/r/Steam Monthly Game & Hardware Suggestions Thread.

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Welcome to the Monthly Game & Hardware Suggestions Thread!

This monthly mega-thread is meant to contain advice, questions, suggestions & generic discussion on what to play or buy in terms of Games & Hardware.

Do you not know what to play? Want a Steam Deck or Steam Machine but unsure which model is best for you? Did you find a niche game that everyone should try? Wondering what GPU you should upgrade to or unsure about the specs of a computer? Do you want to share your unique experiences and learning curves with a piece of hardware? Can't find the perfect survival sim or unsure which 1 RPG out of the thousands available you should buy? Well this is the thread for you.

Now to make this work best and not just be spammed with generic & useless questions such as "What should I play?" or "What should I buy?", please be in-depth in what types of games/hardware you are looking for and why, and when giving advice it would be appreciated if you're more detailed than "I think X is good".

There are too many games to be able to properly suggest something with no background information, also simply commenting a game title and saying you like the game offers no actual value. The same goes for hardware: Saying you're thinking about buying X or you think Y is good with no other information, context as to why, your unique experiences, etc. offers no actual value or information to base a reply on.

Feel free to ask and discuss freely in the comments regarding games and hardware, whether you want advice on what to play, want to give advice to others on what to play, share a hidden gem you found, experiences you have with Steam hardware, or your review of a piece of Steam hardware. Generic discussions & questions about discounts, sales, events, specs is allowed as well. This is not meant to be a restrictive thread within the designated topics that this thread is for, however it is not a support thread nor is it the place to promote any blogs or curator pages or anything else, subreddit rules still apply.

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[u/acthechamp]

Bit of a weird question. Have a lot of the discounted games on consoles already. What are some games that are exclusively on PC (not PS5/Xbox) that are worth getting?

[u/Shredded_Locomotive → u/acthechamp]

I'd say those would be games that have a heavy modding scene, have been in early access for a long time or both.

Take for example Project Zomboid, it's pc only, been in early access for forever and mods are pretty much it's lifeblood. But there are other games like:

Space engineers (manly because of mods)

cities skylines 1 and 2 (mods and the possibly of better hardware)

Tmodloader (modded terraria, need I say more?)

BeamNG.Drive (performance, mods and has been a pc exclusive)

And if you got friends to mess around with, then there are also games like Peak or REPO, though the enjoyment really comes from the people you are playing with. Oh and pretty much all of those can be modded too. (R2Modman modmanager my beloved)