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Dread Delusion

Open World, meaningful (and hard choices), excellent writing. It's the best game I've played in recent years. It can also run on a potatoe, but that shouldn't be a problem for you. :)

These are some suggestions for those little moments when you want a little break between games 😄

Tiny Glade - little diorama building game. I like playing this one when I don't have enough time for a full mission or quest in whatever game I'm playing, or I'm waiting for my buddies to get online.

Potion Craft: Alchemy Simulator - another cute little game. The NPCs make this one fun. You get visitors from other games coming to your shop to stock up on potions. Devs just did a big 2.0 update, and added more challenges and content. I played on super easy explorer mode and 100%ed the achievements in 52 in game days. I highly recommend this game! Another great one to play during in-between and waiting times, but also very easy to get sucked into 🧪

I've been getting a lot of play time from Ostranauts.

From the Steam blurb:

Ostranauts is a hardcore noir space-sim. Manage life aboard your ship, and beware the cost of every decision you make. Scavenge and explore the boneyard. Create, build, and customise your ship.

There's kinda of a story, more like things are happening in the world. You're mostly just left to your own devices.

Another game that's taken up a lot of my 2024 was Baldur's Gate 3, pretty sure it doesn't need a short write up though.

I've been playing V Rising in the last few days and it's a very good mix of survival, open world, exciting combat and a bit of designing your own castle.

Even more fun if you can play it with friends (though it's a bit more classic with servers: You'll have to find a public one to play on or host / rent your own).

But you can also just play it single player locally.

Great game though, I'd recommend it fully!

If you want the most extensive, expansive, awesome emergent story base building game out there, there's of course Dwarf Fortress. You can download it right off the devs, where it's free but takes a PhD to begin to make sense of the UI. Or you can buy it on Steam, where it will cost you a little bit, but thanks to massive UI improvements, it's actually playable by regular people.

Hollow Knight

Space Marine 2 has a crazy 4k texture pack that looks amazing. But playing Space Marine 2 over the original is a task enough on its own.

Honestly your rig would handle VR dogfighting in Elite Dangerous gloriously. But that would require hotas controllers and a vr headset but its so fun.

I think theres a crazy texture pack for the master chief collection out there somewhere.

Stardew Valley. Casual 'farming' game with much more then farming.

Judging from your tastes, I think you would enjoy dragons dogma 2. Be aware that the engine is rather... unoptimized, so there are performance slowdowns in towns and densely populated areas, but I've never dipped below 40fps on my rig which has slightly worse specs than yours. It can be a bit finicky to get working on Linux, depending on your distro. I'm on nixos and was experience graphics driver crashes pretty regularly until I swapped to amdvlk and swapping to the latest proton GE. Once you get the game working though, it's a lot of fun and definitely worth the hassle! I'd describe it as baldur's gate 3, but an action RPG instead of turn based, and therefore it feels much more free and open to me. You should also be aware that the game is pretty punishing. No save slots and rolling back is hard if you mess something up, and minor enemies can really ruin your day if you're not paying attention. It's probably one of the most "realistic" fantasy games I've ever played in that regard.

Enjoying Factory Town at the mo, a little chill automation game with a surprising level of complexity.

Factorio 2 is also fantastic if this is a genre you enjoy.

Sable is very breath of the wild adjacent, and quite beautiful. Lots of secrets to discover.

Xbox Game Pass for PC is an incredible value, even with the caveat of having to run windows (which sucks so bad). That's always my top rec for PC gamers.

Elden Ring is still my number one game. It's awesome and will run great on your new PC as well as your deck. It's also got a lot in common with your listed games.

Grounded is a great game as well! It's a reasonably difficult survival crafting game (like Subnautica). Same goes for Return to Moria.

You might want to check out Red Dead Redemption 2 in story mode. The graphics and physics are pretty incredible. It’s a little old now, but I think it still holds up well, especially if you like the “old west cowboy” aesthetic.

Red Dead Redemption 2 will probably hit all the nerves. Open beautiful world that still hasn't been matched by another game.

The Spider-Man games are also great and Spider-Man 2 is just around the corner.

And Path of Exile 2 is currently all the rage even though it's still in early access.

And when you still have time you can play Baldur's Gate 3, first game to win Game of the Year in all contests.

Baldurs Gate 3 seems like a no brainer

Outer wilds

Someone else has said Baldurs Gate 3, and I second that. Great game.

Not sure if automation/building is exactly your tastes, but satisfactory is a good one.

Outer wilds if you enjoyed subnautica's sense of wonder and exploration. Not replayable but a unique once in a lifetime experience.

Helldivers 2 if you enjoy halo firefight and it's expansive sandbox. Very replayable.

Teardown is very replayable and will run great on your rig.

Curious why you went for 64gb of ram instead of 32, because the extra dosh could have gone to a better gpu. Always use the extra on the gpu or monitor.

You'd probably enjoy cyberpunk 2077

SHEEPY

Mass Effect legendary edition.

The new Indiana Jones is great

A few years ago I got into this weird russian game about gravity and detonating sideways nukes above ground.

The storyline is a bit complex, but essentially its about a resource-based society trying to build colorful apartment complexes to house it's population, but the government keeps bombing the developments anytime an even stretch is built.

To get around this, the player has to grab these incomplete apartments as they're dropped by helicopter from the sky and position them into interesting structures that can't legally be called apartments, thus saving them from detonation.

There's a romance angle too, where the apartment bomber convinces the player to build multi-storey apartments at the last minute, thus allowing the govt worker to deploy his vast arsenal at a profit and split the proceeds with the player 50:50.

Its a pretty intense game, and I can still hear the chilling screams of those occupants to the tune of that haunting russian folk song.

You've got a nice new pc and if you want to play something like BOTW, you might enjoy Red Dead Redemption 2. BOTW was also my favorite game of all time until i played rdr2. RDR has similiar mechanics to breath of the wild, like hunting, but the whole world is just so lively, immersive, and beautiful. I can't think of a single issue with the game, it's a true 10/10, can't praise it enough.

I also recommend any other rockstar game, specifically gta v and max payne 3, they are both great as well.

If you want an FPS experience, play the original call of duty modern warfare games first, MW2019 next, then black ops 1-3+cold war+6. I wouldn't recommend new mw2 or 3.

I'll also say the Metro games are great, they are like post-apocalyptic COD with a great story and nice gameplay. Super underrated series.

Edit: I have a specific taste for shooter games, so I'd suggest you read other comments if you are into other genres.

• Prey (2017). Good FPS gameplay with RPG mechanics, incredibly detailed semi-open world, emphasizes exploration and player freedom.

• Watch Dogs 2. Above average for an Ubisoft game. Great open world that emphasizes player freedom.

Honorable mentions that you've probably already considered: Cyberpunk 2077, Control, Alan Wake 2

No Man's Sky - One of the most beautiful games out there imo, and has vastly improved since its disasterous launch. Warning this one does require an internet connection (actually for a good reason) but you dont have to interact with anyone, and it's difficult to even encounter another player in the wild outside of the Anomaly hub and campaigns due to its sheer size.

Project Zomboid - Even if you have zero interest in zombie stuff it's still worth a shot. Has a massive detailed world based off Midwestern towns in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. It's still in development so there's some noticeably unfinished aspects, and they've only just begun to add non-zombie NPCs.