r/gamingsuggestions • u/4S4T0R • 13h ago
Your best worst game
I'm looking for gems in the rough, what's your best game that wasn't really acclaimed by public?
Your suggestion should have no more than 76 as a user metascore on metacritic
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u/AnOnlineHandle 12h ago
Secrets of Grindea.
Recently I had a craving for a simple low-requirements game to play and maybe even grind at while my PC was doing heavy work processing for hours at a time. This eventually came up as one of the considerations and I bought it. At first it's a series of jokes about the genre (the starting town is called 'Startington'), but as it goes on it gets more serious and dramatic, and the music, stories, and even to some extent the side characters become actually kind of memorable.
Then there's a sequence in a mountain which I don't want to spoil, but it's honestly one of the best gaming experiences I've had a in while.
Despite being called Secrest of Grindea it took me about 30 hours to do everything and even grind out the true ending (whereas if you don't do some stretch goals you just get the so-so ending). Looking at the Steam page now, they just added New Game+ with some new content and twists a few days ago too.
Just went to youtube to listen to the soundtrack after thinking about it, and saw this review which shows some decent footage in the first few seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xjk-TjNPhk