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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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[–] 0XiDE@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

The Way is a fantastic adventure with a surprisingly rich story. Totally flew under the radar and exceeded every expectation I had for it.

[–] N0body@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Everyone talking about Starfield reminded me to go back and play Outer Worlds again. I had forgotten how good that game was.

[–] Defaced@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I love the outer worlds, it has such a unique style to it, very much fallout humor in space with a little bit of arcanum thrown in for good measure. IMHO outer worlds > Starfield, when I saw that neon was just one long hallway with a few neon lights and signs, I knew what I was getting into and just stopped playing. Starfield has no identity, it's bland, space combat is annoying at best, and it's just an unoptimized mess. Outer worlds is unique, and when I see it I know exactly what it is, I can't say the same for Starfield.

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[–] yuunikki@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Project x Zone 1 and 2

Probably my favorite crossovers in video games besides smash ultimate

[–] Rainman@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Marvel's Midnight Suns. It wasn't a huge flop, but not successful enough to get a sequel, which makes me very sad. I think it failed because it had a useless ingame shop, which made the game look like another cashgrab, when in reality those who bought the Legendary Edition have every skin included. Legendary edition has often been on sale for 50€ and that's definitely worth it. I enjoyed the game a lot and both the base game and DLC offer great characters that are both fun to talk and to play with.

[–] daisyKutter@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Vintage story

[–] zecg@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Fly'n, it's a brilliant platformer from like ten years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UECUVRWpFM

[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Fuga: Melodies of Steel. A pretty interesting JRPG+resource management game about animal kids in a giant tank from a lost civilization, fighting in a war to save their families.

CyberConnect2 has been making games for this setting since the PS1, though the previous games were more of 3D puzzle actiion games. But these games never sell as much as they deserve, Their commitment is amazing to keep trying anyway.

[–] OrderedChaos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Avent rising. They should have had a sequel but I know it would have likely just gotten botched and I would have hated playing it.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

They were supposed to have a whole series IIRC, but the contract got cancelled because the initial offering didn't sell very well. It didn't help that the marketing didn't really know how they wanted to talk about the game.

[–] dirtySourdough@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Figment. I'm not sure how much attention this one got, but I hadn't heard about it until I was searching the Nintendo store for deals. It's a short puzzle/action game with a good story that felt compelling.

[–] Gnugit@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

The Dream Machine.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A Robot Named Fight! https://www.arobotnamedfight.com/

"A Robot Named Fight is a Metroidvania roguelike focused on exploration and item collection. Explore a different, procedurally-generated labyrinth each time you play and discover randomized power-ups to traverse obstacles, find secrets and explode meat beasts."

It's such a good game, almost everything is perfect IMO, I have over 200 hours in it and still go back to it every now and then. The lone developer also made the source code public a while ago, so there are mods, forks, spinoffs etc. being worked on.

[–] Jeanschyso@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Offworld trading company was an amazing PvP game but "economics" never was gonna sell.

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