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Soma
Deus Ex
Hotline Miami
Fallout New Vegas
Outer Wilds
Edit: Since you guys liked it so much, lemme add 5 more. Its cheating but they really deserve the attention
Disco Elysium
Stanley Parable
The Talos Principle
Return of the Obra Dinn
Spec Ops: The Line
The first Hotline Miami is so fucking good. Such a tight game. In the second one the enemies can see you from off screen and it makes it unplayable to me.
And hotline miami 2 makes it even better 😌
It's my go to for explaining the difference between "difficult" and "punishing." Levels are rough, but they go fast and restart in an instant.
Great to see someone else give SOMA the acclaim it deserves.
Right? This game literally made me a researcher.
I just finished this game for the first time tonight and I don’t get it.. I mean I get the point of the story being that there are no “correct” choices in this circumstance. Absolutely fantastic story. But the game itself wasn’t exactly difficult? I felt like it was holding my hand through the puzzles.
Its mostly a walking simulator. Pretty sure theres better horror games out there. Soma is only about the story.
Oh, alright then, well I guess I do get it then haha
Frankly I got very bored with it and did not finish. Maybe it's because I've never felt "existential dread" or maybe it's because I had already run into and come to terms with the Teletransportation paradox as a thought experiment so the concept wasn't new, but the horror completely missed me so all I had was the walking around and getting increasingly frustrated at the character's ignorance. I looked up the plot synopsis after I had enough and it's just... yep.
Different strokes for different folks!
Damn fine list.
Spec Ops: The Line unfortuately does not hold up in 2026 like the others you mentioned. I played it a couple years back after hearing so much about it and it's decidedly mid.
Its not for everyone but I disagree that it doesn't hold up today.
I’m curious, what holds up? The gameplay is dated, guns don’t feel particularly good, level design isn’t anything special, graphics are merely typical for the day, and you’re railroaded on the storyline so IMO nothing feels that impactful. When the only way to progress the level is to commit a war crime, and then I’m supposed to feel bad about it as if there was an alternative, it just sucks.
I can see how in its era, for console gamers, it was unique. I was very underwhelmed when I got around to playing it a couple years ago. IMO, it didn’t really say anything new and it didn’t do it in a particularly compelling or innovative matter.
Just one person’s opinion.
This feels a lot like saying "books can't have an emotional impact, you just read the words in the order they were written".
This isn’t a book, it’s a video game, and video games had meaningful choices decades before Spec Ops: The Line was released. Books also have well fleshed out characters with clear motivations. Spec Ops: The Line does not have this, IMO.
Middling gameplay, graphics, and story, low replayability, the only part that felt good was the music.
Seriously, what’s the draw here? The twist? Feels gimmicky to me. It’s a C+ game at best, and it’s listed in that comment among a solid string of A+ games.
Its about the message, the art that shows a new perspective to our world. What you are looking for imo is fun.
I guess that’s my biggest issue; it didn’t show any new perspective. It was very predictable and didn’t tell a new story, at least for me coming into it as a seasoned PC gamer. “Middle eastern imperialism is bad” doesn’t really hold up when compared to a game like Deus Ex that predated it by years.
I can see how it would have been great for a console gamer in that era, but it’s drastically overhyped and doesn’t compare one iota to the other games listed in the original comment. It’s a C tier game. Go back and play it today, very little holds up.
I get what you're trying to say. A game should exploit and utilise it's unique mechanics as a medium to deliver the message; otherwise it may as well just be a movie or a long cutscene. I haven't played it yet but it's on my to-do list.
I do you think you check it out and form your own opinion. The good news is that the game is straightforward and fairly short. It’s a one weekend game if you no-life it.
I didn’t think the game was terrible, but it was massively overhyped IMO.