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    Can anyone recommend a good multiplayer shooter with a high player population? (Either 2D or VR is fine.) Or any non-MMO, non-role-playing PvP game that is mostly online and has populated servers? Something my 37-year-old ass can just jump into and play a quick match without having to dedicate my life to it?

    Getting sick of all the PUBGs, Counter-Strikes, Call of Duties, and Overwatches/Marvel Rivalses. My best gaming memories were during the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 days. I never had more fun in a shooter than when I was playing Rush. But unfortunately EA never managed to recapture that same magic in the sequels. After the 2042 flop I quit Battlefield for good.

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      BattleBit Remastered is legitimately the tightest battlefield-like fps i’ve ever played, better than name-brand battlefield even. it fills the exact same niche for me.

      i play with mic off and still manage serviceable communication with a squad of randies pretty much every game. there’s relatively frequent balance updates, so the meta isn’t focused on any one single playstyle. it’s exactly what i imagine an fps made by fps-junkies to look like.

      Also playing support actually feels rewarding, and i think that’s proper rare in multiplayer games.

      e: fuck hahah just kidding apparently it was abandoned by the devs. last update 15 months ago, rip to my favorite fps :c

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          this is the worst way to find out my favorite game had a scummy dev the whole time lmao

          there’s reviews from February that say you can still find populated servers, but that might be region dependant and you almost certainly won’t have a choice for gamemode.

          guess we’re both just waiting for the next next good battlefield game 🙃

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    Age of Wonders 4 has been a surprise and a delight. I was actually so impressed with it I ended up buying my best friend a copy yesterday.

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    I’m making myself finish Fell Seal before I start it, but I picked up Triangle Strategy at what gg.deals says is the record low price. As an FFT fanboy, it looks great (and so is Fell Seal for that matter).

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    I’m enjoying Railway Empire. It’s on for 75% off the base game and pretty good deal for the entire DLC & Japan collections.

    If you love time-wasters with some challenges, then I’d recommend it.

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    Lingo ($6.99/$9.99) is an incredible exploration and word puzzle game. It also has a few excellent custom maps such as Duolingo and Liduongo.

    A sequel (Lingo 2 $9.99) just released and is also excellent. It changes how puzzle rules are presented, making them playable in either order. It’s a more polished experience though, so playing the first game after would probably feel like a step backward.

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    my reccomendation? whatever’s on gog

    in all seriousness, you can’t go very wrong with games made by valve, portal especially.

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      Idk why you got downvoted. Borderlands 3 for $6 is a pretty good deal. And $16 for the complete edition isn’t bad either. I already own the full collection on steam so I can’t see the price of that, but when I bought it during the last sale I wanna say I spent like maybe $50 on the entire Borderlands series.

      There really is a “Lemmy hive mind” starting to form, just like reddit.

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        Because Borderlands is boring and repetitive, especially if you don’t have a friend group to play with.

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        I don’t think there were downvotes, just me myself removing 1 upvote (as I am a shy person). I bought it at full price myself, and have no regrets.

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    I got myself and can recommend:
    Returnal (29.99€) (Rogue-like shooter),
    Wisper (6.99€) (Open world exploration) and Crossroads OS (3.74€) (Puzzle game).
    I can further recommend:

    Studio System (8.84€) (Horror),
    With My Past (6.59€) (Puzzle),
    Signalis (13.99€) (Horror).

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    I just bought Suicide Squad (I know, I know, but it was on sale and I want to experience it at least a little); Pine; and Sniper Elite 2R, 3 and 4.

    I’m very excited to get into the Sniper Elite games. I played 5 back when I had Game Pass, but never finished. I figured the others might be just as good.

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    Caves of Qud has a small discount. I’ve been playing it a lot lately on the Steam Deck.

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    Talos Principle is $5

    Talos Principle 2 is $15

    Highly recommend both games!

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      Both combined is $15.58. That doesn’t include the excellent expansions for either game though.

      They are the only portal-likes (chamber-based player movement puzzlers) that I’d place on the same level as the Portal games.

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        Imo they’re better. Portal was more groundbreaking because of when the first one came out, what valve was doing at the time, because everybody played it, and because of its connection with other games at the time.

        But now, it’s just a very good game that (re)introduced portals as a concept into pop culture and repopulatized and proved that AAA puzzle games were possible.

        Talos, on the other hand, is a philosophical indie sleeper, and more of a social experiment. I don’t like comparing it to portal, because most people see portal as an insurmountable peak with an impenetrable meme forcefield. And yeah, portal is great. But the Talos games are something very different and stands all on its own.