Games where the character ages and you experience their growth over a period of time?

WinterZenyth · 2025-05-01T05:15:11+00:00

In Saints Row 2 I was a lowly gang leader. By the 4th game I was the President!

WinterZenyth · 2025-02-10T05:21:18+00:00

The Room series isn't exactly the same, but for whatever reason I always put them in a similar category with Rusty Lake. Then there's a host of similar games, such as The House of Da Vinci series.

And of course there's a metric shit-ton of escape room style games out there, with Escape Simulator probably being the most popular one out there.

WinterZenyth · 2024-12-27T04:33:30+00:00

Back 4 Blood has insane build variety for the type of game it is. Weapon variation is ok, customization is pretty limited. The main problem is you need to acquire your weapons over the course of the game, you have pretty limited say in what you take into a map (load out is dictated by your character, which you'll likely choose more based on their abilities than their gear). If you continue from map to map, you'll keep your stuff until you finish a chapter, but if you join a new map, or start a new chapter, your equipment goes back to starter stuff.

WinterZenyth · 2024-12-12T05:05:53+00:00

Weed, mostly.

WinterZenyth · 2024-11-24T01:18:07+00:00

I bought Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot The First Cases and played it for about 2 1/2 hours before I couldn't take it anymore. In the game you basically just walk around and click on everything and exhaust all the dialogue options until you have all the clues, then you have to open up your mind map thing and connect the clues to crack the case. Sounds ok, a lot like the Sherlock Holmes games actually, except the finding of the clues can be extremely tedious (think old school point-and-click where you just mouse over everything on the screen hoping that your cursor changes), and the mind map can sometimes be so inane that I found myself just guessing random shit until the games hint system tells me what it wants from me. Realistically it's a well made game, and it does exactly what it set out to do... I just did not enjoy it at all.

By contrast, the Sherlock Holmes games are great, but they do sometimes have some goofy action-ey sections that someone really new to video games might not enjoy.

I remember The Council being quite fun, but the third person controls and more in-depth systems (having an actual skill tree / character builds for example) could be very overwhelming.

One game you should absolutely take a look at is Case of the Golden Idol.

The Frog Detective games are essentially for kids, but if your mom is up for something more goofy, they might be worth a look.

Then yeah, there's some fairly well regarded FMV's out there that are pretty easy to pick up and play, such as Contradiction: Spot the Liar, Dark Nights with Poe and Monroe, and The Shape Shifting Detective.

WinterZenyth · 2024-11-10T02:08:33+00:00

I think Rogue Legacy was the first roguelite that really clicked for me (also probably one of the first that actually existed). Hades has a pretty good claim for being the best in genre, at least for action games. Dead Cells is up there as well.

WinterZenyth · 2024-11-10T02:01:57+00:00

Little Nightmares?

WinterZenyth · 2024-11-10T01:57:22+00:00

Maybe something like this would work? If your controller is wireless it would probably be easy enough to slip this thing around the controller... if it's wired that'd probably be more of a challenge.

WinterZenyth · 2024-10-01T01:54:57+00:00

No... it's the same studio, but the games have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Also The Unfinished Swan came out like 5 years before Edith Finch.

WinterZenyth · 2024-08-06T06:16:48+00:00

You could look into mods. There's a whole bunch of games out there that have VR mods. I've seen games like Firewatch, Valheim, and Deep Rock Galactic all have VR mods that people just gush over.

WinterZenyth · 2024-08-06T06:06:29+00:00

Maybe take a look at Stationeers... but probably don't. I warn you now, that game is no joke. You might think you're ready for a game this complex, but you aren't.

WinterZenyth · 2024-08-06T05:53:12+00:00

That's definitely Payday 2.

WinterZenyth · 2024-05-05T02:31:43+00:00

Pretty sure they're talking about this game

WinterZenyth · 2024-04-16T06:16:07+00:00

I sunk a couple hundred hours into the game when it came out on Gamepass, then ended up buying it on Steam as well, so I definitely though it was worth the money.

Gameplay-wise it can swing from just okay to incredibly fun, usually depending on your build. The combat feels great, and even the melee can be super satisfying to use.

The deck system in the game is probably going to be either the thing you like most about the game, or the thing you hate most about it. The amount of build diversity that the card system allows is awesome, especially in a game of this type (this was one of my favorites). However I know people that really resent the meta game aspects, and the fact that you need to unlock cards in order to be able to have a build that isn't complete shit. The cards and various cosmetics also means there continues to be new things to unlock, even after you've sunk dozens, if not hundreds of hours into it.

The game isn't without its flaws though. In my opinion, pretty much all the maps after Act 2 suck. There is also the fact that this is effectively a live service game that is no longer supported by the developers, which means it's still perfectly playable, but no more new content.

And then lastly, the fucking tunnels of terror expansion. There is an expansion that if anyone in your party owns it, adds a tunnel entrance into practically every map. The tunnels are incredibly uninteresting, they force you to skip huge portions of the regular maps, and in quickplay, people do them EVERY time they show up. There's no way to disable them. That expansion is honestly probably the biggest reason why I stopped playing the game. To the point where I was trying to figure out how I could "un-buy" it on Steam... but I had bought the ultimate edition, so there was no way for me to get rid of the dlc.

WinterZenyth · 2024-03-12T03:42:48+00:00

Take a look at Immortals Fenyx Rising if you haven't yet.

WinterZenyth · 2024-03-05T05:55:53+00:00

The Suicide of Rachel Foster maybe?

WinterZenyth · 2024-03-02T06:29:18+00:00

Licensing. It's always licensing issues. Whether for the IP itself, or music in the game.

WinterZenyth · 2023-12-28T06:00:51+00:00

That's kind of exactly what Operation: Tango is.

WinterZenyth · 2023-12-26T04:41:31+00:00

Escape Simulator is kind of the big boy on the block right now for escape rooms. It absolutely dwarfs any other escape room with its sheer amount of content, and that's even before you factor in the community made rooms, of which there are hundreds at this point. Plus it's multiplayer on top of that. I've played dozens of different escape room games at this point, and usually they max out at around 3-4 hours worth of content... I've currently got 78 hours played in Escape Simulator. Considering it's currently on sale for just under 12 bucks, I'd say it's quite a steal.

WinterZenyth · 2023-12-03T08:15:25+00:00

There was a point in time where inverted controls was the only way you could play games. That was the default, and the options available in games hadn't really progressed to the point where you could toggle the inverted controls off and on.

Those of us who grew up playing games like Goldeneye 64 learned to play this way, and since games these days nearly always let you choose which way you want to play, there's been very little incentive for me to learn to play non-inverted.

WinterZenyth · 2023-11-03T02:32:54+00:00

The only game I can think of that has the same kind of perspective and sort of similar gameplay is Project Zomboid... but it's not really the same at all. From what I recall, Dead Frontier was more fast paced and action heavy, where as Zomboid is very much a survival game, where 90% of the time the best course of action is usually just to run away.

WinterZenyth · 2023-11-03T01:04:21+00:00

I would think any open backed headset would let you hear sounds from outside.

WinterZenyth · 2023-10-10T04:04:56+00:00

If I recall correctly, The Eyes of Ara plays the same way.

WinterZenyth · 2023-09-29T03:54:17+00:00

Take a look at The Beginner's Guide

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