If you have any interest is medieval things check out the Society of Creative Anachronism. www.sca.org

Even if you only want to meet new nerdy\geeky people. As long as you don’t mind wearing silly clothing.

This is somewhat dependent on living close enough to a city.

While this is technically a free game, fanatical wants you to link your steam account. So if you don’t feel like giving Fanatical all your steam info, whatever they are asking for, then you cant have it. Oh and they also want you to subscribe to their newsletter. Annoying.