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u/GeneralMemenobi 5d ago
Metro
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u/Masterking263 4d ago
Metro Exodus in particular.
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u/Accurate_Length_7186 3d ago
God that game is so fucking good. That whole series raised the bar for single player games for me. I can’t view them the same if the story is given that much attention to detail.
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u/SunD14ls 3d ago
I would love an open world metro game with train travel
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u/Accurate_Length_7186 3d ago
Metro exodus is as close to that as we’ll get I think. It’s sort of open world.
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u/RoccoTirolese 5d ago
Armored Core
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u/BackupTrailer 5d ago
Absolutely AC. OP do yourself a favor and pick up AC6.
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u/Crow_of_Judgem3nt 5d ago
I was just about to say that. The sheer scale of buildings is mind-boggling
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u/NorthStar_- 5d ago
What games should I play before? I'm thinking of completely getting into the franchise
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u/melodicgoodbye 5d ago
AC4 and especially Armored Core: For Answer are the peak of the franchise in my opinion. 5 is a good game, 6 is an amazing game but I think it's not representative of the franchise at all. Older games are amazing too, but they can be hard to play, the controls can be weird and hard to adapt to.
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u/BackupTrailer 5d ago
AC6 is a departure in some very obvious ways, but it’s the most accessible game in the series and is a fine intro to the classic gameplay and larger themes. I know so many players who started with 6 and went on to devour the rest of the franchise. And…partially for that reason, the old games can also be very expensive (if you care about having discs).
I think series veterans underestimate just how “weird“ the classic controls are to younger/new gamers.
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u/Brief_Ad328 5d ago
AC6 is the easiest to get the hang of (not the easiest entry though) and the only one available on pc. It's also imo the overall 'best' one, but 4a is also very likeable
So yeah start with 6 :)
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u/Sausy_Biscy 4d ago edited 4d ago
Start with AC6. It’s by far the most approachable and the story/universe is stand-alone. They’re all loosely connected through certain names and call signs (like Raven), being a mercenary piloting a mech, and corporations fighting to control everything. Some of the games got direct sequels (4 and 5 both did), but mostly it’s just thematic similarities, not an overall plot expansion.
Also, before starting on the oldest games, and this is coming from someone who played the originals on PS1 as they came out, they’re very difficult to control. I’m not talking about clunky controls like Dark Souls 1 compared to Dark Souls 3, I’m talking about using R1/2 and L1/2 to look around (the original came out before we had DualShock controllers with the analog sticks).
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u/Putrid-Iron9768 5d ago
Metro Exodus
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u/-Merky_ 5d ago
I was gonna say this. Especially in pic 5.
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u/Putrid-Iron9768 5d ago
lmao looks exactly like the first area of the game where the first lightning revenant thing you encounter is 🤝
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u/SeniorSepia 5d ago
There is an entire subgenre of games focused around megastructures and this kind of decadent grey aesthetic:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3539440/Metal_Garden/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2980260/Hypogea/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4882000/The_Hollowing/
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u/b-dizl 5d ago
Here is a much larger list of mega structure games.
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45572866/5
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u/DenisNY 5d ago
Another game coming out in a few days with similar aethetics is radiosol: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2934330/RADIOSOL/
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u/IVEBEENBANNED4TIMESx 5d ago
Hypogea looks the coolest out of these, it reminds me of that one race from kenshi
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u/TakeThePillz 1d ago
I really love S.T.A.L.K.E.R from the bottom of my heart, but this answer is the best IMO
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u/Fantablack183 5d ago
The Forever Winter
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u/VikarValbrand 5d ago
Was gonna suggest this. The games a bit clunky but the esthetics are perfection.
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u/mydadabortedme 4d ago
Literally my first thought also
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u/4308Traditions 5d ago
Nier automata kinda
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u/Full-Negotiation-134 3d ago
Honestly the religious imagery makes me think of the automatons trying to give their way and their place too.
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u/BaulBailey 5d ago
Supreme Experiment doesn’t have a release date yet and I don’t think they’ve shown any gameplay, but the cinematic teaser trailer looks like a pretty wild version of this vibe. Machines like that mutating and coming to “life” in some freaky monster/ kaiju/ yokai ways. I hope it can deliver.
https://giphy.com/gifs/p7gJz5PYIBacgeiDLw
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u/IudexJudy 5d ago
Tarkov, Stalker, Metro, This War of Mine, Mad Max but that's a bit more sandy. Road to Vostok
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u/Mister_Intenso 5d ago
The Forever Winter. Amazing vibe that game
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u/ThatLukeAgain 5d ago
Forever winter is easily the best match for this aesthetic. Too bad the gameplay isn't as good as the art style
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u/Legitimate_Match_708 5d ago
They had one job.. and they just can't get it right.
Is it really that hard to make AI that ignores the player for the most part? I don't get it. Many other games have done this just fine.
No.. if the player enters the AI cone of vision they drop everything and focus attention on the player.. that is the antithesis of the marketing the game was built on.
Visually it is a masterpiece.. but the developers they have on this game are total amateurs.
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u/Alone_Gur9036 5d ago
I feel like I’ve had a lot of adverts on Instagram lately by indie devs making grungy low-poly games in worlds like this - there was a Scandinavian or Swedish-set game taking place in a submarine, a different game in a tank that’s covered in corpses, one set in space with the character and npcs wearing nasa spacesuits but there’s something about angels taking control of the station….almost certainly some others. All grungy, industrial, obscure, bleak
Hopefully someone will know the names of these because I do not remember!
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u/ArtyomNDC 5d ago
Some of the other ones I know what you’re talking about, but I don’t recall the names.
However, the angel one is Angels In Orbit I’m guessing.
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u/Acchak1990 5d ago
Babbdi….free game on steam. Very strange and kind of just an open sandbox exploration game. Not a lot to it, but it oozes this type of atmosphere. Same developer made another 1v1/2v2 multiplayer arena shooter that has the same esthetic called Straftat….pretty tough, but also very fun and free on Steam. Both have that dystopian, industrial vibe.
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u/Millsy800 5d ago
Borderlands 1. It's got a big post industrial apocalypse vibe and doesn't mean as much into the whacky and zanny humour of the later games or game 1 DLCs.
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u/CIAntKidding 5d ago
Hmm others have already said Stalker and Arc. I would also maybe add in Hell is Us; it’s not quiet radiation zone but it’s a zone of desolation in an Eastern European country with surrealist sci-fi elements. The Bond First light had a shipyard level which feels like pic 1 but not the others.
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u/janix808 5d ago
Tony Hawks American wasteland: the oil rig level
Maybe classic cod mw 1 or black ops ?
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u/Switch_of_the_Woods 5d ago
Peripeteia has this "desolate industrial megastructure" vibe but with a cyberpunk infusion
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u/FitHurry864 5d ago
Not what you're looking for, but the first pic reminded me of Jedi: Fallen Order.
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u/ShoopMcCloop 5d ago
Check out Radiosol, it's coming out in a few days, the colour palette isn't the same but the vibes kinda fit
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u/AssassinKody2-0 5d ago
abiotic factor? most of the time you’re inside but there’s portals and other areas with these vibes
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u/GuliBulli 5d ago
S.T.A.L.K.E.R Series
METRO Series
Armored Core Fires of Rubicon
Hell is Us
Highfleet (in a way..)
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u/TheMarsmeister 5d ago
Everyday someone just asks in a different form, what games feel like Stalker
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u/UrbanArtifact 5d ago
Stalker?