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What Should I Play Next? Because I don't like making my own decisions.

I'm about half=way through Mass Effect 2 but we are heading into Spooky Season so I will take a break to play a spooky game!

Which should I play?

Stories Untold - It looks to be a meta game where spooky things happen while you play a text adventure game.
Stygian - Don't know much but it seems to be a HP Lovecraft themed game.
Vampire Survivors - This one was a big splash when it first came out.
The Walking Dead - Got this for free when I first started a Steam account. Still haven't played it.
World of Horror - Know very little. Might be fun to go into blind.
 
I'm gonna say Vampire Survivors, because it's fun and also very easy to lose a bunch of time to.

The only other game on that list I've played is the Walking Dead, but I'm honestly not sure if it'd hit the same in 2025 compared to when it released. A lot of its design elements that were unique (or at least less common) at the time have appeared in more games since.
 
Huh. I thought I replied yesterday, but I guess I forgot to hit the post button.

My vote is for Stories Untold, which is brisk and fun, although The Walking Dead season 1 is a banger.
 
Yeah, Stories Untold is delightfully spooky and atmospheric, and it definitely doesn’t overstay its welcome, either.
 
Stories Untold is done. What next?

Batman: Arkham Asylum - Not a horror game per se but Batman does have those Halloween vibes.
Stygian - Don't know much but it seems to be a HP Lovecraft themed game.
Vampire Survivors - This one was a big splash when it first came out.
The Walking Dead - Got this for free when I first started a Steam account. Still haven't played it.
World of Horror - Know very little. Might be fun to go into blind.
 
World of Horror might be worth a look while you're still primed into old computer aesthetics. Vampire Survivors is a game where you do little 10-30 minute runs which will hijack the reward center of your brain and demand you unlock all the things immediately, so, do that when it's safe to do so.
 
Was going to do Batman but I guess there's an "unbundled exception" and I'm terrible at troubleshooting so I'll just do Vampire Survivor.
 
Finished Mass Effect 2! What next?

Mario Kart World - It's like, a world of Mario Kart!
Crystalis - Started to play this one when the Internet was down. But not finished.
Children of Morta - I think this might be one of those games better for multiplayer. I feel like a friend bought it for me with that intent but I suspect we aren't gonna get around to it.
Freedom Force - Marvel Comics aesthetic game from the early 2000s.
Mass Effect 3 - I mean, I literally replayed the first two back to back because I never played this and it felt like I needed a refresher.
 
Johnny Unusual said:
Children of Morta - I think this might be one of those games better for multiplayer. I feel like a friend bought it for me with that intent but I suspect we aren't gonna get around to it.
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I played through this on my own and still enjoyed it quite a bit. It's a little grindy, but you still get enough progression between runs to want to stay in the gameplay loop. I say go for it.
 
Proceed to Mass Effect 3. I advise you to convince yourself that the mission that leads to the true ending of the game is not "Priority: Earth" but rather everything that proceeds from "Citadel: Shore Leave"
 
I didn't finish it but I did play through about half of Crystalis for the first time about a year ago. Recommended.
 
Bongo said:
I advise you to convince yourself that the mission that leads to the true ending of the game is not "Priority: Earth" but rather everything that proceeds from "Citadel: Shore Leave"
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I'll be honest. I did not care for Shore Leave. It doesn't help that it sprung it on me and I had NO WAY OF KNOWING THIS. I just thought I was visiting a friends apartment and then I get into a "the Guardians of the Galaxy we have at home" and a party that took forever to escape.
 
Yes.

The only thing said was Anderson wanted me to come to his apartment. I thought maybe it would give me a mission or something and then I end up having to buy buy party supplies and listen to Joker and EDI talk about their relationship.
 
I apologize. For anyone else considering this, allow me to be more clear:

"Citadel: Shore Leave" is the mission that started the last DLC pack of the original release. It is, effectively, the end of the game, so don't start it until you're ready to be done.
 
I tend not to look at the "journal" and follow the map for missions, unless I want clarification on a little fetch quest or something (like collecting stuff from planets). And usually if the mission is going to take up a lot of time, it will have a "let's do it now"/"give me time" dialogue tree options. So I really walked into the apartment assuming it would be less than 4 hours before I walk out again.
 
OK, ready for a fresh start!

Donkey Kong Bananza - Ooh, Banana. This would be my first Switch 2 game since I bought it 2 months ago...
Crystalis - ...Unless you count this.
Brutal Legend - Look, I don't feel like going to get the umlaut for this one.
Elsinore - Hamlet: The Game!
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - In all honesty, I suspect things didn't work out too well for Atlantis.
 
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