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Ask HN: Non-violent video games with great stories?

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Re: Ask HN: Non-violent video games with great stories?

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there's grim fandango remastered on steam, it's a blast stardew valley has some violence but it's not the focus of the game (it's a farming simulation), you only has to fight if you go to the caverns with monsters, but you can play the game without doing this (you just won't have minerals for tools and cash) i will second the suggestion of world of go

oh, if you have a playstation, journey is AMAZING. it can also prompt age-appropriate conversations about life and death

Re: Ask HN: Non-violent video games with great stories?

#33

First person: - Portal & Portal 2 - Outer Wilds - The Talos Principle - Antichamber (I haven't finished this) - Quern - Undying Thoughts - Myst Remastered - Infinifactory Platformers: - Braid - FEZ I don't even know: - TIS-100 - EXAPUNKS - World of Goo Violent but in a different way: - Inscryption (do not look anything up about this game) - Stone Story RPG - Hollow Knight Pretentious story but extremely fun puzzles (…

The lore of The Talos Principle is incredible (though you only get to know most of it in the end, and finishing this game is hard). Unlike The Witness, it has earned the right to be pretentious (but actually isn't)

Re: Ask HN: Non-violent video games with great stories?

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Disco Elysium perhaps? Like there is some rare instances of violence, but the point of the game isn't to be a violence simulator. Hardly a game for kids though, perhaps mostly because they wouldn't be able to relate to the world or its characters.

A dead person hanging from a tree a few minutes in. There's lots of violence in the game.

Violence isn't the point of the game, but the gritty backdrop.

It's a philosophical treatsie thinly disguised as a game about a cop with a mid life crisis.

Re: Ask HN: Non-violent video games with great stories?

#37

there's grim fandango remastered on steam, it's a blast stardew valley has some violence but it's not the focus of the game (it's a farming simulation), you only has to fight if you go to the caverns with monsters, but you can play the game without doing this (you just won't have minerals for tools and cash) i will second the suggestion of world of go

Grim Fandango was such a beautiful game. I played it when it came out in the 90s and was just incredibly impressed by how artful it was.
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