Play Celeste if you haven’t already.

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

goat simulator, goat simulator 3 (great for couch co-op),

at dead of night

Pools (liminal space walking sim),

crow country,

easy delivery co,

parking garage rally circuit

Ardor: Free deck builder rougelike ( lite? ).

Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom: 3D platformer collectathon where you are a taxi.

KilaFlow: Fast paced precision 3D platformer.

Frogun: Slow paced 3D platformer.

Brok the InvestiGator: Describes itself as a “punch and click” type of game. Dev has a spin-off survival visual novel called Celsius Strays in the works, with playable demo of the beginning of the game.

Corn Kidz 64: Fairly short collectathon that does a great job of feeling like an n64 title.

Oaken Tower: I have a very love hate relationship with the game and at one point got angry enough to leave a nasty post on mastodon about wishing the dev harm. Still recommend it, though.

Coal LLC: 2D game about going down to collect coal.

The Ourboros King: Chess rouglike ( lite? ) with weird pieces and obstacles on the board.

Mail Mole: No, you ain’t collecting mail in this 3D platformer.

Omelet You Cook: Roguelike ( lite? ) about placing ingredients on omelettes.

Me and my wife (not much of a gamer) have been playing All Hands on Deck and she loves it. Shared screen co-op puzzle platformer. Wholesome family fun!

If you like chill but makes you think try Strange Horticulture and if you like that one do Strange Antiques after it.

I HIGHLY suggest not using a guide for a first play through.

• Sheepy
• Unless
• Hidden Capybaras with Orange and Pumpkins: Spooky Halloween Edition

Exceptional free indie games on Steam. Sheepy has a great atmosphere. Unless is an excellent 2D platformer. Halloween Capybaras has great atmosphere and visual effects.

• A Short Hike
• A Hat in Time
• New Super Lucky’s Tale
• Webbed
• Yoku’s Island Express
• Mika and The Witch’s Mountain

These are what came to mind, as good ones, that I remember. I guess I’ll stop now. I’m sure if I went through my Steam reviews, I would find numerous more great indie titles as well.

Here are some:

• Hollow Knight 1 & 2
• Celeste
• Core Keeper
• Babbdi
• Valheim

A Hat in Time

Lovely game, plays a bit like Mario 64.

You’ve surely heard of Slay the Spire, and if you liked that I would strongly recommend Monster Train.

Only like… a million of them? I could throw you some suggestions but narrowing it down to a few genres would probably help.

Titanium Court is probably the best game released so far this year, my frontrunner for GOTY and one of the best (or at least most interesting) games I’ve ever played. Don’t look up anything about it, just play it blind. Trust me.

Withering Rooms is a wonderful and unique action/horror roguelike made by a single person with some wonderful world building, story and and art direction. Lots of different build variety too.

Death Howl is a really cool grid-based strategy/deckbuilder. Really beautiful pixel art, too.

This is just some of what I’ve played recently, any of that strike your fancy? I can probably come up with more if you give me more to work with.

Going Under got me through the pandemic. It is still my favorite game.

If you ever want a solid local multiplayer, I would recommend Boomerang Fu.

Balatro

If you have your life affairs in order, you could try Factorio. Your friends and loved ones won’t see you for months.

Space Station 14! Free and open source and outrageous fun and deep

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1255460/Space_Station_14/

You can completely ignore the “playtest” and “coming to early access” stuff, this is a solid and stable codebase with dozens if not hundreds of forks, nearly all of which are accessible from the launcher

If you like puzzle-like games, give Chants of Sennaar a try! The mechanics are super unique, not very difficult either. I loved every bit of it