What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games?

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• passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• Chef_Boyargee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Detroit: Become Human

  Gris

  Stray

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• PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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• darreninthenet@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Maybe literally the only game that’s ever done storytelling through gameplay mechanics-- really cool concept

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Death Stranding would like a word…

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    • braxy29@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      a lot of games do this?

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• knightly@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Fucking great game, Inscryption was mentioned in here at least.

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Everyone always glosses over his second big game, The Hex. It’s fucking stellar, and a GREAT game to go into blind.

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• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  • 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)

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  • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m honestly not sure this applies to any of those games.

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    • Ashtear@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Someone hasn’t played NieR!

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    • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The Halo 1 and KOTOR twists do hit pretty hard if you somehow haven’t been spoiled. KOTOR has one of my favorite reveal sequences ever with showing you how much foreshadowing you missed, and Halo’s twist turns the game on its head.

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• adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  warframe used to be. but it’s near-impossible now to start & get through even the first major ‘holyshit’ moment without having it at least partially spoiled before hand.

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nothing will ever match the effect The Second Dream had on me. This Is What You Are still sends shivers down my spine

    I’ve tried to get back into it a few times, but there’s just so much new stuff that it’s hard to pick it back up

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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    sorry, but online free-to-play disqualifies it for me.

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    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      TBF, Warframe was far from a free-to-play tier experience, at least back when I played it. The Second Dream is still my favorite story quest in any game I’ve ever played

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    • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Doki is free to play. DotA is online and free to play.

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• delitomatoes@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Return to the Obra Dinn, you are a insurance auditor

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  • kazerniel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I wish I could erase all my memories of Obra Dinn, just so I could experience it again for the first time 🥺 Also that soundtrack slaps!

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• leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Morrowind.

  I mean, it's a 22 year old game, but since you asked nicely... 🤷‍♂️

  Seeing that silt strider just outside Seyda Neen after the intro to what looked like your run of the mill D&D style fantasy RPG was a surprise, to say the least…

  … and it was just the beginning.

  It’s a real shame later Elder Scrolls games mostly lost that otherworldly feel.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What they did to The Summerset Isles in ESO is a crime against Auriel and the 9 divines. I was expecting mushroom houses, and they made rivendell.

    I’m not salty and bitter. Bethesda is salty and bitter.

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  • ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s almost impossible to have not been bombarded with the main story and seeing if Morrisons by this point. But when this game came out it was an experience and a half. Unlike anything I had seen before at least. Sure, Ultima, TES 2, etc all existed. But none of them had never sold their world so effectively if you ask me.

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• wcSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Not as good as the examples you listed but subnautica imo

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• Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  SOMA DUSKERS

  I agree with your others

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  • theyllneverfindmehere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image

    Duskers

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• fsxylo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  BioShock. It really depends on playing it blind in order to have an impact.

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• daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Silent Hill 2

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• ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Frog Fractions

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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What, and I can’t state this clearly enough, the FUCK did I just play?
    I wasn’t prepared to have the history of punching explained to me in a frog platformer.

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    • ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I envy you.

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• AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  God of War 2018. I played all the original games but I was still just a casual fan. I heard about the new game coming out but didn’t really pay much attention to it. I eventually play it and holy crap I didn’t know it was going to be what it was. Before playing it, I had RDR2 as my game of the year but GOW really stole it in the end.

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• DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Undertale

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There isn’t a game that exists that isn’t better going in knowing very little, if anything at all, about it. I don’t even understand reading an entire guide or wiki about a game before you ever even load it up and play.

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  • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sometimes you need to know a bit about a game to know why it’s worth playing

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• ObviouslyASquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The Beginner’s Guide

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  • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s by the same guy that made The Stanley Parable, but it’s more serious.

    It’s the same themes from Stanley Parable except made into an actual story instead of one long recurring joke.

    I’m not saying the long recurring joke is bad - someone will probably hate that I said that - but they’re just two different things that both do their different things very well. The Stanley Parable explicitly never builds to any kind of conclusion.

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• RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Bioshock.

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• cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The Zero Escape Series. I wish I could play it again without knowing anything.

  Same with Professor Layton games.

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  • ladytaters@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Echoing Zero Escape. The twists and turns of the series are absolutely magical, and I wish I could play the end of 999 for the first time again.

    I got lucky and was there when my partner played for the first time, and watching his shock was a treat!

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• FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  SOMA! Just play it.

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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thanks, just bought it.

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    • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You’re in for an experience.

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    • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s so great! I played through it recently.

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• Sniatch@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  +1 for Outer Wilds

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• velociroger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  ANIMAL WELL

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  • LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What a treat of a game. That feeling of discovery made me feel like I was 10 years

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• LMagicalus@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What Remains of Edith Finch, I think it has a fantastic narrative. Not so much twists, just best experienced yourself.

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• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Factorio and Dyson Sphere Program. At least don’t watch people like Nilaus and Dosh Doshington play the game until you’ve tried to make your own solutions first.

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• BmeBenji@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Most of the really good games have been posted already, so here are three that you should play if you’ve never heard of them before:

  1. Frog Fractions
  2. Duty Calls: The Calm Before the Storm
  3. GAME OF THE YEAR 420 BLAZE IT

  Check them all out because they’re short and free

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  • BluesF@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Oh man, frog fractions! Been a long time but that is an experience I will never forget.

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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Just finished Frog Fractions.
    I…what the fuck???
    (honestly though, one of the best games I played this year)

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    • BmeBenji@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Dude you must be so good at fractions now!!!

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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    NICE! I like free stuff!

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• MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Outside. Recent patches may affect your starting location.

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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is the worst example in this thread. You do not want to launch this game unprepared!

    Much better to have an established player with enough resources build and equip your character.
    If you put too few points in resources, choose the wrong class or race, or get hit by a randomly appearing nerf, you’ll be locked out of most of the progression.
    There’s no second chances, all you get is one save. And when you quit the game, it bricks your system.

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• GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Journey

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• Catalog0904@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Paradise Killer

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• PigStyle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Factorio

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  • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    For normal Factorio i would not absolutely agree,but for space age this is absolutely true. It takes a lot from you when you already know how to get started on the new planets.

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