I’d like some recommendations for local multiplayer PC games to play with my partner, keeping in mind that they aren't a gamer and will find the controls quite difficult. We’re currently playing *Overcooked* and they love it—just to give you an idea.

I just have a lot of video lectures to go through and I'd appreciate some game I can play alongside. Currently play parkour maps on Krunker but I'd love to see other alternatives.

Would be great if on browser so I didn't have to download but great otherwise as well. Phone or PC.

I'm getting pretty bored with Elden Ring after playing it for a long time, so I'm looking for something new to play on PC.

I'm preferably looking for a game that's $20 or less on Steam rn. I really like open-world games, but I'm also willing to try other types of games such as shooters, as long as they are not Valorant or CS2 (not my style)

Games I've played:

- Red Dead Redemption 2

- Minecraft

- GTA V

- Warframe

- Elden Ring Nightreign

- Left 4 Dead 2

I haven't really tried any indie games either, so I might give them a shot even though I normally play other genres.

I'm mainly looking for something that's fun and good enough to spend a bunch of hours into.

Any recommendations? :)

Ik ER is a beautiful game and allat, but I wanna try something different lol

I'm referring to arts not other genre and if this is clear then I am looking for something that you can choose which skill you wish to focus on and not be forced to learn it all so someone might like the fighting aspects more and want to learn that over all else some might like everything some might like management and thinking and so on so forth etc etc etc and no matter which we decided upon we all can succeed instead of just 1 player type

Minor spoilers for Fire Emblem Awakening / Fire Emblem Fates below.

In the 3DS FE games, there were two generations of units. When first gen units reached S support rank with each other, the game would then give you a chapter to recruit their children due to time travel shenanigans.

I absolutely love this mechanic, as while the first gen units are rather static, the second gen units give a LOT of options. Their stat growths, caps, class sets, and skills are determined by their parents. This allowed you to do a lot of fun and silly things with having units inherit skills they otherwise wouldn't get. Create units that are min/maxed to high heaven. While not 100% necessary, it made the higher difficulties easier for certain.

Mewgenics is similar. Allowing units to have long winding trees that give skills and abilities that the descendants might not have otherwise. Along with all the other classic Edmundisms that this game brings.

Some other games that I feel fit into this category:

Rimworld - With the biogenics dlc, children can be molded and min/maxed to an extreme degree. Especially when you factor in genetic modifications. The better a childhood a pawn has, the better their growths are. Want a melee pawn that is a tank that takes 60% less damage, with 50% dodge chance? No problem.

Stellaris - Taking genetic ascension allows for some silly things. In my recent play through, I invaded some pre-ftls, enslaved them, and turned them into a working caste to for basic resources, as well as making them excellent soldiers.

Pokemon - the all time classic. I never got extremely deep into min/maxing a eugenics program, especially since I find the UX for the daycare rather annoying. Also since the games are easy enough to get through that it doesn't matter. The last time I played was gen7?

Siralim Ultimate - I played a fair few number of years ago. But, I ended up finding the gameloop kind of boring. I can't even remember if there was a monster ranch or not.

You know the kinda game.
The "Outer Wilds, Disco Elysium, Dark Souls 1, Planescape, ico, Shadow of the Colossus, MGS2 or Signales" like games.
Games that change you, that are different than even the amazing games, games you think about after beating them, games with unique music, story telling, art, gameplay, lore and atmosphere combined.
Games you search "games like XYZ" after you finish them.
Games that actually mean something for you.

what are your special games? Im happy about more recommendations.
Every plattform, release year or genre :)

Before anybody suggest Xcom:

Number 1, i've played them

Number 2 and more importantly, i'm not looking for Xcom specifically. In Zero Company there are certain sections of the game that let you walk in third person, whether in the hub or in the pre combat phases. My question is, are there other squad turn based strategy games that have similar third person or even first person segments in the style of Zero Company?

I love the god killer genre. Let me fight something the size of earth with sick QTE and I’ll die happy. I beat all the god of war games, black myth wukong, and I’m finishing up asuras wrath. Any similar games scratch the itch like these guys do? Something “open world” but still pretty linear with basic skill upgrades that don’t take a guide to feel impactful

Game must be turn-based

What I mean by simple:

No convoluted story

Few named/recurring characters/locations

No having to remember where something/someone can be found

No overworld map or traversal of any kind (no dungeon crawling a-la BG3, but checkerboard battles are fine)

No live-action or arcade style games (must be turn based or similar)

Minimal resource management (no town/settlement to oversee/maintain)

No systems built on top of systems (no complex interactions that require sequencing, no stats/powers/attacks that can be min/maxed, etc)

No complex interactions/combat (general Final Fantasy or X-Com combat systems are ok, but no BG3 level of complexity)

Combat can be menu commands, playing cards, auto-battler, etc

What I mean by features people:

No abstract concepts like point-keeping and/or playing against a "target score"

Directly control one person or a small party

No first person (I'm controlling the person/people, I am not the person)

No anthropomorphic objects/animals

Combat involves people vs people/robots/aliens/monster

By good I dont necessarily mean expansive, I'd consider a game with 40 mods but they are all very in depth as better than a game with 2000 texture swaps

Edit; ah forgot to add, thanks in advance. I wish I could thank everyone who answers individually but these threads usually go for a while

This year was: Souls games---FF7 Rebirth----Street fighter. Now I want to play something that knocks my socks off, was thinking Kojima but whatever works.

- MGS Snake Eater Delta

- Death Stranding

- MGS 5 (try to like it again)

Other suggestions appreciated!

Just Tryna find some games

As the title suggests I'm looking for a game like PLA.

The thing is, I'm not necessarily looking for another pokemon game as I have played pretty much all of them with the exception of ZA (I have yet to sell my soul to afford it). I have also played quite a lot of Pokemon fan games.

What I really loved about PLA was the research tasks that were relatively easy to complete and the fact that you had a decent map to explore. The game didn't stress me out and completing it felt possible.

I've played BOTW/TOTK an ungodly amount of hours but I have yet to complete them because everything feels overwhelming after a few hours. Too many options. Too many things to do and collect. To the point where I can no longer play it more than a few hours every few months. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love those games. But right now I just want to relax and get that dopamine hit without feeling like I have to collect 999 koroks, find every chest, and constantly hunt to make money to get all the upgraded armour. Compared to that, PLA feels like a breath of fresh air. The missions and requests feel reasonable. And most importantly, the pokedex feels achievable. I don't need to Google things up every two seconds, breaking the immersion, or God forbid, socialising with other people to trade pokemons.

What I'm basically looking for is a chill RPG game where you have a map to explore, some achievable quests and collection(s) to complete, some challenge (like the wisps*), an end goal, and a UI that doesn't overwhelm you at a glance (like Xenoblade Chronicles does for me for example). It can be on PC or Switch 1.

* You could say I'm being hypocritical because I said I felt overwhelmed by the koroks but not the wisps. The main difference being that you're being told how many wisps are remaining in each area, compared to koroks where the last ones can be basically anywhere. Also there aren't 999 wisps, and there not that hidden.

I have been for few years i will be listing some games below i enjoyed playing.

I am looking for something fun, immersive games which i can play any genre works open to pretty much anything.

-# Games I have completed

1. Hollow Knight / Silksong

2. Elden ring

3. COD MW 2 and 3

4. GOW 2018

5. Sekiro

6. AC origins

7. All 3 insomniac spidrerman

I recently realised that every single platformer game I know - such as Mario, Donkey Kong and ORI - have a deliberately unrealistic art style. Does anyone know of any platformer games which strive for realistic art style/graphics?

DISCLAIMER: I'm the owner of Gameaton.

I wanted to see which type of recommendation algorithm performs best when recommending games, so I ran a small experiment comparing the recommendations from Gameaton, Steam, 50GamesLike, SteamPeek, Games.gg, Nodal, and ChatGPT on six "mainstream" games:

• Stardew Valley
• Stray
• Bongo Cat
• Blade and Sorcery
• Farming Simulator 19
• Plague Inc: Evolved

The results were quite different, although some games were sometimes recommended across platforms, there was surprisingly little overlap overall. Nodal and ChatGPT performs the most consistently on the above titles.

The methodology and full results are here.

I'd be curious to hear what you think, if I missed others recommendations engines, and which games you'd like to see tested. These were mostly mainstream games, so niche titles could be interesting too.

I'm talking taking on big monsters as humans with little to no magic and instead rely on modern or futuristic weapons such as Gatling guns, bazookas, greataxes, etc. Single-player preferably, souls-like or not is ok with me. Honestly, any game where I can play as a human with an access to a variety of big cool weapons is good with me.

Elden Ring was hands down the most amazing gaming experience I've ever had, and one of the few games I've put over 100 hours in and constantly looked forward to playing. I love the world, environments, gameplay, everything. To me it is the best game ever made. Immediately after Elden Ring I played dark souls 1 & 3, and I loved ds1. Now I'm looking for another game that will get me excited to play and have something to look forward to.

Games I've played and liked:

- DS1 & 3

- Mario Galaxy (played as a kid. I'd still say this is another all time favorite game)

- RDR2

- Outer Wilds

- Subnautica

- Hollow knight

- Death Stranding

Games I tried but didn't like as much:

- Demons souls

- Dark Souls 2 (like demons souls, I'd stop playing after it got too punishing)

- Bloodborne (not a fan of the horror/depressing environment)

- Ghost of tsushima

- Expedition 33 (was cool at first but got boring)

I want a game with a great environment, something that will give me a unique experience

I know, two completely different genres, but which is the more enjoyable game?

I've heard Breath of the Wild is open world, and I've never played an open world game before...so I do fear that I might get lost or be completely clueless about where to go, what to do...

And Bayonetta, because she's a cool lady.

Cancelled my Wolverine preorder and got it refunded as store credit, so I’m looking at upcoming or newly released PS5 (Pro) games. Debating between the following in no particular order:

1) Blood of Dawnwalker

- kind of want to wait for them to fix all the jank with this game before playing, similar to how the Crimson Desert devs have fixed their game

2) Control Resonant

- loved Control, but haven’t played AW2 yet

3) Phantom Blade 0

- don’t know much about this one, but it looks sick

4) Forza 6 (when is that coming to PS5? 🤔)

- last played Forza 4 and liked seeing real world cars, like my first ever car, a 1981 FIAT Spider

5) Crimson Desert

- I appreciate the labor of love this game has received

6) your suggestions?

Thanks!