Years / Decades:
70s , 80s , 90s , 00s , 10s , 2020
Genres:
2D Platformers, Board Games, Bullet Hell / 2D Shooters, First Person Shooters, Flash, Horror, Indie, Metroidvania, MMOs, MOBA, Point and Click , Racing, Real Time Strategy, Roguelikes, RPGs (Turn Based), Simulation, Sports, Stealth, Tabletop RPGs, Visual Novels
Welcome back. This part of the series will be primarily focusing on genres. So far I have [Action RPG, Arcade Game, Third person shooter, Action, 4X (Civilization-like), 3D Platformer, Dungeon Crawler, Card Game, Text dungeon, Souls-like, Rhythm, Survival, Sandbox, Shoot/beat 'em up, City Builder, Adventure, Fighting, Turn Based Strategy, Real Time Tactics, Grand Strategy, Handheld, Walking simulator, Tower Defense, Miscellaneous, and Casual] as available genres. Let me know if I missed something, and I will try to get it added.
This is eventually all going to get compiled into one megathread for people who want gaming recommendations from Chapos specifically. Other consoles and genres will come in sporadic subsequent threads. Please contribute to previous threads if you missed them. This is meant to be an exhaustive list.
Expanding on your choice(s) is definitely a plus. Not everyone knows about or has played non-mainstream titles.
All the Zachtronics games are amazing (but hard and brain-hurty): Spacechem, Shenzhen I/O, Opus Magnum, Infinifactory, Exapunks are the ones that I can vouch for
They’re particularly cool cos there’s always multiple ways to solve them so the solution always feels like it’s truly yours
Edit: The Talos Principle is great as well. And as tired as the memes are, Portal 1 and 2 have some really clever puzzles
Portal, Portal 2 and all their goofy offspring, Superluminal, The Unfinished Swan, Antichamber, Manifold Garden.
The Witness
I’ve been playing Baba Is You for the last year or so, and it’s really something special. Before that I played The Witness. It’s also great but it can be a little dry and at times it felt like I was solving the puzzles on the back of cereal boxes.
Does Myst count?
At the time it was one of the best games I ever played
