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Looking for competitive ish shooter. (PC)

Sorry if I get on anyone’s nerves for crossing a lot out already.

I’ve played ESO (yes mmo) for PvP and I’m great but I’m waiting for a future update to play again. Perma 4v4v4 BGs

BO7 is ok I’m a beast with the 2 shot rifle. I don’t bother with ranked. Boring playing alone

Bf6 fun but not scratching my itch.

Fragpunk all bot lobbies

No cs2 or valorant I don’t play games where I have to shoot at the floor to get kills… iykyk

Played OW for years bored of it. Marvel Rivals is ok but meh.

Looking forward to Duskblood on NS2.

Played hundreds of hours on Division Resurgence PvP is imbalanced/broken but kind of fun. (But the game is broken and people are dropping like flies because Ubisoft can’t fix anything without breaking more) also one PvP map….

I was going to try Destiny 2 but was told everyone in PvP can Laser you like in CoD so there’s no skill involved…

I will not play a MOBA.. though that Valve steam hero shooter game looks interesting.

I use to play R6 but I grew bored of one life kill/rounds.

Xdefiant was VERY fun normal and ranked… sad to see it go.

APB reloaded was fun yeeeaaaars ago its dead

I don’t play Battle royals or escape games. But that breath of the wild game with spells that got cancelled looked amazing.

What hidden gem games with a good population am I missing?

What do you all think is still bad with epic games in 2026? Why has it still not caught up steam? Is there a specific issue that makes you not want to use it or do you simply not bother using it because steam exists?

I need a different type of game right now, I have been playing Open World games non stop - Tomb Raider series (reboot), Cyberpunk 2077, Banishers: Ghost of New Eden, GTA V, Assassin’s Creed games (AC2, Brotherhood, Revelations, and 3/TOKW) for past couple of months, while they are fun and gameplay is great for the most part. I’m completely temporarily burnt out from Open World games now where I have to spend a couple of hours playing a collect a thon for open world items/collectibles or backtracking to get something.

I need some games to recharge and relax with. But main criteria NO open worlds. Some recommendations similar to:

•Journey

• Power wash sim

• Untitled goose game

• Life is Strange series

• Stray

• Uncharted series

One of my favorites ever... Is there anything similar, new or old?

But I love the way certain towns or characters change over time

The building of your own castle town and filling it with characters

Boss battles with good loot

Limited gathering and crafting is welcome

Not important:

the battle mechanics

The graphics, per se, although I do love mega man legends for similar style, and stylized graphics tend to last the ages

The lore, it's ok if it is a single entry

>In an interview with PC Gamer, Ryan said he ended up loving the experience of acting for a game—even though when he auditioned for the role, it was actually masquerading as a show to keep the Assassin's Creed sequel a secret.

>"It was pitched to me via my agent as a pirate TV show," he remembered. "Amy Hubbard, a great casting director in the UK, got me into the room, and then they liked me. They asked me for a callback, and then they leveled with me. They were like, listen: this is a videogame. They said it was an Assassin's Creed, and I'd played the first one, so I was like 'great, that's a cool game.' But I didn't think it was mocap—so when it was mocap, I was over the moon. I get to be the character, in the body, you know?"

Based on the news that Microsoft asked for player feedback and got heavy requests to bring back exclusives I'm genuinely curious why people want them so much?

As someone who grew up with only one console at a time and is now predominantly a PC gamer, why would you want a game to be limited to a single console, surely it means the studio makes less in sales, any multiplayer has a much more limited player base and it locks the game away from a lot of people?

I'm sure that from a console company it makes sense to force purchases of the console for a game but as an individual gamer I want as much available to everyone as possible, locking something away from me doesn't encourage me to buy new hardware it just means I lose out.

So what are you reasons for wanting exclusives, I want to know why you think it's worth locking things away?

Title says it all. It's some of my favorite second monitor content really. Just putting on a random playthrough of Gabriel Knight, Phantasmagoria, Space Quest etc. I've tried playing them myself and I don't have the patience for them but watching them is just...nice.

I'm especially fond of the full motion video games. They're such a nice little relic of the past.