Non-FPS game recommendation?

Pawnless Endgame

Pawnless Endgame

Pawnless Endgame

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I was just wondering if you guys could please throw me a contemporary PC game idea? I'm living very frugally at the moment due to continued unemployment, and I would like to treat myself to just 1 game for sanity reasons, plus the fact I haven't bought a game for a year now. Machine specs are in my sig - fairly up-to-date machine. I'm not into FPS or anything too gory. Put age 15 as my limit but preferably below 15. To get the idea of games I already have bought and liked:

- Age of Empires series (Age of Kings was the best)
- Roller Coaster Tycoon 3
- The Sims 3 (that was my last game)
- WoW (cancelled it... didn't want to get addicted while jobhunting)
- Warblade
- Harry Potter 2 (Harry Potter 1 was too short!)
- Final Fantasy 7 & 8 (although I don't have those any more)
- Disney games e.g. Lilo & Stitch

Thanks!
 
if you're after cheap , non-fps and 15-freindly, give Trackmania Nations a go, it's free on Steam :)
 
Monserrat said:
Cheers guys. I saw the Lego 1-4 stand in my local Sainsbury's and unless I have misread, I thought it was only for the Wii. If it is also on the PC, then groovy.
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It is, I know it is £20 on steam not sure about retail prices.

Personally I haven't played it, but its got good reviews so far, saying its the best Lego game in ages, I would like to give it a whirl as I've never played a lego game :p

And yea Trackmania is good to, isn't it arcadey?
 
Could someone please confirm if Lego HP 1-4 works on Windows 7 64-bit? I've checked it up on Amazon and yes, it is £19-£20, but one of the reviewers wrote that it didn't work on the 7 OS. Thanks.
 
Trackmania as prevously mentioned, its so much fun and you have loads of choices as to how you play i.e. single play, online, sandbox, not to mention the massive amount of tracks/vehicles to choose from. Plus its cheap :)
 
Wow, thanks again peeps! I haven't come across the concept of tower defence games before, but after Youtubing 'Defense Grid', it does look like my kind of game. Off to the shops now :-)
 
MasterOfDeceit said:
How about Torchlight? (Even though it appears you've made your decision) it is deffinately worth its £15 price tag on Steam. :)
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It was on sale not to long ago. That's my main problem with Steam, I can't pay full price for a game knowing there will at some point be a sale selling the game ridiculously cheap.

For the frugal gamer Steam sales are great.
 
LeJosh said:
The Witcher! Will last you ages if you like RPGs.
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This. I never thought i'd like The Witcher but I was more than pleasantly surprised. Interesting characters and story, combat mechanics work very well and lots of other little bits i'm still discovering.

As you're on a budget, there's a tonne of little games that you can pick up. Evil Genius is still beyond brilliant, Hitman Blood Money is always worth a play. Civillization 4 will give you more than your money's worth if you can get into it
 
+1 for 'The Witcher'. Such polish applied to a game, and this is coming from someone that doesn't play non-first person rpg's that much at all.
 
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