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
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#32Firewatch
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#33First 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 (…
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#35Disco 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.
It's a philosophical treatsie thinly disguised as a game about a cop with a mid life crisis.
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#37there'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
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#40Gris is my go-to favourite for a relaxing, non-violent adventure