Years / Decades:
70s , 80s , 90s , 00s , 10s , 2020
Genres:
2D Platformers, Bullet Hell / 2D Shooters, First Person Shooters, Flash, Horror, Indie, Point and Click , Racing, Real Time Strategy, Roguelikes, RPGs (Turn Based), Sports,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, Puzzle, Fighting, MOBA, 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.
Kerbal Space Program. It is a sandbox game where you assemble parts to construct custom spacecraft designs and fly them. It manages to combine the sandbox construction genre with a flight simulator with orbital dynamics. In addition to rockets, you can build planes, rovers, satellites, landers, stations - and with mods, even boats and submarines.
Unfortunately there were some labor issues a couple years back and most of the original dev team quit. On the other hand, that means you can pirate it and not feel bad.
KSP was like the strongest hardest drug imaginable to me. it felt like I had a part time job in aerospace and mission planning