Top 5 games that you will pass for this fall

If before there was nothing to play because there are few games, now the situation is different: there are too many. Hundreds of projects in each category makes it difficult to find something interesting. And if you in addition buy keys in Stim, you clearly do not want to spend extra money on a bad product.

So today we have gathered the top 5 PC games that you will surely enjoy.

Starbound

You have landed on an icy planet in search of food. Wandering through its vast expanse, you come across a monster. By killing it, you manage to get the meat that you will eat during the day. Here you notice a tantalizing cave “begging” to be explored. As an experienced player, you know that interesting loot can be found in caves.

In the subterranean depths you discover a settlement with tiny little people who, upon seeing a giant, try to escape. By smashing their houses and collecting coins, you climb up to the spaceship. On it you manage to fly to another star system, where a penguin-engineer sells you a chip that allows you to fix your gravity bike. Welcome to Starbound!

Now we tell you about a game that harmoniously combines a touching story, the spirit of an explorer and madness. The protagonist controls a spaceship. On it he travels around the planets, carrying out an important mission. You will learn about it only after starting the passage of the game.

The hero encounters a huge number of extraterrestrial creatures and civilizations. Visiting a dozen solar systems monkeys, built a secret laboratory, will become commonplace. Much more interesting will be to equip your spaceship and get cool weapons.

In Starbound to do almost everything. You can choose a home planet and build your own castle on it. If you want, you can travel to planets with acid rain or become a collector of rare things. And after surviving a boss fight, it's quite normal to pitch a tent by the fire and sit in place for half a night, enjoying the atmosphere.

Starbound is that rare case when pixel-art emphasizes the game's advantages rather than being its disadvantage. And with the help of modifications you can play as penguins, create new clothes, communicate with NPCs, etc. Explore ancient ruins, fulfill quests from strange alien creatures, survive in a harsh galaxy and do a huge number of other things in the vastness of the universe.

Far: Lone Sails

Perhaps you have already played Limbo, Rain World, Little Nightmares or something similar. And now you want to feel again what it means to be in an alien world, which you will have to explore and learn. In this case we recommend FAR: Lone Sails.

According to the lore on the planet there was an unknown cataclysm, during which all people died. Only a little girl survived, forced to live alone on a dead planet with dried up oceans.

She is traveling on a huge car with holey sails. All you as a player have to do is watch where and why this child is traveling. The game creates a feeling of pleasant melancholy, because all you will be doing is exploring the remains of a dead civilization and taking care of the steam-powered car.

From time to time you will have to make stops. You may be hindered by the gates of an old factory, a cliff or something else. The heroine in a red raincoat will travel through wastelands, dried ocean floor, icy deserts and other biomes.

The Banner Saga series

The first installment of this game received funding through kickstarter. And, unlike many other projects, it shot and earned the love of the audience.

The developers took Scandinavian myths as the basis of the setting. The events of the game unfold in a world where the sun has stopped. The local inhabitants believe that this happened because of the death of those whom they call gods.

On the land live humans and giants, who used to fight each other. After many battles, the two races made a fragile peace. And this is the only thing that saved them from a future attack: hordes of dead knights move from the North, destroying everything in their path.

The protagonists have also suffered at the hands of the horde. Together they gather caravans and move to the South in search of a safe haven. In the course of the game you will take control of several caravans that need to be saved.

On the way to rescue you will face dozens of tasks and problems with difficult moral choices. And here we will say right away that good outcomes will be rare. The game teaches you to pay for the misdeeds committed, sometimes at the cost of the lives of your favorite heroes.

The game also stands out for its attractive design and variation. Yes, the outcome will always be the same, but you can come to it in different ways. The combat system is similar to turn-based strategy (like in Baldur's Gate 3 or XCOM). Therefore, you will have to work out tactics so that an important fighter doesn't get injured.

You will also need to manage the supplies of your own caravan. And sometimes you will need to perform heroic actions, because for them you will get glory points, for which you buy interesting items and upgrade your heroes.

Oxygen not included

This is a game without a plot, which is a mixture of economic strategy and survival. You take control of a settlement living in the depths of an asteroid. The main building is a printer that prints clones. Outwardly they resemble chibiki.

The task is simple: you need to live as many days as possible. To help you will be given a huge amount of technology and mechanisms that will have to build and study. There are two key resources: oxygen and food. To produce them you will have to use water, land, gas, oil, products of various creatures, etc.

You will be able to lay pipelines and communications, increase the comfort level of the inhabitants of your colonies, build underground vegetable gardens and do many other interesting things.

In our memory, this is one of the most interesting economic simulators. It stands out not only for its mechanics, but also for its pleasant animations.

Stanley Parable

This is a funny thriller about an office worker. The plot is intriguing from the very beginning: the clerk does his important things in the office (presses buttons at the computer), and then realizes that he is alone in the world. There are no colleagues, no bosses, only a voice-over narrator who loves English humor.

And here there are two ways - to follow the commands of the velvet voice or to organize a revolt. In both cases the game will react to your actions. You can, for example, hide in a room. In this case, the voiceover will mockingly accuse you of paranoia, and at the end will say something like: “That's it, the reactions are over, nothing else will be funny”.

Or you can open all the doors in a row to find something interesting. And in this case, the voice will offer to do a small quest to get an Achievement. At first you will be asked to pull the door handle 20 times, then they will tell you that you are not persistent enough and ask you to do the same 50 times. Then they will specify that the achivka is not obtained simply so and tell you to perform the same actions for another 100 times.

And there are a lot of such moments in the game. As well as the endings that you can get. You can hint that you are a loser and you have nothing but work. Or they may pretend that everything around you is nothing more than a dream. Or simply show that you participate in the play, the rules of which can not be broken. Developments will be a lot.

Stanley Parable is a perfect example of how you can make an interesting game out of a corridor and a charismatic narrator. Some people find it also deep, as there are certain philosophical ideas.