After a long while without a way to play anything good on my PC a friend gifted me his old evga geforce gtx 1060, turns out my 650 W power supply is enough, so I don't need to buy one.
Now, what games do you recommend?
What kind of games do you like?
Any preference between vendors, like GOG vs Steam?
Front Mission 1st Remake is out. Awesome mecha tactical turn-based RPG with an engaging story. Available from both.
You just missed the summer sales where Neverwinter Nights is always cheap. (Old school D&D RPG.) Available from both.
Guild Wars 2 is a fun MMORPG with a good single player storyline and fun multiplayer aspects. Free-to-play with pay-once options for additional story and game components. (For example, fliers and mounts are gained through the paid additional story elements.)
Quote from: Tod13 on August 03, 2023, 02:35:46 PM
What kind of games do you like?
Any preference between vendors, like GOG vs Steam?
Front Mission 1st Remake is out. Awesome mecha tactical turn-based RPG with an engaging story. Available from both.
You just missed the summer sales where Neverwinter Nights is always cheap. (Old school D&D RPG.) Available from both.
Guild Wars 2 is a fun MMORPG with a good single player storyline and fun multiplayer aspects. Free-to-play with pay-once options for additional story and game components. (For example, fliers and mounts are gained through the paid additional story elements.)
A little of everything but visual novels. Single player or play with friends at home unless you can make your own server, no microtransactions.
Vendors... Steam preferably.
Quote from: GeekyBugle on August 03, 2023, 04:01:56 PM
Quote from: Tod13 on August 03, 2023, 02:35:46 PM
What kind of games do you like?
Any preference between vendors, like GOG vs Steam?
Front Mission 1st Remake is out. Awesome mecha tactical turn-based RPG with an engaging story. Available from both.
You just missed the summer sales where Neverwinter Nights is always cheap. (Old school D&D RPG.) Available from both.
Guild Wars 2 is a fun MMORPG with a good single player storyline and fun multiplayer aspects. Free-to-play with pay-once options for additional story and game components. (For example, fliers and mounts are gained through the paid additional story elements.)
A little of everything but visual novels. Single player or play with friends at home unless you can make your own server, no microtransactions.
Vendors... Steam preferably.
Guild Wars 2 has microtransactions, but they're "just there". You don't need them and they aren't obnoxious.
Braveland and similar "tactical RPG-ish" games from Torguga group are fun. They're simple turn-based tactics. The story/game really is a railroad. You can skip some branches for a while, but usually need to come back to get the resource at the end of the branch. But it is fun for a 5-10 minute session to unwind. Not great art, but fun. LOL
Cat Quest is a cute, fun action-RPG.
The Bioshock series is fun. First-person shooter style RPG-ish games.
Neverwinter Nights is popular and turn-based. But it is so much work to play.
Chroma Squad is a fun turn-based 8-bit style RPG. I haven't gotten very far into it yet.
Hex of Steel, that I haven't played yet, is a super-popular turn-based war game.
Solasta is an indie RPG based on the 5e ruleset (but using different sub-classes, due to not being licensed). No wokeness. Entertaining. The voice acting is meh and the story pretty linear, but it was worth the time and money IMHO...
Thanks to both, keep it comming.
There is a small cyberpunk game called Neo Cab who really made an impression when I played it. You are a female cab driver in a generic cyberpunk city, but the geme is non-linear. You can choose which "calls" to take on the main map, manage your need to keep the cab fueled and meet a wonderful cast of clients, until... I won't spoil, but let's say that you meet a "Quantum Psychic" - and that is your hint that the game must be replayed. Different choices, different management strategy, and all of sudden you see how a life can become completely different after even some minute changes.
Disco Elysium is a RPG centered of an hard boiled detective (more like a wannabe hard boiled) involved in a series of cases in a surreal city. It is the true heir to Planescape Torment - even if the plot is more Philip K. Dick - and the freedom of choices is astounding.
Her Story is another game that really touched me. Basically it is a puzzle. You do research on an old case but all is left are fragments of a series of interrogations with "Her". Your only help is a very old computer, and your aim is to put the fragments in chronological order - while discovering others buried in the memory. What makes this game memorable is how, slowly, from a simple mistery, layers and layers of a much more complex story start to appear. Think David Lynch. The actress who plays "Her" kills it.
Is Suzerain you are called elected President in a fictional country around 1950 (all the World is fictional, but not fantasy: it is a mid-XX Century World). It is a time of deep crisis, both social and economic. Corruption runs deep and even the foreign relations are suffering. This game is surprisingly realistic (even your family and your personal life are involved) and touches one of my favourite themes - both IRL and in my RPG campaigns: Can "values" become an obstacle to "the greater good"? For sure many moments of your Presidential career are eye-openers of the realities of the political world.
One last suggestion. If you like Visual Novels, go on Steam, Create a New Collection and choose "Dynamic Collection". In the screen that appears you can enter a tag. Enter "Visual Novel" and then click on "Snapshot". You will see all the games with the tag Visual Novel on Steam - and you can order them for date, title, reviews... It is the easiest way to see everything that Steam has to offer in the genre.
Quote from: Reckall on August 04, 2023, 06:37:09 AM
There is a small cyberpunk game called Neo Cab who really made an impression when I played it. You are a female cab driver in a generic cyberpunk city, but the geme is non-linear. You can choose which "calls" to take on the main map, manage your need to keep the cab fueled and meet a wonderful cast of clients, until... I won't spoil, but let's say that you meet a "Quantum Psychic" - and that is your hint that the game must be replayed. Different choices, different management strategy, and all of sudden you see how a life can become completely different after even some minute changes.
Disco Elysium is a RPG centered of an hard boiled detective (more like a wannabe hard boiled) involved in a series of cases in a surreal city. It is the true heir to Planescape Torment - even if the plot is more Philip K. Dick - and the freedom of choices is astounding.
Her Story is another game that really touched me. Basically it is a puzzle. You do research on an old case but all is left are fragments of a series of interrogations with "Her". Your only help is a very old computer, and your aim is to put the fragments in chronological order - while discovering others buried in the memory. What makes this game memorable is how, slowly, from a simple mistery, layers and layers of a much more complex story start to appear. Think David Lynch. The actress who plays "Her" kills it.
Is Suzerain you are called elected President in a fictional country around 1950 (all the World is fictional, but not fantasy: it is a mid-XX Century World). It is a time of deep crisis, both social and economic. Corruption runs deep and even the foreign relations are suffering. This game is surprisingly realistic (even your family and your personal life are involved) and touches one of my favourite themes - both IRL and in my RPG campaigns: Can "values" become an obstacle to "the greater good"? For sure many moments of your Presidential career are eye-openers of the realities of the political world.
One last suggestion. If you like Visual Novels, go on Steam, Create a New Collection and choose "Dynamic Collection". In the screen that appears you can enter a tag. Enter "Visual Novel" and then click on "Snapshot". You will see all the games with the tag Visual Novel on Steam - and you can order them for date, title, reviews... It is the easiest way to see everything that Steam has to offer in the genre.
If you use the above list as a "Do Not Buy!" list, you can't go wrong.
I haven't played or watched all of the games above, but the first two are
strong with woke messaging. I'll just quote the developer of Neo Cab here: "It's that 'the personal is the political' thing..." The whole game is you driving around people who converse with you about stuff, and it's as woke as fuck. You're driving around two wealthy people on a date, and the white male is obnoxious towards both you and his date (because you're both women), etc.
Disco Elysium is made by avowed Marxists. While the mechanic in the game is clever, most of the game is political philosophy discussion. And the Marxist choice almost always offers better bonuses than any other, with fewer negatives. If you'll enjoy working for the blatantly evil megacorp against the unions who are fighting for rights... well, it will penalize you for doing so. And the way the protagonist's ex treats him, and is praised for it, holy shit!
So, just based off those two, understand that you have a Euro-lefty suggesting lefty/woke games, most of them ardently pushing
The Message. Take that for what it's worth...
Quote from: Eirikrautha on August 04, 2023, 12:07:37 PM
Quote from: Reckall on August 04, 2023, 06:37:09 AM
There is a small cyberpunk game called Neo Cab who really made an impression when I played it. You are a female cab driver in a generic cyberpunk city, but the geme is non-linear. You can choose which "calls" to take on the main map, manage your need to keep the cab fueled and meet a wonderful cast of clients, until... I won't spoil, but let's say that you meet a "Quantum Psychic" - and that is your hint that the game must be replayed. Different choices, different management strategy, and all of sudden you see how a life can become completely different after even some minute changes.
Disco Elysium is a RPG centered of an hard boiled detective (more like a wannabe hard boiled) involved in a series of cases in a surreal city. It is the true heir to Planescape Torment - even if the plot is more Philip K. Dick - and the freedom of choices is astounding.
Her Story is another game that really touched me. Basically it is a puzzle. You do research on an old case but all is left are fragments of a series of interrogations with "Her". Your only help is a very old computer, and your aim is to put the fragments in chronological order - while discovering others buried in the memory. What makes this game memorable is how, slowly, from a simple mistery, layers and layers of a much more complex story start to appear. Think David Lynch. The actress who plays "Her" kills it.
Is Suzerain you are called elected President in a fictional country around 1950 (all the World is fictional, but not fantasy: it is a mid-XX Century World). It is a time of deep crisis, both social and economic. Corruption runs deep and even the foreign relations are suffering. This game is surprisingly realistic (even your family and your personal life are involved) and touches one of my favourite themes - both IRL and in my RPG campaigns: Can "values" become an obstacle to "the greater good"? For sure many moments of your Presidential career are eye-openers of the realities of the political world.
One last suggestion. If you like Visual Novels, go on Steam, Create a New Collection and choose "Dynamic Collection". In the screen that appears you can enter a tag. Enter "Visual Novel" and then click on "Snapshot". You will see all the games with the tag Visual Novel on Steam - and you can order them for date, title, reviews... It is the easiest way to see everything that Steam has to offer in the genre.
If you use the above list as a "Do Not Buy!" list, you can't go wrong.
I haven't played or watched all of the games above, but the first two are strong with woke messaging. I'll just quote the developer of Neo Cab here: "It's that 'the personal is the political' thing..." The whole game is you driving around people who converse with you about stuff, and it's as woke as fuck. You're driving around two wealthy people on a date, and the white male is obnoxious towards both you and his date (because you're both women), etc.
Disco Elysium is made by avowed Marxists. While the mechanic in the game is clever, most of the game is political philosophy discussion. And the Marxist choice almost always offers better bonuses than any other, with fewer negatives. If you'll enjoy working for the blatantly evil megacorp against the unions who are fighting for rights... well, it will penalize you for doing so. And the way the protagonist's ex treats him, and is praised for it, holy shit!
So, just based off those two, understand that you have a Euro-lefty suggesting lefty/woke games, most of them ardently pushing The Message. Take that for what it's worth...
Thanks for the heads up, even his descriptions didn't gave me the itch to play those.
Hey, if the GPU can run Cyberpunk (confirmed by my friend who gave it to me) think it can also run Red Dead Redemption?
Any 2.5 RPG games you recommend?
Fuck, It just occurred to me I can emulate the games from my youth!
I like "Her Story" quite a bit. Despite the title, it's hardly a feminist game. In fact, IIRC that crowd slammed it because to them, no woman should ever be presented as less than perfect, and the woman in "Her Story" has a few problems.... I'd recommend that game to anybody who wants to try something out of the ordinary. And yes, the acting in that game is great.
BattleBit Remastered is a $15 first person shooter that focuses on gameplay more than AAA graphics. It is kind of a throwback to the earlier, fondly-remembered versions of games like Battlefield. It was made by a three-person dev team, and as a result, the graphics are kind of Robloxy, and lean heavily on what looks like off the rack scenery elements, but gameplay is supposed to be fun.
I haven't played it myself, shooters aren't my thing, but you might look into it.
Quote from: Eirikrautha on August 04, 2023, 12:07:37 PM
If you use the above list as a "Do Not Buy!" list, you can't go wrong.
I haven't played or watched all of the games above, but the first two are strong with woke messaging.
If so then I agree they failed - as I saw no wokeness in sight when I played it.
Neo Cab is about free will and how we don't realise that we have it because we are unable to see how even a small different choice can change everything.
Regarding Disco Elysium A) Wokeness is an aberration of "extreme values" and hated both by Marxist and Christians alike. B) The game is about despair of any kind of ideology - except maybe nihilism or anarchism. There are a lot of liberal, fascist and centrist choices to make, but nothing really works. The very city you live in tried every side of the political spectrum only to end up shattered.If anything, beside Philip K. Dick, the game has strong vibes of Alan Moore.
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I'll just quote the developer of Neo Cab here: "It's that 'the personal is the political' thing..." The whole game is you driving around people who converse with you about stuff, and it's as woke as fuck. You're driving around two wealthy people on a date, and the white male is obnoxious towards both you and his date (because you're both women), etc.
That character is an ass. If you think that white males can't be mysoginistic asses then you only move the problem.
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So, just based off those two, understand that you have a Euro-lefty suggesting lefty/woke games, most of them ardently pushing The Message. Take that for what it's worth...
Either that, or you need a cold cloth on your forehead and some rest - because you are this close to saying that Terminator (1984) is woke because it has a common waitress destroying a killer robot from the future, while the actual warrior from the future dies. BTW, I usually vote center-rigth, for what is worth...
Quote from: GeekyBugle on August 03, 2023, 02:23:43 PM
After a long while without a way to play anything good on my PC a friend gifted me his old evga geforce gtx 1060, turns out my 650 W power supply is enough, so I don't need to buy one.
Now, what games do you recommend?
I see further down in the thread you've got Steam.
Slipways.
Elite Dangerous
Prodeus
Blazing Chrome
Shovel Knight
The Ascent
Tiny Metal
X-Com Enemy Unknown
Axiom Verge
Cuphead
GRIS
The Messenger
Starcrawlers
Mass Effect trilogy. Just be prepared to be dissapointed by the ending.
Just a quick list of games I've got on my list that I've particularly enjoyed.
I'd put Transformers Devastation on the list, but Steam pulled it a while ago. If you can score a hard copy I reccomend it.
Quote from: Ratman_tf on August 05, 2023, 08:20:53 AM
Quote from: GeekyBugle on August 03, 2023, 02:23:43 PM
After a long while without a way to play anything good on my PC a friend gifted me his old evga geforce gtx 1060, turns out my 650 W power supply is enough, so I don't need to buy one.
Now, what games do you recommend?
I see further down in the thread you've got Steam.
X-Com Enemy Unknown
And, if you like it, X-Com 2 + War of the Chosen (playing the second chapter without War of the Chosen is a crime against videogames; they basically took the ideas they had for X-Com 3 and put all of them in the second chapter with a DLC).
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Mass Effect trilogy. Just be prepared to be dissapointed by the ending.
A bit of trivia here. I once met a guy who had worked for Bioware and he told me how that was the real, original ending. Everyone was believing that being acquired by EA had messed things up but, no. Inside Bioware they told to the lead writer over and over that the ending ruined the whole saga but, somehow, they were contractually obligated to use it. If anything, EA was the first to be miffed by the poor reception they got.
Balder's Gate 3 8)
Though more seriously, start with the Jagged Alliance games and X-Com Games
from my steam list, in no particular order:
Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2 - Divinity games, you know.
Solasta - a 5e crpg adaptation. Subpar voice acting, story and general presentation, but good level design, party building and tactical combat.
Shadowrun games (Returns, Hong Kong, Dragonfall) - kinda like Solasta above, but it's Shadowrun.
Wasteland 2 and 3 - good level design, party building and tactical combat
Invisible Inc - party rogue-like with twist. Good presentation.
I liked Disco Elysium. As I recall most everyone's philosophy or worldview led to disaster, so no bias.
I didn't like Wasteland Remastered, it pissed me off.
The Shadowrun games were fun.
If you're gonna play Mass Effect I recommend only playing the first one. They got worse from there.
I didn't like Civilization: Beyond Earth. Just didn't have the attraction of the old ones.
Tyranny bored me.
Greedfall was fun if you could ignore the preachy "colonialism is bad" outlook.
UnderRail was fun for a while, but eventually I got bored and uninstalled it.
As I mentioned elsewhere I liked Atom RPG, a Fallout 1 & 2 tribute.
Unavowed was a fun supernatural adventure game.
Enderal is a great fantasy Skyrim conversion module that I really enjoyed. It's a whole different world.
If you can play Cyberpunk I hate you. ;-) My rig can't take it.
Here is a fair video on Disco Elysium: https://youtu.be/qLBaB3kQKT0
Make up your own mind, but I'd stay away....
May I recommend instead Planescape Torment. Can't beat a classic! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planescape:_Torment
Also, if you like the system Torment: Tides of Numenera: https://youtu.be/ZInSd3P53SU
Then there is my favorite DANGANRONPA... but it's a VN and not at all a game. :(
Quote from: Baron on August 10, 2023, 09:16:20 PM
I liked Disco Elysium. As I recall most everyone's philosophy or worldview led to disaster, so no bias.
I didn't like Wasteland Remastered, it pissed me off.
The Shadowrun games were fun.
If you're gonna play Mass Effect I recommend only playing the first one. They got worse from there.
I didn't like Civilization: Beyond Earth. Just didn't have the attraction of the old ones.
Tyranny bored me.
Greedfall was fun if you could ignore the preachy "colonialism is bad" outlook.
UnderRail was fun for a while, but eventually I got bored and uninstalled it.
As I mentioned elsewhere I liked Atom RPG, a Fallout 1 & 2 tribute.
Unavowed was a fun supernatural adventure game.
Enderal is a great fantasy Skyrim conversion module that I really enjoyed. It's a whole different world.
If you can play Cyberpunk I hate you. ;-) My rig can't take it.
Thanks for the recomendations.
It remains to be seen, my friend said he was playing it on low settings, I'll have to try it won't I?
Quote from: consolcwby on August 10, 2023, 10:36:59 PM
Here is a fair video on Disco Elysium: https://youtu.be/qLBaB3kQKT0
Make up your own mind, but I'd stay away....
May I recommend instead Planescape Torment. Can't beat a classic! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planescape:_Torment
Also, if you like the system Torment: Tides of Numenera: https://youtu.be/ZInSd3P53SU
Then there is my favorite DANGANRONPA... but it's a VN and not at all a game. :(
After Reckall went mental I suspected anything he recomends should be viewed with suspicion. Same goes for his comrades that also went mental.
Since I can play TableTop simulator I think I'll buy the totally not WH40K mod for it, have two friends who love it, might entice them to play online.
Quote from: GeekyBugle on August 11, 2023, 12:53:30 AM
After Reckall went mental I suspected anything he recomends should be viewed with suspicion. Same goes for his comrades that also went mental.
So, I'm sorry to say that PS: Torment is on my top ten of... everything. :)
As it happens, Steam has a sale on Visual Novels right now:
https://store.steampowered.com/category/visual_novel
I think that it is a kind of Socialist thingie or such.
Other titles that I thought about:
- The vanishing of Ethan Carter. This is a game that
everybody and his sister suggested on the internet. You are Paul Prospero, hard boiled psychic detective, on his last case. A boy, Ethan Carter, wrote to you. He fears for his life - mostly that he will be killed by his own family. You have to help him. The game is a "small open world" set in a truly beautifully valley (the developers used Unreal Engine 3 but they issued a version upgraded to UE4 for free). The plot is David Lynch meets the X-Files. No politics and an astounding beautiful final twist.
- The Observer. It is ironic that the last "role" of the late Rutger Hauer was for this game, while being one of his best. You (voiced by Hauer) are a detective in an indefinite cyberpunk city with the ability to enter the minds of deceased people - a very dangerous action no matter what.It is a deep down delve into the psyche of - don't forget this - dead people, mixed with dark cyberpunk. I don't even remember the ending, only that the whole was a trip.
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Quote from: consolcwby on August 10, 2023, 10:36:59 PM
Here is a fair video on Disco Elysium: https://youtu.be/qLBaB3kQKT0
Make up your own mind, but I'd stay away....
May I recommend instead Planescape Torment. Can't beat a classic! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planescape:_Torment
Also, if you like the system Torment: Tides of Numenera: https://youtu.be/ZInSd3P53SU
Then there is my favorite DANGANRONPA... but it's a VN and not at all a game. :(
After Reckall went mental I suspected anything he recomends should be viewed with suspicion. Same goes for his comrades that also went mental.
>Has a days long epic sperg out to the point of blocking someone after APOLOGIZING for a miss attributed quote. https://www.therpgsite.com/pen-paper-roleplaying-games-rpgs-discussion/wotc-bringing-ai-into-dd/msg1260533/#msg1260533
>Somehow it's other people who went mental.
As far as twinstick shooters go; Relic Hunters: Zero, Assault Android Cactus, Nuclear Throne, Alien Swarm and Synthetik are what I enjoy to play!
Edit: Maybe not RHZ, I remember they sex-changed two characters after an update and redesigned the character art to be more in-line with artstyles used in FB/G advertisements and 5e fanart. I recommend geometry wars instead; Or any neon wireframe twinstick on Steam, loads of them have free demo's, like echoes+.
Valheim survival/adventure but less grindy than most and good rpg elements and a blast with friends. NWN on some of the persistent servers is pretty good and a lot of fun with friends. I also enjoy an action rpg at times and grimdawn takes the cake for me.
Quote from: GeekyBugle on August 11, 2023, 12:37:24 AM
Quote from: Baron on August 10, 2023, 09:16:20 PM
If you can play Cyberpunk I hate you. ;-) My rig can't take it.
Thanks for the recomendations.
It remains to be seen, my friend said he was playing it on low settings, I'll have to try it won't I?
If you want to play Cyberpunk, but your computer isn't a beast, you might try NVidia's GeForce NOW game streaming service. It essentially allows you to play games on a more capable system in a server farm somewhere. It works well for Cyberpunk, but a good internet connection is essential.
No More Room In Hell (NMRIH) is free on steam if you want romero-zombie survival horror where inventory and getting tired are super important. Though admittedly the game should instead be called "where the hell is all the ammo?" because you are going to learn to melee to die...well, you'll probably still die, but the point stands, ammo can be rare and a lead pipe is your best friend.
If your comp could handle it i'd suggest DCS World, with combined arms module you can command ships armies or drive most ground vehicles as well. You get the frogfoot and a p51 trainer for free, can trial the others for free, and right now i think there is a sale on wrt to most modules...and first time buyers get an additional 50% off the total too, so you could get for example the f-18 module normally 80 bucks for 40, and then whatever else you add, the total gets cut in half again...excellent time to start if your rig can swing it and you like a digital sandbox of planes tanks ships and plastic army men of sorts to play with.
Quote from: GeekyBugle on August 03, 2023, 02:23:43 PM
After a long while without a way to play anything good on my PC a friend gifted me his old evga geforce gtx 1060, turns out my 650 W power supply is enough, so I don't need to buy one.
Faster Than Light
Rimworld
Slay The Spire
These games should run on most hardware.
Instead of the newer X-Com games, I suggest Xenonauts 1, Xenonauts 2 is out but it needs a little more updating before it will be as good as/better than 1.
Axiom Verge was good.
Tabletop Simulator is good to play many other games with friends.
Fallout: New Vegas is fun
The Dragon Quest Builders games are on Steam.
They combine the RPG elements of Dragon Quest with the block building gameplay of Minecraft.
Or to put it a different way, they're Minecraft with a Dragon Quest storyline and an astonishing degree of polish and personality.
The village building experience of DQB2 is light years ahead of Minecraft.
We. The Revolution.
Historical kinda-strategic game about crooked, drunken Paris judge trying to survive, and maybe save own soul in fictionalised version of French Revolution
Solasta is an indie RPG based on the 5e ruleset (but using different sub-classes, due to not being licensed). No wokeness. Entertaining.
Markomojo.com (https://markomojo.com/)
You mentioned you don't play visual novels (don't really blame you there) but I'd recommend the older Persona series. Persona 4 Golden is fantastic, and the Persona 2 duology are great if you don't mind emulating it. Another one is Shin Megami Tensei, which the Persona games are based off of. I know the third game is available on steam (SMT3: Nocturne) and it's a really good dungeon crawler as well.
Japanese games aside, I'd suggest Pillars of Eternity, BattleTech, and Civilization 5 if you haven't played it. All really good tbh.
Quote from: dronycroin on January 23, 2024, 11:40:16 AM
Solasta is an indie RPG based on the 5e ruleset (but using different sub-classes, due to not being licensed). No wokeness. Entertaining.
Markomojo.com (https://markomojo.com/)
The best translation of D&D 5e ruleset in videogame form. If it only had the budget for the presentation it would be amazing.
But, it has enough heart to warrant the purchase and play time. The combat is really solid on this one.
Now that it's both official again and their most recent update with improvements to make it easier for new players to get into it, I'll throw my recommendation out for City of Heroes: Homecoming.
Absolutely free (funded by free will donations) and hundred of hours of content; if you've got an itch to be a hero, villain or something in between* I highly recommend it. Hell, I recommend it for the character creator alone.
It's an older game, but it holds up well for being released in 2004 and it's first run ending in 2012. The team behind its rebirth did an update to a 64-bit client which lets it run above its old top settings even on older machines (the old 32-bit client held back the graphics levels even on top end machines).
* for a more shades of grey/moral choices experience give Praetorian Earth a spin, the content is more difficult, but it's some of the best 1-20 content in the game IMHO... running the tutorial is recommended for Praetoria even if you're already familiar with the mechanics as it lays down a lot of world building for the alternate dimension's timeline and includes your starting moral choice for which faction to support that determines which secret missions can become available while doing cross-faction missions undercover.
I will also recommend Homecoming. I'm of the opinion CoH/V is the best MMO ever created.
Oh, and when I talked about the 64-bit client, I meant literally. I still had the desktop PC I had run CoH on when it was live when I heard about it's return. It played just as I had remembered it at 32-bit (same graphics settings). When they put out the 64-bit client though I was able to crank all the graphic settings up to beyond what even live had allowed on the exact same machine.
Honestly, it was the Homecoming team's insistence on doing the far less glamorous, but desperately needed, client update BEFORE throwing a bunch of snazzy powers and outfits that many of the other rogue servers were doing (particularly given that Apple had just announced it was dropping 32-bit client support entirely with its next OS release... which meant Wondows wouldn't be too far behind) was what told me early on that they'd be the team to actually follow for the long haul.
They were the substance (future-proofing the system) over style (over the top powers and dumping developer-locked assets onto the character builder without consideration for how they might interact or overload the 32-bit graphics engine) team.
And it's definitely paid off for them. They're no longer a rogue server.
Lately I have been playing the Book of Travels. It´s an isometric RPG MMO, sort of. Difficult to describe, it is different.
It´s available on Steam and is currently in Early Access though it is basically a full game already with very few bugs (my experience)