The Battle for Westnoth
Blood Bowl
Brief History of the World
C64 Elite Collection
Chainsaw Warrior
Death Worm
Elder Sign
Fighting Fantasy Book Series
First Strike
FTL
Gamebook Adventure Series
Ghost Stories
Haunt the House Terrortown
Icewind Dale 1: Enhanced Edition
King of Dragon Pass
Lost Treasures of Infocom
Only One
Neuroshima Hex
Organ Trail
Out There
Papers, Please
Plague Inc.
Qvadriga
Rebuild
Road of Kings
Shadowrun Dragonfall
Shadowrun Returns
Small World 2
Sorcery! Series
Starbase Orion
Talisman
Titan
Vectrex Regeneration
Warlords Classic
Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space

Was thinking about getting Sid Meier's: Starships or the reissue of Heroes of Might and Magic 3, but I've heard Starships isn't very good, and the reissue of HOMM3 is pretty bad.

FTL sounds like something that you'd like ^ (Purely judging by your listed games and character)  Spaceship simulator anyone?

You've got some interesting games though End. I'm not familiar with many of these at all ^

Still disappointed you didn't get the entire Geneforge series.

I already got the entire series. I just bought them as they came out on disc.

Beyond Earth really sucked, too. I doubt its "expansion to MMO" would be any better. I really would like to see a proper Alpha Centauri 2.

I do have IWD I EE. I don't think there is a 2 yet. I tried to play with a friend and it seems difficult. I like being able to pause and plan when I want, and when one or both can control the pause, seems impossible until telepathy becomes possible.

Free games: 

The MDickie "demos": They're pretty good for what they are and the time period they were made in. Pretty sure he was one of the first ever indie developers, so the sort of ego that comes off in his games is somewhat deserved. I wouldn't recommend spending money on them, but beating other pro wrestlers to death in Biblical times (And in prison) is a fun way to kill 30 minutes.

Toribash: Also a fun way to kill a few minutes, but it's only funny when you watch the replay and see what you did.

Pirated Project64 ROMS: If you can find out how the shit you can work Toad's Tool and Text Wrangler, Super Mario 64 becomes a sandboxy barrel of fun. Also, Doom's really fun to whip out every now and then. Can't say much for the goddamn keyboard controls.

Tricky Truck, Toribash, Goofball: All made by the same developer. They all have paid versions, but you're not missing much.

Warframe: It's a bitch to load at first, just like TF2, but I guess it's fun. Grinding never even feels repetitive, and the combat is fluid and satisfying.

Space Funeral: It's a JRPG, but it's really, really interesting and cool. Surreal as hell, too.

Earth Birth: Sequel to Space funeral.

OFF: In the same vein as the last two, but with a completely different feel and theme. The combat is roughly similar, but satisfying too. Interesting-as-hell story. Make sure you install the right fonts, or the English version will be hell.

Paid games:

Saints Row IV: A game that everyone needs to play at least once in their life. Fucking awesome. Gat out of hell isn't worth it, imho, but you can buy the cheap version with all the rest of the DLC too.

Skyrim: What good shit can I say about Skyrim that hasn't already been said?

Fallout NV: New Vegas is much better than fallout 3 from a story aspect. Security actually feels more competent than most other Bethesda FPSRPGs, the Black Armor is freakin' awesome, the DLC has a really in-depth story that wraps up REALLY well with Lonesome Road, and all manner of awesome shit. Fallout 3 has Katanas and a Lovecraftian DLC, though, so it's quite a hard decision.

Oblivion: If you mod it to shit and pretend the voice-acting breaks aren't there, (I reccommend turning the voices off in the options and doing your own in your head.) it's actually better than Skyrim, but if you mod it to shit, it runs much slower, and your friends will judge you for adding the big boobs and bikini armor mods.

Terraria: It's as hard as fucking shit, but building is kinda fun, I guess.

Minecraft: Hours and hours of fun. It gets boring unless you're competent enough to add mods and maps. But ever since Mojang sold out to Microsoft, it's been impossible to mod, so use earlier versions of it, if at all.

Jazzpunk: Fucking awesome adventure game by Adult Swim... Why do I like trippy things so much?

Well, the new Civ game is essentially just a reskin of 5, so I can't really recommend that.

Starcraft II is one I have to check out. There's also the old Warcraft games, those are fun.

Legend of Grimrock II... Well, if you're into RPGs, check out any Elder Scrolls games.

Never heard of Icewind Dale...

Well, Resident Evil and Silent Hill are good survival horror games (At least, the old games in the series are).

Same recommendations for Starcraft II.

Never heard of Besieged... I may check it out.

I have a couple old-school games on my laptop that I like to play from time to time like Rise of Nations, Gothic 3, GTA: San Andreas, and Dragon Age: Origins and I never really seem to tire of them as long as I don't play too much (too busy to do that though so it works out pretty well).

 I also downloaded the alpha of The Forest but I haven't played it for a few months so I have no clue how it's progressed.  Been meaning to get back to that one though.

Toribash
Stone Soup Dungeon Crawl
Chess (Not even kidding, this game is addictive)

If you have IOS, I recommend Vain Glory a not pay-to-play game MOBA.
 

I already suggested Toribash. :P

I know, but it's really fun.

Is Toribash pay to win, like Clash of Clans or similar?

No, but the player base is small, and margin in experience between belt divisions hide the actual skill, considering the divisions get more unreliable as time goes by.

No, the only things you can by are purely decorative.

Anybody know of games like *Swarog except non-buggy?

*It was a real-time strategy where you built up a community of pagans and fought crusaders (or vice versa) who were like, NPCs who also also were built up on the same field. Something like that.

If you had any appreciation for the Assassin Creed games and you haven't tried it yet, play Shadow of Mordor. Took me a while to get around to it, but it's really very entertaining. I'm only a casual LOTR fan and the game doesn't really expect you to know much because it's practically unrelated to the series, but on the chance that you do care, there are a bunch of readable entries with lore extras in them.

I'll try to think of some others that haven't been said, though.
 

Shadow of Mordor did a great job of making you feel both vulnerable and OP at the same time, and the nemesis system was a  friggin' blast.
 

EDIT: Filthy casuals.

SoM looked great! It had so much controversy around it though, with the company forcing reviewers to only create "good" reviews if they wanted review/play it.

It turned out to actually be pretty well done in the end though ^^

I'm totally fried. I've been playing IWD I, not 2. 

Agreed, Shadow of Mordor is great

Have you tried hearthstone?

Free collectible cardgame by blizzard.

@Killa_Robot, I don't like card games, sorry

Ok, so this reminded me to stalk you, but your profile is private. :(

But anyways, so have you tried DOTA 2? It's a MOBA and is supposed to be good with a very high skill ceiling and it's free to play so you can try it out. (i'm to lazy to try it out as TF2 sucks my life away.)

I've played DOTA 2, it's pretty fun. Which profile?

Steam profile.

www.vgperson.com

Might be a bit girly tho. All pixel RPG maker games.

Oh! But Search For Immortality is a good 2-hour RPG!

Avernum on sale at GOG.com.

 

http://www.gog.com/promo/weekend_promo_spring_breakers_200315?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=game_subject&utm_campaign=springbreakers

Icewind Dale 2 sucks. I remember it now.

The odd thing about IWD2 is I shouldn't really care about the story as much since at its core the game a dungeon crawler so it's primarily about chopping things up rather than anything else, but it was the story that dragged it down for me. The way they clumsily shoehorned minor characters from the first game or references to them was just unnecessary and in some cases dumb and nonsensical to begin with.

Didn't help that some of locations were retreads from the first.

To anyone who likes RPG's even a little bit, I can't recommend Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen any more positively. It's easily one of the best RPG's I've ever played.

The plot, is for the most, overall generic fantasy fare, but the ending completely 180's the entire game's plot, and I don't think any anticipated it at all. But the best thing it offers is the combat, and it's goddamn fantastic. The standard human size mooks you'll be fighting aren't anything special.

The real enjoyment (and excitement) comes when you're facing huge monsters, like ogres and griffons. You can grab on to any part of their body, and crawl around, and strike them. And off course, they'll do their best to knock you off. It's easily one of the funniest RPG's I've ever played.

It is an impressive game, so I second that recommendation.

*Groin shots all day.

Unturned. Blockish zombie shooter v3 has came out recently. I think. Still, great game, somewhat creepy.

Dig or Die. Sandbox like Minecraft, but centered around murderous nighttime attacks by bugs and base building.

If you're fine with a game that doesn't take itself too seriously, Borderlands 2 is a goddamn riot.

Yeah, haha, one of the only games I thoroughly enjoyed. Got Tales from the Borderlands, which also got great reviews, but couldn't get into it.

Gonna check out Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishment, and the Vanishing of Ethan Carter...

Pillars of Eternity comes out Thursday, but I'll be slaving for the man until Saturday or so.

Is it the Sherlock Holmes game that has Watson teleport to you rather than follow you?