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Zerfallen, do games w What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?

Pretty random list off the top of my head:

Hyperlight Drifter, Sayonara Wild Hearts, Ruiner, Grim Dawn, Rime

ViscloReader, do games w What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?

Outer wilds, tunic, a short hike, fez,

Broken_Monitor,

Tunic was shockingly good. Looks like its for little kids but there is a lot of surprises and neat puzzles tucked away in there. Absolutely worth checking that out

lorez,

Second this. Tunic is a masterpiece.

businessfish,
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a short hike reinvigorated my love for indie games! it’s such a beautiful game with a cute little story and fun things to do, and doesn’t overstay it’s welcome.

Evotech,

Outer Wilds is amaaaaazing

devbo,

what are these alternitives for?

ViscloReader,

Yup, I did not answer the question, I just put some personal recommendations

devbo,

nevermind then. guess i dont care.

poissonDistribution, do games w What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?
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I guess I may suggest my all time favourite RPG. It’s Disco Elysium. A brilliantly written and crafted gem. You will find an amazing storyline, crazy dialogues and choices, psychedelic visuals. Such a gem must not be forgotten. What a pity the company almost dissolved after the release and the original authors won’t have a part in the sequel.

devbo,

why is nobody here saying what the game is an alternative for or what ki d of game play to expect?

Communist, do games w What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?
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I just beat furi and loved it.

glau, do games w What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?

For ARPGs if you feel burnt by Diablo IV, I can recommend Path of Exile. Arguably the king of the genre today.

Others mentioned Grim Dawn, which has a bit slower gameplay, but a good choice nonetheless.

If you’re looking for indie ARPG, then there’s Chronicon. Nice little game that I really want to go back to again.

SkyeStarfall,

Path of exile is great because it doesn’t shy away from complexity at all, instead it does the exact opposite, it just goes balls deep. It really make for a very refreshing change to typical AAA games where your intelligence as a player doesn’t feel insulted.

Vipsu,
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I second Grim Dawn as it’s clearly labor of love from the developers and still getting updates. I also like the fact that its not live service like Path of exile meaning that it does not require online connection and can be even be modded.

It remains to be seen with GGG will do with Path of Exile 1 when they release Path of Exile 2, it would be cool if they would release something like POE Unlimited a premium version of the game that would allow people to play the first game as single player experience, mod it and host their of servers.

But in this day and age it’s much more likely that they’ll just force people to move on to their next big thing.

Tywele,

They already said that PoE 1 will stay playable.

Vipsu,
@Vipsu@lemmy.world avatar

Sure but for how long and in what state?

There’s a lot of enshittification going around with games and services with more greedy business practices and it would be naive to think GGG is immune to it. When it comes to live service games certain level of skepticism is healthy to have. Now I do hope we’ll be able to play POE1 even 10 or 20 years from now with it being just as good.

Evotech,

An arpg that doesn’t require online is actually a negative for me. I’m not going to farm content offline

Vipsu,
@Vipsu@lemmy.world avatar

To Each Their Own I guess. Single player games tend to respect players time a lot more and thus usually require a lot less grinding or farming to complete. That being said Grim Dawn does have online multiplayer and community hosted seasons.

NeryK, do games w What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?
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Let’s go with some good non-AAA games that were not sequels and never got one either.

Single player:

  • Baba is you
  • Brothers
  • Mark of the Ninja
  • SUPERHOT
  • Vanquish

Better in co-op:

  • Astroneer
  • Deep Rock Galactic
  • Nine Parchments
  • Outward
  • Renegade Ops
MrBusiness,

Rock and stone, brother!

Broken_Monitor,

Rock and Stone!

DragonOracleIX,

If you don’t rock and stone, you ain’t coming home.

Rolive,

Vanquish was beautiful.

lorty,
@lorty@lemmy.ml avatar

SUPERHOT has a sequel

NeryK,
@NeryK@sh.itjust.works avatar

Sustained ! Although I thought SUPERHOT Mind Control Delete was more of a roguelite spinoff than a sequel (did not play it).

psycotica0,

Huh. My siblings and I love the Trine games, and wanted to like Nine Parchments, but found it to be one of the worst games we’ve ever played. I don’t think we could find a single redeeming quality, and it just seemed like a total misstep.

So seeing it here on this list makes me think maybe there’s something that was okay about it? I’m curious what people liked…

(all the rest of these seem like good games, though, which honestly makes me even more confused about Nine Parchments’ inclusion…)

NeryK,
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It’s okay not to like it of course. As you have seen it’s nothing like the Trine games, sharing only a bit of lore with them.

It’s basically a very pretty arena-based top-down shooter reminiscent of Magicka (which I also loved), with a good difficulty curve. There is not much of a story to carry the game forward, so it hinges on whether you like the gameplay and the challenge it offers or not. I for one really enjoyed Nine Parchments, doing multiple runs in single player and co-op with friends (even a “hardcore” one, which we usually never touch).

psycotica0,

Right, yeah… It was definitely reminiscent of Magicka. Maybe even a little too reminiscent, since I feel Magicka was a much stronger game.

OK, interesting! It’s nice to know the game wasn’t objectively bad, and was only just “not for me”, since I like the devs!

morphballganon, do games w What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?

I feel like the Sonic franchise’s last great game was Adventure 2. There’ve been a couple good ones since then, but not great.

Anyone got a good replacement?

poke,

Above but the chao garden is required to be in the replacement.

Aesk,

Lunistice

It’s relatively short, and there’s no chao garden. But it’s got a lot of soul. With a sequel on the way.

pikasaurX4,

You could check out Freedom Planet. It didn’t quite do it for me, but it has a decent fanbase

stopthatgirl7, do games w What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?
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For anyone that likes horror, I can’t recommend Red Candle Games enough.

Detention takes place during the White Terror in Taiwan in the 1960s, and is about a student trying to get out of the school after a typhoon, but it turns into something so much darker and sadder as the story unfolds.

Devotion is probably the best PT-esque horror game out there, taking place in a Taiwanese apartment during three different years in the 80s, and is about a script writer trying to create his “perfect future” while he’s trying to figure out what happened to his young daughter. It is one of, if not the, best domestic horror I’ve ever played. And anyone against censorship should definitely get it, because the game was pulled from Steam because of an art asset that got left in by accident that called Xi Jinping Winnie the Pooh, and then GoG said THEY would sell it, but it seems CD Projekt worried China might retaliate and not allow CP2077 to be released in China and backed out a day or two after they said they would carry it (they claimed it was because of “gamer response,” but refused to respond to anyone asking for more details).

Detention, you can get anywhere - it’s even on iOS and Android along with PC, PS Store, and Switch, but Devotion, you can only get from Red Candle’s website, and it is more than worth the $17 bucks: https://shop.redcandlegames.com/

AcornCarnage,
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These look and sound great, thank you!

Nerdybynature, (edited )
@Nerdybynature@lemmy.world avatar

I need to go back to Detention. I was really enjoying it but I think something spooked me too close to bedtime and I hadn’t picked it up since.

CosmicSploogeDrizzle, do games w What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?
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I haven’t played the beta yet but I’m hoping that The Finals, which is made by ex-Dice devs, will be a good alternative to Battlefield and COD. I just miss destructible environments so badly. Bad Company 2 was so so good back in the day.

sirfancy,

I really, really hope that it doesn’t get overrun with cheaters like warzone did. I have really high hopes for the game because I’m having a blast with the beta. Not often does a game come along out of nowhere and just tick all the boxes with having such a solid formula. Last game I felt like this with was Alex Legends. Pls devs don’t screw this up 🙏

LadyLikesSpiders,

Saw an article on that game recently that they’re using AI voices in that. I don’t think it’s for everything, but if you happen to be an opponent to AI, that’s something to know. If not, well, carry on 😅

ViscloReader,

I honestly think it’s a good application of AI. It really sets the “tournament” vibe

Evotech,

I mean, you could make an argument that AI announcers have an in-game reason to be a thing.

Narrrz, do games w What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?

if you enjoyed diablo 2,grim dawn feels like a spiritual successor to that game specifically, whereas d3 didn't really.

Lightsong,

You mean like it’s game where you could rush/grush and mass level, make mfer, farm stuff and make your pvp characters with skill trees and skill synergies?

dangblingus,

Yes to all of that. In fact the synergies that you can pull off in GD make you feel godlike.

Lightsong,

Awesome! Added to watch list.

sour, do games w What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?
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geometry dash

what are other good monster collecting games

ADHDefy,
@ADHDefy@kbin.social avatar

Nexomon Extinction and Siralim Ultimate are great monster collecting games.

sour,
@sour@kbin.social avatar

thx

Nephalis,

Casette Beasts is good also.

Sunhealer,

Also keep a lookout for Beastieball! There’s currently a demo available on Steam.

mesamunefire, do games w What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?

I’ve been enjoying peglin quite a bit.

morphballganon,

As an alternative to what?

mesamunefire,

Pegle

mesamunefire, do games w What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?

If you like smash brothers, rivals of aether is really fun and has support for steam workshop.

falkerie71, do games w What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?
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Any game from Supergiant I would recommend in a heart beat.

OpenStars, do games w What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?
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Chrono Trigger

The best game of all time, period.

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