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!
Tunic mentioned
Curiously Deep Rock Galactic is about practical knowhow. At least that differentiates greenbeards from greybeards.
- The oppressor is nearly immune to bullets but melee attacks are super effective
- The Driller will overheat digging about 12 meters (depending on the upgrades used) Digging ten clicks then pausing to cool will prevent overheat
- Cave leeches make a distinct yummy noise before attacking. You can escape by seeking cover again. Cave leech attacks are often facilitated by a distraction such as minerals or glyphid ambushes
- The Scout’s grappling hook does not account for safe perch or landing. Scouting to a sheer cliff is a good way to just get hurt. Mind where you’re going to land.
- On the other hand minerals embedded in a cliff face often protrude enough to get purchase. This can be facilitated with a flying pickax attack. Practice, practice!
- Likewise, dwarves can scamper up steep slopes like mountain goats with forward movement and spamming jump.
- Then again, gravity is the number one killer of dwarves, seconded by common Glyphid Grunts. Don’t underestimate them.
- The Driller’s Collette Wave Cooker can defuse unfuzed Exploders when it deals the killing damage (defuse = doesn’t explode). The Driller’s Cryo Cannon can defuse fuzing Exploders…sometimes.
- Overhanging cliff-sides are the nemesis to the Engineer’s platforms. If you dont want to carve out headroom, extend them out a layer or two.
- The Engineer / Scout team (platforms and grappling hooks) can quickly exploit the high-positioned minerals in a cave.
- That said, platforms can make for great bridges. Do so at whimsy for starters and learn where it’s useful.
- And yet, the engineer has the most trouble traversing sheer incline, especially in tight quarters. Make sure your Engie can get to the drop-pod safely.
- Speaking of extraction, Simple Mining missions are the most linear and require the most attention regarding preparing traversal back to the droppod. Escort is also linear but naturally comes with a big tunnel which makes it easy (when Dotty doesn’t carve a vertical drop). Other missions feature a rounder, unlinear complex and a shorter exfiltration. Sometimes the pod will drop onto a crap place, with the ramp in mid air, or embedded in hard rock.
- Drillers should watch for adjacent chambers to connect by tunnel. Engineers should bridge chasms and seal holes. Engies can also create safe steps to traverse hot slag and slime. Both can level out arenas where fights are expected (say when prepping for a dreadnought or powering up a salvaged drop-pod)
- In escort the Engineer’s grenades make short work of rocks and beamers. (The latter needs something that chips into rock, even a scout with a pickaxe power attack). The Gunner’s hurricane rocket launcher manages both nicely.
- Dotty, Hack-C, Steeve, lootbugs, Hexawings, Breathers, Cave Vines can all be petted and should be. Bosco can be saluted. Using the laser pointer, other Dwarves can be talked to.
These are all off the top of my head. There are dozens of others one learns on the path to Greybeard enlightenment. Rock and Stone.
Don’t forget abusing sliding to yeet yourself
I’m a big rock’n’stoner (700 hours) but I think you’re stretching it a bit.
Of course there’s knowledge and experience to acquire, but it’s not the main progression system. They are needed to beat harder missions, but the same could be said about 90% of the games out there.
On the other hand, I will agree that DRG does allow the player to express them more than your average RPG, because upgrades won’t beat haz 5 on their own. You still need to know how to play the game, and that is made of little know-hows and techniques like the ones you listed.
I think it might be classified less as knowledge but more skill? I dunno, it walks the line. Looking for opportunities to use your utilities makea the difference between a greenbeard and a greybeard.
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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!
Check out chants of senaar
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
Disco Elysium!
I’ll mention Fez since I think people forgot about it in the wake of all the Phil Phish drama.
Excellent game that I think fits this bill.
noita
Noita’s genre may as well be Trial and Error.
I tend to not get into these types of games because the progression is often a time-limited loop, and a lot of the time you have to go to the same place or do the same thing multiple times before you can finish it because those are places or actions that don’t persist through a loop.
Similarly, games setup like Mario 64 where every level is intended to be played 5 or 6 times to get all the stars instead of just having it designed in a way that you can get everything in one go if you’re good enough.
Obra Dinn and Tunic are not like that.
Obra Dinn, you’re just investigating a memory and doing detective work. You might notice a slip of paper, or broken glass, that helps you with the next step.
Tunic is more about unlocking pages, that you can then remembering that “ah to open up a red door, you have to do a little dance”.
Both games, you can absolutely play them in a linear path without repeating the level over and over (like your example of Mario 64).
So I’d say give them a chance. :-)
“The Long Dark”. Knowing the maps by heart and being able to navigate by landmarks is key to survival.
I call these puzzle box games because that’s what they remind me of and nobody else has a name for them yet. There’s one called Void Stranger that nobody ever talks about. Baba Is You is popular but nobody has mentioned it here yet. I think it’s sad as hell that people let their dislike of Phil Fish ruin Fez for them. That’s a really good game.
i booted up void stranger without knowing anything about it and saw the languages were english and finnish and instantly knew this was going to be another one of those solo finnish dev games that i will become obsessed with
then i got to stage 27 and fucked up the save-the-random-lady puzzle then the game saved itself and put 2 and 2 together and i think i’m going to have to complete this entire game without dying once to beat it
funger moment tbh
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.
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
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
For those looking for more. Fez is a delight and a classic in the genre. The very last puzzle is more interesting from a community lore standpoint than actually being a decent puzzle, though. So be kind to yourself on that one.
Noita, but you just suffer along instead of growing
