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I couldn't just make a top ten list and be done with it, so if you need some game recommendations, stay calm. I've got a lot more for you to play.
Steam Starter Pack
Steam Starter Pack
You've got a limited budget and a new PC, but what on earth should you get? These titles can give you an infinite amount of hours, now imagine how many more you would have if you had friends, and get this, they're (arguably) easy to get into.
Story of Seasons (Formerly Harvest Moon) gone Zelda. Farm while you fish, collect and explore dungeons living in a small town in the middle of a valley. Now with capitalism!
Similar to:
Story of Seasons
Classic Harvest moon
Zelda
Animal Crossing
Lowest Price: $7.49
Avg Time: 90 (hrs)
More than just a 2D Minecraft. Terraria is a sandbox games that takes way too much from the RPG genre in all the best ways, with challenging bosses and more!
Similar to:
Starbound
Minecraft
Lowest Price: $1.99
Avg Time: 100 (hrs)
Why play a 2D roguelike when you can go 3D? With guns, space, and a whole lot of aliens ready to kill you, this game is great alone or with friends.
Similar to:
Binding of Isaac
Hades
Enter the Gungeon
Lowest Price: $12.99
Avg Time: 40 (hrs)
A first person action rogue-lite with lore, monsters and scrap. The Company needs you!
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Pikmin 2
Deep Rock Galactic
Lowest Price: $6.99
Avg Time: 13 (hrs)
Survival Horror
Survival Horror
Resident Evil and Silent hill too scary? That's okay we've got something a little more tame, right? You probably should keep the lights on for these ones.
Not as scary as a traditional Silent Hill, this one is more focused on running away from the threats and it works quite well.
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Silent Hill
Lowest Price: N/A
Avg Time: 7 (hrs)
Fine, you can kill stuff, but only robots. This time it's Resident Evil and despite looking like a PS1 game, it's presentation is gorgeous.
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Resident Evil
Silent Hill
Lowest Price: $13.99
Avg Time: 11 (hrs)
Those last two were scary, it's okay. Technically this one is also a survival horror, and a good one at that.
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Silent Hill
Resident Evil
Lowest Price: N/A
Avg Time: 7 (hrs)
Cozy Games
Cozy Games
Relaxing titles you can pick up and play for a while; No commitment necessary!
Tetris Effect is a relaxing puzzle game with amazing music. A large step of from the Tetriminos of the past, featuring all fo the luxuries of modern Tetris.
Similar to:
Tetris
Puyo Puyo Tetris
Lowest Price: $19.99
Avg Time: N/A
Unpacking is a cozy sorting game where you travel through a person's life as they move into new places.
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?
Lowest Price: $9.99
Avg Time: 4 (hrs)
A poker rogue-like where grabbing jokers increases your chip multiplier. Exponentially get more and more chips to beat levels and unlock more upgrades.
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Poker
Inscription
Lowest Price: $13.49
Avg Time: Endless
A cute game about evading the law and taking down an oppressive government. Featuring a main quest line and many side quests
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The Legend of Zelda
Lowest Price: $3.74
Avg Time: 3 (hrs)
A game about a dropout college student, covered with Fall Vibes and some supernatural stuff.
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Oxenfree
Life is Strange
Lowest Price: $9.99
Avg Time: 9 (hrs)
You don't have Minecraft?
Also Try:
Minceraft
Terraria
Lowest Price: N/A
Avg Time: N/A
Remember life as you guide souls to the afterlife, it's even cozier with a cat.
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Stardew Valley
Hollow Knight
Lowest Price: $5.99
Avg Time: 30 (hrs)
Discover and uncover the mysteries of a valley town.
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Night in the Woods
Oxenfree
Lowest Price: $7.99
Avg Time: 7 (hrs)
A farming game where you ranch Slimes and sell their waste for profit.
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Subnautica
Stardew Valley
Lowest Price: $4.99
Avg Time: 16 (hrs)
Just Keep Clicking...
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Stardew Valley
Cookie Clicker
Factorio
Lowest Price: $6.99
Avg Time: 16 (hrs)
Steam Deck Titles
Steam Deck Titles
Great Games on Deck!
Skyrim but better on controller. A long RPG that has a great campaign with several large side quests. A Perfect game to get for a new Steam Deck
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The Elder Scrolls
Lowest Price: $4.99
Avg Time: 70 (hrs)
A 3d Precision Platformer metroidvania defintely feels at home on the Steam Deck
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Celeste
Hollow Knight
Lowest Price: $4
Avg Time: 20 (hrs)
Amazing Visuals without even having max settings. Looks great on an OLED Steam Deck
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Shin Megami Tensei
Persona 5
Lowest Price: $48.99
Avg Time: 70 (hrs)
Cheaper than Doom Eternal, has lots of guns and tight controls.
Similar to:
Metroid Prime
Doom Eternal
Lowest Price: $3.99
Avg Time: 12 (hrs)
Great controls, good for Steam Deck, long Open World.
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Breath of the Wild
Witcher 3
Lowest Price: $12.49
Avg Time: 35 (hrs)
Free Games
Free Games
You don't have to pay to enjoy these titles
A short game where you save your brother in the afterlife.
Similar to:
Undertale
FREE
Avg Time: 3 (hrs)
Dream Simulator. Navigate multiple areas for treasures.
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FREE
Avg Time: 5 (hrs)
Push Block Puzzles, good humor
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Zelda
FREE
Avg Time: 2 (hrs)
A free Elder Scrolls Game, what more do you want?
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Elder Scrolls
FREE
Avg Time: 30 (hrs)
Fine, here's another.
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Elder Scrolls
FREE
Avg Time: 70 (hrs)
A short Dungeon Crawler
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The Elder Scrolls
FREE
Make a Mess, have fun!
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I am Bread!
FREE
Avg Time: 30 (mins)
A Roguelike Dungeon Crawler
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The Binding of Issac
FREE
'marketing simulator'
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Portal
FREE
Avg Time: 1 (hr)
The 2D Platformer
The 2D Platformer
The classics are classic for a reason, luckily people still make platformers, here's my favorites.
It's time to do some soul searching, climb a mountain with difficult platforming to get the most natural form of therapy there is: Lena Raine making a bop of an OST.
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Super Meat Boy
Lowest Price: $4.99
Avg Time: 30 (hrs)
Just because it's different doesn't mean it's bad, just try it. Platformer + RPG makes a pretty fun time.
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Paper Mario
Lowest Price: N/A
Avg Time: 20 (hrs)
THIS GAME IS BUTTERY. I mean this game is one of the single best control games I've ever played. And its pretty good to.
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Super Metroid
CastleVania
Hollow Knight
Lowest Price: N/A
Avg Time: 13 (hrs)
So you know how Returns felt good to control? Yeah it's just like that, but better.
Similar to:
Samus Returns
Super Metroid
CastleVania
Hollow Knight
Lowest Price: N/A
Avg Time: 11 (hrs)
A fun metroidvania that focuses on physical combat instead of ranged combat.
Similar to:
Metroid
Lowest Price: N/A
Avg Time: 40 (hrs)
The RPG
The RPG
I'm not a big fan of JRPGs but here are a few I like (Also includes standard RPGs)
Uncover the secrets of the Dark hour, an hour between days as you travel a labyrinthian tower.
FES has extra content which makes it superior and inferior to P3P. Either P3P or P3F work to experience the game.
Similar to:
Persona 5
Shin Megami Tensei
Lowest Price: N/A
Avg Time: 100 (hrs)
The midnight channel is here to tell you your true love, every night on rainy days. Unfortunately it also kills people, Scooby doo and the mystery gang to the rescue.
Similar to:
Persona 5
Shin Megami Tensei
Lowest Price: $12.99
Avg Time: 84 (hrs)
Being an idol means you have to save the world, but little did you know it would also be a JRPG.
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Persona 5
Shin Megami Tensei
Lowest Price: N/A
Avg Time: 50 (hrs)
If Paper Mario continued making true to the original titles, you'd get this breath of fresh air. Complete with an adorable story and its a match made in heaven.
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Paper Mario
Lowest Price: $7.99
Avg Time: 36 (hrs)
A Card based Puzzle Phenomenon RPG where deck-building is mainstay and TCG is the play. Solve puzzles and power up your cards to beat the boss!
Similar to:
Balatro
Binding of Isaac
Magic the Gathering
Lowest Price: $7.99
Avg Time: 12 1/2 (hrs)
It's charming, endearing, and you save the world; What more do you want out of an RPG?
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Xenoblade
Lowest Price: N/A
Avg Time: 106 (hrs)
Cybernetics, FPS combat. Definitely better than launch
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Fallout
Skyrim
Lowest Price: $23.99
Avg Time: 100 (hrs)
Persona 5 is a JRPG turned Life Sim where you befriend your party, make confidants and take down the most corrupt, and it blends these two different worlds together more than any other title in the series. Giving you new abilities, and more.
Similar to:
Persona
Shin Megami Tensei
Lowest Price: $23.99
Avg Time: 90 (hrs)
Zelda Fan
Zelda Fan
Zelda-likes and Zelda Games, give them a try!
Imagine an MMO with hundreds of side quests but in a single player Zelda game.
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A Link to the Past
Lowest Price: $5.99
Avg Time: 50 (hrs)
Humanity is Almost over, stop the shadows from taking over your town and save your sister.
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NieR: Automata
Lowest Price: $23.99
Avg Time: 40 (hrs)
Save your Sister and explore the Ocean. This is the one with the nice art style and the boat.
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TLOZ: Phantom Hourglass
TLOZ: Spirit Tracks
Lowest Price: N/A
Avg Time: 35 (hrs)
An excellent title, with a gritty art style and fun combat.
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TLOZ: Ocarina of Time
TLOZ: Majora's Mask
Lowest Price: N/A
Avg Time: 45 (hrs)
An absolutely adorable title on the small screen.
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A Link to the Past
Lowest Price: N/A
Avg Time: 19 (hrs)
Many are concerned about the time limit, it's more of a game mechanic than a limitation. This game allows you to experience the lives of the people living in it as impending doom comes closer and closer.
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Outer Wilds
Lowest Price: N/A
Avg Time: 30 (hrs)
Take down several colossal bosses with your sword, a bow and your grip.
A one of a kind experience
Lowest Price: N/A
Avg Time: 11 (hrs)
A Platformer Zelda-Style Game
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TLOZ II: The Adventure of Link
Lowest Price: N/A
Avg Time: 5 (hrs)
Excellent for their Story and Atmosphere
Excellent for their Story and Atmosphere
You wanna watch a movie but experience it? We've got that right here, now with ghosts, zombies, possessed children and a kraken.
You can either save the children or harvest them, morals suck here in this FPS story game but it's better at a dystopian than Fallout is so don't complain.
Similar to:
Fallout 4
Lowest Price: $3.99
Avg Time: 15 (hrs)
You're dying in this Table Top Styled game, survive day to day as you gather food, money and information to escape the space station you're stranded on.
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Dicey Dungeons
Lowest Price: $9.99
Avg Time: 9 (hrs)
Everyone left this boat, but why? Go back in time to the points when each person died to piece together the puzzle.
Similar to:
Danganronpa
Ace Attorney
Lowest Price: $9.99
Avg Time: 9 (hrs)
Stealth and zombie games go so well together. This one is timeless.
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Uncharted
PLAY ON PS4 or PS3
Avg Time: 17 (hrs)
Explore an island with your radio and friends as you encounter the paranormal, solving puzzles and figuring out the past.
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A Night in the Woods
Lowest Price: $0.99
Avg Time: 5 (hrs)
Rhythm games
Rhythm games
From Challenging to mind numbingly grindy, I seemed to like these give them a try.
Unique like Undertale, edgy like Undertale. This game is kind of like if Guitar Hero was about dodging the notes.
Similar to:
Undertale
Lowest Price: $4.99
Avg Time: 6 (hrs)
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Parappa the Rapper
Patapon 2
Patapon 3
Lowest Price: N/A
Avg Time: 20 (hrs)
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