It’s a pretty popular one but I’m currently playing through Disco Elysium and it’s a masterpiece of thriller detective with very strong RPG integration. Highly recommend even if you don’t like either of those genres as long as you like a good story.
It looks amazing but I blacklisted the game until the legal disputes and controversies are ironed out and clear.
I’m sure everyone is all over this, but Dave the diver is so much fun. Little bit of rpg, little bit a farm sim, little bit a restaurant sim, throw in some action sequences
That game is a little bit of EVERYTHING.
Plus charming and funny to boot
I’ve certainly been enjoying certain content creators absolutely destroying the local shark population.
I haven’t seen anyone mention Kenshi, so I guess I will.
Kenshi is a post-apocalyptic, RPG, RTS, city-builder hybrid. You can play as one individual character, or you can build up a squad to roam an entire continent full of towns, people, and everything else that wants nothing more than to push your face into the dirt and watch you squirm. It’s an intensely brutal game, but one with an aesthetic that I can’t get enough of.
There are different races of playable characters (from humans, to hivers, to shek, and skeletons) all with their own different stat bonuses and handicaps. If you lose a limb, you can either find someone who sells prosthetics or just leave that character crippled for the rest of the game.
There’s kind of a story, but the game is mostly just you existing in this world and learning about it. There are plenty of different factions you can join or help out, and there will be consequences for choosing a side.
It’s also incredibly moddable, with the steam workshop having thousands of mods already.
Subnatica. Exploration, farming, habitat building, and creepy at times. You will love it
Sakuna of Rice and Ruin. A fun little sides rolling action game as the main and a full 3d rice farm simulator with professional and Japanese government approved rice techniques. It’s a fun relaxing game with amusing mechanics and an interesting story to add.
The rice growing is not Harvest Moon-style “plant your crops, water them every day, and harvest after five days”. You need to monitor the water level of your field, the water temperature (and air temperature), crop spacing (it is not grid based), the nutrient ratios, the field aeration, etc. Your first couple of years are going to be a rough until you level up and unlock actual numbers for these instead of having to guestimate.
Yoko’s Island Express: Pinball Metroidvania!
Rain world is a really good survival platformer
Rain World is fantastic, especially after Downpour came out. I love having a reason to beat the game at least 5-6 more times!
Nier Automata
I love this game. I remember playing the PS3 version Nier.
My first JRPG!
Also, what genres are being mixed here?
There are some times the camera angle is changed and locked to make it 2d side scroller for certain parts, and some parts reminiscent of some arcade games like 1945 Air Force: Airplane. And “hacking” opens a mini game mode that feels like a mobile game. On top of that, the lore and story is great and gameplay is fun. There are also collectibles if that’s your thing. And it still has the classic leveling and gear progression common to JRPGs.
It’s just an action-RPG, not sure what ground was being broken when it released the first time.
The Typing of the Dead
Peglin merges dungeon crawler rogue-lite with Peggle style gameplay.
Slay The Spire merges dungeon crawler rogue-lite with a deck builder card game.
Dicey Dungeon merges dungeon crawler rogue-lite with dice rolling.
I got stuck on a theme 😅
To add, Cult of the Lamb is both a base building game and action roguelite
ICEY might be a good one to check out. It mixes cynical untrostworthy narration (like from the Stanley parable) with a 2D side scrolling hack and slash. some people say it doesn’t quite measure up on both fronts, but I enjoyed it. it has a nice art style too
If you like strategy games. This is one of my favorite games of all time. I haven’t seen anything quite like it sense. Close, but nothing hit the genre mix like this game.
Rise and fall: civilization at war.
