Video games
- awesome-selfhosted#games – self-hosted game servers
useful websites
- Howlongtobeat.com – how long it takes to play through a video game.
- Metacritic – aggregates reviews by professional reviewers and the Metacritic community.
- IsThereAnyDeal.com – cheap games.
- PC Gaming Wiki – aims to list fixes and workarounds for every single PC game. Some additional information about videogames, resolutions and copy protection.
Select games by genre
more good games: "What is your favourite video game?" on Lemmy, /v/s recommended games
Action RPG
- Moonlighter
Combat Flight
- Ace Combat
- Project Wingman [Steam] – combat flight action game similar to the Ace Combat series
- H.A.W.X.
Farming / busywork sim
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Graveyard Keeper
- Stardew Valley
FPS
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Quake3 Openarena
- Urban Terror
- Xonotic
- Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory / ET:Legacy
with RPG elements
- E.Ψ.Ǝ: Divine Cybermancy – FPS looter shooter with a weird story, janky controls but a unique aesthetic and interesting themes.
- Deus Ex
- Human Revolution
- Mankind Divided
Racing
see also: Racing wiki page
- Forza Horizon (esp. 4, 5)
- Forza Motorsport
- Assetto Corsa
- CarX (Drifting)
- Burnout Paradise [PC, Switch]
- Blur
- Dirt 3
- Distance
- Need for Speed
- Underground 2
- Most Wanted (2005)
- Most Wanted (2012)
- Sonic All-Stars Racing: Transformed
RPG
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
MMO
- Guild Wars 2
- Genshin Impact
Sandbox
- Garry's Mod
- Minetest
- Screeps – open-source game for programmers, wherein the core mechanic is programming your units' AI. You control your colony by writing JavaScript.
- Satisfactory – first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat.
Soulslikes
- Dark Souls
- Dark Souls 2
- Dark Souls 3
- Demon Souls
- Elden Ring – Open World hardcore RPG by the makers of Demon Souls and Dark Souls.
Soulslites
*Not as challenging as a "true" soulslike.*
- Remnant II – Coop scifi looter shooter.
Metroidvanias
- Celeste – a game about finding yourself, a journey, making friends and climbing a tower.
- Hollow Knight
- Ori
- … and the Blind Forest
- … and the Will of the Wisps
- Toki Tori 2+
Space
- No Man's Sky – lots of exploration, procedurally generated. Shitty launch in 2016, but after many updates they finally delivered what they promised.
- Everspace – Arcade space shooter
- Everspace 1 – roguelike
- Everspace 2 – semi-open world single player RPG space looter shooter
- Freelancer
- Void Bastards – roguelike spaceship exploration
Horror
- Resident Evil 7
- Outlast 1+2
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Action Horror
- Resident Evil 4 [PS2, PC, Switch] – most sold Resident Evil game of all time, possibly most ported game of all time.
Puzzle
- Antichamber – you can beat this in a few minutes if you're the most intelligent person on the planet.
- Portal 1+2
- The Stanley Parable
- The Talos Principle
- The Witness
- Zachtronics
Destroying Friendships
- Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes (KTANE)