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duchess, 4 godziny temu do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

What are some ROM hacks you can recommend?

There is Mass Effect on the Game Pass.

Vinny_93, 4 godziny temu do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

I enjoyed the Star Wars Jedi games.

Rhynoplaz, 4 godziny temu do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

If you haven’t already tried Oblivion Remastered, that’s a no brainier.

Avowed was pretty straight forward with a decent story. It’s more linear than Skyrim, and sometimes I had to reload a save because I walked into a situation I wasn’t ready for, but all in all, I made quick consistent progress.

I played both on Gamepass.

Also, there’s no shame in turning that difficulty bar down when it’s available. I’m in the same boat as you. I don’t want to master the game, I just want to enjoy it.

BeigeAgenda, 4 godziny temu do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

Maybe the Half-life games? You go through the game on rails, the most challenging part is the final bosses but you can skip those or use cheats.

Kevo, 3 godziny temu do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

I know exactly what you’re talking about with the burnout and decision anxiety for new games that take hours to complete a tutorial or have paragraphs of menu text. It’s not exactly the open world you’re talking about, but I found Hard Space Ship Breaker to be a great alternative to that. It’s got excellent lore and storytelling while still being a very simple game. Think power wash simulator, but breaking apart spaceships in a space trucker stop. It’s simple, and each “day” is a hard 15 minutes, so you’ll always have a stopping point in a reasonable time.

truite, 3 godziny temu do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

I don’t understand fluff in this context, what does it mean? I searched in dictionary but I’m still not sure.

Anyway:

• Spiritfarer: I don’t remember so much grinding in this game, and it’s a beautiful game, not too long, not too hard
• The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
• Slay the Princess, but you don’t really play, you make choices. It’s a masterpiece of narration. If you dislike body horror, don’t play it.

alaphic, 3 godziny temu

Obviously I’m not OP, but I took them to mean content that might be considered superfluous or otherwise not as meaningful to the overarching narrative in and of itself

truite, 3 godziny temu

Thanks!

benni, 3 godziny temu

Yes, that’s exactly what I meant.

iAmTheTot, godzinę temu

Spiritfarer is awesome and I also recommend it, but I think I would concede there’s some “grinding” aspects. You’re going to be going out of your way to collect certain things.

JeeBaiChow, 3 godziny temu do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

Death’s door. Didn’t think the difficulty spikes were that bad, and after doing the umbrella run, the bosses were almost easy the next playthrough

Edit: also just played Arranger and the cat quest trilogy.

Schwim, 3 godziny temu do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

It sounds like you’ve found some games you like but are turned off of by some difficulty bottlenecks. If that’s the case, conhttps://www.wemod.com/. It’s a trainer for a ton of games that allow you to “cheat” in singleplayer games(god mode, speed hacks, etc.)

I still love playing games but as I get older, my tremors get worse, making it impossible for me to get through one on my own. WeMod allows me to explore all of the game world without being stopped by something as simple as clicking on something quickly.

Dreamchiever, 3 godziny temu do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

If you want more Skyrim, Starfield will give you lots of that. I know people give it a hard time, but it really is just more Skyrim in space.

Th3D3k0y, 3 godziny temu do games w Day 346 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

I like Barony, I do not like the difficulty cliff it gives you.

Kyle_The_G, 3 godziny temu do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

mass effect, cyberpunk, clair obscur, baldur’s gate 3 all super fun and have difficulty options. Doom is pretty fun too. I’ve just been ripping through game pass single-player campaigns and RPGs.

Talaraine, 3 godziny temu

All of these are top notch

Kyle_The_G, godzinę temu

Ya I’m a big single-player story-driven player. Other recommendations are red dead 2 (never played 1, I’d like to), lies of P, sekiro, elden ring, bloodborne, uncharted series, death stranding (I love this game but completely get why people bounce off it), alan wake 2 (also not for everyone), control, and I’ll always have a soft spot for halo 1-3+reach. Theres probably a bunch more i’m forgetting but I loved all of those games. I just love a really good story.

ampersandrew, godzinę temu

I would describe Red Dead Redemption II as having significant fluff, not just in how much time it wastes getting from A to B a lot of times but also in that whole island chapter, Act 4, I think.

Kyle_The_G, 37 minut temu

ya thats fair

bjoern_tantau, 3 godziny temu do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 could be what you’re looking for. The main story areas are significantly easier than all the side content.

You’ll want to do the side quests because how can you not play that game with cool sunglasses and a baguette on your back?

But you can easily get through the game without doing any side quests. And if you are afraid of being overpowered when you do play the side stuff, they recently added some nice controls to bump up the difficulty.

elvis_depresley, 34 minuty temu

I second this one, this is a 11/10 game

bjoern_tantau, 33 minuty temu

33/10

bjoern_tantau, 3 godziny temu do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

Oh, and I just remembered the old Thief games. They had pretty consistent difficulty. At least for the first two. I cannot remember if that was retained with the third because it was a little more open in terms of what you acquired in the hub world and took on missions. And we don’t talk about the fourth (which was a reboot nobody wanted, not even the dev team).

rumschlumpel, 3 godziny temu do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

I usually have a good time with isometric fantasy rpgs in the vein of Baldur’s Gate. They don’t really have grind, the world is generally well-filled with a relatively dense story and interesting quests (denser than Skyrim at least), and if the game becomes too hard you can turn down the difficulty. Though you do need to actually be interested in the combat mechanics (which are much more complicated than e.g. in Elder Scrolls games) to really enjoy these games, IMO. One downside is that these types of games are usually really long; I’ve dropped a couple of them halfway because they overstayed their welcome.

Some examples:

• Baldur’s Gate 3 (don’t really need to have played 1+2 to enjoy this one, though they’re still very good)
• Divinity: Original Sin 1+2
• Pillars of Eternity 1+2 (2 has much better combat, but the first one is pretty important to understand the world)
• Tyranny (this is a relatively short one)
• Pathfinder: Kingmaker 1+2

For more Skyrim-style games, I really enjoyed the Gothic series. I think their level of grind is about the same as Skyrim (probably a little less, but it’s been a while), and if you can get past the outdated graphics of the early titles they’re quite fun. Especially the dialogues, they aren’t as serious as Skyrim’s.

cyberpunk007, 2 godziny temu do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

Half life 2?

Metro 2033?

New doom games

Witcher 3 if you stick to the main quest line only