Hi all,

I finally made an account here after lurking for a number of months. I'm a full-time linux user (and have been for numerous years, and was a part-time linux user dating back to about the year 2000) and a total noob gamer. When I say a noob gamer, I mean it. I've never owned a console and the only game I played any significant amount on PC, until recently, was Assault Cube (and I was gooooooood!). So with the gaining linux support by game producers and porters I figured I should help support by putting my money where my mouth is (my linux fanboy mouth that is).

I need help finding new titles to buy, and I'm struggling to find games I want to try. So, I'd love some suggestions. Throw them out there, please.

Here's a little about me and my preferences...

I already have bought (and entirely finished):
Portal
Portal 2
Talos Principle
Tomb Raider

I absolutely loved the portal games. Talos Principle was fun solving the puzzles, but the philosophy lecture wasn't quite as fun as the hilarious humor of the portal games. Still I liked it though. Tomb Raider had some fun sections (and following Lara around and staring at her butt was pleasant enough) but the game play was not quite as entertaining as the puzzle games to me. I guess I like solving puzzles?

I've never liked racing games. I don't think I'm interested in online/cooperative games. I tried Team Fortress 2, and didn't enjoy it much. I like playing a game for 15 minutes to an an hour at a time, by myself. I have never been much interested big-action first person shooters. I prefer slower paced and more realistic precision sniping than running around with a machine gun and blowing everything up or mowing down 400 enemies in 60 seconds. I find games of building cities, or empires, to be unappealing. Games that are entirely strategy don't have much appeal either. I just want to be able to sit down a few times per week and have some fun for about an hour, and maybe 2 hours max on the weekends.

Like I said, I'm a total noob at buying games. And I'm pretty old. I'm a married 42 year old guy. I have very limited experience playing games, so I don't really know what I like. I just read descriptions/advertisements/reviews of a lot of games and I think, "Boy that doesn't sound very fun." Maybe I would enjoy different types of games more than I think I would. Give me some suggestions. I am pretty open minded, but completely lost in the world of gaming.

Oh yeah, I only have linux computers at my home. I've bought everything from Steam so far. I want to support people bringing software to linux. I only play games on the home theater system, from the couch, with a wireless keyboard and mouse. The computer isn't the most top-of-the-line gaming rig. I'm not a performance snob (at least not yet). Spending big money to get a few extra FPS isn't ever going to be serious side hobby for me. But it's a solid performing custom built machine though, and I may look at updating my GTX660SC this year to a 1070 when pricing gets more competitive. It played all the games listed above without any complaints by me about performance (I haven't overclocked the CPU, but I could).