Idea for this thread is to have a place where people can pop in an recommend a game for other people to check out. My thoughts when making this topic were to include games that are maybe lesser known titles or indie games, maybe stuff still in early access, or a game that may be easy to pass over, etc. I don't think we really need to have people recommending things like Chrono Trigger for the millionth time, just as an example.
There are a butt ton of games out there and with so many of them not getting any sort of advertising or demo periods it can be really hard to gauge if a game is worth picking up, so maybe this will help with that some too.
To kick it off, I am going to lame it out and re-post a quick run down of a game I recently snatched up on sale in the Humble Store.
The Long Dark.
Premise is basically that your plane crashes in snowy cold crappy northern Canada. You gotta look for Food/Water/Shelter and depending on the difficulty fighting off wild animals.
The Long Dark definitely fits as the first time I tried, I found a shelter and started sleeping. My fire went out and I woke up prematurely because I was too cold to sleep(I saw there were 8 hours of darkness left, so chose 8 hours but woke up 4 hours in). At that point it was pitch black, I could not find my way around the house I was in and ended up restarting once I developed hypothermia.
Map plunks you down in a random spot each time and different lootable spots have loot tables to mix things up. Wolves are huge a-holes, so I recommended playing the lower difficulty to get a feel as the wolves won't attack unless provoked.
Overall a pretty snazzy game, would recommend to anyone who wants to try out a survival style game without zombies and without asshat players being bandits and taking all your stuff.
