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

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Post by dontbenebby » Sat, Jun 04, 2022, 1:51 PM UTC

Animal Crossing has a story-ish, when I get my affairs in order I want to get a switch and a nice tv so I can rejoin the community. I never got as into online gaming as I'd have liked since the DS wanted you to put your wifi on WEP, and I wanted to at least use WPA since some people are very... nebby.

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

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Post by pvg » Sat, Jun 04, 2022, 1:51 PM UTC

marginalia_nu wrote: post #35

pvg wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Sure but it permeates the whole thing. It's a violent game, you just don't happen to be the agent of the violence. Still the opposite of 'non-violent game'.

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

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Post by junon » Sat, Jun 04, 2022, 1:53 PM UTC

Stardew Valley

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

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Post by junon » Sat, Jun 04, 2022, 1:54 PM UTC

gravypod wrote: post #15

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 (…

I can second Talos Principle. One of my favorite games of all time.