u/Forsaken-Quality-46

Hi. I am new to the genre and the games i liked for exploration and secrets are Dusk, modern Doom series and Selaco. Outside of the genre my favorites are basically every popular metroidvania (think Hollow Knight) and immersive sims (Gloomwood, Prey, Fallen aces, Dishonored etc), for the same reasons!

You can recommend games from other genres too, if you think they have solid exploration and secret hunting!

Do i start from half life 1 on steam? Or black mesa? Then i move to half life 2 also on steam? Is steam version of half life 2 an anniversary edition? Do i need to install any mods to have better graphics? What is blue shift and should i play it? Any good mods i should play? I am interested in entropy zero 1 and 2. What would be you recommended order? Sorry, i am noob, and thanks for help.

I am a delusional first-person purist, that havent played videogames for the last 10 years and just getting started.

I like games like Dishonored, Bioshock, Elder scrolls, Fallout series.

Games that i am going to play next:

Prey, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Gloomwood, Tainted grail, Cyberpunk 2077, Kingdom come deliverance, new Doom games, Oblivion remastered, Skin deep, Dread delusion, Subnautica.

I prefer games that have a good balance between gameplay and exploration. I dont plan to play pure puzzle games (yet), like Outer wilds. Thank you!

My favorite first-person game ever is Glomwood, and i am dying to play Thief games (dark mod especially), but my only gaming device is a handheld (Legion Go 2).

Any other recommendations? Dishonored is good, but Gloomwood is something special. I gonna try Filcher and Thick as Thieves that releases soon. Hark the Ghoul demo is closest i felt to Gloomwood. I also loved Prey, Bioshock series and new Indiana game.