Ew, not like Fortnite, I mean like indie launchers
What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam?
Submitted 2 months ago by Katana314@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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isyasad@lemmy.world 1 month ago
xspurnx@leminal.space 2 months ago
YARG - Yet Another Rhythm Game. Like Guitar Hero/Rock Band (way better than Clone Hero) - open source. Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keys, Vocals.
I think it’s still being worked on, but some Devs have been hired for the next big rhythm game - if I understood correctly - so the development has slowed some.
You can get quite a lot of songs for free with it, there are some real bangers and it’s tons of fun (or go sail the high seas and get what feels like infinite songs, including those from the popular plastic instrument games). Also runs really well on my potato laptop…
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’ve heard good things about star citizen
KeithD@lemmy.nz 1 month 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 1 month 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.
CumbrianCucumber@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
CumbrianCucumber@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Thanke
Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Hyperburner’s a fun arcade flight game (though the iOS version is the definitive version).
chunes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hyperburner is that moment in a SciFi film where an escaping ship, travelling entirely too fast, has to navigate an insane exit.
Great game description, wish they could all be described that succinctly.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
Crusader: No Remorse and Crusader: No Regret.
Tyropitoubas@nord.pub 1 month ago
Unciv (https://github.com/yairm210/unciv) is a great low graphics but with nothing to be jealous of Civilization 5 free and open source alternative. It also has a great mod scene with mods that add undead and fantasy armies and so much more.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hytale, Tibia, Escape from Tarkov, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, Brogue
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Super tux kart
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Xonotic
trslim@pawb.social 1 month ago
Aurora 4X if you are into very complex strategy games about building an interstellar empire.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I recently got into a Toontown rougelike ( rougelite? ) fan game called Toontown Grindworks. It’s available for free on Itch. Ypu run from floor to floor climbing the corporate tower, fighting cogs ( basically businesspeople robots ), avoiding traps, and collecting gear and new gag tracks ( weapons/upgrades ). All to get to the final boss of the tower. I’ve only had a single run where I got to the final boss, but failed there because I got really unlucky.
There is also the current demo of Plants vs Zombies Universe, which jas a fair bit of content that can last a while if you don’t speed through it. The game is basically devs wanting to create a PvZ fan game where it’s basically content from all the games rolled into a single PvZ title. Meaning you get the exclusive PvZ Online plants/worlds/zombies, exclusive PvZ2/2C plants/worlds/zombies, etcetera. All while being a bit more balanced as of now to create a genuinely challenging game.
I was gonna say development is on indefinite hiatus, but it seems a 1.2 update was released about a week ago! Sadly, unless you already have the link, you need to access their discord for the download, from either google drive or mega, if that would sway anyone away from it. That, or I’m sure they have a QQ group set up, but I ain’t creating an account just for this game.
Other than those, the only other games I could recommend are pokemon fangames or well known open source games like Mindustry ( has a steam version, but that’s only for supporting the devs and getting steam workshop content, if you even care ) or SuperTuxKart. That, and a few furry visual novels on Itch that aren’t completed yet that I like.
DPEWGF@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
2xko by riot games. Not indie but it is a free fighting game through the riot launcher. Sadly, riot been fumbling with it but I hope they give it a few years of love & development. I genuinely love it.
paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
If you can put up with the (unending) bugs and performance issues, there really isn’t something that hits white like Star Citizen for me. A friend bought it for me but I would happily pay the minimum $45 when it finally releases in a stable and reliable playable state.
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
If they could just get the base systems down and do a big push on bug fixing instead of adding flashy events and more ships it would make such a difference.
vortexal@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Artix Entertainment has their own game launcher. Not all of the games are exclusive to it though, as Adventure Quest 3D links to the steam version. Surprisingly, the original Adventure Quest (and by extension WarpForce) still receive updates.
thezeesystem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month 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.
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
Oh I misinterpreted. My apologies
rethnor@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
If you like factorio, mindustry in similar and open source. It’s on itch.io, Steam and their website.