PC Games Recommendations

Disclaimer! This is just a list of games I've played on my shitty laptop in the last couple years. Quite a few of them are available to play in your browser, which I've noted.

As you might be able to tell, I love browsing sites like itch.io for indie games, and quite a few of them have captivated my time enough to go on this list. Also! If you like any of these games enough, check out their steam pages. There's a few on here that I have enjoyed so much for free that I had to buy it to play it again.

	Okay so, this is the full release of "10 Minutes Till Dawn" which was free on itch.io. Really scratches the Vampire Survivors power trip itch. Also, I liked the fact that this requires a little more than just kiting, but includes an aiming and shooting mechanic. Good music too.
	10 minute little puzzle game about trying to crack your coworkers passwords. I love the simplistic style and humour of this.
	A game about crawling down a hole. Deeper than it first appears (pun intended). I also really like the art style too. Mystery Flesh Pit fans will like this one.
	Oooh Alien Isolation, the game that made me slam my laptop shut in fear. Immaculate. Nothing I can add that hasn't already been said, but I go back time and time again to Kukakku's playthrough. Pls pls pls watch it if you enjoy text-based humour.
	It's a cat that sits on your desktop screen and plays the bongos whenever you type. You can give it cute little hats.
	Roguelike where you start a cult! It's got a cute furry artstyle, base-building mechanics, ritual sacrifice... and gets updated fairly regularly.
	An incremental game about turning a crank in a dark room, trying to figure out where you are. Took me a few tries to get into it, but once it gets going you stay hooked wanted to get just one more hit of figuring things out
	2D Adventure about a delivery guy just trying to do his job in an apartment full of monsters. Took me by surprise about how well it's written, very Undertale like in it's unique characters.
	Roguelike but with dice. Dice. Found myself in lectures with it running in the background because I craved another roll. Play the free version, and don't make for the shitty demake.
	Welcome to the Literature Club! It's always been a dream of mine to make something special out of the things I love. Now that you're a club member, you can help me make that dream come true in this cute game! -Monika
	Deckbuilder plus incremental game thats perhaps a bit to easy to beat, but I still had fun figuring out the combos.
	Will running away to an isolated firewatch tower fix all my problems? This game says no, but I say yes.
	Toil until the cold is gone! ngl I got possessed by a victorian capitalist playing this game as I would twirl my moustache and rant about the factory must expand and I want to get the sequel once it's a bit cheaper.
	Beautiful artstyle, music, story, all wrapped up in a frustratingly easy to grasp but hard to master metroidvania. I'm more in it for the music and lore at this point because I fail to "git gud".
	Interactive fiction game about becoming a master of horses. I love this for the viseral, immersive writing style that gives Lovecraft if he was a horse girl.
	Telltale does dinosaurs. Made waay back in the day before the studio hit mainstream and then imploded. Thankfully light on how much you need to invest in the characters, and heavy on the dinos. Also you get to knife-fight a raptor if you want.
	Something weird's going on outside, but I'm too afraid to open the curtains. Survival horror RPG straight out of SCP When Day Breaks or Local:58. Each day brings new areas and encounters, with just enough randomness to make each run unique.
	Management strat where you run a newspaper in the 1930s. Nails the atmosphere, has just enough resource management mechanisms to be fun but not impossible to understand, and occasionally punches you in the gut because all these headlines are real.
	Two newspaper sims next to each other? This one is a modern remake of The Republia Times as a crique of the NYT's coverage of the Israel/Palestine Conflict and rise of right-wing populism in America c.2024
	Okay, I'll admit, I didn't like this one when I first played it. It frustrated me with it's persistant ennui and lack of agency, how the world seems run-down and everyone's future is being sucked into the endless vortex of capitalism and nobody does anything about it?! And then I graduated uni, and yeah...
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