Hi everyone! Glad to be here on the new Lemmy community ☺️
I’ve been mostly out of the gaming scene since about 2012 due to grad school, starting a family, etc, but am wanting to get back into it. I love games like Zelda Link to the Past and had a lot of fun recently playing Hyperlight Drifter and Tunic (though I prefer 2D over 3D). I’m not looking for a rogue-like and rogue-lite style game. I’m leaning towards giving Crosscode a try, but am open to suggestions and would love to have a list to work my way through 😁. I’m perfectly happy playing games that came out last year or 30 years ago.
Does anyone have any recommendations for good PC games that scatch that 16bit action RPG Link to the Past itch?
Thank you all in advance and I appreciate your time and input ☺️.
UPDATE: wow! Thank you all so much for all the suggestions! I’ll check all these out. Y’all are great 😃
I’ve also heard great things about Crosscode. I haven’t started it yet (mainly because I’m worried about what it will do to my already flagging productivity), but from what I’ve heard about it, it sounds like it’d fit the bill quite well!
I really enjoyed Death’s Door, which is frequently compared with Tunic. That might be one to check out!
You might also be interested in Supergiant’s older games: Bastion and Transistor. They’re the team behind Hades, but those older games don’t have the same rogue-like elements that Hades does. (They also both have absolutely phenomenal soundtracks by Daren Korb!)
You might also like Divine Divinity (the 21 year old predecessor to the popular Divinity: Original Sin).
I don’t have a suggestion that perfectly fits your bill. But have you tried streets of rogue? It is a rogue lite, but I had a lot of fun, and it has old style graphics
Diablo 2 Resurrected is the GOAT among 2D isometric action RPGs.
Factorio is more math and engineering than button mashing. Its a dangerously addictive sandbox.
Planescape: Torment is a traditional RPG rather than an Action title, but worth mentioning as the best 2D isometric RPG I’ve ever played. Phenomenal writing - a game for philosophers.
Dungeon Drafters is a cute deck building puzzler.
Hope I am not too late but if you havent seen it yet maybe Eastward would be worth a try. I recently played through it and enjoyed it a lot. Its quite story heavy I would say almost being like an interactive movie so gameplay is a bit on the weaker side, but nevertheless there are some nice environmental puzzles that have to be solved by combining the abilities of the two different characters that you control, there is an entire small 2D RPG game inside as a minigame and honestly the soundtrack is quite a banger.
