Games

Subnautica.

Survival. But you're in the middle of an ocean. Good luck!

Undertale, but at this point you'd have to have lived in a cave for the last decade to not know most of the spoilers by now.

• Disco Elysium
• Return of the Obra Dinn
• House Of The Dying Sun
• FEAR
• Limbo
• Oxenfree

Control

You should go into Nier: Automata thinking it's a game about a hot chick fighting a bunch of robots. The only spoiler you should know is that the end isn't the end, and you need to play it again.

You should go into Spec Ops: the Line thinking it's a game about a cool special forces team fighting a bunch of terrorists or something. The only spoiler you should know is that it's supposed to feel like a generic third person shooter.

Tunic.

The one thing I think is worth “spoiling” just to save you some pain:

I also second Outer Wilds.

Journey. You can get it on PlayStation, iOS, steam (on sale for $5 atm) and epic. It is 2-3 hours short and not very challenging, but it does look absolutely stunning and has a very beautiful gameplay mechanic that you better find out for yourself. IMO it is one of the best games of all time and one that really demonstrates what the medium is capable of.

Subnautica. Just bopping along, in my cute little submarine.

Subnautica. You can only play it for the first time once.

Minesweeper

Inscryption

I'm surprised no one mentioned Spec Ops: The Line yet

Inside. Made by the same company as Limbo, but Inside is much more "don't look up a single thing"

Inscryption absolutely blew my mind. I'd toss Undertale on there too.

The Long Dark

Getting lost in the snowy wilderness I so much fun. I have many "oh shit" moments that kinda don't happen once you learn the maps and improve.

Sauna2000 (it's not out yet, but there are some demos floating around).

Squirrel stapler

Cruelty Squad - depends on the kinda person you are. If you're super open-minded about game presentation then I'd tell you to go into it blind. If not, then I'll happily try to sell you on it. If it helps, the game looks the way that it does because of how fucking confident it is in itself; and that confidence is fully justified. Give it time, even if the first level doesn't hook you, give it time because in my experience it will eventually hook you and reel you in and leave you thinking it's one of the best games of all time.

Undertale

Hypnospace Outlaw

Jet Set Radio, Jet Set Radio Future, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. Give the first two a try, and if you don't like either one, skip BRC; it's a spiritual successor to JSRF and if you didn't like JSRF then you probably won't like BRC.

Hylics. If you liked that and wanted more, Hylics 2. Hylics 2 actually does something throughout the game that I've only ever seen as a gimmick in other games. It's really cool and it'll probably catch you off-guard every time it does it.

Katamari Damacy. If you liked that, there's also We <3 Katamari.

Myst. The newest version has VR support. If you liked that, the recent Riven remaster also has VR support.

S C O R N (if you like Myst, give it a try. It feels very myst-like)

Hrot (boomer shooter, but if you like boomer shooters then you should give it a go).

If you're at a place in your life where you're trying to still find yourself: Night in the Woods. Especially if you're a furry. This game is really fucking good. It'll make you laugh. It'll make you cry. It'll make you miss home but also be glad you aren't there anymore. It'll make you question your place in life and who you are. Also, you can interact with things multiple times, make sure you don't miss out on dialogue, you'll regret it.

STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl - This is hard to go into blind because it's buggy as fuck and most people recommend some form of community patch even for your first playthrough. That said, play it on the highest difficulty. It's unironically more fun once you get used to it. If it's too hard though, don't be fooled into thinking that dropping the difficulty will make it easier, the hardest difficulty is special (you can only take a few hits, but the same is true for most enemies), and dropping it down will result in enemy difficulty scaling becoming more traditional (buffing health and damage).

Portal (and Portal 2).

Bugsnax.

If I can throw in a movie too:

Willy's Wonderland. It's a Nicolas Cage movie and that's all I'll tell you. DO NOT LOOK UP THE TRAILER. I wouldn't have watched it if I hadn't seen the trailer, but the trailer also has huge spoilers. I'm not a huge movie person and I had to watch it after seeing the trailer, but again the trailer has spoilers. It is on my top-10 movies list now.

Soma

I'm gonna go with Skyrim, the more unoptimized and aimless your playthrough is, the more fun you'll have.

Tunic. Knowing how to do the puzzles defeats the fun of the game.

I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone mention one of my favorites:

Spec Ops: The Line.

The risk with going in blind is that it seems like a generic cover-shooter that doesn't do everything quite as well as its competitors but it actually works to its advantage once you get into it.

If you haven't tried it, I highly recommend it, you can usually find it for really cheap.

Death Stranding

Hollow knight. The exploration of that game is absolutely the pinnacle of world layouts

I believe Cyberpunk 2077 is a fantastic experience going in blind.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

And probably Tears of the Kingdom too but I haven’t played it yet.

Bioshock.

Red Dead Redemption (and RDR2).

Portal.

Prey 2017 can be incredible blind and Dredge might be worse if you’ve had the ending spoiled

What happened to Edith Finch

Doki Doki should be 90% blind. Players need to understand they're going into a horror game.

But I'll also add one, Detroit: Become Human. While it's based on replaying it a massive number of times, going in blind makes the story a lot better.

Now i wonder about the opposite. Games that you should never go in blind XD

• SOMA
• DUSKERS

I agree with your others

Surprised I haven’t seen Undertale yet. The online fanbase is hilariously toxic, (seriously, don’t go looking for any extra details about the game after you finish it) but it’s a solid game that should be experienced 100% blind. All I’ll say is that it’s a game that is written to subvert expectations; If you go into it expecting to play it like a traditional RPG, you’ll be in for a big surprise.

Someone already mentioned Disco Elysium, system shock 2 and BioShock are also very good

Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons

An astonishingly good story line that can only be really appreciated blind.

For those of you who remember TotalBiscuit, he rated this as one of his favourite games.

I'm disappointed that nobody's mentioned Pony Island yet.

Not as good as the examples you listed but subnautica imo

• Snatcher
• Policenauts
• King's Field (any of them, even Pilot Style)
• Halo 1-3 + ODST and Reach
• Yakuza 0
• Silent Hill 2 (the original, Enhanced Edition for PC is still the best way to experience SH2)
• Life is Strange (only the original game, completely ignore the fanbase, theyre all toxic)
• Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic (too bad BioWare doesnt have a single good or competent writer anymore)
• NieR, both Gestalt and Automata
• Rule of Rose
• Dark Souls 1-3
• Elden Ring
• Kuon
• Armored Core (all of them, but the controls are hard to deal with before Nexus)
• Steel Battalion (only if you can find and afford the controller, otherwise dont bother)

Hollow Knight

Warframe

Noita