Ew, not like Fortnite, I mean like indie launchers
Vintage story. Much grittier minecraft with a larger emphasis on survival
What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam?
Submitted 2 days ago by Katana314@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
afaix@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I’m surprised no one mentioned it yet, but Kitten Space Agency
It’s a free spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program that tries to be everything that KSP2 wasn’t. It’s still in early development by its progressing fast and it already looks great and allows you to do a lot of cool things, and it’s also built using their own engine instead of Unity and has modding support.
And it’s not on steam.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 15 minutes ago
Probably because it’s not really a game yet. You can play it, but there’s really nothing to do at the moment. It’ll be on a list like this when there’s actual gameplay.
However, the studio also make Stationeers, which more people should play. It is on Steam though, so it’s not for this list. I’m a pretty big fan of their studio. They seem to be doing everything right.
Ace0fBlades@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Beyond All Reason (BAR) A spiritual successor to supreme commander made by a team of fans. It’s free and had LAN and online multiplayer. Really fun if you enjoyed the source material.
rethnor@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Destroyed
Dwarf fortress is on steam, humble bundle, itch io and free on their website.
Dwarf fortress is an essential gaming experience.
ICastFist@programming.dev 4 hours ago
Should be played until your most common cause of fortress failure is FPS death
rethnor@lemmy.zip 5 minutes ago
And then you should start to experiment with science!
PonyOfWar@pawb.social 2 days ago
Vintage Story, a Minecraft-like game that focuses on a tough, realistic survival experience. There are climate zones and seasons. Things like smelting ores or growing food are much more involved than they are in Minecraft, which makes for a strong sense of progression when you’ve finally managed to make iron or build a windmill.
Goodeye8@piefed.social 1 day ago
I will add that it’s Minecraft-like only graphically. Anyone going into Vintage Story expecting their Minecraft knowledge to carry over is going to have a very bad time because the actual overlap is minimal.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Really, its hard to under state how calling VS “minecraft like” is utter bullshit nonsense. Its like calling borderlands and tarkov the like each other. Its so insanely superficial that its absurd.
turbowafflz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Hytale too, completely different direction than VS but another fun minecraft-ish game
BreadGar@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I second vintage story, such a cool game
chunes@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Starsector, perhaps the greatest 2D space game of all time.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
This isn’t an underrated game, because everyone I’ve ever seen talk about it only praise it. It is an underrecognized game though. It’s sad how few people know about it despite how well it’s received.
monstoor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This actually looks really good! I’ll have to ask the missus for an advance on my pocket money 😀
chahn.chris@piefed.social 1 day ago
I’m genuinely curious about this game but the dev blog goes back to 2010? Is this another star citizen or is it actually a full / good game?
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
More like Project Zomboid or Warframe. They could be released as version 1.0, but they just always have ideas for more things to add, and they do it in a way that doesn’t make the experience feel incomplete, just that it feels better when there’s new stuff added.
Rinn@awful.systems 1 day ago
It’s perpetually in progress but what’s there is already pretty much a complete game, dev just can’t stop adding/revamping things. I’ve played it like 5 years ago, spent 50+ hours and had a great time. There’s also an active modding community.
Minnels@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
There is a lot of game there. It is like Mount & blade in space so don’t except a story or something like that. You make your own. Totally worth the money.
Kirp123@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There is quite a lot of game and there is a solid modding scene as well. It is worth the money.
kyTdKZx9PtDQ9e56u06@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Freelancer. Basically abandonware at this point, but tons of community support, with some great mods and servers.
Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
I really wanted Freelancer 2. Star Citizen was meant to be it before Chris Roberts did… well I have no idea what he did, what he is doing or the state of Star Citizen any more, its got so out of hand.
Elite Dangerous just wasnt it for me. The ship and space stuff is amazing but the world just isn’t as fun as Freelancer. I know its come a long way after I played it just after release but it doesn’t seem to quite fill the same niche.
Vitaly_Chernobyl@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
Love this game.
alexquiniou@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
If you are brave enough there is big list of open source clone games.
Most of them are not on any play store.
luipaard0011@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
This is gold
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
I’ve heard good things about star citizen
KeithD@lemmy.nz 10 hours ago
I played it in one of their free play weekends, and it had so many glitches. I spent an afternoon and evening trying to play it and have never bothered with it again.
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
It’s got the kernel of something amazing in there, but it’s insanely buggy (and essentially unplayable when it’s busy, like the Free Fly events or right after a patch) and the pace of development is absolutely glacial. And you really can’t trust anything the devs assure you is happening/on the way. It’s unclear whether they’re just bullshitting everyone or they somehow genuinely believe their own hype about deadlines, even after consistently missing all of them for over a decade, by a lot.
That probably makes it sound worse than it is TBH. There’s a really cool game in there somewhere, but you have to be extremely patient with it.
Konraddo@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
StarSector
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
Bought it myself. On my 5th playthrough and its such a blast still. Mods keep the game fresh. All ya gotta do is.download a folder from the game’s forums and put it in the right place. If thats to much work, there is always TriOS mod manager
Starsectors website: fractalsoftworks.com
turbowafflz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’ve probably played a few hundred hours of SuperTuxKart. It’s a mario kart clone except i like it way better than the mario karts I’ve played.
Mindustry is fun, it’s like a space factory builder thing.
I was going to say the powder toy but it turns out its on steam now
chunes@lemmy.world 2 days ago
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 days ago
It’s a way for the devs to get some revenue. Doesn’t mean that you have to buy it. Same with Shattered Pixel Dungeon. Super Tux is also on Steam but not paid.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Most of the time the steam version acts as the “donation button” for many small indie and f2p open source games. It exists for no other reason then to cost money so you CAN buy the dev a beer if you want.
False@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s worth giving the guy ten bucks imo.
turbowafflz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Oh what, that’s very weird
NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Voices of the Void
Absolute peak game that doesn’t really have any contemporaries.
A game with base management, fully open map, random events ranging from spooky to hilarious, minigames to fix equipment, little robot helpers, big robot helpers that require some assembly, but don’t need charging thanks to running on nuclear power, and a quadbike you can backflip.
And the Christmas gun.
thezeesystem@piefed.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
Factorio you can buy it from there website. It’s on steam yes but it’s also available on there website with (iirc) to get a steam key or link it to steam if you want to do that.
rethnor@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
If you like factorio, mindustry in similar and open source. It’s on itch.io, Steam and their website.
Katana314@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
This was how I first got Factorio, but the post is really about things you can’t discover on Steam.
thezeesystem@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
Oh I misinterpreted. My apologies
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Note for the below links: Flathub is a repository for Linux. If you are on Windows, go to their website and look for downloads.
- Luanti: Website | Flathub | PCGamingWiki | Video | Very close Minecraft like clone (note its old name was Minetest for the longest time). Each downloadable subgame requires extremely low space, in the MBytes range! No account or any online servers are needed. Open Source.
- osu!: Website | Flathub | PCGamingWiki | Video | Rhythm style game where you use the mouse. I think the code is Open Source, but not the assets? I’m not sure.
- Taisei Project: Website | Flathub | PCGamingWiki | Video | Fan project in the Touhou Project series. Old school bullet hell shmup from top down perspective. Open Source.
I was focusing on non commercial free games that are also (for the most part) Open Source too.
macros@feddit.org 2 days ago
For Luanti I want to especially recommend the Game “Glitch” which is not minecraft like at all, but surprisingly great.
kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Regarding osu’s source code, I think the original osu (osu!stable) is closed-source, and I think the servers might be closed-source, but I believe osu!lazer, the new reimplementation in C#, is fully opensource. It’s an ongoing effort and a long-term migration it’s in the middle of, but lazer looks great and I think it’s already meant to be the main version now.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Stable is also dead, thats part of the reason its closed source and staying that way. He doesn’t want people using it and it will be retired entirely at some point. Its basically a unsaveable pile of pasta.
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Funny enough, moving to Linux meant I discovered a lot of cool tools and games that I wouldn’t have otherwise…and then eventually learned they had Windows releases anyway, so it wasn’t strictly necessary to ditch MS for them. But beneficial anyway.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
One of the reasons why you find so many interesting tools on Linux is, that you are new and need to setup your environment. Maybe even searching for alternatives. That will make you discover lot of stuff by nature.
Red0ctober@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Battle for Wesnoth, very good high fantasy strategy game. Lots of player created campaigns, and tons of mods
JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Yeah, it’s available on Steam (for free) but I think it still fits this thread nicely.
It’s impressive that they’re still actively developing it after 20 years. For anyone else like me who used to play Wesnoth a lot but hasn’t touched it in a couple of years, I just noticed that they have added a new mainline campaign fairly recently.
Red0ctober@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I love that it continues to be worked on too. I remember playing it well over a decade ago.
Avorn@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Love this game! It still holds up pretty well
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
An MMO with no micro transactions: Clan Lord
It’s been around since the 90s, the original developer is now a farmer and gave control of the world to the players rather than selling to a larger company.
We could use an influx of newbies, just don’t be a turd.
False@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Starsector is one of my favorites from the last decade.
FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
OSU. There’s a open source client don’t know anymore which ones good.
CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Lazer client works native on Linux, and is perfectly suitable to play with. Lower audio latency on both Windows (WASAPI) and Linux (runs native and not via Wine) is a pretty solid reason why most people prefer it, but the interface isn’t as skinnable as Stable is currently and slider head accuracy is confusing for some old players, but other than that there isn’t any reason not to use Lazer.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
If i recall lazer also doesn’t let you “cheat” with spinners or some such and thus points are on avg lower compared to what people are use to.
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
CLICK THE CIRCLES
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Xonotic
isyasad@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
warmaster@lemmy.world 2 days ago
- 0 A.D.
- Beyond All Reason
- Open BOR (beats of rage)
- M.U.G.E.N
FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Vintage Story, Voices of the Void
Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
2nded for voices of the void
londos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Armadiilo Run www.armadillorun.com
chunes@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Oh man I sunk countless hours into this like… 20 years ago. Amazing game.
GrilledCheese@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
Wow what a flashback to my teenage years!
BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 1 day ago
SRB2K, or Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart, is a mod of SRB2, itself a doom mod, that is an absolute love letter to the classic days of Mario Kart (I’m thinking super mario kart or 64). Full of small QoL changes, and with a forum full of mods for any character you can think of, it’s an easy pitch if you’ve ever wanted to play a kart styled game thats better than the original, with online play
BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Worth noting the devs have since released a sequel, Robotniks Ring Racers, but it does it’s own thing in a way that does less for me personally in terms of nostalgia, and is also generally more complicated, and thus harder to pull random friends into. That’s not to say it’s worse or bad, it’s just got very different appeal
chunes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, a really good traditional roguelike, often considered one of the four pillars of the genre along with NetHack, ADOM, and TOME. (Those are on Steam, however; Crawl is not.)
CumbrianCucumber@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The Croc remake is Gog exclusive (and on console) and I love it! It’s the first single player PC game that I’ve 100%'ed!
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 16 hours ago
CumbrianCucumber@lemmy.world 32 minutes ago
Thanke
trslim@pawb.social 17 hours ago
Aurora 4X if you are into very complex strategy games about building an interstellar empire.
I_Jedi@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Japanese visual novels that never get translated are a big one. A huge chunk of them live on novelgame, DLSite, and DMM. In fact, there are some full fledged Japanese games that are DLSite exclusive. I’ve tried a few, and some can be quite good.
The Star Trek games on GOG (like Elite Force I and II, and Armada) are worth your attention.
Full Metal Daemon Muramasa is also typically bought on JAST.
There are also a bunch of gacha games that never released on Steam, though the bigger ones are working to change that.
CovertOperative@piefed.zip 1 day ago
I recently logged back into my telltale account on a whim and was surprised to find that I owned “Back to the Future: The Game”. Even though I’m certain I never bought it. It’s not listed on Steam or GOG, but I think you can find it as abandonware somewhere.
Have only played a bit so far, but it looks pretty good. It’s a typical point-and-click, not a “X will remember this” story game.
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 1 day ago
It was a decent 4th installment. Still have it on steam, but not tried it on modern machines.
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
Super tux kart