Been wasting too much time on this lately.
Bought DiabloIV for 70€ only to play it for a week or so and spend all my free time on stardew valley with my gf...
Fallout: New Vegas. You don't need to have played any of the other ones. Obsidian did an amazing job missing some of the stumbling blocks Bethesda usually hits. Its a game you can tear through in a few hours, or spend years getting lost in.
Good variety in enemies and levels, hidden secrets, an evolving world as you progress, simple controls that are easy to understand, but also require a degree of skill to master. It's also a game that's enjoyable for ages 3-100, in my eyes it's one of the most 'perfect' games.
Warframe. It's free to play, you can have superpowers, has open world areas, can hunt, can hack and slash, cool movement and combat, and it's always growing in content!
Yeah, definitely depends on who I'm recommending to. If it's someone who's pretty familiar with games, I think it would be Elden Ring. Love the sense of exploration and discovery in that game.
I still find the odd person that never played it here and there, and yet everyone that tries it after says "Oh my god, how did I never play this game before?" and goes on to play the rest
Dragon Age: Origins. BioWare has the talent to fill your heart with lovely characters and their stories until it overflows with joy and care, only to stab a knife into it to make you bleed. Beautifully painful. :)
Had to know more about the person. But recommending blindly, I would suggest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredder's Revenge. Couch coop play, fun, easy enough for kids and less technical people.
Sleeping Dogs are definitly fun though. Good choice for people used to modern GTA and the like.
Return of the Obra Dinn. There are other games I've played more and enjoyed more but no other game shows the potential of alternative ways of telling stories that games are capable of as well as Return of the Obra Dinn.
That's a surprisingly difficult question. Everyone has different interests, so it's hard to make a catch-all recommendation.
With that being said, I'll go with Chrono Trigger. It's a true classic with interesting characters, a solid enough story (that doesn't outstay its welcome), easily approachable gameplay, and an amazing soundtrack. It easily ranks among my favorite games of all time.