Zdarlight, Esq.

you can only play it once
if it's spoiled, the game is ruined
the only way to re-experience it is by proxy, so PLEASE play it bro, you HAVE to play it and let me watch, i do so much for you and ask so little in return i am BEGGING you bro, please please PLEASE, if you hate it i will PERSONALLY refund you, but you won't, you'll love it, please bro, PLEA

Zdarlight, Esq.@zdarlight7/9/2023, 11:51 PM

Ah yes. The genre of game where if you're not seeing what the big deal is right away you spend the next several years feeling like you just want someone to tell you what you're missing but no one is willing to say anything because of fear of spoilers and it sours your whole experience with the game because you're feeling almost gaslit for not having a mind-bending revelatory experience while playing.

this post brought to you by my desperate attempts to understand what the big deal about outer wilds is when my two attempts to play it so far have left me feeling like it's just a mechanically interesting but otherwise just good adventure game.

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Scribble Sheep @Scribble-Sheep7/9/2023, 8:26 PM

Would OFF count under this?

full-quack webbed developer @Webster7/9/2023, 8:26 PM

i do not know, i have only played the first ten minutes or so like a decade ago!! i should pick this up

Scribble Sheep @Scribble-Sheep7/9/2023, 8:31 PM

Oh yeah I get that. I was like that for years until its ost kept popping up in playlists and making me go "oh I should really finish that"

(Cubone) Kaiz ("Nick") Nike @KaizarNike7/11/2023, 5:36 AM

You should try for an ending. I don't remember if I got one or got stuck eventually.

Andrew @polymath7/9/2023, 8:35 PM

I think I've found the Tunic of the Wilds in a chest in a mine in the Depths

Chamomile🐑@chamomile7/9/2023, 8:39 PM

Ok fine I'll play Tunic

Gregory Avery-Weir @gaw7/9/2023, 8:43 PM

The Witness is not a tunicwilds, but it is a tunicwildslike.

rachel @wholemilk7/9/2023, 8:44 PM

I have bought outer wilds for like four people and had this exchange with them and none of them have gotten into it 😭

Gabu!! ☁️ ΘΔ @gabu7/9/2023, 9:34 PM

like tried and didn't like it, or stubbornly refused to even try it??

rachel @wholemilk7/9/2023, 9:38 PM

Tried it but not gotten into it after a little while... Once I was a few loops in I was completely hooked :eggbug-pleading:

Gabu!! ☁️ ΘΔ @gabu7/9/2023, 8:50 PM

ghost trick is also part of this genre

full-quack webbed developer @Webster7/9/2023, 8:50 PM

started it yesterday!

Snazzy the Dragon @snazzy7/9/2023, 9:07 PM

IT IS SO GOOD

SAME WITH 999

Gabu!! ☁️ ΘΔ @gabu7/9/2023, 9:19 PM

oh god yeah i played through the entire zero escape series these past few months and my reaction was "i am SO glad that i can have another Ghost Trick For The First Time Experience in the year of 2023"

Gabu!! ☁️ ΘΔ @gabu7/9/2023, 9:33 PM

heck yeah!! im so glad the remakes brought it renewed attention!

ootachi @ootachi7/9/2023, 8:54 PM

you have cemented my need to play ghost trick

Gabu!! ☁️ ΘΔ @gabu7/9/2023, 9:18 PM

excellent choice, you won't regret it! :3

Snazzy the Dragon @snazzy7/9/2023, 9:07 PM

Clearly I'm gonna have to play Tunic, huh?

full-quack webbed developer @Webster7/9/2023, 9:15 PM

My highest priority is that everyone plays outer wilds, but if you have done that already, absolutely play tunic

Koril @korilsnake7/9/2023, 9:50 PM

But also make sure they play Obra Dinn too

@Ririsu7/9/2023, 10:51 PM

Yes yes yes, seconding this :3

Alice Lia Maro @slimelia7/9/2023, 10:12 PM

okay this is a sign, i WILL finally play the Outer Wilds dlc.

also, a game i just replayed but definitely still falls into this category is Hypnospace Outlaw. which if you've not played PLEASE DO!!

Her Story is another one, definitely recommend that too!!

also i am very ashamed to say ive never heard of Tunic before so that's going on the list..

full-quack webbed developer @Webster7/9/2023, 10:16 PM

I LOVE the outer wilds DLC like a whole lot, but it feels like a whole other game. Love hypnospace outlaw to death.

El Tlacuache de los Ojos Tristes @pebblepossum7/9/2023, 10:56 PM

adding Return of the Obra Dinn to the list

Killfrenzy @Meckell7/10/2023, 1:51 AM

Return of the TunicWilds:

THE LINE

DJ GROUP HUG ⛓️ ⛓️ ⛓️@Alterutra7/9/2023, 11:19 PM

This is Oneshot

rory @handsyouafish7/9/2023, 11:19 PM

you can't have this conversation without la mulana >:V
environmental station alpha predates both these, anyways, but la mulana is the big one

full-quack webbed developer @Webster7/9/2023, 11:25 PM

la mulana is absolutely in this genre, trying to figure out that game turned my brain into angel hair pasta and i gave up, maybe i should try again

ela @eladnarra7/9/2023, 11:51 PM

Hm, I've seen so many folks compare Tunic to Outer Wilds, so I guess I gotta get around to playing it~

My problem is that as much as I want to watch people play Outer Wilds for the first time, streams are often intensely stressful for me. "Nooooo you discovered a shortcut last cycle, whyyyyy are you going the long way to [REDACTED]??? This is why you don't think anything else is left to explore in that location once you get there... :eggbug-sob: "

Julia Floyd @space-engineer-julia7/10/2023, 12:25 AM

I'll add "Before Your Eyes" to this genre as well

The Fru Fru Brigade~@Fru-Fru-Brigade7/10/2023, 1:26 AM

Tunic and... Outer Wilds? Or...? Need to finish the latter and start on the former.

Stardust☆@Stardust-Skunk7/10/2023, 1:33 AM

I'd say 999 fits this pretty well.

💗 §cribblers 🧡@Scribs7/10/2023, 2:54 AM

games where the core mechanic is organically exploring and learning about the game and the feeling of discovery and figuring out secrets that have been hidden in plain sight all along and completely change how you experience the game world from then on

Nycki @nycki7/10/2023, 4:38 AM

I feel like "escape room" already has this connotation! Or maybe "Knowledge Game"?

dime??@dimethylhydra7/10/2023, 6:01 AM

ive been led to believe that Nope is this but a movie, but i wouldnt know bc i havent watched it

Hewhoamareismyself @hewhoamareismyself7/10/2023, 11:22 AM

Myst is maybe the OG for this

kata 🌊 aqua!@kadybat7/10/2023, 9:34 PM

Fez.

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