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Video Game Suggestions

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A place to find suggestions for video games! For example, you might create a post looking for recommendations for a game to play with a friend, or a game that is easy to play if you just broke your dominant hand. Or you might post a list of games that let you use a whip as a weapon. A lot of rules for conduct here are pretty obvious (don't be a jerk, stay on-topic) so I'll bold the weird ones.

Rules

  1. Please stay on-topic: post requests for games that match some criteria you specify, lists of games with a certain element, or something otherwise relevant to helping people find games that match certain criteria.
    • If you're looking to find the name of a particular game or video game series you forgot, you should go to !TipOfMyJoystick@retrolemmy.com. This community is for fielding suggestions for games, not for finding one specific video game.
    • If you're making a post that is suggesting games, it should be a list of games. This is partially to help prevent the community from being overrun by people just suggesting their favorite game, and devs suggesting you play their latest game. This is about posts, not comments. It's okay to comment on a post asking for gaming suggestions with just one game.
  2. Don’t be a jerk. This covers bigotry and discrimination, which includes but is not limited to homophobia, racism, sexism, etc.
  3. Please don’t directly link to pirated content.
  4. When advertising something you have worked on, please use common sense for what is spammy. Self-promotion isn't totally banned: if someone asked for an RPG where you can play a lich, and the game you worked on is an RPG where you can play a lich, you can definitely answer with your RPG. I reserve the right to change this rule to be more specific about what exactly counts as spammy and what does not, but I feel I’ll know it when I see it and trust most posters to operate in good faith.
  5. Please indicate spoilers when necessary. The following format works on both Lemmy and Kbin, but if you are using an app it may not. See this comment for which apps handle spoilers. Note that spoilers in post bodies will just show the text in the preview if you link the post in, say, Discord, instead of spoiling it.
Spoilers for SomeGameSomething that happened at the end of the game! Something else that happened at the end of the game!

will appear as

Spoilers for SomeGameSomething that happened at the end of the game!

Something else that happened at the end of the game!

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Hey everyone! I'm on the hunt for some incredible story-driven games—ones that pull us into their world with gripping narratives, deep characters, and immersive gameplay. Some examples of what I'm looking for include the Homeworld series, the Horizon series, The Last of Us, some Indiana Jones or Tomb Raider games, etc. So I'm not too picky about the genre.

If you've played any unforgettable games with amazing storytelling, do tell! What games had you hooked from start to finish?

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[–] Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

Someone else said Hades, and I'm going to second that. Hades is a roguelike and I do not like !roguelikes@lemmy.world (the genre, got nothing against the community), but I saw some of its story and writing and picked it up based on that. I had a fun time with the gameplay anyways, as well as enjoying the story and character interactions. Big fan of the gameplay and story integration. The dying and replaying a randomized level is narratively justified! Characters react to gameplay choices like what weapon you choose if it's relevant! Its sequel Hades II seems to be just as good story-wise.

Undertale if you haven't yet. Super Paper Mario for Nintendo Wii (not sure if it got ported to other platforms?) impressed my child self with its story and gameplay.

!visualnovels@ani.social are chock full of story-driven games, because that's all their gameplay: read and make choices. And no, they are not all dating sims for horny dudes, though some are and that's okay (and they also exist for women at !otomegames@ani.social): the Ace Attorney series are visual novels and you spend all your time being a defense attorney for your clients and zero looking for romance. I highly recommend them.