My love for control got me playing the rest of remedy games. Definitely recommend all of them. Alan wake 1 can be a bit if a drag to play but set it to easy and enjoy the narrative imo best thing to do.

RE Village got me into playing all the other RE games, silent hill, signalis, soma, penumbra, amnesia

the game you're looking for is spider solitaire for the windows xp

Play Lunacid, it is a dungeon crawler in the vain of kings field. It’s great and I had a lot of fun with it. Here is the manual: https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/1745510/manuals/Lunacid_Manual-compressed.pdf?t=1698723873

~~I think I saw something about an Alan Wake remake if you want more of the world that Control exists in.~~

One of my favorite hidden gem game series from the last couple of years is Supraland. It's a first person metroidvania. You play a meeple in a kid's sandbox.

If you want to spend every waking minute learning how to optimize production of widgets, may e check out Factorio, Dyson Sphere Program, or Satisfactory. I don't kbow what it is about factory games but they click with me. I'm playing Satisfactory right now and started to give up on it becausey first coal generator system was bottlenecking hard but these kinds of games stay with me after I'm done playing at my computer and I found myself running some numbers and decided my belts couldn't keep up with both coal miners so I split them and also split my coal generation into 2 sub-plants, jump started it back up and bam I had consistanr power that mh starter mall couls finalky finction with without blowing a fuse evey 2 seconds. It was really rewarding and only took me 10 hours to figure out lol. These games aren't for everyone but if you like figuring out engineering stuff, ratios, and optimizing systems id say check it out.

My other suggestion is Borderlands 3 because I love the series lol. I know it's cringe but the series has a place in my heart.

E: I guess Alan Wake 2 is the new one I was thinking of. I'm not super familiar with the franchise.

I don't play multiplayer games really. I used to play them a lot but I realized I absolutely can't stand playing games whenever someone else wants to. I often found myself playing a game just because other people wanted to even when I didn't. So I just stick to single player games and sit in invisible mode most of the time.

The only PvP multiplayer game I ever had fun playing was Zdaemon CTF. Zdaemon still exists, but people barely play deathmatch any more, let alone CTF. CTF in general is an excruciatingly slow and tedious game mode in most games, but the absurd lightning pace of Doom made it excellent, along with the custom maps and the unlicensed pop music midi soundtracks.

Most modern multiplayer games are designed to milk you as dry as possible and that is about it. It's a red flag when they:

• Involve microstransactions
• Have a premium currency
• Incentivize regular play (daily/weekly challenges)
• Have Seasons and passes
• Have subscription models
• Regular paid expansions

And that describes just about every big multiplayer game on the market.

Embrace the single player experience. Or embrace small and indie multiplayer games.

Spiral Knights and ~~Die2Night ~~ MyHordes are the only MMO/MO games that I've ever really enjoyed playing for any length of time and enjoyed enough that I will take a years long break and fire things up again.

System Shock 2 and Clive Barker's Undying are pretty narrative heavy FPS style games.

I've been playing project zomboid with a couple of friends. It's a great single/multiplayer game. And cheap.