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!
What’s so good a out outer wilds? What’s so appealing?
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”
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.