Awesome games I'm currently playing or played recently

Hello, I hope everything is OK. It's nice to see that things are slowly getting back to normal. Regardless, the quarantine has given me more than enough time to sink into games, and I have discovered a bunch of very addictive ones. Lots of the games on this list ended up becoming my favourite games of all time, so here they are.

Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children

This is currently my most played game on Steam. Troubleshooter is a Korean turn-based tactics JRPG where you control a team of crimefighters, well, fighting crime. Like I said, I'm deep into this game - from the playtime hours to the artworks, and from writing a descriptive Steam review and helping new players in the threads, to helping with the translation proofreading. The developers are very nice and receptive, too. They could've picked a much better title though.

It's my first Early Access purchase, and I almost refunded it because the complex mechanics initially turned me off. It has a deep Mastery System that allows you to tailor each character into very specific styles. Deeply layered and very replayable, I hope it'll find great success once it goes out of Early Access.

Battle Chef Brigade

Battle Chef Brigade is one of my favourite games of all time. It's a simple hack-and-slash and match-3 game, but I've sunk over 200 hours into. Easily one of my most played games. Everything about this game is wonderful, from the short, sweet campaign to the memorable characters, and from the charming artstyle to the addictive gameplay.

Warhammer: Vermintide 2

Vermintide 2 is a cooperative first person melee where you play as one of the hero characters, fighting through the Chaos army and Skaven horde during the End Times. You can play solo with AI-controlled teammates, but it's also a blast when played with friends. The community is mostly very friendly, and I even managed to set up playing sessions with some random people online. Very high replayability!

Inertial Drift

Inertial Drift is a homage to the popular anime series, Initial D. It utilizes the twin-stick controls, and ideally it should be played with a controller, but I play it with the keyboard. Most racing games like to market their cars as incredibly unique from each other, but in reality it's not so much so. However, the cars in Inertial Drift are actually very distinguishable from each other. Each of them feels radically different, requiring its own individual style of control.

The game's twist is that it's not racing-based, but more heavily focused on time-attack modes, encouraging you to familiarize yourself with tracks and master the drifting controls of individual cars to finish a lap as fast as possible.

Monster Train

Monster Train is a rogulike deck builder with insane replayability. Each run takes about an hour, and there is no end of the possibilities and experimentations of mixing up different cards, synergies and combos. One of my most played games on this list.

Killing Floor 2

Killing Floor 2 is a cooperative survival shooter. Basically an entire game of survival mode, where you survive through waves and waves of increasingly powerful zombies, until you reach the final boss round. I mostly play this solo, making it more heart-pumping than it already is.

Gears Tactics

Have I told you how much of a sucker I am for squad-based turn-based tactics akin to Firaxis' XCOM? Gears Tactics is a very unique entry to the series, and it's actually very good, which is very surprising as the series is action-based.

Call of Juarez: Gunslinger

Easily one of my top 3 favourite first-person shooters, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger does everything right, and doesn't overstay its welcome. The campaign is an epic mix of comedy and non-stop action. Great graphics, music and story. Its deeply satisfying combat emphasizes heavily on combos, and the shooting is incredibly crisp. I know these cold hard facts sound like something out of a promotion, but I'm not exaggerating. It really is that good.

Phoenix Point

Phoenix Point is a turn-based tactics game taking place in a apocalyptic future in which Earth is invaded by monstrosities from the seas - think Lovecraftian XCOM. I kept my eyes closely on its development, and despite the inital disappointment, I moved on and came to really loving this game. It has some very obvious flaws, but that didn't stop it from becoming one of my second most played game on Steam, just slightly above XCOM 2 and below the aforementioned Troubleshooter.