Some good suggestions in here. I swear if
Dragon's Dogma came to PC I'd be all over it, I really enjoyed the demo. I've moved away from console gaming since clearing most of my console backlog earlier this year to almost exclusive PC gaming now.
Asura's Wrath keeps appearing and disappearing from my radar, too. Will keep an eye out for it this holiday season and will pick it up, I think. The GB guys yacked about it for long enough sometime ago.
I fucking loved
I Am Alive so I'm glad it's getting recommended right up on the first page.
Currently playing through both
Binary Domain and
Spec Ops, having bought them both recently. Enjoying them quiet a bit respectively. See how that pans out and if the feeling remains.
I'll add a couple indie titles that I really enjoyed that I doubt made any real impact sales-wise. I hope
ipso facto, that I do not need to preface these recommendations with any kind of caveats about their overall quality, length or what have you. There is a Steam sale coming up so I'm sure you could add these to your Steam library for less than $10 all told in a few weeks. With that said, the titles link to RPS articles (which if you're at all interested in these games I
highly recommend you read) and the images link to the Steam store.
A Valley Without Wind
GiantBomb QL
Man oh man I enjoyed this bizarre game. The RPS
wot I think linked to in the title sums the game up perfectly. The demo on Steam is a pretty perfect taster of what it is about, so if you enjoy it at all and want more then go for it (though the demo is pretty comprehensive, you might get enough enjoyment out of it!) Incredibly niche but in terms of unexpected enjoyment and hours invested per money spent, it was this years' Terraria to me (though I could sit and play Terraria for hours on end, whereas I'm only good for short bursts of this).
Krater
GiantBomb QL
Shitcanned at review (~50% on metacritic) due to its launch state and undeniable quirkyness, yet I think game cannot be understated. From the music (which is amazing), the voice acting (if you dig the pyro in TF2, this'll be up your alley), the cut from map to map and the general aesthetic of the game (
Wallace and Gromit crossed with
Crysis look about it at times), I thoroughly enjoyed this game also. Sure, it could use a deeper strategic combat system and I guess if you care about stories in games (lol), particularly in Diablo-like game (elohel) then this will miss the mark.
But I really dug it.
Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers
GiantBomb QL
(It's on sale right now - $2.50!!)
Oh boy, this game is just great, as long as you've not your fill of indie quirks and y'know, it suits your palette. The GiantBomb quicklook originally sold me on it and I subsequently enjoyed it immensely. It's silly and it embraces that it is silly. Like RPS mentions, it may have benefited from a more sandboxy approach, but it can be bought for two tenths of fuck all, it does what it does
well and I never really grew tired of doing that
thing (shooting a laser and watching big bits of rock and stuff fall to bits).
