Hi all,

Recommend me a game! I’m looking for something casual (to play for 20-30 minutes from time to time), challenging (like in difficult to master), not super complicated (I don’t want to spend hours learning all the rules), but not super simple (when it’s too repetitive the patters get ingrained in my brain. anyone else has this?), cheap (don’t want to spend $30 on a game I will play from time to time). Must work on Linux and on an integrated GPU. Games I enjoyed previously:

What I did a lot years ago was to play single levels of games over and over until I totally crashed it even if I wasn’t that interested in the entire game. I guess what I like most is figuring out the smallest details of a game, not getting into long campaigns.

So, what can I play?

Edit: Thanks for all recommendations so far but I see I need to add one more requirement: no levels. I’m looking for something quick, in and out, skirmish, death match, melee type of game. Not something where you build a character, solve puzzles and so on.

  • Untrustedlife@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Check out my game DR4X :D Its a fast paced, and simple 4x game where you can finish a whole game in less than an hour. You can also fully customize the setting of your game, down to like, the types of monsters and bandits and random events and tilesets, etc. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1704830/DR4X/

    Its also only 5 bucks (it’s on sale for the steam strategy fest)!

  • DrRatso@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Your Only Move is Hustle - Basically a TAS Fighting game, the game plays like chess meets a fighter game, you preselect moves at the same time as your opponent, then they play out. Sounds super simple when explained like that but there are so many complications to this basic formula (cancels, bursts, DI, parries, to name a few), that it is actually very interesting.

    Omega Strikers - Air Hockey meets MOBA, although the game is dying a little, but the devs are still active and they just released a new character, their design never disappoints and the OST is fire.

  • WFH@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    From the top of my head, all these work perfectly on my 5yo Intel laptop and are often found on sale or in bundles.

    Baba is You: you know that in every game, there are a fixed set of rules (“physics”), and you must use them efficiently in order to win? In this game, you must change the rules to solve puzzles. Super simple gameplay, tricky to master, really fucks your brain as you need to think outside the box.

    Hotline Miami (1 and 2): top-down shooter with impeccable gameplay, level design and soundtrack. Super fast paced, die-retry-die-retry game loop, and great story too. Every level is challenging in its own way which makes it not so repetitive.

    Nuclear Throne or Enter the Gungeon: procedurally generated top-down shooters, very similar to each other. Fun pixel-art, never replay the same levels although I guess it could be repetitive after a while.

  • crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’d recommend Borderlands 2. It runs beautifully even on Intel HD4000 and it’s less than $5 on sale. It’s much better with friends, but I’ve enjoyed most of it by myself and absolutely love it.

    You may also try Hero’s hour and Death road to Canada.