yea but this whole "less playable" game genre is really not going anywhere. Why can't we enjoy a single player horror thats actually playable and immersed at the same time? A game less playable is like having a car thats less driveable.
All I want is a game with a solid single player campaign. Is it too much to ask? ... I don't want no PVPVE, Multiplayer, "Extraction , looter shooter" bullcrap.
There are literally thousands of old and new games that fit that exact description, and there's no way you've played them all. I swear gamers entitlement is part of why publishers have become so bold about their bullshit, because consumers barely know what they want and even if they do, they STILL spend money on what they apparently don't want. Stop buying into fomo and just play old games.
As someone with no friends, I switch off at "PvPVE", "you and a couple of friends...". Give me solid storyline and engaging, well thought out challenges to overcome.
@@imthedevilkys536yeah if they play along and try to act out the apocalypse. But if they just wait in a corner and shoot you from the back, it's just annoying and takes away from the experience. I wanna be able to experience the apocalypse without being sweaty af
@@bhasha3255 I pretty desperately want more single player looter shooters like borderlands and even outriders. Too many games depend on having multiple players.
I’ll be playing Sekiro and Elden Ring into 2040 and beyond! Bloodborne I loved lies of p but I’ve mastered it and platinum it also. Baldurs gate 3 is interesting I have 100 hrs into it and like it enough, but it’s not anything close to as special as Elden Ring! High hopes for Wukong
Then you'll definitely want to check out STALKER 2! The first one came out in the early 2000's. Even back then it had faction-aligning, a day/night cycle, procedurally generated side missions, and 7 endings; 5 bad endings, 2 good, one of which becomes cannon. In STALKER there is no leveling up nor any skill tree advancement. You are your equipment. Edit:typo.
@DaGreatGamblino It's a treat if you like RPG and FPS! Imagine if Metal Gear Solid had a baby with Silent Hill who was then raised by Battlefield. Shadow of Chernobyl and Clear Skies are the two really good ones. IIRC, Call of Pripyat only took like 6hrs to beat even with all the scripted side missions, not the randomgen ones.
Did you even enjoy Jedi survivor baldurs gate dead island 2 or will you even enjoy the new Star wars single player game avowed, stalker, atomfall, state of decay 3? How is it not enough for you guys. We pvp players are the ones with the most played games tab filled up and it's all old games, warzone, fortnite, apex, PUBG, rainbow six siege even, we put in more time on our games than yiu and you get more games amd are never satisfied meanwhile we are crossing 1000 hours or tem year old pvp games. We are not the same. 5/13 games on her had pvp and those 8 made for you weren't enough, you want the entire dinner table on your plate and yours alone.
Thank steam for that. Shoulda been around when Half life 2 suddenley needed a internet connection when we all had 28k modems and they wanted us to tie up our phone lines while we played. luckily wasnt long a hack came out to end that.
Thats just it, single player games have a immediate wear out date for getting new players. That being said half single player games could incorporate some coo-op that really adds to the longevity of the game and revenue. Probably more people playing and buying the now ancient state of decay 2 than any single player game out there a year old. These games are becoming garbage because theyre trying to bring in everyone with 90 modes and the only people they retain is a small toxic pvp base because the coop,pve and single lone wolfers dont want to deal with them.
I haven't gotten a multi-player game since the Predator asymmetrical multi-player game. And I don't even think I paid for it. I think it was on PS Plus
Yup. What I long for is a good singleplayer apocalyptic game, that focuses on immersion, atmosphere and environment. I'd hope for it to lean towards realism as well. I guess the only one I'll be getting so far is stalker 2. There's so very few games that have a true abandoned look to them, I want the cities to look like nature's taken hold again, I want them to actually look abandoned in a realistic way. Maybe I should just stick to urbexing without video games.. But I don't know enough abandoned cities. It would be cool to be in a large abandoned area.
The caldera around a volcanic eruption has some magnificently fertile soil but as a human who lived in both hawaii and japan and a while in the Philippines I can assure you people dont live in volcanoes nor do they abandon them. If you live near an active volcano you feel it so many times when it does erupt you are caught trying to finish taking a pee or something then you are a memory and statistic.... animals will abandon them though. They leave early
@@NotLaSimiaI find the cyberpunk thing hilarious. I remember CDPR fanboys joking on Bethesda for F4 and F76. Only for a CDPR game to be even more buggy while being a single player game 😂
We gotta get away from this PvPvE concept in post apocalyptic games. We got quite a few solid ass games in that sub genre for a while and then we just started getting those and it kinda never stopped.
Well they would, but Sam Fisher would have to be replaced with transgeycolor person...Batman also has to be translesbian...superman has to be black woman...And defienietly need transbathrooms with tampoon dispensers in every single game...plus we need lots and lots of politics just to make sure people are thinking the correct thought and form correct opinions.
@@gameranxTV i want a simple single player open world zombie survival. no forced online co-op. available for consoles. vast real open world. build bases, hunt, craft, fortify malls, gas stations etc, maintain vehicles, hunt, recruit, nemesis system, weather system and proper zombie combat, no blobbed out flesh puddles, no drop kicking zombies. i basically want to be Shane in TWD without the plot. let me look like shane, give me a gun, drop me in a world that looks as good as that and let me create.
@@Qwazaar919 easily fixed by devs just by putting co-op OPTIONAL, but nope, need to be online non-stop because of their shit game design and/or microtransactions to milk as much money as possible.
@@Qwazaar919 YES man you get it, i would only add one thing tho which is i would like for it to be ACTUAL zombies not mutants because the ''zombies'' from dying light for example are not zombies those are mutant creatures, man am i the only one who don't like these type of ''zombies''? dying light is an exception but majority of the time it's just too much, zombies are supposed to be slow and weak but extremely dangerous if there is a grou of them
We need a days gone 2. It's kind of a hot take but I think days gone is considerably better than the last of us (especially part 2). I'm not saying that the last of us isn't a great game, but days gone is an under appreciated masterpiece
Quite a number of the games on this video seemed similar to Days gone. Seems a crazy decision not to create a sequel, almost spite, or being wilfully contrary
@@71simonforresterthe original didn't sell well initially mainly due to tepid reviews so although it's picked up steam since the decision was made a long time ago to shelve a sequel fingers crossed it'll happen someday though
I've replayed days gone about 4 times. I love the equipment and the story. He's not a badass, just was lucky. Please give us what we want. I won't buy a single game listed in this video.
As soon as I saw the walking fortress in the desert I immediately went huh someone likes wild wild west, you're not the only one who remembers that gem of a film Jake.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's waiting for a great single player post apocalyptic game. I feel like i complain a lot on this channels comments, but i know what i like and what i want, and 2D games, PvPvE, MMO, and raid games isn't it.
I can't stress this enough: How hard my eyes fucking roll anytime I hear a sniff of "open world" "online" "with PvP elements" I like PvP I like shooters I like open world Unless I was watching footage of the gameplay or previews I couldn't tell you which was which. Only 3 games sounded different from each other.
open world is literaly the greatest genre there is... yall are so annoying complaining about it all the time when literaly the best games ever are only as good as they are because it's open world
There are a ton of single-player games out there. The videogame genre started with single-player games, lol. You just have to look a little. Depending on your playstyle, Steam has literally thousands to choose from. A bunch of good stuff came out last year (do I even need to mention Baldur's Gate 3, Hogwart's Legacy, and Elden Ring?). Before the corps ruined everything, there were a bunch of greats out there. FPS's, Horror, City/World Builder, 4X, Open World/Explore, Strategy; you name it, they're out there.
You completely missed the "spin" in Forever Winter. In that game you are not the hero, you are not the Dragonborn, you are not from Vault 101, you are not participating in the active conflict. You're the rat. Just one of the NPC's in the town of Megaton. There are two warring factions going at it constantly; neither of them cares for you or even know who the f you are, and your goal is to survive by scavenging through the battlefield. They got you beat by miles in fire and manpower and you are not affiliated with anything but their precious loot.
Every time I see these clips from Exekiller, i can't help but notice that the gas station and motel are almost 1.1 copies of the gas station and motel in the outskirts from Cyberpunk 2077. Am I crazy?
You're immersed in a post-apocalyptic world scavenging for resources, managing your thirst and hunger, counting your bullets and trying to find a safe place to spend the night preferably where you can safely set up a cozy campfire... suddenly, "YoMAMAon4's" crosses your path doing a naruto run shooting at you, killing and teabaging you! boy... such immersion!
Is it crazy to hope that John Carpenter did the music for Toxic Commando? He’s such an iconic composer. The end credits music from Escape From New York is my ringtone.
@@WELDINGWIZARD1 Sky Harvest, a cozy farming game that I have been working on from past year. It was featured by Steam during Farming Fest which subsequently got me an exclusive interview with IGN as well. ☺
Love you vids.❤ That game Sand, reminds me of an anime with Vash the Stampede. It had the same premise, kinda. I wonder if they took any influence from that show.
We need more RTS games like Warcraft and Starcraft but not always online. I got a hold of Empire Earth on GOG and that's one of my favorites because you start in prehistoric times and build your city all the way to the future. So much fun! A game can take all the time you want it to. Age of Empires was another good one and they're releasing Age of Mythology Retold next month.
I love rouge-likes' replayability. The randomly generated rooms, randomly (but usually lightly influenced upgrades) that are bot persistent, with seperate perks that are.... I think we can apply this to a lot more genres than hack & slash games.
About Atomfall: Rebellion also does Strange Brigade, and for anyone who hasn't checked that game out, you are doing yourself a dis-service. Visually, it is one of the most jaw-droppingly gorgeous games I've ever seen. It is truly amazing. And a very fun game, too. Since Atomfall is a Rebellion game, it's a guaranteed "YES" from me. Good list, Jake and Gameranx.
SoD3 and Showa America Story are the only ones I'm really interested in. The rest being all FPS (not usually my thing) and/or "looter/shooter", "extraction shooter" or "PvPvE" just turn me right off. A proper MMO, like Ashfall, might be alright, but, for example, as soon as I learned Arc Raiders, which looks really interesting, is an extraction shooter, I was out. Man, give me that world in a SP (w/ optional multiplayer), or even something like The Division, and I'd be all over it!
First three entries "Yeah they'll probably suck but we'll see", next entry "Looks interesting, isn't coming out for a long time though", next entry "Yeah...looks okay". BUT DON"T MISS THEM
Maybe I missed it but you didn't even mention the intent behind "The Forever Winter." The idea is that you are not the badass hero. You are not that guy. You are the scavenger. The survivor. The rat, hiding in the shadows, snatching the drops of enemies that you would not stand a chance against on your own. Following twenty steps behind a roaming company of better fighters as they carve a path through the chaos for you to take advantage of. And they don't care that you're there until you prove yourself to be a threat.
The Terminator one sounds so epic. I don't play these games (except for Fallout and I'm gonna try Stalker 2), but if they do this game right, I'm definitely playing it. I hope they have NPC humans so they can have terminators disguised as humans. Fill your hideout up with NPCs to keep it running, but you gotta check em before inviting them to make sure it's not a Terminator or else the machines will descend upon your base and kill everyone. I'm so hyped for the possibilities
The "Forever Winter" game was not done enough justice You are a survivor in a war between 2 factions. There is Rogue AI machines, troops with their own objective and you are in the middle of the battlefield looking for supplies.
Great list! Another title to keep an eye on is Immortal Gates of Pyre. While it’s an RTS, it’s got a unique, gritty vibe that might scratch that post-apocalyptic itch you’re looking for.
Im a month late but Im SO glad that Pioner was mentioned in this video. Im hyped for it, but also understand it seems very sketchy at this time. I recommend people looking into it and supporting it by telling friends so it isnt dead on arrival and has a strong community. Last I heard theyre focusing on marketing the game with trailers and adverts now after putting a lot of funding and time into the game itself. It wont release this year though, each year they say it will then they push it to the next year because they wanna launch the game with as little problems as possible and they dont have a rigid time to release by their publisher thankfully
The Forever Winter Please watch a dedicated video on this. They give a surface level preview, not hating on that, but these are some of the things to expect. You are at the bottom of the food chain. AI are battling one another, the AI adapts and reacts. Example: You are running along, weaving between cover with only a pistol/nothing. AI soldiers see you and deem you not a threat, they pass on. That same scenario but you have a rifle, they perceive you as a threat and attack. Another example: You are in a sector silenting taking down enemies. The AI WILL notice this and send stronger enemies to hunt down the rogue variable. Another Example: You can happen upon two groups fighting and take one or two off from a distance and they will not notice. If you get greedy they will split resources to find you. I could keep going
And not just that but the AI react to one another, they learn and base strategy off what their opponent does or has done. They will not funnel soldiers in the same way, they will take a different path. They will strengthen their side with elite machines. They(developers) base their idea on "pockets". These pockets are instances of patrols or battles. They move. You can be off in the distance watching a full on slugfest behind a piece of scrap
I played the first playtest for Arc Raiders in 2023 and it was pretty fun. Needed more content like traders, quests, etc. but the maps, guns, combat was pretty solid.
i am SO TIRED of these new games seeming like cool ideas and settings but just being pvpve like its hard not to see it as someone from the top asking if this game could be online multiplayer somehow to add in battle passes and microtransactions like can we just get normal video games again? i hate it here man...
I always wanted to try S.T.A.L.K.E.R but i never got around to it, still for me, having a ton of games i want to play is a great problem to have personally, it means there's always something new to play :)
Once on Blue's Clues, when Steve Burns was ill, Chuck Norris came to the show and disguised like Steve to let the children not know that Chuck Norris was on Blue's Clues. After the episode, Chuck made it through the game without clues. Steve then said "Did you use clues?". Then Chuck Norris took his disguise off and roundhouse kicked Steve in the face without a word. That was 16 years ago.
Me and my friends discuss this all the time. We concluded that the prefect zombie survival game would have the gameplay, graphics and perspective of Dead Island/Dying Light, the map size and environment variety of a dystopian GTA5 and Skyrim, The RPG and scavenging elements of fallout 4 (including the dialogue options, skill, stats and morality choices), the need for water, sleep, and food, variety and ability to make any and every building a base from supplies and make survivor communities from State Of Decay, the horde events, fun gameplay and chaotic moments of Left 4 Dead, the story immersion of the Last Of Us, the exploration/ large variety of random events/ side quests from RDR2/ Skyrim/ Fallout 4, the gameplay element of being able to send out survivors to do certain errands around the city/countryside from Assassins Creed and an ever changing amount of/ difficulty/concentration/variety of zombies from day to day across the map where certain city districts and sections of the map have “The Swarm” for a day or so-making duties or missions in that area impossible/very difficult for a few days until it moves to another area of the map i.e the AI director in the Left For Dead to encourage replay ability.
Man is it so hard to ask for a post apocalyptic game thats not zombie, magic or mech? Just do a post apocalyptic rpg of 1 town working together with a good narrative story. Seems obvious. Yet no ones doing it.
Yeah dude i agree, it feeds trash! I saw the new cod is up for pre order, had to look and its like number 8 in sales...... Number 8 and its not even done. FFS people stop.
If anyone is on the fence with the stalker console editions, they play great and are just as fun and immersive as the original PC games unmodded and I've been having a blast playing on the ps5.
And for anyone upset about the delays, don't forget one of the main developers of the original Stalker games was Killed In Action in Ukraine defending his home against a senseless Russian invasion.
Now this is my kind of list! ExeKiller looks like my dream game. I've had it on my Steam Wishlist for quite a while and had forgotten about it. Really appreciate the reminder.
Thank God we have post-apocalyptic games on the way... there certainly weren't enough of them. Post-apocalypse to me means "We couldn't think of anything creative, so we just gave up and made dirty people running from zombies".
Some series i get like SOD3 but this has been going on for ever. Every time one developer makes a great game , thats all we get for years. We went through space games, only pvp and other eras where if you werent into it , your done. Now its this.
I’d love an immersive sim roadtrip game. You got a route across a wasteland, from point A to point B and along the way you got multiple POI where you can stop to refuel or to scavenge. These place can be really small or decently big like hub world à la Deus Ex where you can find missions and stuff.
Honestly, all a game studio has to do is make a Fallout 5 or a Skyrim and they would make millions so long as they do it properly. It think that's all most of us want.
I've always loved Wild Wild West, never really understood why it's so disliked. I recently watched the original series on MeTV and it seems even more like it's in line with it origins to me. What didn't you like about it?
Into the Radius 2, ZONA Origin and ConVRgence. They are VR titles so not quite as approachable as others, but man, their settings are sweet. Kind of a STALKER/Metro vibe on all the above.
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I feel so happy knowing there are gamers like me who just want hop on a game and become immersed in the story as single game player.
yea but this whole "less playable" game genre is really not going anywhere. Why can't we enjoy a single player horror thats actually playable and immersed at the same time? A game less playable is like having a car thats less driveable.
All I want is a game with a solid single player campaign. Is it too much to ask? ... I don't want no PVPVE, Multiplayer, "Extraction , looter shooter" bullcrap.
You and me both
i wish there should be game like order 1886 with some tweaks and story is like supernatural series , co-op campaign story.
There's like a million singleplayer-only games out there, a lot of which are good
I think Metro exodus was the last solid single player fps with a good campaign.
There are literally thousands of old and new games that fit that exact description, and there's no way you've played them all. I swear gamers entitlement is part of why publishers have become so bold about their bullshit, because consumers barely know what they want and even if they do, they STILL spend money on what they apparently don't want. Stop buying into fomo and just play old games.
Remember when they made story based, single player post apocalyptic games?
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So half the games on the list?
@@112leo half of the games on the list is a stretch
I also remember when Wilford Brimley use to shove quaker oatmeal up his ass by the fistful. Seriously, that was pretty funny brah
Cant lie. I hear "looter shooter, PvPvE, multiplayer, hero shooter, tactical shooter, etc" and tune out
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Same but Mostly with extraction shooter.
I just hear "Live Service MTX Farm" for all that now.
@@blueprint7 coming from the bot.
As someone with no friends, I switch off at "PvPVE", "you and a couple of friends...".
Give me solid storyline and engaging, well thought out challenges to overcome.
Yeah. Or, those of us who have friends, but said friends aren't into these types of games. Same disappointment factor.
Some of them feel so cool, then I hear PvPvE... and they just lose me.
Dunno, but I feel this atmospheric post-apoc games are better done as SP games.
I agree... the game looks and sounds great, then I hear PvPvE or Massive Multiplayer and I lose interest.
I see where you are coming from, but not being able to trust actual players, makes it feel more apocalyptic to me.
@@imthedevilkys536yeah if they play along and try to act out the apocalypse. But if they just wait in a corner and shoot you from the back, it's just annoying and takes away from the experience. I wanna be able to experience the apocalypse without being sweaty af
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@@jordanpulciani1526 sitting in a corner and waiting for the other person to make a move is literally what 90% of people would do in an apocalypse.
I'd much rather have a single player game where I can play forever than to have a pvpve/mmo/online game
@@bhasha3255 I pretty desperately want more single player looter shooters like borderlands and even outriders. Too many games depend on having multiple players.
I’ll be playing Sekiro and Elden Ring into 2040 and beyond! Bloodborne I loved lies of p but I’ve mastered it and platinum it also. Baldurs gate 3 is interesting I have 100 hrs into it and like it enough, but it’s not anything close to as special as Elden Ring! High hopes for Wukong
Then you'll definitely want to check out STALKER 2! The first one came out in the early 2000's. Even back then it had faction-aligning, a day/night cycle, procedurally generated side missions, and 7 endings; 5 bad endings, 2 good, one of which becomes cannon.
In STALKER there is no leveling up nor any skill tree advancement. You are your equipment.
Edit:typo.
@VectorxMan
Well you've sold me. 😅 Stalker sounds cool. I shall hunt it down and buy it.
@DaGreatGamblino It's a treat if you like RPG and FPS! Imagine if Metal Gear Solid had a baby with Silent Hill who was then raised by Battlefield. Shadow of Chernobyl and Clear Skies are the two really good ones. IIRC, Call of Pripyat only took like 6hrs to beat even with all the scripted side missions, not the randomgen ones.
Miss the days I didn't need to be online to enjoy a singleplayer style game
Did you even enjoy Jedi survivor baldurs gate dead island 2 or will you even enjoy the new Star wars single player game avowed, stalker, atomfall, state of decay 3? How is it not enough for you guys.
We pvp players are the ones with the most played games tab filled up and it's all old games, warzone, fortnite, apex, PUBG, rainbow six siege even, we put in more time on our games than yiu and you get more games amd are never satisfied meanwhile we are crossing 1000 hours or tem year old pvp games.
We are not the same.
5/13 games on her had pvp and those 8 made for you weren't enough, you want the entire dinner table on your plate and yours alone.
Thank steam for that. Shoulda been around when Half life 2 suddenley needed a internet connection when we all had 28k modems and they wanted us to tie up our phone lines while we played. luckily wasnt long a hack came out to end that.
@@imuuri Ah there we have our average illiterate puny brained multiplayer arcade junkie
@@imuuri good point
you have always indies like henk the hunter. so maybe you're just looking on the wrong place.
What is wrong with singleplayer games? They´ve worked for decades but I guess mulitplayer games are easier to milk for sweet sweet money. It´s a shame
Most games are designed for spastic kids on a sugar rush.
Thats just it, single player games have a immediate wear out date for getting new players. That being said half single player games could incorporate some coo-op that really adds to the longevity of the game and revenue. Probably more people playing and buying the now ancient state of decay 2 than any single player game out there a year old.
These games are becoming garbage because theyre trying to bring in everyone with 90 modes and the only people they retain is a small toxic pvp base because the coop,pve and single lone wolfers dont want to deal with them.
I haven't gotten a multi-player game since the Predator asymmetrical multi-player game. And I don't even think I paid for it. I think it was on PS Plus
Yup. What I long for is a good singleplayer apocalyptic game, that focuses on immersion, atmosphere and environment. I'd hope for it to lean towards realism as well. I guess the only one I'll be getting so far is stalker 2.
There's so very few games that have a true abandoned look to them, I want the cities to look like nature's taken hold again, I want them to actually look abandoned in a realistic way.
Maybe I should just stick to urbexing without video games.. But I don't know enough abandoned cities. It would be cool to be in a large abandoned area.
It’s not what’s in , multiplayer games are better in sell way more money , quit crying in get over it!!!!
I've been watching this Chanel for 6 years even though i never owned a game console or pc i just love hearing stories about games 😅❤
We all do have our guilty pleasures, don't we?
Hey! Thanks we appreciate you :)
@@gameranxTV you actually replied 😭😁
14:09 "Abandonded Volcano". Is... is it common for volcanoes to be inhabited???
@someOldBaldguy Oh, people build their homes inside of volcanoes there? Most interesting.
The caldera around a volcanic eruption has some magnificently fertile soil but as a human who lived in both hawaii and japan and a while in the Philippines I can assure you people dont live in volcanoes nor do they abandon them. If you live near an active volcano you feel it so many times when it does erupt you are caught trying to finish taking a pee or something then you are a memory and statistic.... animals will abandon them though. They leave early
Of course, where else would a James Bond villain build their secret base? A normal mountain? Boring.
Outbreak Island looks amazing. I can't wait to try it out.
@rosskwolfe yes duh
Ever since The Day Before… I can’t trust anything
Cyberpunk: Hold my beer
@@NotLaSimiaI find the cyberpunk thing hilarious. I remember CDPR fanboys joking on Bethesda for F4 and F76. Only for a CDPR game to be even more buggy while being a single player game 😂
The Day Before was no surprise.
If you fell for the day before you’re dumb as fuck
5 years and still waiting on state of decay 3 😮😮
We gotta get away from this PvPvE concept in post apocalyptic games. We got quite a few solid ass games in that sub genre for a while and then we just started getting those and it kinda never stopped.
Bring back the Uncharted Series, Batman, Splinter Cell, etc. Games we loved
I'd rather they just do new stuff instead of constantly retreading old ground
@@justinpurdy3117new stuff comes out all the time but it dont work like the old stuff
Yeah! I would love to see remakes of the older Arkham games with Arkham Knight graphics. A Splinter Cell reboot is long overdue too!
Instead they putting the effort to make good Superman game, they made that mess, visual diarrhea of Suicide squad 🤦♂🤦♂
Well they would, but Sam Fisher would have to be replaced with transgeycolor person...Batman also has to be translesbian...superman has to be black woman...And defienietly need transbathrooms with tampoon dispensers in every single game...plus we need lots and lots of politics just to make sure people are thinking the correct thought and form correct opinions.
they'll give you every type of post apocalyptic game except the one you ask for.
Give us the elevator pitch. What is the type of post apocalyptic game you’re after? :)
@@gameranxTV i want a simple single player open world zombie survival. no forced online co-op. available for consoles. vast real open world. build bases, hunt, craft, fortify malls, gas stations etc, maintain vehicles, hunt, recruit, nemesis system, weather system and proper zombie combat, no blobbed out flesh puddles, no drop kicking zombies. i basically want to be Shane in TWD without the plot. let me look like shane, give me a gun, drop me in a world that looks as good as that and let me create.
@@Qwazaar919 easily fixed by devs just by putting co-op OPTIONAL, but nope, need to be online non-stop because of their shit game design and/or microtransactions to milk as much money as possible.
Sounds like you want State of Decay 3 ?
@@Qwazaar919 YES man you get it, i would only add one thing tho which is i would like for it to be ACTUAL zombies not mutants because the ''zombies'' from dying light for example are not zombies those are mutant creatures, man am i the only one who don't like these type of ''zombies''? dying light is an exception but majority of the time it's just too much, zombies are supposed to be slow and weak but extremely dangerous if there is a grou of them
Thanks for mentioning ExeKiller! It means a lot! 🤠
We need a days gone 2. It's kind of a hot take but I think days gone is considerably better than the last of us (especially part 2). I'm not saying that the last of us isn't a great game, but days gone is an under appreciated masterpiece
Totally agree. I replayed Days Gone last month, and it is literally crying out for a sequel.
Quite a number of the games on this video seemed similar to Days gone. Seems a crazy decision not to create a sequel, almost spite, or being wilfully contrary
@@71simonforresterthe original didn't sell well initially mainly due to tepid reviews so although it's picked up steam since the decision was made a long time ago to shelve a sequel fingers crossed it'll happen someday though
Wouldn't go that far as comparing it to Last of Us, but Days Gone is definitely one of the most underrated games. Ome of my favourites from last gen.
I've replayed days gone about 4 times. I love the equipment and the story. He's not a badass, just was lucky. Please give us what we want. I won't buy a single game listed in this video.
I am obsessed with State of Decay Series 🖤 I need State of Decay 3 Soon as possible 😤
What if it requires logging online to play and it has microtransactions too?
@@sebastiancoar1991 Hopefully its like 2 you can play offline.
@shmodzilla Agreed. I despise the "always" online shit publishers are trying to pull.
As soon as I saw the walking fortress in the desert I immediately went huh someone likes wild wild west, you're not the only one who remembers that gem of a film Jake.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's waiting for a great single player post apocalyptic game. I feel like i complain a lot on this channels comments, but i know what i like and what i want, and 2D games, PvPvE, MMO, and raid games isn't it.
I can't stress this enough:
How hard my eyes fucking roll anytime I hear a sniff of "open world" "online" "with PvP elements"
I like PvP
I like shooters
I like open world
Unless I was watching footage of the gameplay or previews I couldn't tell you which was which.
Only 3 games sounded different from each other.
cry more
The SAND, STALKER 2, and Exekiller sound different.
open world is literaly the greatest genre there is... yall are so annoying complaining about it all the time when literaly the best games ever are only as good as they are because it's open world
Imagine all the microtransactions these games will have 😂
Yes and most of them will die in a couple of years.
10$ for fkin blue :D xD
@ARach-lv5wc. More like a couple of months. The trend of micro transaction lasting a couple years for a company to milk "consumers" is shortening.
The only thing STALKER 2 has is the pre order, nothing else
Imagine how many GTA 6 will have
Unfortunately, there are not a lot of single-player games
There are a ton of single-player games out there. The videogame genre started with single-player games, lol. You just have to look a little. Depending on your playstyle, Steam has literally thousands to choose from. A bunch of good stuff came out last year (do I even need to mention Baldur's Gate 3, Hogwart's Legacy, and Elden Ring?). Before the corps ruined everything, there were a bunch of greats out there. FPS's, Horror, City/World Builder, 4X, Open World/Explore, Strategy; you name it, they're out there.
@@williamyoung9401 Calm down brother, they were talking about in this video
Yup, just talking about the video))
Almost half the game on the video are single player, wdym?
bro really ignored STALKER
You completely missed the "spin" in Forever Winter. In that game you are not the hero, you are not the Dragonborn, you are not from Vault 101, you are not participating in the active conflict. You're the rat. Just one of the NPC's in the town of Megaton. There are two warring factions going at it constantly; neither of them cares for you or even know who the f you are, and your goal is to survive by scavenging through the battlefield. They got you beat by miles in fire and manpower and you are not affiliated with anything but their precious loot.
Every time I see these clips from Exekiller, i can't help but notice that the gas station and motel are almost 1.1 copies of the gas station and motel in the outskirts from Cyberpunk 2077. Am I crazy?
Yes! I thought the exact same thing!
Holy shit, this is the first time I've seen a clip from Exekiller and immediately thought of the outskirts abandoned towns from CP77
clearly inspired by it.
You're immersed in a post-apocalyptic world scavenging for resources, managing your thirst and hunger, counting your bullets and trying to find a safe place to spend the night preferably where you can safely set up a cozy campfire... suddenly, "YoMAMAon4's" crosses your path doing a naruto run shooting at you, killing and teabaging you! boy... such immersion!
YOU LABELED THE CHAPTERS WITH THE ACTUAL GAME TITLES!!!!!! Finally 🙌🏻
Lol :)
Is it crazy to hope that John Carpenter did the music for Toxic Commando? He’s such an iconic composer. The end credits music from Escape From New York is my ringtone.
Say what? I did know that he also composed music as well....I'm gonna check that out. He's an icon
I'm a big fan. A massive inspiration to me.
12:54 Frostpunk? Trun-based? Have you been drinking much lately?
Sometimes they just don't know what they are talking about. Falcon has called Civilization an RTS and a city builder.
The forever winter looks absolutely incredible, and an original idea too
I hope to see my Farming game in upcoming list of yours... 👀
Good luck to you mate hope you get that mention !!!
What game ?
@@WELDINGWIZARD1 Sky Harvest, a cozy farming game that I have been working on from past year. It was featured by Steam during Farming Fest which subsequently got me an exclusive interview with IGN as well. ☺
Love you vids.❤ That game Sand, reminds me of an anime with Vash the Stampede. It had the same premise, kinda. I wonder if they took any influence from that show.
Huge sucker for Post Apocalyptic games, dopamine hit like a truck for finding just a bullet sometimes.
Or finding gun very early
Gameranx is always making my day. Thanks guys.
The forever winter is definitely my most anticipated game
Im pretty over looters at this point, but that one does sound like an interesting idea.
We need more RTS games like Warcraft and Starcraft but not always online. I got a hold of Empire Earth on GOG and that's one of my favorites because you start in prehistoric times and build your city all the way to the future. So much fun! A game can take all the time you want it to. Age of Empires was another good one and they're releasing Age of Mythology Retold next month.
Don't trust majority of these games being good 💀
Most of them are multiplayer games and I have no hope that these will be good💀
@@solid_2077 I was interested when I saw a Terminator game in the search bar....then I heard multiplayer and that interest disappeared.
Don't trust the opinion of some rando on the internet who probably doesn't even play games
@@jimmythegamer2231 Especially if they have 'thegamer' in their username.
j/k 😁
Well stalker 2 will most likely be good. However gsc had to relocate because of the Russian-Ukraine war.
I love rouge-likes' replayability. The randomly generated rooms, randomly (but usually lightly influenced upgrades) that are bot persistent, with seperate perks that are....
I think we can apply this to a lot more genres than hack & slash games.
I can't hear " looter shooter" anymore. it should get banned!
Banned? Lil extreme if you ask me
I guess everyone who likes that genre should just go screw themselves because you don't like them
I still can’t get enough of them.
I can’t hear Jake say “seemingly” anymore. Dude says it like 10 times every video. lol but I still love him
You could just not play them.
About Atomfall: Rebellion also does Strange Brigade, and for anyone who hasn't checked that game out, you are doing yourself a dis-service. Visually, it is one of the most jaw-droppingly gorgeous games I've ever seen. It is truly amazing. And a very fun game, too. Since Atomfall is a Rebellion game, it's a guaranteed "YES" from me.
Good list, Jake and Gameranx.
I love Post Apolcalyptic themes, Movies, tv-series and games!
SoD3 and Showa America Story are the only ones I'm really interested in. The rest being all FPS (not usually my thing) and/or "looter/shooter", "extraction shooter" or "PvPvE" just turn me right off. A proper MMO, like Ashfall, might be alright, but, for example, as soon as I learned Arc Raiders, which looks really interesting, is an extraction shooter, I was out. Man, give me that world in a SP (w/ optional multiplayer), or even something like The Division, and I'd be all over it!
First three entries "Yeah they'll probably suck but we'll see", next entry "Looks interesting, isn't coming out for a long time though", next entry "Yeah...looks okay". BUT DON"T MISS THEM
Maybe they meant don’t wanna miss the chance to point and laugh at a bunch of flops?
is killing floor 3 counting?? haha
Great video!
Alan Partridge ‘People like them. Let’s make more of them’ - I’m off to play Monkey Tennis
I'm so glad that "The Forever War" was talked about because this game looks amazing and seeing the behind the scenes of it ....
It looks awesome...
We’re interested to seeing how that one does! Thanks for watching :)
Maybe I missed it but you didn't even mention the intent behind "The Forever Winter." The idea is that you are not the badass hero. You are not that guy. You are the scavenger. The survivor. The rat, hiding in the shadows, snatching the drops of enemies that you would not stand a chance against on your own. Following twenty steps behind a roaming company of better fighters as they carve a path through the chaos for you to take advantage of. And they don't care that you're there until you prove yourself to be a threat.
The Terminator one sounds so epic. I don't play these games (except for Fallout and I'm gonna try Stalker 2), but if they do this game right, I'm definitely playing it. I hope they have NPC humans so they can have terminators disguised as humans. Fill your hideout up with NPCs to keep it running, but you gotta check em before inviting them to make sure it's not a Terminator or else the machines will descend upon your base and kill everyone. I'm so hyped for the possibilities
The "Forever Winter" game was not done enough justice
You are a survivor in a war between 2 factions. There is Rogue AI machines, troops with their own objective and you are in the middle of the battlefield looking for supplies.
Great list! Another title to keep an eye on is Immortal Gates of Pyre. While it’s an RTS, it’s got a unique, gritty vibe that might scratch that post-apocalyptic itch you’re looking for.
Ahhh one of my favorite science fiction sub-genres, in which humanity dooms itself
Love the pfp but Gear 5 is better 😉
@@iKrazyyi haha I gotta find a G5 picture as good as this one, this scene was just so fire yo
@captainziggy82 oh no doubt. Peak Piece is on top!
Im a month late but Im SO glad that Pioner was mentioned in this video. Im hyped for it, but also understand it seems very sketchy at this time. I recommend people looking into it and supporting it by telling friends so it isnt dead on arrival and has a strong community. Last I heard theyre focusing on marketing the game with trailers and adverts now after putting a lot of funding and time into the game itself. It wont release this year though, each year they say it will then they push it to the next year because they wanna launch the game with as little problems as possible and they dont have a rigid time to release by their publisher thankfully
Looter shooter? Yeah I'll pass on that slop.
I had heard of them all except for Ascent of Ashes, which looks to be right up my alley. Good list !
The Forever Winter
Please watch a dedicated video on this. They give a surface level preview, not hating on that, but these are some of the things to expect.
You are at the bottom of the food chain.
AI are battling one another, the AI adapts and reacts.
Example: You are running along, weaving between cover with only a pistol/nothing. AI soldiers see you and deem you not a threat, they pass on.
That same scenario but you have a rifle, they perceive you as a threat and attack.
Another example:
You are in a sector silenting taking down enemies. The AI WILL notice this and send stronger enemies to hunt down the rogue variable.
Another Example:
You can happen upon two groups fighting and take one or two off from a distance and they will not notice. If you get greedy they will split resources to find you.
I could keep going
And not just that but the AI react to one another, they learn and base strategy off what their opponent does or has done.
They will not funnel soldiers in the same way, they will take a different path. They will strengthen their side with elite machines.
They(developers) base their idea on "pockets". These pockets are instances of patrols or battles. They move. You can be off in the distance watching a full on slugfest behind a piece of scrap
I played the first playtest for Arc Raiders in 2023 and it was pretty fun. Needed more content like traders, quests, etc. but the maps, guns, combat was pretty solid.
You forgot "The Day Before" 10/10 rooting for it 😍
so many of these look amazing!
Days Gone is still my favorite. Wish they would develop a sequel
Frostpunk 2 is looking great! I already liked the art style of the first, but they seem to have taken it up a notch.
We can’t wait to check that one out too :)
i am SO TIRED of these new games seeming like cool ideas and settings but just being pvpve like its hard not to see it as someone from the top asking if this game could be online multiplayer somehow to add in battle passes and microtransactions like can we just get normal video games again? i hate it here man...
My favorite Post Apocalyptic type games on PC so far (in no particular order): Fallout series, Borderlands series, Days Gone, Prey and Metro 2033.
I always wanted to try S.T.A.L.K.E.R but i never got around to it, still for me, having a ton of games i want to play is a great problem to have personally, it means there's always something new to play :)
Do it
Thanks for another banger set of reviews Jake. 🔥🔥 🔥 🎮
Once on Blue's Clues, when Steve Burns was ill, Chuck Norris came to the show and disguised like Steve to let the children not know that Chuck Norris was on Blue's Clues. After the episode, Chuck made it through the game without clues. Steve then said "Did you use clues?". Then Chuck Norris took his disguise off and roundhouse kicked Steve in the face without a word. That was 16 years ago.
...wut?
Me and my friends discuss this all the time. We concluded that the prefect zombie survival game would have the gameplay, graphics and perspective of Dead Island/Dying Light, the map size and environment variety of a dystopian GTA5 and Skyrim, The RPG and scavenging elements of fallout 4 (including the dialogue options, skill, stats and morality choices), the need for water, sleep, and food, variety and ability to make any and every building a base from supplies and make survivor communities from State Of Decay, the horde events, fun gameplay and chaotic moments of Left 4 Dead, the story immersion of the Last Of Us, the exploration/ large variety of random events/ side quests from RDR2/ Skyrim/ Fallout 4, the gameplay element of being able to send out survivors to do certain errands around the city/countryside from Assassins Creed and an ever changing amount of/ difficulty/concentration/variety of zombies from day to day across the map where certain city districts and sections of the map have “The Swarm” for a day or so-making duties or missions in that area impossible/very difficult for a few days until it moves to another area of the map i.e the AI director in the Left For Dead to encourage replay ability.
Man is it so hard to ask for a post apocalyptic game thats not zombie, magic or mech? Just do a post apocalyptic rpg of 1 town working together with a good narrative story. Seems obvious. Yet no ones doing it.
So Steampunk 1 & 2 then.....😅
@Indo-Aryan9644 aaaahhhhhhh. No no no haha 😆
Totally hyped. I recently finished Metro Exodus and I have itch that I can't get rid of for more Post-Apocalyptic games.
10:43 - clever? Somebody didn't see Mortal Engines then.
I know I didn’t.
No one should be seeing Mortal Engines. Read the books instead.
@@P.M_MThis
I had a lot of fun with the Ashfall beta. There was some issues but I hope things were fixed and comes out better!
Dear friends. Never pre order, in this day and age. Much love to the GR community. ❤
Yeah dude i agree, it feeds trash! I saw the new cod is up for pre order, had to look and its like number 8 in sales...... Number 8 and its not even done. FFS people stop.
If anyone is on the fence with the stalker console editions, they play great and are just as fun and immersive as the original PC games unmodded and I've been having a blast playing on the ps5.
And for anyone upset about the delays, don't forget one of the main developers of the original Stalker games was Killed In Action in Ukraine defending his home against a senseless Russian invasion.
7 days to die just got 1.0 release
Gameranx daily videos are THE Best 🎉
4:31 "To me, it almost looks like a more fantastical Metro game, y'know, with a little bit _more_ sci-fi to it"
That's called RAGE, Jake.
Congrats on 8 million subs. Not sure when it happened but thats wild!
4:15 Pee owner
Jake, I’m excited about Frost punk too🙏
I'm already sad that so many of these will not see the daylight...or are published as unfinished.
Half of them need to end now and stop wasting money,
I appreciate that Wild Wild West reference more than ANYTHING lmao, thank u Jake
lol thanks for watching!
the giant mechanical spider from wild wild west yes!!
Now this is my kind of list! ExeKiller looks like my dream game. I've had it on my Steam Wishlist for quite a while and had forgotten about it. Really appreciate the reminder.
Hey thanks for watching! :)
Thank God we have post-apocalyptic games on the way... there certainly weren't enough of them.
Post-apocalypse to me means "We couldn't think of anything creative, so we just gave up and made dirty people running from zombies".
Well said. I'm so bored of these same old themes over and over again.
@@DanHammonds Thanks! And I agree.
Some series i get like SOD3 but this has been going on for ever. Every time one developer makes a great game , thats all we get for years. We went through space games, only pvp and other eras where if you werent into it , your done. Now its this.
🔥🔥Jakey’s on fire🔥🔥
State of decay 3 is NEVER coming out 😮😮😢😢 its been 5 years now
I'm so hyped for it but I doubt it'll come out anytime soon
Let them cook!
If they'd release it too early and buggy you ALL would say what people always say in that situation "Take more time next time!".
yeah let them cook. im excited too, but i can wait!
five years isn't that long dude once you get a bit older you'll realize how short five even ten years actually is
Do they still up date the second one?
I’d love an immersive sim roadtrip game. You got a route across a wasteland, from point A to point B and along the way you got multiple POI where you can stop to refuel or to scavenge. These place can be really small or decently big like hub world à la Deus Ex where you can find missions and stuff.
Oh, so now you can name the chapters instead of using numbers...do that to all your following "top 10" list videos from now on, sincerely everyone.
I don't even look with gameranx, I take the journey lol
I'm excited for the Quiet Place game c:
post-apocalyptic near-future potato potato
11th game mentioned Toxic Commando. Reminds me of a spiritual successor to Days Gone. LOVE THAT GAME.
Pvpve, looter shooter online mmorpg😢😢😢. I miss original games man
Thanks for the vids 🔥❤️
Honestly, all a game studio has to do is make a Fallout 5 or a Skyrim and they would make millions so long as they do it properly. It think that's all most of us want.
Thanks Jake... I was good with forgetting the Wild Wild West desaster but you brought it up again ;)
I've always loved Wild Wild West, never really understood why it's so disliked. I recently watched the original series on MeTV and it seems even more like it's in line with it origins to me.
What didn't you like about it?
Into the Radius 2, ZONA Origin and ConVRgence. They are VR titles so not quite as approachable as others, but man, their settings are sweet. Kind of a STALKER/Metro vibe on all the above.
Into the Dead looks like a "This War of Mine" reskin/refresh with better graphics. That was a pretty solid game.
I usually don’t care at all and then once every 4 months or so you put out a video that makes me wish I had a gaming PC
Metro being VR makes me happy for the VR community but sad for myself because I dont play VR but i thoroughly love the Metro series
EXEKILLER.. you had me at "a bad ass cowboy in a post apocalyptic wasteland" !!
Waited so long for state decay 3 so happy to see some more news on it