cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/16885686

Outer Wilds changed my life then Tunic changed it again

Edit: Game Recommendations by the people in the comments:

And some game recommendations by me to add on to the post:

  • Taiji
    • A 2D puzzle game where you slowly unravel how to solve each different element of the puzzles, eventually culminating in a massive puzzle gauntlet. Basically identical in concept and execution to The Witness, but still very much its own unique and fun game.
  • The Golden Idol
    • A puzzle game where each level you must examine a scene to figure out exactly what happened, eventually piecing together the full story over several levels. Don’t let the art style put you off, it’s an incredibly well done game. Most similar to Return of the Obra Dinn in concept.
  • Stories: The Path of Destinies
    • an action RPG with a branching choice-driven storyline, but not every story has a happy ending… You’ll piece together the true story over multiple playthroughs and eventually find the one true path. It wasn’t a particularly life-changing game but it was still a lot of fun and worth checking out if it sounds interesting!

Games listed in the image, for those who want a straight list instead of looking at an image:

  • Heaven’s Vault
  • Outer Wilds
  • Tunic
  • Return of the Obra Dinn
  • Chants of Sennaar

Additions from commenters on this post:

  • Whitebrow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    9 days ago

    Gets a lot easier down the road when you upgrade or get multiple copies of your blueprints and have the modifiers for which type rooms would appear more often

    Also helps to know what the requirements are to spawn certain rooms, makes it a lot more likely to get what you’re aiming for

    It is a bit rough early on I admit

    • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      For me i found the curve of RNG pretty smooth honestly, because while yes early on you are at the mercy of what you pull you also have so many different things to investigate at once that you’re always making progress on something every run - even though not always on the thing you intended to when setting out. And late game you’re afforded so much RNG control that it really isn’t all that bad.

      • Poik@pawb.socialEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        It took me twenty in game days to be offered :::small spoiler the foundation ::: after ::: medium spoiler repelling it after putting it outside with the monk blessing :::… I would agree with you, but I have really bad RNG. It needs a pity system of some sort… Even the later upgrades don’t cut it. ::: small spoiler I burned over twenty rerolls one day to finally get it to appear again. :::

        I know you don’t need ::: repeated spoiler the foundation ::: but that’s just to illustrate my luck.

        • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
          1·
          8 days ago

          Are you still using Sync by any chance? Heads up that that’s Reddit-style spoiler formatting and won’t display as actually spoilered on many Fediverse specific apps. Lemmy markdown for spoilers is:

          spoiler title

          spoiler text

          Yeah there are edge cases for sure and that specific example is pretty rough. It’s definitely not a perfect game even though it’s my GOTY and there are some RNG issues for sure. I just find that a lot of the people who complain about it turn out to not have taken advantage of the tools the game affords you.

          Late game spoilers

          Between Conservatory, Resilience of the Rook and dice upgrades on two separate common rooms you have enough to at least get to reclaim the crown I would say. Plus there are even more dice to be found with the shrine blessing and lab experiments if need be. Hell even the Jackhammer regularly digs up dice.

          • Poik@pawb.socialEnglish
            2·
            8 days ago

            Mostly out of laziness. I keep forgetting the spoiler markdown… I used Discord and Telegram’s spoiler format first… Also, that ended up spoilered so it didn’t tell me how to do it. ^^;;