Outer Wilds changed my life then Tunic changed it again
Edit: Game Recommendations by the people in the comments:
- Disco Elysium - @Sibbo@sopuli.xyz
- Kingdom Come Deliverance - @McFarius@lemmy.world
- Fez - @TestFactor@lemmy.world, @Glaive0@beehaw.org, @clearleaf@lemmy.world
- I Was a Teenage Exocolonist - @alltheweird@lemmy.tf
- Noita - @Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de, @yjr4df0708@lemmy.ml, @Crow_of_Minerva@feddit.it
- The Witness - @Suppoze@beehaw.org
- Lingo - @dexa_scantron@lemmy.world
- Bad End Theater - @Exocrinous@lemm.ee
- Celeste - @tkk13909@sopuli.xyz
- Fear & Hunger - @RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world
- minit - @naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- The Forgotten City - @naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com, @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com, @terrifyingtuba@lemmy.world
- Deathloop - @tills13@lemmy.world
- The Soulsborne games - @Philharmonic3@lemmy.world
- Void Stranger - @clearleaf@lemmy.world
- Baba Is You - @clearleaf@lemmy.world
- Roguelikes as a genre - @Piemanding@sh.itjust.works
- The Long Dark - @rbos@lemmy.ca
- Who’s Lila? - @Crow_of_Minerva@feddit.it
- Cultist Simulator - @Frogodendron@beehaw.org
- Sorcery! - @Frogodendron@beehaw.org
And some game recommendations by me to add on to the post:
- Taiji
- A 2D puzzle game where you slowly unravel how to solve each different element of the puzzles, eventually culminating in a massive puzzle gauntlet. Basically identical in concept and execution to The Witness, but still very much its own unique and fun game.
- The Golden Idol
- A puzzle game where each level you must examine a scene to figure out exactly what happened, eventually piecing together the full story over several levels. Don’t let the art style put you off, it’s an incredibly well done game. Most similar to Return of the Obra Dinn in concept.
- Stories: The Path of Destinies
- an action RPG with a branching choice-driven storyline, but not every story has a happy ending… You’ll piece together the true story over multiple playthroughs and eventually find the one true path. It wasn’t a particularly life-changing game but it was still a lot of fun and worth checking out if it sounds interesting!
This is like the 3rd time I’ve seen somebody bring up Outer Wilds today, and I still haven’t played it. It looks like that might be next on my list.
It’s easily one of my favourite games of all time, I cannot recommend it enough!
I really like it but I’m a fucking dumbass apparently, because I’m stuck in it and can’t find any more clues to get further. not as much fun if you’re a dumbass
You can send a screenshot of your rumor log to the Outer Wilds discord if you want a hint, they’re always helpful. Or I can help if you want
Just be so careful not to spoil anything. If you lookup hints, do it with keywords to avoid spoilers as much as possible!
One of a kind experience, definitely play it! 🙂
Idk if it’s an exaggeration or not to say that Outer Wilds changed my life. I played it years ago yet I still think about it nearly every day. I started learning guitar just to play songs from the game. Highly recommend lol
That game was an instant classic.
It’s a fantastic game. Can’t recommend it enough
It was definitely worth the price of admission, but I didn’t enjoy it enough to finish. The time loop mechanic just got annoying for me after a while. Having to time lots of different things and if you mess up you have to wait 15 minutes to try again.
you don’t have to wait, you can skip by meditating
Actively trying to lobotomize myself so I can play Obra Dinn for the first time again
“Huh so apparently she got killed by a falling ship mast? Alrighty.”
<- clueless
What’s so good a out outer wilds? What’s so appealing?
chanting: play it play it play it play it
Every person I’ve seen online talk about it wishes to be you, everybody wants to experience it for the first time again. To unravel the mystery once again, to have the pieces fall into place and understand it for the first time again. As the other person said - you can complete the game in 15 minutes, but it’ll take you 15h+ to understand how to do that. It’s a wonderful little piece of art which nobody will tell you anything about - because they don’t dare to ruin your experience of playing it for the first time.
It’s about space, it’s about curiosity, it’s about discovery, and learning, and that’s about how much I’m willing to say about it.
You just have to take our word for it. It’s the type of game that comes once a decade and stays in peoples’ hearts forever.
Outer Wilds is a game you can beat in 20 minutes, but you spend 15 hours figuring out how to actually do that. Along the way you unravel a lovely story of curiosity and discovery and loss, while trying to solve one of the greatest mysteries in the universe. It’s a beautiful game and a true once-in-a-lifetime experience in the most literal sense, since you can only experience it once. Like the other person said, if this sounds appealing to you, give it a try! You will absolutely know whether the game is for you well within the refund period.
I would buy it and give it a shot. You should know before the refund window if it’s something you’re interested in or not
Me, spending two hours slowly exploring and reading everything before launch: “oh no”
Probably not for everyone here but ‘I was a Teenage Exocolonist’ is one of the best games in that category I ever played. You feel the developer’s love in every character and storyline and being able to have so many different outcomes really made it feel special.
I have it on my wishlist but I’ve put off buying it because I thought it was just a visual novel. I’ll have to check it out now!
Kingdom Come: Deliverance fits this bill, I think. I haven’t played any of the games listed yet, so I can’t compare.
Not particularly. Also, Tunic really shouldn’t be on the list.
Games like Tunic or Kingdom Come, you get better at the game as you learn more. With total knowledge of the game comes mastery of the gameplay.
The rest of the games on this list, there’s effectively no gameplay once you know everything about the game. With total knowledge of the game comes an end to the gameplay, because knowledge literally is progression in the game. None of those more so than Outer Wilds, in which a casual replay would literally let you skip to the end of the game with no tricks, because the entire game has no progression mechanics at all. Once you know how to finish the game, you can just do it.
Tunic absolutely does have tons of knowledge based progression. You can skip through massive chunks of the game simply because you have knowledge the game withheld from you. As you collect manual pages throughout the game you learn new mechanics that have always been there from the start, you simply didn’t know how to access them. A big example of this is accessing the hub, which is a massive game changing discovery halfway through the game that you can access in the first 60 seconds.
Lots of knowledge-based progression, sure, but not “render the gameplay redundant” levels of knowledge-based progression. Still, I retract my statement that it shouldn’t be on the list.
Outer wilds is soooo good, so thank you for reminding me that tunic exists, I’ll get that one now.
do it do it do it do it do it it’s so good
I just got it and wow it’s real interesting. I got that one big golden thingy to spew out magical lines and stuff, and I got my sword, currently seeking that shield.
Good luck, and remember: always read the manual!
Tunic mentioned
I’m interested in these types of games but fear that as I don’t have a a lot of time to play and don’t have regular times to play, I’d get half way through and just forget what’s going on.
Use a notepad. I find jotting notes down as a go helps a ton
Yeah. Had that problem with Chants of Senaar and Return of the Obra Dinn. Keeping notes definitely helps though.
Even funnier if you return to the game like one or two years later and remember absolutely nothing.
noita
Noita’s genre may as well be Trial and Error.
Thanks for recommendations! Outer Wilds is phenomenal, and Obra Dinn was so-o satisfactory to complete.
YYEEAAAAAAHHHH outer wilds!!! FUCK that game just absolutely slaps, top tier experience.
Noita and Who’s Lila? 🙏
Noita definitely cost me some sweat and tears.
Only some? You didn’t even touched the quests then /j
I haven’t played a lot but there was one time where I managed to get a few immunities and I was nearing 1k hp. Then chaotic polymorphine happened and I died in one shot.
Classic polymorphine. A weapon to defeat even the gods
Ah I remember all my friends raving about Who’s Lila? a while ago, but I was too busy at the time to check it out! That’s definitely something I’ll be checking out!
You definitely have to check it out, it’s one of the best game of the last years narratively speaking imo
Tunic was incredible, what they did with the manual was just, great.
It was so unique! I found myself getting extremely excited whenever I would see that glowing page because it was always a treat to see what new knowledge they would give me next!
knowledge based? I don’t quite understand, how does it work?
You know how metroidvanias gate progression by having, for example, a jump you can’t make without an upgrade, or a poison area you can’t survive passing through without a way to be immune to poison, and so on? That, but instead of it being an upgrade your character gets, it’s knowledge. You find a clue somewhere in the game that allows you to solve a puzzle elsewhere. You were always able to take the actions needed to solve it, you just had to learn that you could.
Obra Dinn and Outer Wilds are about unveiling a mistery.
Heaven’s Vault is about deciphering an ancient lost language.
These are games where a major portion of the gameplay involves learning about the game. In Heaven’s Vault and Chants of Sennaar this manifests as learning languages. In Return of the Obra Dinn this is figuring out what happened on the ship. In Tunic and The Outer Wilds this is based around knowledge checks, or mechanics that are present from the start of the game but you only learn how to exploit them much later.
There’s also Roguelikes where most of the progression is just getting better at the game and knowledge on things to do.
