I’m a casual gamer who’s been largely inactive for the past few decades, and so I’m looking for some some good game recommendations. I don’t mind if they’re old as long as they came out after 2003 (because that’s when graphics of many games really started improving), maybe between 2008-2019. I’m also quite a picky gamer.

Here is a list of games that I’ve played before and that I liked (in no particular order):

• The Stanley Parable
• Counter-Strike: Source
• Counter-Strike Global Offensive
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
• Grand Theft Auto V (just started playing this one)
• Freeways
• The Wizard’s Pen
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted
• Need for Speed: Heat
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider
• Simon Tatham’s Puzzle Game Collection
• Minecraft
• Hamsterball
• Sifu
• Tekken 6
• SuperHOT
• Papers Please
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
• Accelerator (by TenebrousP)
• The Professional
• Paraopticon
• Socrates Jones: Pro Philosopher
• ir:rational
• Viewport
• Lyxo
• Shadowess (by playchilla)
• Duet (by Kumobius)
• Chain Reaction
• Gumslinger
• Intersectiion Controller
• Little Alchemy
• Magic Survival (by Leme)
• Spy Tactics
• Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil
• Cyclomaniacs 2
• Learn 2 Fly 2
• Piano Tiles 2
• The Sims 3
• Plants vs. Zombies
• Tetris (on Facebook)
• Solitaire on Windows 7
• Space Cadet Pinball
• Purble Place

Here are games that I’ve played that I didn’t like:

• Quake II RTX
• Doom (1993)
• Counter-Strike 1.6
• Left 4 Dead
• Half-Life
• Speed Dreams
• Assault Cube
• Terraria
• Minetest
• Xonotic
• Piano Tiles
• Geometry Dash
• Payback 2
• Touchgrind Skate 2
• Pixel Wheels
• NBA 2K11
• Defense of the Ancients
• Dota 2
• Sim City 2000
• OpenRCT 2
• OpenTTD
• The Sims 4
• Doki Doki Literature Club
• Tetris (any other implementation I’ve tried)
• Solitaire on Windows XP

Here are games I would like to avoid:

• Battle Royale / Deathmatch- style games (Fortnite, PUBG, etc.)
• MOBAs (League of Legends, Mobile Legends, etc.)
• Hero shooters (Overwatch, Rainbow Six Siege, etc.)
• Games with fantasy-based elements (Skyrim, The Witcher, Souls games etc.)
• RPGs
• Side-scrollers / Shoot-em-ups / Top-down games
• Platformers
• Horror/supernatural games (Resident Evil, Silent Hill, etc.)
• Management games (Civilization, Cities: Skylines, etc.)
• Artillery games
• Outer-space/post-apocalyptic games (Halo, Fallout, etc.)
• Cookie clickers / Walking simulators
• Rhythm games
• Sports games
• Game adaptations of existing media (Star Wars games, Arkham games, etc.)
• Board/card/gambling/collectible/gacha games\
• Games that have microtransactions/required DLCs
• Text adventures / Visual novels
• Trivia games
• VR games

Other than that, everything is fair game. I don’t have any aversion towards graphic language/gore/sex.

My tastes might be too specific, but I hope someone here may be able to provide me with a recommendation!