Aby game that you heard about and thought “meh it’s just another xyz style game. How good can it be?” But you gave it a go anyway and it turned out the game was really good.

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    I regret this post now. So many games I want to try now. Folks, there’s only so many hours in a day spare for gaming!

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    Bioshock. It was expected to be just another FPS but with an interesting “magic” system. What it turned out to be was a narrative played from the first person. My room mate played it as a standard run and gun, and was rightfully unimpressed. Taking it slow, exploring, and passing attention to all the little bits of story made it amazing.

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    Epistory

    I found it on Steam and thought it looked interesting. It’s a typing game and I’m pretty good with typing, so I picked it up. I played games, but not much and usually it’s just World of Warcraft.

    Once I started, I played that game for 12 hours straight. It had me hooked immediately. The visuals are absolutely beautiful, the story is intriguing, and the gameplay is so much fun. I do not finish games very often, but I finished that game in a single weekend.

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    Westerado: Double Barreled

    It has a good charm and humor. Easy to play on a whim and easy to stop and come back to (like at work :p ). Is fairly short but has decent replayability.
    I played on Deck.

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    CrossCode.

    I picked it up on sale cause it looked like something I would like. It sat in my steam library for years before I played it on a whim.

    What I didn’t expect was an incredible story that would have me gripped till the end. Absolutely an awesome game.

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    Spiritfarer

    Was not ready for that emotional rollercoaster from a “cozy” game.

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      I looked it up and wasn’t all that excited by it, but figured I’d give it a try anyway based on this thread Yep, thanks, I’ve not got a hope in hell in doing anything else for while now. :D

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      A thousand times this. There were a lot of stories that made me cry, but Alice had me sobbing. When you had to walk slowly to stay with her, I felt like I was walking with my grandmother towards the end.

      Incredible game.

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        I had lost my grandad a few years prior and never really dealt with it. My Grandma was already declining and only had months to go. I went in 100% blind to Spiritfarer and started it because I wanted something laid back, and I enjoyed the art style. Talk about a gut punch.

        That game, at that time, had the same effect that watching Grave of the Fireflies had back in the day. It still sticks with me to this day.

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    Minecraft.

    I usually hate creative builder games with a passion, I joined fairly early in the alpha process and fell in love with the blocky design.

    Then when i thought the game couldn’t get more engaging, forge was released for it and mods started being made and it opened a whole new universe that I’m /still/ playing today.

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      Also was Minecraft for me, but different story.

      Back in 2011 or so someone told me it was a game where you could do anything: build anything anywhere, craft, fight, explore an unlimited world… But without mentioning the graphics and that it was made with cubes. I was a kid back then, so I believed it would be realistic graphics. Imagine my disappointment when they showed it to me.

      But I actually watched some videos after and tried it myself and absolutely loved it.

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    Mad Max

    Could have been just movie tie-in garbage but is a solid top 20 game from last gen.

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    Funnily enough Hollow Knight. I saw the release of the Grimm Troupe DLC on GOG and was interested by the art style. I thought, hey a metroidvania, it’s been a while since I played one and 15 €, that’s nothing. The rest was one of the best gaming experiences I ever had, precisely because I didn’t expect anything.

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      Second this. I shout from the rooftops how much I love HK.

      Silksong is proving a touch less perfectly balanced, and as a sequel a smidge of the novelty has worn off, but still, extremely good.

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    It’s not a game I ended up playing a lot, but during the pandemic one person I know gifted me a copy of Among Us, and kept insisting I play with him and his friends. I was reluctant at first because I’ve never had good experiences with multiplayer games, but I ended up having a great time. They were on Discord with mics, but I was text-only, and it was funny hearing them when I was the Impostor. When they all went to bed, I continued playing with some randoms for a few more hours, and also had a great time, some were sad when I decided to finally leave.

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    Space Engineers. Little space ship building game, why not.

    1500 hours later…

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    Fields of Mistria.

    Saw it recc’d here on the indiegames community as a new version of Stardew Valley. I figured it would be fun as I’m a fan of cozy games, but I didn’t realize how fun it was going to be.

    It’s still in early access and Ive got 100s of hours logged and I’m eagerly awaiting the next update. The characters and idle dialogue is fantastic, and it solves a lot of the things that frustrate me about SDV (as a SDV lover of course).

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    The whole “don’t look anything up before playing it” genre of cryptic puzzle-ish games where saying nearly anything about it is a spoiler. There’s not all that many of them, but somehow they’re all games where people go in with no expectations and either love it or bounce off of it really fast. The entire internet can scream at you to play Outer Wilds, but nobody wants to tell you why.

    Out of the ones I played, I had the lowest expectations/highest payoff for Void Stranger; on the surface it looks just like a pretty average sokoban with gameboy-styled graphics and a surprisingly good soundtrack. And that’s pretty much what it is, except the sokoban isn’t really why you play it, even though you’re gonna be playing a lot of it.

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    Thomas Was Alone.

    I suck at platformers, and don’t like playing them. But this game, and most especially its narration, made me fall in love with quadrilaterals.

    I won’t say more, but if you haven’t tried it please give it a chance.