Lots of folks talking about the diagram. And for good reason. It’s a good diagram full of good games.
But I want to draw folks attention to the linked article. It’s well written and I enjoyed it.
Out of this list I’ve played (in order)
Fez
Outer Wilds
Return of the obra dinn
Blue prince
Outer Wilds was my favorite of the bunch. I didn’t know anything about it and went in blind. It’s gotta be in my top 5 favorite games, if not number 1.
Subnautica felt similar due to the exploration element. I wish there were more games like this.
Outer Wilds and Subnautica was stunning. One of my favorites too. I loved the exploration aspect to it, they kind of got me exited very similarly. Did you like Obra Dinn? I tried blue prince but didn’t have the patience although I heard great things about it.
Obra Dinn and outer wilds are two of my top 3 games ever made. If you liked outer wilds I’m pretty sure you’ll like Obra Dinn.
Blue prince is great until you “win” the first time. After that, imo, it starts falling off. Slowly at first, then harder. I have completionist friends to whom I have given it negative reviews. But if you just want to win and explore the space for a while, even potentially hundreds of hours if you don’t use guides, it’s fun. Don’t start a game day aiming to work on something specific. Work on what comes your way, and it is easily possible to make substantial progress every single game day.
A lot of games get ruined from not going in blind. At least for me :/
Chants of Sennaar was great! Had an absolute blast trying to work my way through it. I probably sounded like I was playing Baba Is You when trying to wrap my head around the glyphs (?) and the messages they try to convey.
Figuring out the symbols, their meaning and then using them properly to translate between different people was surprisingly rewarding and fun. I wouldn’t have minded if the game had a bit more gameplay, but at least it didn’t overstay it’s welcome.
I also really liked Heaven’s Vault, really recommend that as well. Tunic is probably one of my favourite recent games, genre wise very different but still in that translation category.
Chants was probably in my top I played last year, absolutely loved the soundtrack too.
Chants of Sennaar is by far one of the best games I’ve played. I had an absolute blast getting it to 100% and wish it had just a little bit more to do or vocalisations of the various languages.
I loved the grammar differences between the languages. Like where the negation glyphs go, or pluralisation. It always made me happy when I struggled with the translations, and then renumbered stuff like “Bards place the subject before the verb!”
Give me more games like Animal Well, please.
Fez Is the only game I ever 100% in my life and it is a well polished masterpiece.
I own hundreds of games and put around 4k hours into Factorio but still recommend Fez to anyone.
I am saving this post because I sense a lot of “potential” here.
How long did you spend on the monolith puzzle before looking it up?
Can’t remember but I definitely used a guide to reach 100%
Yeah, nobody has actually figured out how that puzzle is solved so you can’t actually get max completion without data mining or a guide :P
Does the witness not qualify?
Ooo, I think it would be:
- Incremental Deduction
- Adventure
- (maybe?) Language and Translation
Not enough learn action adventure games to my liking.
Definitely checking every single one of these though.
Agree. Outer Wilds is my favorite game and all the others in that section aren’t far behind.
That is, except for Ultros, which is a game I’ve heard about before but didn’t know it belonged in this category of games. I guess I know what I have to check out next.
Well, thanks for bringing Epigraph to my attention!
