I have a friend who is predominantly an xbox and switch gamer whos getting his first pc and I wanna get him a kind of starter pack of steam games. Want suggestions that aren’t on gamepass since he has that already.
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I recommend Helldivers 2. It’s an excellent game, and with crossplay he can still play with his xbox friends until they ascend to PC.
Some other fun ones right off the top of my head: Satisfactory, Hell Let Loose, Cyberpunk 2077.
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Portal is always good.
Maybe something that is better suited for PC like RTS or a city sim like Cities Skylines.
If he has game pass arguably he has plenty to play that doesn’t require dipping into Steam. I mean Silksong was just released after all…
JRPG wise Clair Obscur is still on game pass iirc, so the steam only now that’s also on currently on discount would be Persona 5 Royal or Metaphor Re Fantazio.
The only reason I can think to play on Steam would be for Valve exclusives like Half Life series, Dota2 or CS:GO.
Very hard to say anything specific without knowing preferred genres, but in general I recommend stuff like FPS, RTS and menu heavy CRPG games… In general stuff that plays significantly better on a mouse and keyboard.
older but get him all the half life games.
Hard to know without knowing what he likes, but the Valve Complete Pack and/or some of their individual series packs are great, esspecially when they regularly go on sale for 90% off. The Portal and Half Life series specifically are classics. Other than that an item or two from genres that are (effectively) unique to PC might be nice, such as a copy of Age of Empires 2 or Civ V, although worth noting that Civ V can be finicky on modern versions of Windows. Gmod and/or Minecraft might also be good, esspecially for an easy way to dip into modding.
- Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition
- RDR2
Great recommendations but they’re both better played with s controller, IMO.
titanfall 2, Age of Empires 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, and Factorio
Repo, Lethal Company and Left 4 Dead 2. Kinda have to play these games with a group. Left 4 Dead 2 has all the missions of the first game.
Are some games that I enjoyed. Hopefully one of these gives you an idea.
In addition to these, remind him that now that they have a PC (and I assume Game Pass for that,) if they’re like a Minecraft player, they can now do the Java version and go crazy with mods. Mods are a great part of PC play and something with a familiar game like that might help him ease into the idea of grabbing things on the Steam Workshop or more.
Popular, well-acclaimed games in the genres he likes is probably a good place to start. Or even just popular, well-acclaimed PC games in general. I never used GamePass so I have no idea what is on there.
I would say that it might be worth getting games that are on GamePass (making the assumption this is console-only, I have no idea) for PC anyways if they have a thriving mod community. Mods are much harder to do on console than PC, and can help you squeeze many more hours out of the same game. Skyrim, Stardew Valley, Baldur’s Gate 3, and the Fallout series have tons of mods. I don’t believe Minecraft is on Steam, but it is also so full of mods.
It’s kind of you to do this for your friend and I wish you the best of luck!
