Games doing something different

[Steel Icarus]

I cried at the end of Night in the woods Brainaddict and its characters will stay with me for a long time. Disco Elysium you'll love

 

[hitmouse]

I cried at the end of Night in the woods Brainaddict and its characters will stay with me for a long time. Disco Elysium you'll love

Not sure if that was actually directed at Brain or me, but yeah. Got to the first dream sequence in Disco today (a similarity between both games, I suppose, they don't stop when you go to sleep), that was pretty fucking intense. DE is a bit like Bojack Horseman, there's something quite therapeutic about seeing all the worst aspects of your personality intensified to grotesque proportions.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Not sure if that was actually directed at Brain or me, but yeah. Got to the first dream sequence in Disco today (a similarity between both games, I suppose, they don't stop when you go to sleep), that was pretty fucking intense. DE is a bit like Bojack Horseman, there's something quite therapeutic about seeing all the worst aspects of your personality intensified to grotesque proportions.

Oh yeah it should have been you tagged

 

[Brainaddict]

So I did actually like Disco Elysium. This is a first. Thanks for the recommendation. Are there any other games like it?

 

[Brainaddict]

So I did actually like Disco Elysium. This is a first. Thanks for the recommendation. Are there any other games like it?

After some research I've realised the answer to this is 'not really'.

 

[tommers]

After some research I've realised the answer to this is 'not really'.

There are lots of RPGs out there, but nothing really like DE.

 

[ska invita]

made aware of this thanks to Limmy

Embrace Cattiness

 

[DotCommunist]

made aware of this thanks to Limmy

Embrace Cattiness

I've downloaded this but have yet to install it. A cat sim, meh. A cat sim where a stray walks through a dystopian, decaying city to find its owners? sold.

 

[ohmyliver]

Stray is very nice. Sort of proggy space synth noodling soundtrack. Really accurate cat animations/sounds. Robots surviving in a crumbling closed off city. Achivements for miaowing enough times (which was unlocked by the kid hammering the miaow button in the first 30 mins of gaming), and scratching doors/trees/etc. Me and the kid have greatly enjoyed it.

Our cat much less so. He went and grumped off to next doors garden, and now we've stopped playing is back with us.

Oh, one thing. The cat doesn't have owners at any point in the game.

 

[Storm Fox]

I have played Stray through to the end, I thought it was a fantastic game. Loved the soundtrack*, and the visual aesthetic, It's got a melancholic feel to it and draws you in a make you wonder what happened in the past.
I hope there is a sequel, or some kind of follow even in a different form of media.

* I'm Listening to the soundtrack on Spotify as I write this.

 

[ska invita]

the voices seem like they would get annoying fast but good to see someone trying something a bit different visually

 

[AverageJoe]

This looks like an even madder Borderlands.

Right up my Strasse.

 

[Brainaddict]

I tried Last Stop, which is set in London and has a choose your own adventure vibe with choices of what to say to people. Three storylines gradually converge into something a bit bonkers. What I liked was it was set in quite a real London. No central London landmarks, just ordinary streets and tower blocks that often felt vaguely familiar. What I didn't like was a lot of the 'choices' you were given were a bit fake, and it wasn't clear how much they affected the flow of the story. Overall it was more like watching a long film unfold than a computer game, but quite enjoyable if you're in the mood for it.

 

[Ranbay]

the voices seem like they would get annoying fast but good to see someone trying something a bit different visually

great game

 

[ska invita]

Not that different, its basically a first person shooter, but hyper realistic - amazing

Unrecord

 

[ska invita]

15 minutes of pure c64 art - worth taking the time out for it IMO

 

[ska invita]

scottish highlands walkabout game

 

[mojo pixy]

I've only played the demo of this but it had me hooked. It's a musical, turn-based strategy / puzzle game where you have to guide a group of characters into their right positions without blocking any of them so they all arrive at the right moment. They're all in a band, and when you solve each puzzle they play a song together.

Anyway it's more fun than that makes it sound, compulsive and satisfying, and different from anything I've seen before!

Backbeat

 

[ska invita]

well this is different

 

[Fez909]

I played Terra Nil recently. It's like Sim City in reverse. You start with a barren, poluted environment, and have to regenerate it by cleaning up the pollution, changing the environment (planting trees, increasing/decreasing humidity, etc), and then re-introducing native wildlife.

Then once you've fixed the environment, you have to tidy up by removing everything you've built.

It's surprisingly difficult, and a nice spin on the city builder genre. Free on Netflix.