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ISOmorph, do games w Anyone else bounce around from game to game with no clue what to play?

Sounds like you’re over saturated and need a break from gaming. Happens to a lot of us.Try not gaming at all for like 2-3 months. It’ll feel fresher afterwards

Knossos, do games w Anyone else bounce around from game to game with no clue what to play?

I don’t know if they are your vibes but might be something a bit different for you to try.

Cataclysm DDA

Space station 13

JackGreenEarth, do games w What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games?

Minecraft

Stardew Valley

The Witcher 3

superkret,

seriously? How the fuck are you gonna “go in blind” with those?
That’s like saying “bro, you gotta watch Star Wars without looking it up first”.

tfw_no_toiletpaper,

I don’t see the point in stardew Valley and witcher, they are pretty self explanatory. But going in blind into Minecraft? Yeah, you’re not getting anything done.

JackGreenEarth,

I played Minecraft blind for about a year as a child and didn’t get much done, to be fair, but I had lots of fun. Optimising stuff and beating the game sometimes takes the fun out of it.

tanisnikana,

Funny enough, I was in this situation. Didn’t really grow up in a culture and time that was heavy about Star Wars. Someone pointed out to me that my last name backwards was Anakin, harped on me to watch Star Wars, and I got about forty minutes in before I realized I just wasn’t into it.

There are still some of us living under rocks.

Grass,

I could go in blind on stardew and it’s in the family library…

MossyFeathers, (edited ) do games w What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games?
@MossyFeathers@pawb.social avatar

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.

p03locke,
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Portal 2 has, hands-down, the most hilariously-written dialogue I have ever seen in a video game. That alone is worth playing the game, but it’s also a fun puzzle game to boot.

ZC3rr0r,

I was gonna mention Bugsnax, but you beat me to it. That game starts so innocent.

UprisingVoltage, do games w What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games?

Definitely fear and hunger (the first one)

Also, baldur’s gate 3 has an uncountable number of “no fucking way the devs did this” that make a blind run of the game a memorable experience

Same goes with the metal gear solid saga

superkret,

Lol, Fear and Hunger is banned in Germany (which usually means it’s good).

BG3 might be a bit above my current PC’s capabilities.
I’ve donated my gaming PC for controlling the lighting at a local non-profit concert venue, so now I only have my laptop to game.

Prunebutt,

I think it’s not banned, but doesn’t have an age rating, which makes it ill gal to be advertised in Germany. Since displaying the game counts as “advertisement”, Valve simply doesn’t let you buy it.

UprisingVoltage,

I’ve played BG3 mostly on geforce now, it’s a nice workaround if your pc is not capable enough. If you buy it on steam you’ll have synced saves for when you get your pc back.

They are still updating the game and it has official mod support (not on geforce now though).

It’s also discounted 20% on steam right now

missingno, do games w What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games?
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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.

superkret,

Well, apparently I have!
The only thing I’ve heard about Undertale so far is that it is supposed to be good.

ZeroTwo,

That’s all Ive heard too. I tried playing it but the combat was weird. Kinda boring to me so I never advanced further.

Carighan,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

Same. Fehlt like a very early game experiment.

ABCDE,

Yeah I didn’t really get it. I did play Everhood though and that was much better.

WarlordSdocy,

It gets good by the end but yeah if you don’t mesh with it early on it can be hard to get into and want to finish it.

Hugin,

Yeah that happened to me. Never finished it and wonder why it’s so loved.

WarlordSdocy,

Yeah I almost had that happen with me but I think I ended up watching someone play it. Still kind of regret it but at the same time probably wouldn’t have finished it on my own otherwise and I atleast have Deltarune to look forward to now.

HexesofVexes,

It’s good in a way that isn’t really expected - the only thing I can say without spoiling is it did something really different with things that had been there a long time.

Glide,

Undertale is such a bolt of lightning. It both depends on its player having experience with traditional JRPG and having no fucking clue what it is. But when the conditions line up, as it did for many people at release, it was such a master fully crafted experience. But even the slightest amount of “it’s good because…” really siphons part of the experience away.

korny,

Spoiler: There are high jinks, low jinks, dangers, puzzles, capers, japers, being captured, and other sorts of fun activities in this game.

mox,
Hadriscus,

I have heard the name but don’t know what it’s about, I’ll look into it. Thanks !

Kelly,

I’ll look into it.

No, don’t!

Or at least don’t do anymore than choose your preferred platform and then buy it. Its available on Windows, Linux, Mac, PS, Xbox and Switch but not on Android or iOS.

Its a couple of bucks on steam at the moment, included in PSN if you do that, or full price everywhere else.

Hadriscus,

hop just got it. Thanks for the recommendation. Let’s see what this is all about 😁

SaharaMaleikuhm,

Guess I live in a cave then. I have even had the game on steam for ages now. The graphics are just too much of a turn off for me to ever play it.

Black616Angel,

Tbh, I played it for a few hours, didn’t like it and don’t understand all the fuss about it. Does it get good later?

I was at a point, where I was going through a cave with a castle in the background (it was a few years ago), it was probably some kind of riddle, but I couldn’t be bothered.
Is it worth going forward or did I see enough to just say “it’s not my kind of game”?

PugJesus,

I’m gonna be the heretic here, it’s actually really terrible. If you don’t like Homestuck and that brand of humor, you won’t like Undertale.

Dindonmasker, do games w What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games?
@Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works avatar

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

superkret,

My Summer Car

agamemnonymous,
@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works avatar

Dwarf Fortress, probably.

chunkystyles,

That one’s tough. I went in blind when the steam version released and had a blast. The actual “game” part is not challenging once you figure out the basics. The fun of it is the stories that spring up that are mostly out of your control.

So, I’d say going in blind, but being open to asking questions or googling specific things is a great way to play it.

agamemnonymous,
@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works avatar

I think the Steam release definitely makes it easier, especially with the tutorial. I tried to get into the original version about 10 years back and let’s just say going in blind was a very different experience.

Wrufieotnak,

Most multiplayer games gain by already knowing mechanics, maps, characters, items, etc.

caut_R,

If you‘re an achievement/trophy hunter, there‘s a lot of those cause of missables

silverchase,
@silverchase@sh.itjust.works avatar

Path of Exile is one of those games where you never stop learning new things and the ceiling is always higher than you think it is.

AceFuzzLord,

Personally I’d say none because I’m a firm believer games tend to be more fun when you go in blind.

mrvictory1,

Hearts of Iron IV

Rhynoplaz, do games w What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games?

What happened to Edith Finch

Omegamanthethird,
@Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world avatar

What Remains of Edith Finch

Rhynoplaz,

Yeah. That one. I’m just going to stick with calling it Edith Finch.

Hadriscus,

What’s up with Edith Finch

Rhynoplaz,

Dude, where’s Edith Finch?

slaacaa,

The Edith and the Remains: Tokyo Finch

Hadriscus,

beautifully absurd 😂

Rhynoplaz, do games w What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games?

Inscryption

mcforest,

Damn, was I surprised as a fan of older TCGs and videogame TCGs.

j4p,

Was gonna mention this one soooooo good

Rai,

And The Hex, which is his prior game. IT IS SO HORRIBLY UNDERRATED

theyllneverfindmehere, do games w What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games?
  • Disco Elysium
  • Return of the Obra Dinn
  • House Of The Dying Sun
  • FEAR
  • Limbo
  • Oxenfree
MossyFeathers,
@MossyFeathers@pawb.social avatar

I disagree with FEAR simply because I’d say to play it on the hardest difficulty and go balls to the wall because the AI will fuck you over if it gets the chance; and the longer you take to clear a room, the more time the AI has to organize and execute a plan. If it weren’t for the fact that I’ve seen plenty of people get stuck on FEAR because they tried to play it like a cover shooter, I’d fully agree with you.

theyllneverfindmehere,

Honestly, fair assessment. Well said.

ChilledPeppers,

Can you send me the link to FEAR? In steam there are a lot of games with this name lol.

theyllneverfindmehere,
ChilledPeppers,

Ok thx, this one is actually available in gog too, and for cheaper. Gonna check it out. (Costed me 0.2$, but there is regional pricing here).

theyllneverfindmehere,

Heck yes. Enjoy. Say hit to Alma for me.

ouch,

What region is that?

ChilledPeppers,

Brazil

BenLeMan,

Yes! Return of the Obra Dinn 100%. You can still watch other people play it on YouTube later and have a blast seeing them figure things out. And read Lucas Pope’s excellent devblog later as well.

SchrodingersPat,

I am super intimidated Return of the Obra Dinn. But it looks so cool, and I feel like it uses a lot of lateral thinking and makes you smarter for playing it.

BenLeMan,

No need to be intimidated. Just pick it up in a sale. Definitely a brain teaser but there are spoiler reduced guides out there in case you get stuck. But you should be able to finish the game even without guidance.

ZC3rr0r,

I went into Oxenfree completely blind after picking it up for next to nothing on the switch store. Great story with choices that actually matter. OP, do yourself a favor and play this without a guide.

theyllneverfindmehere,

Heck yes. I still need to play the second one.

anomaly, do games w What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games?
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Control

Damage,

Yeah, got it for free on epic, assumed it was a game on dictatorship for reason… What a trip it turned out to be

inb4_FoundTheVegan,
@inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world avatar

Great combat, graat atmosphere, great story. Definitely worth your time.

Artyom,

It’s on sale on Steam for $7, just got it!

ZC3rr0r,

The DLC for that game was a trip too. Highly recommend checking it out as it really added to Alan Wake 2 for me.

Menschlicher_Fehler, do games w What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games?
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Death Stranding

crossdl, do games w Guys, what did you buy during the Steam autumn sale?

Fuck, fam.

I legit dropped $100. I have a Steam Deck now so it’s like I can have ANY OF IT.

So far, LOTR Moria, For Honor, Barotrauma, and Baldur’s Gate Dark Alliance.

I had Dark Alliance on my OG Xbox when I was younger and I’m really looking forward to playing it again as like an idle game.

wcSyndrome, do games w What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games?

Not as good as the examples you listed but subnautica imo

koncertejo, do games w Guys, what did you buy during the Steam autumn sale?
@koncertejo@lemmy.ml avatar

Just bought Riven, I’m liking it quite a lot so far. I see why it’s a classic. Love the feeling of being dropped into a completely alien world.

scratchee, (edited )

Great game! Just be glad you don’t have to swap the cd every 20 clicks. Riven was basically 1 disc per cutscene when it first came out and I remember getting very frustrated as a kid when I accidentally triggered an island switch and knew it’d be 10 minutes until I could get back.

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