cafuneandchill

Black Mesa is an obvious recommendation, since it's a modern take on the original Half-Life. Another game that I thought was similar to Half-Life in progression and physics emphasis was Prey (the 2007 Native American one)

This reminds me of Hack 'n' Slash, except it's less about programming and more about changing in-game objects on the fly

Sometimes I get the urge to play Orbiter (space flight sim), but then I remember that I suck at it lol. Atmospheric re-entry and landing is hard

I think it's one of those games that you play when you specifically have a craving for it. Otherwise, playing it non-stop does get boring after some time

I don't dislike Terraria per se, and I highly respect the dedication of both the devs and the community to it.

However, each time I try getting into it, I would make a basic house, spelunk a cave... and then forget about the game for a while. I don't know why, but I just have trouble with games where you have to set your own goals

cumfunny moment

Then I don't know lol

I have a similar problem -- when I launch Steam, the whole system slows down to a crawl. But, it still recovers after a minute or so.

I have background shader processing enabled in Steam, so maybe that's what's causing this