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My Top Eleven Games on Steam
12 years ago
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Why top eleven? Go watch the Nostalgia Critic after this, you'll see.
Anyways, I now have somewhere around one hundred and fifty games on Steam after I began using the service around two years ago. I've been an avid gamer all my life and I just wanted to list what I felt were the top eleven games I've found on Steam over the past few years. These are games I have actually bought and played, if not all the way through then most of the way. I'm going to try to avoid major titles such as Skyrim and Bioshock Infinite. Everyone knows those games are good already so putting them here will be redundant.
Also, I'm going to avoid putting games that aren't complete on here. So games like Starbound (which is early access) and The Wolf Among Us (which isn't totally released yet) are both favorites of mine, but will not be featured.
11. Mark of the Ninja http://store.steampowered.com/app/214560
Its rare that games will focus entirely on stealth based gameplay, but Mark of the Ninja makes it work and makes it work well. There are few things I've found in gaming as satisfying as hiding from a high vantage point, grappling down to grab and murder a guard while leaving his body to hang from my grapple line, then finding a good hiding spot and watching his buddies find him, panic, and shoot all the other nearby guards while frantically pissing their pants.
I haven't finished this one yet, but I really do enjoy the gameplay and the art style, which seems very reminiscent of Samurai Jack for some reason.
10. Overlord 2 http://store.steampowered.com/app/12810/
Sometimes its fun to be the bad guy, to raise an army of devilishly evil minions, and then go raze a few villages while enslaving the populace. Overlord 2 is an older game and isn't technically a Steam game originally, but its only available through them and Good Old games now so I'm going to count it.
The humor is good, the storyline is fun, and Gnarl is probably one of my favorite helper characters.
9. Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves http://store.steampowered.com/app/2.....snr=1_7_15__13
Normally I'm not one to like games where wolves/werewolves are the antagonists... but this one is a unique title that's really worth a try. The gameplay is tower defense of sorts, but incredibly challenging. Each day you have to set traps, visit town for supplies, and do what you can to prepare yourself for the night... when night falls the werewolves come. You do have means besides traps to protect yourself. An axe and a gun, but it's the 1800s so that axe is just an ordinary wood axe and that gun is an old flintlock rifle. No running and gunning here, if you shoot you have to spend a good fifteen seconds on average reloading. Doesn't sound like much, but that time is precious when you've got a pack of werewolves heading for you.
The voice acting is a bit wooden, but the setting is unique and the game is good and challenging.
8. Symphony http://store.steampowered.com/app/207750/
This is a good one for anyone who likes those old top-down scrolling shooters from the arcade era and has a large collection of music. Upon starting the game it scans your computer for Mp3 files, then those files become the stages. Fight your way through your favorite music in an attempt to stop an evil force from taking over our reality by corrupting it through the music we write.
The graphics are flashy and colorful, the speed changes with the song itself, and there's literally an endless amount of levels. So long as you have new music, you have new levels!
7. Dust: An Elysian Tail http://store.steampowered.com/app/2.....snr=1_7_15__13
I don't think there's a furry that hasn't heard about this one yet, but its a great title. A side-scrolling adventure with absolutely gorgeous artwork, excellent voice-acting, and probably one of my all time favorite video game characters in Fidget. That and it's one of the rare times I actually cried at the end. I won't say what happens, but watching Fidget's reaction to whats going on was damn near heartbreaking for me.
A damn fine title with an all furry cast set in a fantasy world. Worth a try to anyone who likes such games.
6. Don't Starve http://store.steampowered.com/app/2.....snr=1_7_15__13
What can I say that hasn't already been said about Don't Starve? A survival game with some very challenging mechanics, a unique setting, and an art style that looks like something Tim Burton would come up with during a bad hangover.
Whether you're trying to unlock all the characters, trying to solve the mystery of Maxwell and his island, or just trying not to starve its a damn fun game.
5. Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale http://store.steampowered.com/app/70400/
Who ever would have thought a game where you, of all things, work a retail job would make MY favorite game list?! Seriously though, Recettear is an indie game from Japan that takes the traditional JRPG/dungeon crawling system and mixes it up by casting you as the owner of an item shop. Team up with heroes to explore dungeons, gather treasure, and then sell it in your store.
Adorable anime-themed art style, good music, and a fun little story make this one of my faves.
4. Orcs Must Die 2 http://store.steampowered.com/app/201790/
Genocide can be fun, just ask any third world dictator... wait that came out wrong. Anyways, in Orcs Must Die 2 you take either the role of the Warmage from the first game or his one-time adversary, the Sorceress and stop waves of orcs who are trying to get from point A to point B by putting a multitude of traps between them and their goal and, when that fails, jumping in yourself to crack some skulls. With creative traps like the electro-zapper (electrocutes nearby enemies), the spike-wall (shoots out and knocks orcs backwards), and the portal trap (sends whatever steps on it back to start, ha ha!) this game is just as often a way of finding just how many ways you can combine traps to ruin a greenskin's day as it is a frantic fight against an ever increasing army of fantasy monsters.
Great humor, highly addictive gameplay, and damn if it's not satisfying to watch a mob turn a corner only to be greeted by an entire hall of kill-machines. An all time favorite.
3. Awesomenauts http://store.steampowered.com/app/204300/
I'm usually not a fan of multiplayer gameplay, and when someone says 'squad-based red vs blue' and 'steam' people usually think Team Fortress 2... but this one is definitely worth mentioning. A MOBA of sorts where each team has three characters who try to defend their base from the others while at the same time trying to destroy their enemy's base.
A cartoony sci-fi game reminiscent (intentionally) of 1980s saturday morning cartoons with frantic fast paced combat. A good game for those rare occasions when I want to fight another human being.
2. Shadowrun Returns http://store.steampowered.com/app/234650/
Fun fact: I have a ton of sourcebooks for tabletop/pen and paper RPGs like D&D, the World of Darkness, and such.
Fun fact 2: I have never, in my life, played a tabletop/pen and paper RPG.
Not for lack of desire, I just don't know anyone who plays them. Ironically the Shadowrun games never grabbed my attention, though I don't doubt my local used bookstore probably has a dozen and a half books for Shadowrun... but after getting an iTunes gift card for Christmas I decided to give the iOS version of Shadowrun Returns a try. When we got back from Florida I downloaded the Steam version.
Good gameplay and an interesting setting already have my attention, but giving players the tools to craft their own campaigns sealed the deal.
1. The Secret World http://store.steampowered.com/app/2.....snr=1_7_15__13
Because I didn't rant enough about it last time, this is probably one of my favorite games from recent history... even more shocking that its an EA title (and I freaking hate EA), but dammit I have to give them credit, they got this one right.
An MMO with a very deep and engaging storyline, total freedom for character customization, and a setting that mixes high fantasy and science fiction in a modern day setting (which is enough to get me to geek out by itself), the Secret World has me by the short hairs and it's not likely to let go anytime soon. If you want to know more, check my last Journal where I rant about it for about fifteen paragraphs or so.
And yeah, thats my top eleven Steam games. Hope you enjoyed listening to me geek out and maybe found something new and fun to try.
Anyways, I now have somewhere around one hundred and fifty games on Steam after I began using the service around two years ago. I've been an avid gamer all my life and I just wanted to list what I felt were the top eleven games I've found on Steam over the past few years. These are games I have actually bought and played, if not all the way through then most of the way. I'm going to try to avoid major titles such as Skyrim and Bioshock Infinite. Everyone knows those games are good already so putting them here will be redundant.
Also, I'm going to avoid putting games that aren't complete on here. So games like Starbound (which is early access) and The Wolf Among Us (which isn't totally released yet) are both favorites of mine, but will not be featured.
11. Mark of the Ninja http://store.steampowered.com/app/214560
Its rare that games will focus entirely on stealth based gameplay, but Mark of the Ninja makes it work and makes it work well. There are few things I've found in gaming as satisfying as hiding from a high vantage point, grappling down to grab and murder a guard while leaving his body to hang from my grapple line, then finding a good hiding spot and watching his buddies find him, panic, and shoot all the other nearby guards while frantically pissing their pants.
I haven't finished this one yet, but I really do enjoy the gameplay and the art style, which seems very reminiscent of Samurai Jack for some reason.
10. Overlord 2 http://store.steampowered.com/app/12810/
Sometimes its fun to be the bad guy, to raise an army of devilishly evil minions, and then go raze a few villages while enslaving the populace. Overlord 2 is an older game and isn't technically a Steam game originally, but its only available through them and Good Old games now so I'm going to count it.
The humor is good, the storyline is fun, and Gnarl is probably one of my favorite helper characters.
9. Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves http://store.steampowered.com/app/2.....snr=1_7_15__13
Normally I'm not one to like games where wolves/werewolves are the antagonists... but this one is a unique title that's really worth a try. The gameplay is tower defense of sorts, but incredibly challenging. Each day you have to set traps, visit town for supplies, and do what you can to prepare yourself for the night... when night falls the werewolves come. You do have means besides traps to protect yourself. An axe and a gun, but it's the 1800s so that axe is just an ordinary wood axe and that gun is an old flintlock rifle. No running and gunning here, if you shoot you have to spend a good fifteen seconds on average reloading. Doesn't sound like much, but that time is precious when you've got a pack of werewolves heading for you.
The voice acting is a bit wooden, but the setting is unique and the game is good and challenging.
8. Symphony http://store.steampowered.com/app/207750/
This is a good one for anyone who likes those old top-down scrolling shooters from the arcade era and has a large collection of music. Upon starting the game it scans your computer for Mp3 files, then those files become the stages. Fight your way through your favorite music in an attempt to stop an evil force from taking over our reality by corrupting it through the music we write.
The graphics are flashy and colorful, the speed changes with the song itself, and there's literally an endless amount of levels. So long as you have new music, you have new levels!
7. Dust: An Elysian Tail http://store.steampowered.com/app/2.....snr=1_7_15__13
I don't think there's a furry that hasn't heard about this one yet, but its a great title. A side-scrolling adventure with absolutely gorgeous artwork, excellent voice-acting, and probably one of my all time favorite video game characters in Fidget. That and it's one of the rare times I actually cried at the end. I won't say what happens, but watching Fidget's reaction to whats going on was damn near heartbreaking for me.
A damn fine title with an all furry cast set in a fantasy world. Worth a try to anyone who likes such games.
6. Don't Starve http://store.steampowered.com/app/2.....snr=1_7_15__13
What can I say that hasn't already been said about Don't Starve? A survival game with some very challenging mechanics, a unique setting, and an art style that looks like something Tim Burton would come up with during a bad hangover.
Whether you're trying to unlock all the characters, trying to solve the mystery of Maxwell and his island, or just trying not to starve its a damn fun game.
5. Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale http://store.steampowered.com/app/70400/
Who ever would have thought a game where you, of all things, work a retail job would make MY favorite game list?! Seriously though, Recettear is an indie game from Japan that takes the traditional JRPG/dungeon crawling system and mixes it up by casting you as the owner of an item shop. Team up with heroes to explore dungeons, gather treasure, and then sell it in your store.
Adorable anime-themed art style, good music, and a fun little story make this one of my faves.
4. Orcs Must Die 2 http://store.steampowered.com/app/201790/
Genocide can be fun, just ask any third world dictator... wait that came out wrong. Anyways, in Orcs Must Die 2 you take either the role of the Warmage from the first game or his one-time adversary, the Sorceress and stop waves of orcs who are trying to get from point A to point B by putting a multitude of traps between them and their goal and, when that fails, jumping in yourself to crack some skulls. With creative traps like the electro-zapper (electrocutes nearby enemies), the spike-wall (shoots out and knocks orcs backwards), and the portal trap (sends whatever steps on it back to start, ha ha!) this game is just as often a way of finding just how many ways you can combine traps to ruin a greenskin's day as it is a frantic fight against an ever increasing army of fantasy monsters.
Great humor, highly addictive gameplay, and damn if it's not satisfying to watch a mob turn a corner only to be greeted by an entire hall of kill-machines. An all time favorite.
3. Awesomenauts http://store.steampowered.com/app/204300/
I'm usually not a fan of multiplayer gameplay, and when someone says 'squad-based red vs blue' and 'steam' people usually think Team Fortress 2... but this one is definitely worth mentioning. A MOBA of sorts where each team has three characters who try to defend their base from the others while at the same time trying to destroy their enemy's base.
A cartoony sci-fi game reminiscent (intentionally) of 1980s saturday morning cartoons with frantic fast paced combat. A good game for those rare occasions when I want to fight another human being.
2. Shadowrun Returns http://store.steampowered.com/app/234650/
Fun fact: I have a ton of sourcebooks for tabletop/pen and paper RPGs like D&D, the World of Darkness, and such.
Fun fact 2: I have never, in my life, played a tabletop/pen and paper RPG.
Not for lack of desire, I just don't know anyone who plays them. Ironically the Shadowrun games never grabbed my attention, though I don't doubt my local used bookstore probably has a dozen and a half books for Shadowrun... but after getting an iTunes gift card for Christmas I decided to give the iOS version of Shadowrun Returns a try. When we got back from Florida I downloaded the Steam version.
Good gameplay and an interesting setting already have my attention, but giving players the tools to craft their own campaigns sealed the deal.
1. The Secret World http://store.steampowered.com/app/2.....snr=1_7_15__13
Because I didn't rant enough about it last time, this is probably one of my favorite games from recent history... even more shocking that its an EA title (and I freaking hate EA), but dammit I have to give them credit, they got this one right.
An MMO with a very deep and engaging storyline, total freedom for character customization, and a setting that mixes high fantasy and science fiction in a modern day setting (which is enough to get me to geek out by itself), the Secret World has me by the short hairs and it's not likely to let go anytime soon. If you want to know more, check my last Journal where I rant about it for about fifteen paragraphs or so.
And yeah, thats my top eleven Steam games. Hope you enjoyed listening to me geek out and maybe found something new and fun to try.
