I've been recently been thinking about Arkane Studio's Prey which is a immersive sim, with a pretty good rogue like dlc, that probably has one of the strongest hooks of any game I've played. If you liked Halflife, System Shock, or Deus Ex it's definitely worth a play.

Are there any titles that might not have been commercially successful that you feel everyone should give a shot?

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[–] Navar4477@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I feel like Outer Wilds was drowned out by Outer Worlds, and the two often get mixed up, usually to Outer Worlds’ favor.

One of my top 10 games.

[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems to me like Outer Wilds outshone Outer Worlds if anything. I never hear anyone talking of Outer Worlds anymore, but Outer Wilds is still brought up as one of the greatest indie games out there.

[–] Navar4477@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

In a way, yeah! But I stand by the fact that a lot of people bought Outer Worlds thinking it was Outer Wilds.

[–] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Outer Worlds is an actual work of art that still manages to play and feel great.

[–] beefcat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

the PC version is pretty fucked in the “feel great” department. the engine itself renders frames at arbitrary framerates just fine, but the animations (including the camera) only update at up to 60 FPS, with no in-game option to cap the frame rate to that animation rate. vsync doesn’t work properly with high refresh rates, and external framerate limiters aren’t able to get a good match. it’s borderline impossible to get this game to feel smooth with proper frame pacing, even with a vrr display.

best i could get was to use external tools to force the game to set my monitor to 60 hz, then turn on vsync in game, but this added a ton of input lag

[–] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Ah that's too bad to hear, it felt just right on PS4

[–] tuna_casserole@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Mannnn. Outer Wilds is so freaking good. I had put it off for a while, but then last year I decided to go through it. It managed to be the perfect game at the perfect time. Raw intrigue and fascination turned into somehow helping me cope with the loss of my sister and dad who I had lost very recently at the time.

[–] FireTower@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really unfortunate they both came out around the same time. Although I think the actual target markets were different.

[–] Navar4477@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, completely different markets. My friend bought the wrong one and for months he wouldn’t try outer wilds because it “wasn’t his sort of game” when it totally was.

[–] Frogster8@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Best game ever made, really is. First I'd played in years that felt like a fresh new experience.

[–] Navar4477@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

It really did

[–] Kyoyeou 2 points 1 year ago

I've never heard about Outer Wolrd, however, have been recommended Outer Wilds and it was supposed to be my summer game (but I forgot)