Ew, not like Fortnite, I mean like indie launchers
The Croc remake is Gog exclusive (and on console) and I love it! It’s the first single player PC game that I’ve 100%'ed!
Armadiilo Run https://www.armadillorun.com/
Oh man I sunk countless hours into this like… 20 years ago. Amazing game.
Edit: I just found my old registration code from Oct. 2006 and it still worked to download the game. The game still runs great!
Wow what a flashback to my teenage years!
Voices of the Void
Absolute peak game that doesn’t really have any contemporaries.
A game with base management, fully open map, random events ranging from spooky to hilarious, minigames to fix equipment, little robot helpers, big robot helpers that require some assembly, but don’t need charging thanks to running on nuclear power, and a quadbike you can backflip.
And the Christmas gun.
I recently logged back into my telltale account on a whim and was surprised to find that I owned “Back to the Future: The Game”. Even though I’m certain I never bought it. It’s not listed on Steam or GOG, but I think you can find it as abandonware somewhere.
Have only played a bit so far, but it looks pretty good. It’s a typical point-and-click, not a “X will remember this” story game.
It was a decent 4th installment. Still have it on steam, but not tried it on modern machines.
Dunno if anyone already said it, but Devotion is always a favorite of mine to share. Beautifully well done story for anyone into horror games.
Had to buy it there too, still pissed about it getting dropped from absolutely everywhere. Glad the studio is doing OK (at least I believe Nine Sols sold quite well)
If you are brave enough there is big list of open source clone games.
Most of them are not on any play store.
This is gold
SRB2K, or Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart, is a mod of SRB2, itself a doom mod, that is an absolute love letter to the classic days of Mario Kart (I’m thinking super mario kart or 64). Full of small QoL changes, and with a forum full of mods for any character you can think of, it’s an easy pitch if you’ve ever wanted to play a kart styled game thats better than the original, with online play
Worth noting the devs have since released a sequel, Robotniks Ring Racers, but it does it’s own thing in a way that does less for me personally in terms of nostalgia, and is also generally more complicated, and thus harder to pull random friends into. That’s not to say it’s worse or bad, it’s just got very different appeal
OSU. There’s a open source client don’t know anymore which ones good.
Lazer client works native on Linux, and is perfectly suitable to play with. Lower audio latency on both Windows (WASAPI) and Linux (runs native and not via Wine) is a pretty solid reason why most people prefer it, but the interface isn’t as skinnable as Stable is currently and slider head accuracy is confusing for some old players, but other than that there isn’t any reason not to use Lazer.
If i recall lazer also doesn’t let you “cheat” with spinners or some such and thus points are on avg lower compared to what people are use to.
CLICK THE CIRCLES
Japanese visual novels that never get translated are a big one. A huge chunk of them live on novelgame, DLSite, and DMM. In fact, there are some full fledged Japanese games that are DLSite exclusive. I’ve tried a few, and some can be quite good.
The Star Trek games on GOG (like Elite Force I and II, and Armada) are worth your attention.
Full Metal Daemon Muramasa is also typically bought on JAST.
There are also a bunch of gacha games that never released on Steam, though the bigger ones are working to change that.
Battle for Wesnoth, very good high fantasy strategy game. Lots of player created campaigns, and tons of mods
Edit: looking at their website, it is available through steam, but it is also available in a variety of other places.
Love this game! It still holds up pretty well
Yeah, it’s available on Steam (for free) but I think it still fits this thread nicely.
It’s impressive that they’re still actively developing it after 20 years. For anyone else like me who used to play Wesnoth a lot but hasn’t touched it in a couple of years, I just noticed that they have added a new mainline campaign fairly recently.
I love that it continues to be worked on too. I remember playing it well over a decade ago.
Vintage Story, a Minecraft-like game that focuses on a tough, realistic survival experience. There are climate zones and seasons. Things like smelting ores or growing food are much more involved than they are in Minecraft, which makes for a strong sense of progression when you’ve finally managed to make iron or build a windmill.
I will add that it’s Minecraft-like only graphically. Anyone going into Vintage Story expecting their Minecraft knowledge to carry over is going to have a very bad time because the actual overlap is minimal.
Really, its hard to under state how calling VS “minecraft like” is utter bullshit nonsense. Its like calling borderlands and tarkov the like each other. Its so insanely superficial that its absurd.
I mean both games are blocky, voxel based survival sandbox games where you’re dropped into a world and have to build a base and collect resources for better gear and hide from the monsters that come out at night.
It is very much similar to Minecraft in scope and gameplay loop. It’s just far, far more complex.
It’s more like comparing Tarkov and Arc Raiders.
Hytale too, completely different direction than VS but another fun minecraft-ish game
I second vintage story, such a cool game
Starsector, perhaps the greatest 2D space game of all time.
I’m genuinely curious about this game but the dev blog goes back to 2010? Is this another star citizen or is it actually a full / good game?
It’s perpetually in progress but what’s there is already pretty much a complete game, dev just can’t stop adding/revamping things. I’ve played it like 5 years ago, spent 50+ hours and had a great time. There’s also an active modding community.
There is a lot of game there. It is like Mount & blade in space so don’t except a story or something like that. You make your own. Totally worth the money.
There is quite a lot of game and there is a solid modding scene as well. It is worth the money.
This actually looks really good! I’ll have to ask the missus for an advance on my pocket money 😀
I’ve probably played a few hundred hours of SuperTuxKart. It’s a mario kart clone except i like it way better than the mario karts I’ve played.
Mindustry is fun, it’s like a space factory builder thing.
I was going to say the powder toy but it turns out its on steam now
So is Mindustry. And it costs $10 on there for some reason…
Most of the time the steam version acts as the “donation button” for many small indie and f2p open source games. It exists for no other reason then to cost money so you CAN buy the dev a beer if you want. Steam is easier, more likely to get people to actually donate, supports more countries, has less restrictions, has less taxes and fees in many cases even with steams cut.
Like its amazingly hard to actually monitize something globally in a reasonable, fair and efficent way. Fucking half the time you spend more money even attempting to do it then it would cost to just let steam handle it. As much as people bitch, moan, cry and whine about various store fronts taking a huge cut it SERIOUSLY is a fucking life saver and EXTREMELY fucking worth it in almost every case ever with basically zero expections.
Sure it would be nice to have it be smaller. But like FUCK man. Iv tried to do it my self. IT SUCKS. I would gladdly pay someone half the fucking profits to deal with all the bullshit for me if i wasnt trying to sell a product to make a living on in. Even then… i would be damn well fucking tempted.
It’s a way for the devs to get some revenue. Doesn’t mean that you have to buy it. Same with Shattered Pixel Dungeon. Super Tux is also on Steam but not paid.
And yet I’ve already found multiple reviews stating that they bought it on Steam before knowing the game was free elsewhere. So it seems to me that by not mentioning anywhere on the Steam page that this is a donation to the dev, that’s a little shady.
I bought it on steam and it was worth the money for the game. If I was willing to pay what I did for it then I don’t have any issues with the costs elsewhere. There is also the convenience of it auto updating.
Steam’s terms of service mean devs/publishers can’t promote a game as being free elsewhere. It’s likely directed at preventing redirecting people to Epic or a sale at another store, but also by effect includes games like this. Either they put it for free on Steam or they sell it on Steam and can’t mention free downloads from their website, and it’s up to users to “shop around”.
I get what you’re saying, but I think if spending $10 on a game is something that would give someone pause, then the onus really is on them to search around first to see what the best deal is? People act like steam is a monopoly, but there is a lot of choice out there.
If you have it on steam then you can use the workshop for schematics and maps too
You can also get those from either the ingame mod downloader or from the mod “mindustry tool”
It’s worth giving the guy ten bucks imo.
Oh what, that’s very weird
Starsector is one of my favorites from the last decade.
