Years / Decades:
70s , 80s , 90s , 00s , 10s , 2020
Genres:
2D Platformers, Bullet Hell / 2D Shooters, First Person Shooters, Flash, Horror, Point and Click , Racing, Real Time Strategy, Roguelikes, RPGs (Turn Based), Visual Novels
Welcome back. This part of the series will be primarily focusing on genres. So far I have [Action RPG, Board Game, Tabletop RPG, Arcade Game, Third person shooter, MMO, Action, 4X (Civilization-like), 3D Platformer, Dungeon Crawler, Card Game, Text dungeon, Souls-like, Stealth, Rhythm, Metroidvania, Survival, Sandbox, Shoot/beat 'em up, City Builder, Adventure, Simulation, Puzzle, Fighting, MOBA, Turn Based Strategy, Real Time Tactics, Grand Strategy, Handheld, Walking simulator, Tower Defense, Sports, 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.
Y'all seem to have most of the bases covered already, so I'm just gonna throw out some of my faves I don't already see represented.
Oxenfree has the sharpest, most naturalistic conversation system of any game I've ever played. Like it's good enough to carry the whole game without much else mechanics wise.
Lucas Pope's Papers Please definitely deserves some props for making a deep and engaging story out of nothing but stuffing you in a box with a bunch of paperwork and threatening to kill you imaginary family.
Return of the Obra Din , also from Lucas Pope, is the best detective game I've ever played, and tells a gripping and effective story with less dev resources than get put into rendering Master Chef's shiny left bollock.
Braid even all these years later is still as sublimely beautiful and clever as it was when it came out.
Just because you mentioned Obra Dinn and rendering in the same sentence, I will now post the devlog about its signature 3D dithering effect
Fuck you I was going to sleep damnit