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One of the most realistic games you can play. When it comes to gameplay, 95% of the time, it follows real life logic.
I liked Endgame:Singularity by EvilMrHenry, which was ahead of its time.
Breakout 71
Osu! https://osu.ppy.sh/
Very good rhythm game, switched to it from Geometry Dash.
since no one’s mentioned them:
- Oolite
- Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
I love DC:SS.
It is like a refined nethack
Been a while since I played one, but Stunt Rally was/is really good. It kinda blew me away with how many tracks there were, and how fun they were, for a game I’ve never seen mentioned anywhere. Red Eclipse is cool too; like that they have an easy to use in-game level editor (with multiplayer!).
Battle for Wesnoth. It’s a fantasy-themed turn-based strategy.
Though I haven’t played it recently, I have some very good memories. It teaches you gambling and probability (especially on small multiplayer maps), and you develop feeling for the difference between 40% chance to hit and 30%.
The single-player campaigns are nice too. The one that I have in especially good memory is “Under The Burning Suns”, which made a few creative and artistic changes to the game. It shouldn’t be the first campaign you play, but it can be the second.
Oh man, this brings back memories. Used to play it in multiplayer with a couple of friends a lot at some point. Very well crafted, balanced game. The graphics are beautiful.
I still think about garak and under the burning suns from time to time. The plot is decent and while there’s not much writing, what’s there is generally good. I’d rate it better than the vast majority of games, but general consensus would probably place it below planescape torment and disco elysium. I really liked it.
Recently, battle for wesnoth has remade the delfador campaign and heir to the throne and tried to unify a bunch of the mainline campaigns together. Deceiver’s gambit and the new httt are imo respectively second and third best wesnoth campaigns now.
I still think about garak and under the burning suns from time to time. The plot is decent and while there’s not much writing, what’s there is generally good. I’d rate it better than the vast majority of games, but general consensus would probably place it below planescape torment and disco elysium. I really liked it.
Recently, battle for wesnoth has remade the delfador campaign and heir to the throne and tried to unify a bunch of the mainline campaigns together. Deceiver’s gambit and the new httt are imo respectively second and third best wesnoth campaigns now.
Oh now you make me want to play planescape torment again. Really good writing. It always felt like the dialogs were about you and the questions you have, and immediately relevant to what happens next in the game.
I’m maybe a third through disco elysium, but I found the writing went off-rails too often for my taste, sometimes disconnected with your quest or what happens next. It’s still very well written, maybe just not my “book”. But now I have just derailed this thread from the original topic completely, so who am I to judge.
Thank you for this! I played it long ago when I used Ubuntu but couldn’t remember the name when I wanted to play it again!
I’m not very good at it, but NetHack catches me every now and then.
Beyond All Reason or Xonotic.
Xonotic is so fast and smooth.
BAR is the greatest RTS.
Adding OpenRCT2, but I think most anyone who knows of OpenTTD knows of that.
Also, I’m not sure you can count OpenRCT2 as fully open source, as it still requires the closed-source game files to run – they haven’t replaced all the game assets yet.
(That said, it’s still fantastic and by far the best way to play RollerCoaster Tycoon.)
I don’t see this one mentioned often, but Frogatto & Friends is a lot of fun if you like platformers with an old-school aesthetic. I keep it on my Steamdeck to play a few levels every now and then, it’s a smooth game with a nice feeling to the controls.
The source is here.
Holy shit, I played Frogatto YEARS ago and totally forgot about it. Thank you!
Space Station 14 for me.
Not sure if it’s my favorite, but openttd was already mentioned.
It’s such a fun game, especially after you beat a campaign level. I love that part purely for the freedom it provides after a hard fought battle.
