Games that surprised you

Rimworld, early access would always suggest waiting. I'm just sucked into it. I've only put in about 15 hours in various "letting my people starve without meaning to" scenarios but it's fun, all the good stuff of Prison Architect but with a more free hand.
 
Bubo said:
Alan Wake. I was completely unprepared for how mind numbingly dull this game would be. After all the hype and screenshots and discussion over it maybe being an Xbox exclusive, etc, for it to be so unrelentingly boring was a massive shock.
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I really liked it. It was like playing a Stephen King book.
 
My issue with Alan Wake is what was suggested early on. Initially it sounded far more ambitious - with a full size Stephen King esque town to explore during the day and hide in during the night. It wasn't so bad, just could have been much more.
 
Alien Isolation, thought it was going to be a crap console game :p turned out to be the best game i've played in a decade.

Battleborn for it's superb single player campaign, (albeit small but very replayable) wealth of classes and the MOBA part, sadly misguided comparisons to Blizzards game meant many people swerved it.
 
Another vote for telltales Walking Dead. More so 1 than 2. Been a very long time since I played a game that made me care about the group you are thrown in with.
 
Psychonauts - being a platform game and being on the PC I didn't expect a lot, the last platform game I played and enjoyed was Super Mario World on the SNES. Well I quickly discovered that the controls were easy to learn,the camera angles were almost perfect and the plot and script was excellent.
 
Mass Effect, back in the Xbox 360 days.

Always saw it in CEX when trading in my games and actively avoided it because I thought it looked bab, based on the artwork on the box just not selling it to me.

Until one day I had a credit note for the exact amount of Mass Effect (£12 if memory serves me correctly) and bought it because there was nothing else I wanted for that price range.


... Oh how wrong was I, instantly fell in love with the game and then the series.
 
Another vote for Singularity. I'm currently playing this atm....about half way through.

It completely passed me by at the time. I only picked it up after listening to an old Giant Bombcast stating at how underrated it was.
 
Winky_The_Winking_Turtle said:
In terms of more recent AAA titles, Dying Light is definitely up there. Coming from Dead Island which I personally thought was absolutely awful in so many ways, I was so surprised but just how solidly built the game felt. Nothing ground breaking or anything special by any means, but just a good game.
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Exactly my angle on Dying Light, Dead Island was so poor imo it gave me little confidence. I got DI for about £3 in a sale too :D
 
It's not a pc game but the last of us absolutely blew me away. I went into playing it expecting to like it from opinions i had heard from friends who have similar game styles as me. However i never expected to love the game as much as i do.

I now envy everyone who gets to play it for the first time however in the many many times i have played it again since my initial play through the story is still breath taking and maaan i just can't get enough of it.

Wish more games were up to that same standard as when a story driven game comes out now or a game tries to build characters up.. they just don't meet the standard but that's not to say they are a bad game.
 
Stellaris. I bought it because I thought "well cannot be that worst than Gal Civ 3", and surprisingly is a far superior game than any of the 4X space games
 
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