I finally have a computer that can run Cyberpunk 2077, but it is such a dull game.

arc raiders

Persona. I didnt play it to the end. Not even sure I past the tutorial. So many text boxes. So much dialogue.

The Elden Ring.

The open world just did not do it to me. I enjoy much more tighter game world like in the previous souls games.

Most of the side bosses were unintresting and if you found them too late you were completely overpowered.

For me, it's borderlands 2

I thought the gameplay was pretty good, in a "turn your brain off and shoot guys with gradually increasing numbers" kind if way, and I absolutely adored whenever Handsome Jack showed up, but that's pretty much it

I've heard from more than a few sources that the shooting on that game's peak, but it's just kind of generic. Outside of Jack, I thought the writing was honestly pretty lacklustre as well, even getting annoying in more than one instance (CATCH A RIIIIIDE FUCK OFF DIPSHIT). The cell-shaded artsyle is quite pretty, I will give it that

At its core, I think it's just... fine.

Super Tux Party

I'm sorry but we need something more modern

Doom dark ages. Just upgraded my computer, and I thought 'hey, I really liked 2016 and eternal, this'll be great, and it's got great reviews'. Nah, the whole game just felt...okay. I might try it again at some point and mess with the difficulty settings, but I felt like I was forcing myself to play it the whole way through.

Bg3. I think the flaws are glaringly obvious and everyone has heard them already (inventory, everything after act 1, the main characters being generally gross) it's just whether they're a deal breaker for you personally. For me they are, especially inventory.

statisfactory 1.0: the game is pure eye candy there's no endgame. factorio is leaps and bounds better

Life

Farthest Frontier.

I love city building games. They're my genre of choice. This one is hyped up to 11 as this great agent based logistics chain focused city sim. It's not. Like at all. The numbers are obfuscated to hell and back. It's got the slowest tier one to tier 2 transition I've ever played in a game like this. Very little does what it's reported to do. They added a useless tech tree to lock stuff up to get a sense of progression, when in reality it just adds a second layer of requirements and time to progress to the next stage of your city. They have a really frustrating combat system which is cool in thought, but poorly executed. The economy is fucked and barely makes any sense.

The most frustrating thing that's the biggest deal breaker is that pops don't move into the city upon building housing. You need extra people to fulfill basic laborer roles. I can fill up every job I've plopped and have 20 extra workers doing basic labor or nothing. Or I can have two extra workers and build more houses to increase the pop count. Problem is nobody moves in. One of the requirements to get to tier 3 is 200 pop. I can't break the 64 barrier let alone 100 because for some awful reason the dev decided to use a desirability score and not move pops in upon building a house. I have a population cap of 140 people and there's vacant houses everywhere. Yet shit don't change. I don't think peasants in the fucking 1400s gave a shit about market prices and luxury amenities when fucking bears and wolves attack every 5 minutes. Just move people in the houses when I build them.

The game is a looker. I'll give it that. Everything else is frustratingly bad.

Planet crafter - Holy shit is that game janky, ugly, badly designed etc.

Conan Exiles - I did enjoy it for a while, but it quickly becamse such a chore since so little is explained so you spend so much time having to look things up, and even then it's often not obvious what to do. I payed solo, and there is a point where doing that just feels impossible, I ended up wanting to cheat to do some things and that's a point I never cross so I just stopped playing.

I really want to play some game like those; survival with base building, exploration etc, But I think I've exhausted the list of ones that are good enough for me. I've played Minecraft, Terraria, Star Bound, Enshrouded, Subnautica, Grounded, Valheim, Satisfactory, Factorio, The Forest and more that I'm not remembering right now. There are some that are in early access that I'm interested in but I've stopped playing EA games, I now always wait till full release.

If anyone has any suggestions I'd be very happy, I'm craving something to dive deep into. I'm only interested in Single player games through, at least ones that can be played as such.