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ConstantPain, (edited ) do games w Games that force you to make hard choices

Minesweeper and a bit of LARP.

Lepsea,

This and chess, both games fulfill most of op requirements

conciselyverbose, do gaming w What difficult games/game challenges did you give up on?

I had a lot of games on PS4 where the difficulty isn't "why" I stopped, but the lengthy loads when I died was.

I'm perfectly happy dying a bunch of times in a row, provided the deaths are fair and consistent. I have a big issue with waiting 5-10 minutes to replay a section that doesn't last meaningfully longer than that.

Getting a PS5 let me go back to a lot of those games and properly enjoy the brutal difficulty without the headaches.

tamlyn, do gaming w What difficult games/game challenges did you give up on?
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I play most games on hard difficulty. But i gave up finish Nier Replicant on hard, not because i got stuck, but the hp of the monster was way to high to have fun.

Deestan, do games w Games that force you to make hard choices

Terra Invicta may be too high-level for the emotional impact, but it could fit. You are playing on the geopolitical stage, preventing (or steering) an exctinction-level war between humans and aliens. Stage a coup to overthrow a democratically elected government, make it as corrupt as possible to drive it to poverty so that the faction that wants to surrender to the aliens can’t win the space race?

The Last Federation where you play as the last member of an alien race that everyone tried to destroy, and your last act is to prevent them all from killing each other. Maybe you will harass them all to make them ally against you and become friends? Maybe convince 4 of them to gang up on the 5th?

bmaxv, do gaming w What difficult games/game challenges did you give up on?
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@MangoKangaroo

Crypt of the Necrodancer

The characters are difficulty levels, some with additional rules.

It's a rythm rpg, lore character #1 can miss beats, collect stuff, etc.

Lore character #3 can't miss a beat or miss and can't upgrade health, so you always die in one hit.

When I beat the 4 chapters with that character I was done :D

2BearsHiFiving, do games w Games that force you to make hard choices

I’m a big fan of Tyranny by Obsidian Entertainment. Classic CRPG, isomorphic for the majority of it. The game starts with you making decisions that set the initial state of the world as you lead the army that finishes your evil overlord’s conquest of the world. Then the game truly starts and goes on to be one of my favourite CRPGs of all time.

JamesBean,
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The word you're looking for there is 'isometric.'

Lycist,

Popped in to mention Tyranny, saw it was the first comment.

Absolutely LOVE Tyranny, its got so many morally questionable choices to make! I really, really hope Obsidian makes a sequel!

Keegen,

One of the few games where I gravitated towards the lawful evil route because it just felt so natural. It’s such a shame we will probably never see a sequel.

SzethFriendOfNimi, do games w Games that force you to make hard choices
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Prey.

18107,

Prey gives you the choices up front, tells you they don’t matter, then gives you a really good game to play.

plot twistThe way you play is entirely up to you, but that’s the point. Are you who you say you are? It’s easy to say whether you’ll flip a switch or push a person when you’re answering questions at a desk, but it’s suddenly much harder when you’re actually faced with the problem. What will you choose?

AlolanYoda, do gaming w What difficult games/game challenges did you give up on?

Minecraft, I tried summoning and defeating the Wither and was woefully unprepared. The entire world near the fight was filled with craters from the explosions. I was getting ready to throw the entire world away. Then I decided to just cheat and turn Creative Mode on for 1 second, the Wither disappeared and I was able to continue playing, now with PTSD.

It didn’t help that I was playing on Bedrock (switch), which apparently has a much more difficult fight than in the Java edition.

Arcane_Trixster, do games w Games that force you to make hard choices

Banner Saga

Nomad, do gaming w What difficult games/game challenges did you give up on?

Botw master mode sword challenge. Made it to stage 6

xamino, do games w Games that force you to make hard choices

Dragon Age, the original first one. Definitely no really happy endings there…

perviouslyiner, do games w Games that force you to make hard choices

War hospital puts you in charge of a WW1 medical camp trying to allocate limited surgeons, nurses, medical supplies as people come in injured from the front line.

Elkenders, do gaming w What difficult games/game challenges did you give up on?

I just couldn’t beat Guacamelee on Vita, just hit a boss I couldn’t beat. I considered getting every Kurok on BOTW at one point but settled on every shrine or it’d have lost its fun.

TheBest, do gaming w Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Review Thread
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A new platformed to sink my teeth into. Im casually optimistic, but I have no attachment to the series, so I hope it lands well.

chloyster,

As far as I know it’s made by the Rayman origins / legends devs. Origins is my favorite platformer of all time and metroidvania is my favorite genre. So I am super excited for this!

chrisbrummel,
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LemmySoloHer, do games w Games that force you to make hard choices
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Disco Elysium is a fantastic one. There are an insane amount of choices that shape how you go about the investigation of the hanged man and ultimately what happens beyond that investigation. Choices of who to side with, how to side (openly or playing multiple sides, etc.), choices that ultimately define what kind of detective you are (by-the-book boring, superstar douchebag, violent tough guy, Sherlock Holmes-esque genius, etc., including my favorite: Twin Peaks Lynchian detective that bases their decisions off of dreams, intuition and imaginary conversations with the dead body), and even how failing or succeeding at something can lead to progress in very different ways. If you fail to hit that person you tried to punch, or miss that shot with your gun, or utterly fail to convince someone to help you, you progress through in very different ways so that failing your way to the truth is just as satisfying and entertaining as succeeding your checks to get there.

And of course Fallout: New Vegas. Whether you choose to support the New California Republic, Caesar’s Legion, Mr. House, or a truly independent New Vegas, none of them are perfect. Each succeeds in an ideal society in some ways but completely fails at others, leaving you to decide which imperfect system you feel is the right one for the world instead of shoving an obvious answer in your face.

Carighan,
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Or maybe I am some kind of supercop… 🤔

Disco: Elysium really is an absolutely fantastic game. Hard to describe how much it moved the goal post for these games.

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