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    I don't really know how to put this concisely for the subject line. Looking for any PC games that are "easy" or rather not difficult (not souls-like). A focus more on leveling up (even grinding) and/or open world quests (with markers) than trying to figure out puzzles or even where to go / what to do next. By "Action-adventure" I'm referring to titles similar to Ghost of Tsushima or Horizon Forbidden West.

    Here are some perfect examples:

    FINAL FANTASY XIII
    FINAL FANTASY XV
    NieR:Automata
    MONSTER HUNTER RISE
    FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE (PS4)
    Ghost of Tsushima (PS4)
    Horizon Forbidden West (PS4)
    Trials of Mana (PS4)
    World of Final Fantasy (PS4)

    Not good examples:

    FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 (most of the game is an attempt by Squares Enix to re-use assets and have to spend lots of time looking for "fragments" etc)
    LIGHTNING RETURNS: FINAL FANTASY XIII (timed and not relaxing)


    These are what I'm looking at (no particular order):

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (GOT IT)
    FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE (I'm not quite ready to play FF7 remake again, don't know how big of an "upgrade" this is over the vanilla remake)
    DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT (Played this a bit on the PS4)
    Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom (GOT IT)
    Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim
    STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN
    CRISIS CORE –FINAL FANTASY VII– REUNION
    Persona 5 Royal
    Horizon Zero Dawn (Is it worth getting into even after finishing the sequel?) (GOT IT)
    Tales of Arise (GOT IT)
     
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    So, to summarize, you are looking at 3D open-ish worlds that lean towards real time "action" combat?

    HZD is a fantastic game, but I'm like phlaym - I've played it, but I haven't played Forbidden West (and won't until it hits PC).
    Persona 5 Royal is a turn based game, and will involve some arbitrary time lines - you can only do so many tasks in a given day, and there are only so many days until the next EVENT, etc. It's also not open world - just open 'area'. Persona 5 is one of my most favorite games of the last decade though!
    Middle-earth: Shadow of War can get souls-like, but has some decent difficulty sliders.
    For Ni no Kuni II, I know they changed up the combat system entirely, but I had a pretty good time with the first one. A different take on monster collecting.
    I can't speak to the rest.


    The game that comes to mind that isn't on your list is Immortals: Fenyx Rising. There's a demo (or at least there was). I'd recommend giving it a shot. Also LOT of different options for difficulty and UI elements. Do you want the full Ubisoft open world icon festival? Can do! Do you want to make it as close to Breath of the Wild as possible? Can do that too! But yeah, give the demo a llok.
     
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    Diabolical said:
    Middle-earth: Shadow of War can get souls-like, but has some decent difficulty sliders.
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    It largely isn't though. Sometimes you just get a guy who's immune to damn near everything and killing them is a pain in the ass. Just don't think of it too much as a Lord of the Rings story, but more like fan fic.

    The latest few Assassin's Creed games sound like they'd fit into the theme too. Just choose your favorite setting (Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, or Vikings in Ancient England) and play.
     
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    I bought the Fallouts at release and also already have Witcher 3 and Skyrim. I consider all of these KB/M mouse games though and I'm looking for some button smashers here. :p

    The hours are what Steam claims, they probably include idle time too (alt tabbed out). :p

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    The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt TOTAL PLAYED 562.6 hours
Fallout 3 - Game of the Year Edition TOTAL PLAYED 84.7 hours
Fallout 4 TOTAL PLAYED 311.7 hours
Fallout: New Vegas 298.2 hours
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim TOTAL PLAYED 215.3 hours
Cyberpunk 2077 TOTAL PLAYED 164 hours

    Another perfect example I just remembered was "World of Final Fantasy" which I completed on the PS4. It's on Steam too but I'm not sure I want to go back to it.

    I do have Outer worlds on Steam but haven't installed it yet, so that's a good option.
     
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    Horizon Zero Dawn is a much better story than West so yeah, definitely play it

    Fallout 3, New Vegas, 4

    Assassin's Creed Origins, Odyssey, Valhalla

    Divinity Original Sin 1 and/or 2

    Witcher 2 , 3

    Baldur's Gate 1, 2 Enhanced Editions

    Baldur's Gate 3 coming Aug 3

    Starfield, coming September 6

    The Outer Worlds

    Mass Effect Legendary Edition

    Cyberpunk 2077

    The Last of Us .. no leveling as such. But you do build skills and progressively get better weapons and gear
     
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    The Tales games aren't particularly difficult, but they're very frenetic, combo-heavy, and do have difficulty spikes - generally, this devolves to button mashing if you can't be arsed, like I am a lot of the time, so if you've got limited room to manoeuvre, that's something to keep in mind. I haven't played a lot of Arise, but it introduces an extra wrinkle in CP management -- which I haven't absorbed fully yet, but it feels kinda fucky.

    You could just set the difficulty to Story mode and not give a damn, probably.
     
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    If you can do Horizon, you can do Red Dead Redemption. Deadeye/bullet-time reduces the absolute twitch required, just don't be afraid about using the chewing tobacco items to keep the meter full.

    It took me a couple of tries to get into it farther than the tutorial area, but once it clicked not howdy did I like riding around finding stuff to do.

    Same with Witcher 3, I bounced off it a couple of times and then whoops suddenly 200 hours clocked. I think there are a lot of PC mods out there for quality of life too.
     
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    Yagisama said:
    DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT (Played this a bit on the PS4)
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    While it's a good game, it's definitely a low action, slow burn game compared to most of what you've listed. If you're looking for a lot of action, it might come across as on the boring side.

    Diabolical said:
    The game that comes to mind that isn't on your list is Immortals: Fenyx Rising. There's a demo (or at least there was). I'd recommend giving it a shot. Also LOT of different options for difficulty and UI elements. Do you want the full Ubisoft open world icon festival? Can do! Do you want to make it as close to Breath of the Wild as possible? Can do that too! But yeah, give the demo a llok.
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    Second this, strongly. Immortals: Fenyx Rising is like Breath of the Wild (and was compared to it a lot in reviews), but with genuinely fun combat and no asinine weapon durability system, and without feeling so empty in the overworld, and without overuse of motion controls in the dungeons for physics puzzles (there are physics puzzles, just not controlled by fiddly motion controls), and with a much more even difficulty curve.

    If you have Game Pass, it's one of the handful of included Ubisoft titles.
     
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    Backstop said:
    If you can do Horizon, you can do Red Dead Redemption. Deadeye/bullet-time reduces the absolute twitch required, just don't be afraid about using the chewing tobacco items to keep the meter full.

    It took me a couple of tries to get into it farther than the tutorial area, but once it clicked not howdy did I like riding around finding stuff to do.

    Same with Witcher 3, I bounced off it a couple of times and then whoops suddenly 200 hours clocked. I think there are a lot of PC mods out there for quality of life too.
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    Witcher 3 and Red Dead 2 are both in my top list of games. I never even got past story chapter 3 with RDR2 but painted the map with all the hunting quests and side exploration :) I beat Witcher 3 main game and one of the expansions. Finishing games has never been a huge priority, I burn out just roaming around usually :D

    I know you said no souls-like, but I hated (and royally sucked) at Dark Souls 3 but played a ton of hours of Elden Ring. When I say sucked, I rage quit before I even reached the first real boss, and only got past the tutorial boss thanks to my son helping. Yes, I died approximately 387 times or so playing Elden Ring. But I got really close to beating it with my most powerful build and only got distracted from that because I wanted to try different alts. It's a very cool world, I liken it to playing in Elric's universe (part of that is that the art style reminds me of one of the elric edition artwork that I used to own.) There's an amazing "seamless coop" mod that turns it into a mini-mmo for up to four people--I've tried it a couple times, it's a bit clunky but it's crazy that someone built such a thing...
     
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    orionquest said:
    No one has mentioned Diablo?
    Does require some aiming, not a lot very forgiving. Lots of button mashing.
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    I almost got Diablo 4 for this very purpose since it would be absolutely perfect. Lots of clicking, leveling up, more clicking. I'd even hold my tongue and replace clicking with pressing of a button. :p

    Only reason it's not on the list above is that the above is from the summer Steamer sale.
     
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    Yagisama said:
    I almost got Diablo 4 for this very purpose since it would be absolutely perfect. Lots of clicking, leveling up, more clicking. I'd even hold my tongue and replace clicking with pressing of a button. :p

    Only reason it's not on the list above is that the above is from the summer Steamer sale.
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    Blizz is having their own summer sale. D4 won't be or I doubt be on sale, but if you haven't played D3 might be worth getting, I didn't mind it, lots of others liked it more.
     
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    Red Dead 2 is an outstanding action adventure game, but no direct leveling. The only grinding per se is hunting for crafting ingredients to upgrade the swag for your cowboy and camp. It will tax your 4070 especially if you run it above 2K. I wouldn't call it fast-paced or button mashy by any means, so that might turn you off if it's not your cup of tea.

    Diablo 4 does seem to check a lot of the boxes, aside from not being worth the muscle of your 4070. Debatable if the open world really adds a lot to it, but some of the sidequests are interesting. PoE is another option, if you feel like doing more homework outside of the game than actually playing and having fun.

    As mentioned earlier, the Game Pass catalogue would be worth a look, and has many of the games discussed here. A cheap way to try them out.
     
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    Yagisama said:
    I probably should have said more modern games that put a 4070 Ti to good use.
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    CyberPunk is probably the only game that does that. It's kinda the new Crysis.
    Someone in another thread explained to me the rendering is higher resolution then most typical games. So when you see curved edges they don't look like a bunch of short straighed edges, but actually a curved line.

    I wouldn't call RDR an action game. There are numerous comments on how simple the mechanics of the shooting elements and animations are of this game, to the point where is distills down the action.

    Game Pass is a good idea. I subbed for a month, for a $1, and played outer worlds, then cancelled. 😬
     
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    Based on the fact that you liked FF15 and CP2077, I think you should try these two, on your 4070ti:
    1) Death Stranding
    2) Snow Runner

    Both have good graphics and both are slow delivery games; in DS you walk, in SR you drive a truck but they are very similar. But DS also has a full story with cut scenes, with SR you kind of have to come up with your own story.

    In terms of "less action, more story", you can do these two:
    1) Red Dead Redemption 2
    2) Disco Elysium

    The second one really has no "action" but both are narration-heavy.

    Also, you don't mention "single player" as a requirement but all the games in this thread seem to be single player only; so here is another list:

    best single player game you liked "recently" on PC?

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    orionquest said:
    Blizz is having their own summer sale. D4 won't be or I doubt be on sale, but if you haven't played D3 might be worth getting, I didn't mind it, lots of others liked it more.
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    I bought Diablo 3 right right when it came out and I had to eventually take a break since I found myself falling asleep and waking up while still clicking the mouse button. 😅
     
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    chalex said:
    Based on the fact that you liked FF15 and CP2077, I think you should try these two, on your 4070ti:
    1) Death Stranding
    2) Snow Runner

    Both have good graphics and both are slow delivery games; in DS you walk, in SR you drive a truck but they are very similar. But DS also has a full story with cut scenes, with SR you kind of have to come up with your own story.

    In terms of "less action, more story", you can do these two:
    1) Red Dead Redemption 2
    2) Disco Elysium

    The second one really has no "action" but both are narration-heavy.

    Also, you don't mention "single player" as a requirement but all the games in this thread seem to be single player only; so here is another list:

    best single player game you liked "recently" on PC?

    I keep a Rhodia A5 notepad and fountain pen at my desk specifically for taking notes in games :eng101: . … .. I may be am a huge nerd. I used to have graph paper to map dungeons in Ultima 3, Bard’s Tale, etc…
    arstechnica.com arstechnica.com
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    I played a few hours into both Death Stranding and Red Dead Redemption 2 on the PS4. I'm likely going to get the former on Steam, but the setting of the latter isn't something I really enjoy. I'm the rare kind of geek that prefers SciFi or fantasy. ;)
     
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