Recs

Rec'd games

2D:
Valdis Story: $5.24
Short, replayable metroidvania with 4 playable characters, fun customization, a basic but enjoyable combat system and a really bad story that feels like the filler arc in a bad anime until the last like 20 minutes.
Suffers from 2/4 chars being very lazily made, missables and limited items used for crafting which give 0 indication they are missable. If you're looking for something that's got good combat and a nice amount of content for a decent price and don't mind looking up the missables, its an easy buy. If you hate looking up shit pass on it. The missables are very important. 2 entire towns full of NPC's can permanently die because the devs are assholes.

Aztez: $4.99
A spectacle fighter. Its not very hard. I got the true perfect ending in a single day without following a guide. Its not very well balanced; you can infinitely combo via switching weps out of enemy reach and sometimes enemies will pimp slap you around until you die because it has no ukemi mechanic and some of them take literally 60% of your HP in one hit. But it IS very fun. The combat just looks and feels very good. It has good weight to the blows, a very good variety in attacks (as each wep plays completely differently; you even get to grapple people and headshot them with a mustket point blank), mostly fair enemies to fight, a lot of blood and a lot (a bit too much) freedom in how to kill them.
Outside of the fights its got a little playing board thing where you take over the land and cut down infidels and what have you. Kinda fun.

The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile: $4.99
Same price as above and honestly not as good, but still worth playing if you are really desperate for fast-paced combat. You can play as an ugly dude or my wife who have unique weps and go through the same stages to fight enemies that range from fodder to fuck off you cheap cunt. Play as my wife as she is cute and has an omni-directional teleporting dash regardless of wep. The guy has dodges change per wep and it sucks. Combat itself kind of wants to be DMC but didn't really get what made DMC good so you get offscreen enemies throwing grenades you can't react to sometimes. Mostly its fun though. Bosses are overly easy, at least as my wife, as she has the Buster Sword and it has a near instant charge attack that 1 shots every non-boss in the game and 3-5 hits bosses.
You get this for mindless carnage, not anything resembling balance. And the stupid crazy story since your character is actually insane.

Salt and Sanc: $8.99
Made by the same dudes as above. Somehow uglier. And greatswords are still busted. Otherwise, a much better game, with less unfair enemies, more enjoyable growth, bosses that don't just instantly die at you the moment you touch them and a good amount of secrets to find. Plays like Dark Souls. But with no pvp. So slap on a greatshield and watch as nothing can so much as touch you for most of the game.


Chronicon: $9.99
A diablo clone that's actually kind of good. 4 classes. 5 acts. A LOT of enemies. By far the most on screen of any diablo like game I've played. Because of this, its very bias to anything that shits out AoE damage. Fun simple combat with a dozen abilities being useable at once where you wade through as many enemies as you can as fast as you can to rack up a combo and maybe get better loot. Pretty good loot, too. Lots of exclusive bonuses and sets.
Suffers a bit in the balance department as the potions have a cooldown for some stupid reason so the warlock (who has instant appear at the enemy aoe attacks and heals hp and mana on every single kill) just vastly outperforms all other classes without trying. This isn't an issue solo; they're all strong enough to succeed on the highest mode. But its noticeable if you ever play it coop. The warlock will kill the whole screen with +50% to every single stat with 100% uptime while being 50% max hp at all times. The class is simply rewarded too well for killing compared to anything else.
Recently had a major rework on pets if you are into that but I can't comment on how good they are now.

Rampage Knights: $3.49
Simple 2D brawler with issac style items. Nothing much more to say. Quite easy. Final boss is really dumb. Its not even the same genre as the rest of the game.

Terraria: $4.99
The single best bang for your buck you can buy on steam outside of something like DOOM 2 (which you should already own you pleb). Massive variety of fun, unique weapons, pets, outfits, things to do, people to see, people to sacrifice in hell, etc. Really fun progression via combining accesories. Faster to progress in than all of its many shitty clones because you can just buy mass dynamite to blow up the first like 4 tiers of ore.
Fuck Starbound, it sucks, you never gain any meaningful progression, the shitty mod that 'fixes this' is a meme.



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3D Action:
DMC4 Special: $9.99
Or just DMC4 since Vergil aside the new chars in this are absurdly half-assed and disappointing. On the off chance you haven't played a DMC game, its a game about being stylish as you kill things. Hit stuff to build up a meter, turn into a demon, taunt them, hit them some more. Its better if you just watch a vid. I find this to be the easiest one and the stories really don't actually matter so its a good starting point.
The collection is absurdly overpriced for what amounts to 2 ports of PS2 games people liked and a port of a PS2 game no one liked.


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Fighter:
None, not even the good ones, they are all dead on PC.


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FPS:
Borderlands series: $5.90
Going at a ridic cheap price right now. First one is a really solid shooter with alright RPG mechanics in a cool world. Second is an okay shooter with better RPG mechanics in a joke world. Third one sucks.

Dark Messiah: $2.49
Not as good as v claims, but alright, worth playing. Very fun when fighting orcs or humans who react well to being hit and take a good few hits (at least until you get a good wep and just 1 shot everything with charge attacks). Unfortunately like 60% of the game is fighting the undead and spiders, who do not react to being hit and take too many fucking hits.
If you get this, invest in mana regen. Then you can just fireball spiders/zombies on sight and spam heal. Makes the game much better. Hp regen heals less hp in the same time than mana does via spamming heal.

Killing Floor: $4.99
Fun, fast paced shooter where you hold out with your buds against waves of not-zombies. Very consistent stun mechanics makes combat feel pretty unique and very enjoyable regardless fo class. Very grindy, however.

Killing Floor 2: $9.89
Not even remotely near as good as the first one. Grindier for no real reason as most levels are empty levels. Inconsitent stuns. Broken demo firing basically infinite ammo explosives pretty much ruins half the maps. Healing fucking auto-aims. The skill choices don't add shit since there's always only 1 good skill anyways.
Still pretty good though, just the first game was better in every single way.
TPS:
RE5:
Very fun combat system based around stunning then pile driving stupid people into other stupid people. Unlike 6, where everyone had identical damage and the game never fucking lets you play ever, this one has varied damage types for the cast and is mostly action. Outside of the terrible QTE press X to not die scenes. If you play this solo, give Shiva a sniper. She never misses ever and won't run out of ammo with this gun. Faster ones she will. Her melee sucks cock so its better if she just shoots with a strong gun.


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Misc:
100% OJ $1.74
A BULLYING simulator. You pick your cute anime, go onto a board, roll the dice to land on the right places to get given starts, land where you start to cash in and repeat until you win. Alternatively, you pick STORE MANAGER and BULLY WEEBS
Fun for a bit, worth the price, gets kind of old though

Infested Planet: $2.49
One of those games you play in a small tab while listening to other shit. Bugs are trying to kill your army of infinitely respawning cloned men. Oh noooo. Try to stop them with tactical use of infinitely regenerating missiles and helicopters. Actually pretty hard later on, as while your resources are infinite, they are easily overrun and the bugs mutate to do be pricks, most notably cloning your cloned men so you can have a clone war, a problem when they take snipers since they just 1 shot everyone like yours do.



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Roguelikes:
Golden Krone Hotel: $2.99
Very basic, simple easy roguelike with a gimmick where you are a human on a timer. When it runs out you turn into a vampire. Vampires can't read, cast spells or use guns, but they cut on melee and standing on a bloody tile heals you. Humans are smart and can do all the stuff vamps can't do and regen. But they are pussies who don't hit as hard.
Overall fun for a little bit, inoffensive little game. Too easy.

One Way Heroics: $1.49
Pretty unique spin on the genre. Also one of the best roguelikes on steam since most of them fucking suck (don't @ me with Qud, its a kiting simulator I beat within 2 days of buying). Not too many classes, but they all feel pretty unique. Easy to simply beat, hard to get the true endings, of which there are many. Not the best game for magic fans since magic is pretty at mercy to RNG in this. This one has a foodclock that matters, dunking your regen if you are at 0%, and food sometimes just never comes. Casting magic takes from the food clock.

Tales of Maj'eyal: $3.49/$0
Mostly listed because I see people asking about it. Its fucking free. The only class you get from buying it, possessor, isn't any good on modes you start with (being stronger on the harder modes) so its no good to new players anyways.
As far as the DLC goes: Ashes adds 2 good classes and a decent race, very few zones, but its cheap so its worth it. Embers adds a ton including a new campaign and is the best one. Cults as about as much as Ashes yet costs as much as Embers and is a ripoff.



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Roguelite:
FTL: 2.49
Start on a node, a point on the map, click another. Fight or deal with an event. Try and always gain resources when doing so. Die because you didn't bring any guns v an ai ship. Realize laser dragging weps are broken. Realize stealth mods are broken. Realize the game is poorly balanced. Stil worth it for the price but not as good as people claim.

Streets of Rogue: $9.89
You start off on a floor with a bunch of missions and mostly total freedom in how to do them. Need to get through this stronghold? You could knock on the door, shoot them, cut them, kill them, eat them. Or bribe them. Or smash a window. Or turn into a werewolf and kill half the city because ''it'd be a waste not to''. Or possess them. Or their friend. Kind of hard to explain as its pretty unique in how it feels. Pretty easy unless going for the ''big missions'', character exclusive run wide missions that unlock super powered versions of them.
Only real issue with it is levels being pretty boring as many traits are irrelevant to some chars or just not very fun. They tried to fix this by adding unique mutations themed around your powers but not every class has a power and these mutations only have a small chance of appearing every 3 levels so good luck seeing any ever.

Don't Starve: $2.49/Together: 5.99
Simple, easy little survival games where you spawn in on a lonely planet, pick food, punch rocks, all the usual stuff, but at a faster pace than most games as progression is based on crafting certain, very limited in number, stations. Not punching 200 rocks so you learn how to make a bigger rock to punch. Pretty relaxing. You will die 1 time to some shit you didn't know to be prepared for though, then never again.
Together is mostly the same but now you have a bunch of utterly useless leaches jump into your game, sit on the campfire doing nothing but eating your food, then leaving in winter because they didn't prepare anything. Don't bother with this without friends. I think its  still buy 1 get 1 free.

Risk of Rain: $2.49
Your goal in this game is to see how many items you can stack before it crashes. Good variety in classes, very fun items, mostly fun to fight enemies, fast paced, its just good.
The second one is shit and being updated at a snails pace, with only 1 melee char that's just a ball of I-frames, awful balance, sac shrine rushing meta, not good at all, don't buy


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RPG:

Skyrim: Ripoff
Nevermind, they removed the old version of skyrim with the best mods from steam, don't fall for Tod's lies

Fallout 3: $3.99/9.99 with DLC
Fun game to run around with a shotgun and shoot then eat people in. I can't really comment on the DLC or story I wasn't paying attention. Ugly as fuck.