Any good games that break the mold

bigboismith@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.world – 1 points –

It feels like new games are just more of the same, with no real meaning. However I recently started playing "Return of the Obra Dihn" and love open ended deduction in it. It feels like I'm actually figuring things out by myself without being handheld through it. Are there any other games that don't coddle the player that you guys recommend?

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Forgotten City is another interesting game, that like Outer Wilds, has you piecing together a mystery. Hadn't seen it mentioned yet.

For an older classic in the mystery/no coddling space there is the Myst series. I've only played the first, but they're challenging puzzles/mystery point-and-click games.

Played through hifi rush recently. I can't think of a game that's done anything like it, I cannot recommend it enough. Was truely one of the best games I've ever played

The Talos Principle - It’s pretty much purely a puzzle game with a nice dose of philosophy to drive the story along. Some of the later puzzles can get pretty difficult, and some of the optional challenges will likely take you a good while to figure out without guides.

Not the same, but Into The Breach has become the one game I regularly return to. The ruleset is so simple and everything is laid out, including anticipating opponent moves. Just a great series of small puzzles

Dread Delusion:

  • Great plot, lore, and writing in general
  • A lot of moral dilemmas to solve and hard choices to make
  • Choices don't change much in gameplay, but they change a lot in writing and that is interesting to read
  • Doesn't handhold player much, but is way smaller than Morrowind for example, way less content and side quests and thus feels more linear
  • Lowpoly/lowres and kinda rough even by lofi standards, but certain consistent aesthetic which creates coherent worlds that are fun to explore
  • Combat is way too easy, even bosses are not challenging; recently hard mode was added, but I haven't tried
  • There are some minor bugs and glitches