Looking for a new single player game. Don't know what one. Ideas?

[Angilion]

Unusually, I'm without any games that I fancy playing. A bit of a trawl on Steam left me drowning in early alpha versions (that will probably not be finished this decade if ever), crappy asset flips, "pixel art" games that might have been good in the 1980s and soft porn Japanese games. Nothing grabbed my attention.

I'm fairly broad in my gaming tastes. The games I've played recently and liked a lot are 7 Days To Die, Motortown: Behind the Wheel, Barnfinders, Darkest Dungeon, Dead State Reanimated and Dust To the End. I'll play RPGs, racing games, survival games, building games, shop management games...all sorts of games. But I'm not seeing anything that I really want to play. Games I've tried recently and didn't like were State of Decay, Valheim and Mon Bazou (which would probably be good if it wasn't for the extremely bad physics and UI).

My PC is dated - i7 4790K, 16GB DDR3, 1070Ti - so that's a bit of a restriction now. I game at 1440.

Single player only. Really single player. Not games designed as multiplayer that allow single player as a semi-functional afterthought.

Mist Survival is the best candidate I've seen, but it's still in early alpha and that puts me off. No story, uncertain balancing, etc. Gas Station Simulator also got my attention a bit. But not enough to buy it. So I'm asking for suggestions. Steam or GoG, preferably. I dislike Epic's business practices and I'm not going to make a Microsoft account. Not ever.

 

[Angilion]

Red Dead Redemption 2 is decent. Outlanders too

Latest Borderlands 3 seems fun from the little I’ve played.

Have you ever played the fallout series?

RDR and RDR2 have both been on my mental "Maybe I'll play that" list but I'd forgotten them. Good call. Borderlands 3 I played. OK game, horrible politics. Not a patch on 1 and 2. Fallout series...I've played 3, NV, 4 and 76. Probably >1000 hours in total. Especially 4, due to the base building. I had that modded up to the eyeballs for better base building and more things to build with. I haven't played 1 and 2 because I couldn't get past the ancient UI. Maybe I'll try again. ATOM RPG made me OK again with isometric turn-based games because it was done so well.

I've had a look for a game called Outlanders and all I found was an iOS game from Pomelo Games that looks like a decent town-building game for an iphone. But I think you must be referring to a different game.

Red Dead Redemption 2 and Witcher 3 if you've not played either of those

Gas Station Simulator is extremely repetitive.

I bought Witcher 1, 2 and 3 but haven't played any of them and forgot about them. So that's another option.

 

[Angilion]

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions so far.

The outer worlds is the game I was (failing) to name

I was going to buy that but it went down the Epic-only route so they can kiss my arse. By the time it became fully available I'd already watched a detailed playthrough so it's not worth the price to me any more. Had it been fully available I'd have bought it on release day.

This may not be exactly what you are after but since you mentioned playing 7 Days to Die previously, have you tried any of the overhaul mods you can get for it?

I have put hundreds of hours into the Darkness Falls mod having got a bit bored with the vanilla game - it doesn't reinvent the wheel but adds an awful lot of content that makes the game longer if that's of any interest??

I'd been thinking about it. I've played slightly modded vanilla 7 Days to Die for ~250 hours. I just finished building a giant solid pyramid solely as a noteworthy feature to draw attention to trader Bob as he's a nice chap. That clarified that I've played it enough and I'm just making up things to do I am going to try Darkness Falls though - it might have the right combination of difference and sameness to appeal to me. As long as I can still turn horde nights off because I'm not a fan of tower defence games.

There are some cracking indie games out there. Here's a few stand out ones that spring to mind from multiple genres.

Dead Cells
The trine trilogy
Broforce
Hades
Curse Of The Dead Gods
Limbo
Super Meat Boy
Owlboy
Bit.Trip Runner
Superhot

There's a lot of really excellent games out there and best of all these are usually far cheaper yet just as enjoyable as AAA games.

I'll check those out. I often buy indie games. The fact that they're cheaper means I buy more of them. If I buy a few and only like one of them, well, that still only cost me the price of one AAA game. It's finding them that's the main problem for me. There's so much junk out. Asset flips, never-finished early alpha versions, etc.

Imagine liking singleplayer RPGs, owning Witcher trilogy, not having played it, and asking what to play

No offense but that's wack

It is a bit weird. I'd forgotten I had them. Makes me wonder what else is lurking unplayed in my libraries.

Other suggestions:

I bought Cyberpunk 2077 a few days after release. For the full £50. I liked it even then, despite the bugs and the glaringly unfinished parts resulting from it being rushed out before being finished.

I'll look into the other games people have mentioned.

Thanks again for suggestions.