It feels like new games are just more of the same, with no real meaning. However I recently started playing “Return of the Obra Dihn” and love open ended deduction in it. It feels like I’m actually figuring things out by myself without being handheld through it. Are there any other games that don’t coddle the player that you guys recommend?
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Antichamber really stood out to me even among other puzzle games
The witness is a really interesting puzzle game that can be had for not that much.
Or if you are looking for something more actiony then I would recommend remnant: from the ashes or remnant 2. Described as souls like with guns, but they really change up the formula I found with semi random worlds and bosses.
The Talos Principle - It’s pretty much purely a puzzle game with a nice dose of philosophy to drive the story along. Some of the later puzzles can get pretty difficult, and some of the optional challenges will likely take you a good while to figure out without guides.
Dread Delusion:
- Great plot, lore, and writing in general
- A lot of moral dilemmas to solve and hard choices to make
- Choices don’t change much in gameplay, but they change a lot in writing and that is interesting to read
- Doesn’t handhold player much, but is way smaller than Morrowind for example, way less content and side quests and thus feels more linear
- Lowpoly/lowres and kinda rough even by lofi standards, but certain consistent aesthetic which creates coherent worlds that are fun to explore
- Combat is way too easy, even bosses are not challenging; recently hard mode was added, but I haven’t tried
- There are some minor bugs and glitches
