Most classic RPGs have lots of combat. What I don't see mentioned here so far is Neverwinter Nights. Especially the first expansion of the second game. Mask of the Betrayer. Lots of combat of course, but a story that your behaviour has an impact on. Search for a cookie cutter build, lower the difficulty. You can skip through the combat parts quickly that way, if you don't like them.
Also mentioning Planescape Torment again because it's weird and not so combat focused.
Okay, pretend I mentioned a female celebrity you like... are you still with us? How are you feeling?
That's just teenagers. They will arrive eventually if Lemmy gets more popular.
In the last few years I started actively trying to stop myself from thinking about company code (and other work stuff too) when I'm not at work. You know, work life balance and all that. Did wonders to my mental health.
I recommend a simple little game called Rush. I don't even know what motivated me to get it some time ago, but I had fun with it even though I wouldn't say I usually like puzzle games. It's all of 0.22€ on sale where I'm sitting, might be worth trying.
I used to enjoy arena shooters waaay back in the day when Quake III Arena and later Quake Live had a still somewhat active playerbase so I could just randomly find games. No multiplayer games caught me since then.
Nowadays it's ARPGs (mostly Path of Exile), but I enjoyed Vampire Survivors too so I might go for that genre again.
Also I randomly get cravings for playing Elder Scrolls games. I just started my Nth Oblivion playthrough and I did it with Morrowind last year. It will be Skyrim again next year I suppose...
Oh and I have a few hundred hours in Dwarf Fortress too. And of course I played it the way it was meant to be played. With ASCII graphics!
After those I think the fragments tab is the most useful. Divination and essence is okay to get.
All the other special tabs are not that useful unless you are a hoarder (or playing SSF). Get more regular or quad tabs before getting those, if you lack space.
No special tabs at all? I can understand not having a map tab when somebody is in a trade league, but not even a currency tab? That's interesting.
My take is. Treat PoE as free to play until early mapping.
If it still looks like a game for you then: Buy the "First Blood" pack. That is 200 points and an extra regular stash tab. On sale you can get a map tab a currency tab and a premium tab conversion out of the 200 points.
I wouldn't recommend much more than this for the first league. After that if you are still interested in playing and getting deeper into the game, you can think about buying more stash tabs.
Simple, but surprisingly addictive stickman fighting game. Although the title is a lie because you probably need two fingers to play it. I think this was the first game I went for 100% achievements.
Apparently it has a sequel which I didn't know about. Both are on sale for pretty much pocket change now too.
Do you guys not have phones? Surely by now everyone has a phone, right? So no problem!
But seriously, I think they thought they can push out 3.22 a week or two earlier when they first announced exilecon so they wanted people to go back home and play it.
I don't care much as long as level scaling is gone. It's lazy and it signals that the world is built for and around you instead of you just being a part of that world.
When I'm walking around some well travelled road between cities I don't want to meet wolves first and then some damage sponge minotaur lord slaughtering every guard patrol coming through two weeks later, just because I levelled up a couple of times in between.