No one else has responded to this, but lest the OP be unnecessarily put off by Assassin’s Creed games, I think you meant to say that they’re strictly single player. Because while some of the games in the series have included multiplayer modes, it’s definitely not strictly multiplayer.
I’m contractually obligated by my own obsession to say the Mass Effect Trilogy
Warframe is fun and though technically an MMO it’s only multiplayer if you choose to look for a team when starting a mission. I’ve played for months 99% solo (the couple of times I did multiplayer were by accident).
Bumped.
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Personally, I don’t like multiplayer games because playing online adds the possibility of annoying lag for not much benefit. The single-player campaign for “The Division” was okay, but the idea of playing the same few missions again and again for slightly better gear doesn’t really grab me.
Max Payne 3 is a relatively enjoyable cinematic-style shooting romp. It’s a console port, so it’s set up in a way that cutscenes are used as loading screens so you can’t skip them, and they occur pretty much every time you enter a new room, which can get annoying as it really breaks up the gameplay, but the actual shooting is fun as hell. I’m mentioning it because while it’s not a great game, it’s very entertaining for what you will pay for it (still $20 full price, but routinely goes on sale for $5 or less).
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger is a pretty good FPS with highly stylized graphics in a Western-type setting.
The Sniper Elite games from V2 forward are all great 3rd-person stealth sniper games. Sneak around, blow someone’s head off from great distance, gather intel, shoot some poor sucker in the testicles, sneak around some more, repeat. I never get tired of these games.
If you’re looking for more of a story in your FPS’s, the Metro games are all excellent, as are the Bioshock games. Wolfenstein: The New Order and its prequel (?) The Old Blood were both pretty fun.
If you’re looking for something less violent and more brainy, the Portal games are both outstanding, as is The Witness.
Wasteland 2 is an excellent isometric RPG, although in my last playthrough in the Director’s Cut version I encountered several game-breaking glitches.
Everyone who has a PC and wants games on it should have FTL: Faster Than Light. Take ten minutes to learn and months to master. Utterly addictive.
This “news story” warrants a bump of a thread about recommending video games?
Prey, Far Cry 3+4 (don’t bother with 5), Borderlands trilogy, latest Doom, Wolfensteins in order: Old Order, New Blood, II. Hitman. Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor. Batman: Arkham Asylum (followups tend to degrade compared to the classic original). Bioshock, Bioshock: Infinite. Dishonoured series (sneakathon). Styx games (fantasy sneakathon). Watchdog I+2 (hack and sneak).
Disagree. Skip the original. The combat was practically broken in it; they hadn’t quite figured it out yet. Fighting involved pressing a button and attacking a random enemy (usually not the one you wanted). It was awful. By the second game they’d refined it enough that combat was no longer random frustration you suffer through to get to the rest of the game.