Keeping calm and being tactical about your solutions in a stressful situation is a skill, and the game lets you hone and apply that skill once you realize it's how the game is played. Ever fallen through a pitfall trap and landed crippled in a room filled to the brim with monsters way out of your level? The gut instinct is to forget it's turn-based and panic and run, and the game punishes you for it. One of the many things I like about Nethack- and Angband-style roguelikes is their being turn-based (so you technically have all the time in the world to think things through) but they still find ways to put you in stressful situations.

Horrible graphics is maybe a bit harsh, but: Nethack, and the whole roguelike space! Meta: Let me know how you feel about having a compilation of the comments included in the topic like this, first time trying so looking for feedback. Here's a playthrough by a Youtuber in case you want to see the game in action. But looking at any videos of it and you might think it's a throwaway flash game from the 2000s or something. The mechanics is innovative and the puzzles are hard as hell. Something that exemplify the mantra 'don't judge a book by its cover'.įor me it's the puzzle game SquishCraft. games from the 70s: Pong, Tetris, age of empires, starcraft, FFVII etc.

Tron 2.0 multiplayer frisbee game mode.

Runescape, Minecraft older games like Deus Ex, Morrowind, System Shock 2, early 3D Final Fantasy games modern indie gems like Stephen's Sausage Roll, Vampire Survivors, Pizza Tower, West of Loathing, Undertale.

Rimworld, Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Dwarf Fortress, Vampire Hunter.

Cogmind, Devil Daggers, Final Upgrade, Luck be a Landlord, Nightmare Reaper, SNKRX, Vampire Survivors.

^^^ List of games people have mentioned ^^^

Starcraft and system shock same box art