Aby game that you heard about and thought “meh it’s just another xyz style game. How good can it be?” But you gave it a go anyway and it turned out the game was really good.
Bioshock. It was expected to be just another FPS but with an interesting “magic” system. What it turned out to be was a narrative played from the first person. My room mate played it as a standard run and gun, and was rightfully unimpressed. Taking it slow, exploring, and passing attention to all the little bits of story made it amazing.
Rollercoaster Tycoon.
It’s just a game on a cereal box how good can it be?
25 years later…
I regret this post now. So many games I want to try now. Folks, there’s only so many hours in a day spare for gaming!
Epistory
I found it on Steam and thought it looked interesting. It’s a typing game and I’m pretty good with typing, so I picked it up. I played games, but not much and usually it’s just World of Warcraft.
Once I started, I played that game for 12 hours straight. It had me hooked immediately. The visuals are absolutely beautiful, the story is intriguing, and the gameplay is so much fun. I do not finish games very often, but I finished that game in a single weekend.
Mad Max
Could have been just movie tie-in garbage but is a solid top 20 game from last gen.
Spiritfarer
Was not ready for that emotional rollercoaster from a “cozy” game.
I looked it up and wasn’t all that excited by it, but figured I’d give it a try anyway based on this thread Yep, thanks, I’ve not got a hope in hell in doing anything else for while now. :D
Minecraft.
I usually hate creative builder games with a passion, I joined fairly early in the alpha process and fell in love with the blocky design.
Then when i thought the game couldn’t get more engaging, forge was released for it and mods started being made and it opened a whole new universe that I’m /still/ playing today.
Also was Minecraft for me, but different story.
Back in 2011 or so someone told me it was a game where you could do anything: build anything anywhere, craft, fight, explore an unlimited world… But without mentioning the graphics and that it was made with cubes. I was a kid back then, so I believed it would be realistic graphics. Imagine my disappointment when they showed it to me.
But I actually watched some videos after and tried it myself and absolutely loved it.
deleted by creator
Thomas Was Alone.
I suck at platformers, and don’t like playing them. But this game, and most especially its narration, made me fall in love with quadrilaterals.
I won’t say more, but if you haven’t tried it please give it a chance.
Will be adding this to my installed games soon. Thanks
Space Engineers. Little space ship building game, why not.
1500 hours later…
I’ve just been reading the bobiverse books and wondered about it as a game and this looks perfect. Thanks
Yeah, btw what really got me into it was the Scrapyard mod set. Splitsie has a series on YouTube about it, and also some very good tutorials.
No Rest for the Wicked
Reviews were pretty harsh and videos did not make it look that great. It’s been my main squeeze for about 100 hours now, having me put other games on hold only to return to it every evening after work.
Not even done yet, but currently, it’s a very solid EA game.
Absolutely amazingly beautiful game. The cutscenes…
makes me think of Arcane every time I load it up.And then, it turns out it’s got solid gameplay, if you like Dark Souls type of games. It’s got that oomph to the fighting. That visceral feel that really makes the fighting enjoyable, although brutal. It’s got room for improvement for sure, but they keep polishing it and every time I come back it’s better. It’s hard to believe it’s only a fraction of the full game, too!
Bounced off voices of the void the first time, couldn’t get through the tutorial. Had a friend recommend it again, have done multiple play thoughs and is now any favourite vibes game.
