Hi Friends,
I’ve been replaying Homefront lately. Its a great game, but has a very short storyline.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/55100/Homefront/
What I like most:
- intense firefights, giant explosions
- good storyline
- genuinely horrifying atmosphere with mass graves, rubble everywhere, a horrifying police state with North Koreans occupying the US. It’s not hard to feel like a resistance fighter protecting your homeland
- linear gameplay with a balance of brute force and tactics, skewed towards making things go boom
- not set too far in the future, no giant humanoid mech robots
- abundant ammo
- runs on Linux with no stupid sign-ins or subscriptions beyond Steam
I’ve done some poking around online and it sounds like Ghost Recon: Wildlands hits a few of those points and might suit me.
I can search for alternatives myself, but I’m really looking for some recommendations from real people
Hardware requirements shouldn’t be an issue, and I don’t object to slightly older games either, especially if they’re just old enough that I can scoop up the game and DLC in one bundle.
Other games I liked:
- Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl
- Blood and Bacon
- Crysis
I appreciate any recommendations you give me.
If you liked STALKER, maybe revisit it with Stalker GAMMA.
More or less, its a huge compilation of mods, tweaks… … i think they may have actually rewritten/repaired significant chunks of the engine itself… its kinda sorta like Deus Ex Revision, its basically a whole bunch of modules and different mods, with an easier way than fumbling with an external mod manager and load orders to try and make shit work.
https://www.stalkergamma.com/
On that tangent, while its… not exactly as thoroughly combat / survival focused, and is certainly clunky by modern standards… the original Deus Ex is maybe a good recommend, as it comes fairly close to hitting all the other things you mention liking, although… from a different angle, basically.
Also, now… this might sound like a bit of an oddball but… State of Decay 2.
Yeah, its humans vs zombies, yeah, its got Microsoft bs in the way of just being able to play the game (unless you acquire a cough custom version cough)…
But it actually has pretty darn good combat mechanics, for a console native game, can actually meaningfully difficulty scale from ‘baby easy’ to ‘this is actually impossible’, and whats more, a whole sort of set of subsystems for actually managing your survivors and your resources and maintaining and improving your kind of home base…
I find it to be a similsr kind of… high tensions, pretty immsersive, pretty brutal, pretty dark, kind of game that can basically grab hold of you and not let go.
But, it doesn’t really have much of a proper ‘story’… in the way of most single player games… but but, it kinda sorta makes up for that in that characters in your party, they’ll get stressed out or be in good moods, they can have fights, have rivalries kinda…
And this can kind of generate a kind of emergent plot, if you care to keep track of it, maybe in something like how you could the show ‘Survivor’ has a plot.
Play with your band of survivors enough, and you will have emotions when something really bad happens to one of em.
I dunno. Maybe its a bit of a reach, for what you were asking for, but it lit up enough of the same parts of my brain.
Oh, here’s another oddball suggestion that might either totally be your thing, or not your thing at all:
G-STRING
Yep, weird name, no, not a porn game.
This game spent like… 15 fucking years being an in development Half Life 2 mod, by apparently a solo dev?.. and it… its weird, but its certainly a story driven, action shooter, in an extremely oppressive dystopian setting.