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Hi all,

Recommend me a game! I'm looking for something casual (to play for 20-30 minutes from time to time), challenging (like in difficult to master), not super complicated (I don't want to spend hours learning all the rules), but not super simple (when it's too repetitive the patters get ingrained in my brain. anyone else has this?), cheap (don't want to spend $30 on a game I will play from time to time). Must work on Linux and on an integrated GPU. Games I enjoyed previously:

  • Fistful of Frags
  • smashcarts.io
  • xevil

What I did a lot years ago was to play single levels of games over and over until I totally crashed it even if I wasn't that interested in the entire game. I guess what I like most is figuring out the smallest details of a game, not getting into long campaigns.

So, what can I play?

Edit: Thanks for all recommendations so far but I see I need to add one more requirement: no levels. I'm looking for something quick, in and out, skirmish, death match, melee type of game. Not something where you build a character, solve puzzles and so on.

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[–] Zo0@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you played 'Vampire Survivors'? Rounds last at maximum of 30 minutes Easy to learn, but there's a lot of content to keep you occupied It's $5 but it goes on sale often

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[–] crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'd recommend Borderlands 2. It runs beautifully even on Intel HD4000 and it's less than $5 on sale. It's much better with friends, but I've enjoyed most of it by myself and absolutely love it.

You may also try Hero's hour and Death road to Canada.

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[–] Nilz@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago
[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Not exactly a "game", but a collection of games -- XCloud. And yes I know "Microsoft bad", etc but its an awesome choice for extremely low powered devices like the Orange Pi zero 3. (its power consumption varies through 1W to 3W.)

t. Am typing this on mine (1 GiB) and it runs extremely well (60 fps, with almost unnoticeable hiccups.)

[–] Poopmeister@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

If running it on proton is an option I would recommend outer wilds. Fantastic in every aspect!

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] DrRatso@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Your Only Move is Hustle - Basically a TAS Fighting game, the game plays like chess meets a fighter game, you preselect moves at the same time as your opponent, then they play out. Sounds super simple when explained like that but there are so many complications to this basic formula (cancels, bursts, DI, parries, to name a few), that it is actually very interesting.

Omega Strikers - Air Hockey meets MOBA, although the game is dying a little, but the devs are still active and they just released a new character, their design never disappoints and the OST is fire.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

ShellShock Live. Fits every one of your criteria.

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