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Single player games fun to play around tv / switch controls : Firewatch - about 6 to 10 hours narrative walking exploring adventure with beautiful scenery. Teens and up probably. Outer wilds : astonishing space exploration game. So many mysteries and puzzles and wonders and connections to be made. Cannot recommend highly enough. Tale of two brothers. There's sadness in this game but handled very well. If you're ready…
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The cassette tapes and clips in the movie theater were my favorite part of the game (still haven't unlocked them all)
That's fair - to each their own. For me personally my favorite thing was finding those lines of "tutorial puzzles" that teach you how certain rules work, and suddenly realizing how other puzzles could be solved - I got goosebumps from that a lot of times. One thing can be said for certain, it's a great game - unfortunately not the best replay value though IMO, because you tend not to forget the puzzle rules once you…
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I have not played Disco yet, but have been tempted. Thanks for the comparison to The City & The City, easily one of my favorite books and such a mind bend. If you’ve not watched Counterpart with J.K. Simons is very similar in feel, to me at least. Shame it was never finished.
I'll take a look at Counterpart! I heard the TV adaptation of The City & The City was pretty boring. I'm reading The City and The City now and there are moments and plot lines where it feels like DE is the game adaptation of the book.
My favorites from the past decade: Soma, a science fiction horror game around the idea of transplanted consciousness. It's a common sci-fi theme but Soma handles it much better than most and adds a very interesting setting. What Remains of Edith Finch, not scary, it's a "walking sim" that explores a family's surreal curse over generations. It's actually really touching. Disco Elysium, a detective RPG in an interestin…
Like the other comment said, these are not exactly kid-friendly games. But! You just listed 2 of my all time favorite, and the other one is on top of my to-play list. Please list more games!
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Like the other comment said, these are not exactly kid-friendly games. But! You just listed 2 of my all time favorite, and the other one is on top of my to-play list. Please list more games!
Most recently I loved Norco, a sci-fi "alternate present" adventure game set in a petroleum refining town outside of New Orleans, where you return home to investigate what your mother was researching before she died.
I recently finished The Age of Decadence, which is a turn based story-heavy RPG. This game is what actually got me into Disco Elysium.
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Riven is another brilliant game that shares the structure of using information about the world as both the purpose and the means to exploration. Outer Wilds excels with creative planets full of adventure, while Riven is a slow paced affair that is impressively dedicated to creating an intricate world wordlessly. Without written aids ala the logs in Outer Wilds, gleaning insights from disparate information in Riven of…
Riven is an absolute masterpiece in visual storytelling. I remember playing it when it came out and just being blown away by it.
My daughter (6 years) really likes My Brother Rabbit. It's a point and click adventure with no violence and a decent story.