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.

 

[Grim5]

Elden ring

 

[MrRockliffe]

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?

 

[Delta3D]

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

Gas Station Simulator is extremely repetitive.

 

[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.

 

[MrRockliffe]

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.

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

 

[bayo000]

Farming simulator, sure it gets kinda repetitive but put on your favourite album/ playlist and you won't notice hours passing by. Same with the truck simulator series.

 

[Worthy]

I was going to say I’m enjoying Cyberpunk 2077 now it’s fixed, but then I spotted you haven’t played Witcher 3, so play that and thank me later. I’m not even a huge RPG fan (although this is changing as I’m getting older) and even I thought it was stellar.

 

[MissChief]

Mass Effect Legendary edition. 60+ hours right there.

 

[swillsy]

Satisfactory and Factorio

 

[DisrupTor75]

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.

 

[Kautya]

GTA 5, RDR2, Fallout 4/NewVegas, Control, dishonored 1/2, AC Odyssey/origin, Tomb Raider series (Shadow/rise etc), Prey.

 

[Vidar]

Just to echo what others have said, Rdr2 and the witcher 3 are phenomenal single player games. Haven't tried Cyberpunk properly yet as the bugs at launch where game breaking for me. Keep meaning to try control but hear good things.

Any of the total war series games are brilliant fun if you like huge strategy games. I find I'm in a similar position with not much exciting me these days games wise.

 

[Kelt]

Just to echo what others have said, Rdr2 and the witcher 3 are phenomenal single player games. Haven't tried Cyberpunk properly yet as the bugs at launch where game breaking for me. Keep meaning to try control but hear good things.

Any of the total war series games are brilliant fun if you like huge strategy games. I find I'm in a similar position with not much exciting me these days games wise.

Control is an excellent game.

Great for eye candy as well, particularly with an RTX card.

 

[Columbo]

I'm pretty much a single player only gamer these days as online games seem to either want all of your time grinding or all of your wallet spending.
In the last year I've played:

- God of War - brillant game from start to finish
- Horizon Zero Dawn. (Both excellent ports from the Playstation)
- Doom Eternal and all of the DLC (this is rock hard!)
- Serious Sam : Siberian Mayhem - mindless FPS carnage
- Guardians of the Galaxy - on Xbox Game Pass. Was ok, glad I didnt buy it but its ok.
- Control - This is an excellent game with a good story and kick ass mechanics.
- The Outer Worlds - very short but fun in places.
- Days Gone - really liked this. Combat was a bit janky but the world and story was interesting enough to keep me going.
- Farcry 6 - was average at best, I didnt love it but was fun in places.

I'm currently playing:
- Cyberpunk 2077. I'm struggling to get into tbh but for £12 its seems decent enough
- Fallout 4 - a new modded to hell run through which totally changes the game and I'm currently loving so is getting most of my playtime.
- Dying Light 2 (make sure you No1 if you havent already, its available for peanuts)
- The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe - only just been released but its brilliant so far.

 

[sgavan]

I really enjoyed, the Forest, Cyberpunk, Kingdom come deliverance or a good easy time sink is Euro\American truck sim 2 easy to play with a controller as well

 

[StevieP]

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??

 

[loftie]

Grim Dawn (ARPG - I prefer it to Diablo 3 tbh, but Diablo does do combat in a more fluid way IMHO)
OpenTTD (Transport management sim)
Factorio (Build a factory/logistics/The only good bug is a dead bug)
Stardew Valley (Farming/RPG)
Space Marine (For the Emperor! Satisfyingly thuddy)

(Not played the below, but heard they were good)
Enderal
Portal Stories: Mel
Portal Reloaded

 

[Finners]

I was bored over the weekend and grabbed "Deliver us the moon".

Its a pretty chilled game, more like an interactive story but has a great atmosphere and kept my attention.

 

[Paul_cz]

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

No offense but that's wack