Years / Decades:
70s , 80s , 90s , 00s , 10s , 2020
Genres:
2D Platformers, Board Games, Bullet Hell / 2D Shooters, First Person Shooters, Flash, Horror, Indie, Metroidvania, MMOs, MOBA, Point and Click , Racing, Real Time Strategy, Roguelikes, RPGs (Turn Based), Simulation, Sports, Stealth, Tabletop RPGs, Visual Novels
Welcome back. This part of the series will be primarily focusing on genres. So far I have [Action RPG, Arcade Game, Third person shooter, Action, 4X (Civilization-like), 3D Platformer, Dungeon Crawler, Card Game, Text dungeon, Souls-like, Rhythm, Survival, Sandbox, Shoot/beat 'em up, City Builder, Adventure, Fighting, 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.
All the Zachtronics games are amazing (but hard and brain-hurty): Spacechem, Shenzhen I/O, Opus Magnum, Infinifactory, Exapunks are the ones that I can vouch for
They're particularly cool cos there's always multiple ways to solve them so the solution always feels like it's truly yours
Edit: The Talos Principle is great as well. And as tired as the memes are, Portal 1 and 2 have some really clever puzzles
Yeah came here to say I don't really like puzzle games but portal is a huge exception to the rule. Especially portal 2, it's one of my favorite games of all time.
TIS-100 is a good Zachtronics game if you like programming