Have you played a game that stayed in your head long after you played it?
For me, Outer Wilds would be that game. I feel like I haven’t stopped thinking about it since I beat it a couple years ago.
Easily RimWorld for me. The stories that play out over time, and how to make productivity more efficient live in my head rent free.
Portal 1.
Something about the ambiance mixed with the puzzles really stuck with me. I replay it almost once a year just to relive it.
Portal 2 is also up there with me. Just two spectacular atmospheric puzzle games. 10/10
If you like Portal 1 and 2 and want more, I’d recommend playing Portal Stories: Mel and Portal Reloaded, both are free on Steam if you own P2. The puzzles are pretty tricky though!
Reloaded made me want to smash my keyboard several times. 10/10 can’t wait for the multiplayer update
Neon white was super fun, still working in 100% for the good ending.
Loom
It’s been, what, 30 years? I still think about that game pretty frequently.
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Bioshock Infinite. Love the aesthetics and world building in this game.
Alpha Protocol, cause and effect and replayability just made it one of the best of all time in my opinion.
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is the easy answer for me. It hit me at just the right time, in just the right way. It was masterfully crafted. The sound track was, at the time, perhaps the best pairing of a video game and sound track ever made.
Interstate '76. I love the whole vibe of it.
Mother 3 still affects me in ways no other game has, even to this day. It’s truly a beautiful game.
its very short, but Trip World is a gameboy game I just cant stop thinking about, its one of the prettiest games on the system with a fun mechanic to it.
My record must be Photopia. 25 years later, I still feel half a tear forming by thinking too much about it.
For me it’s Return of the Obra Dinn. I was blown away by how well this game is done. I blew through it in like 2 days. The way the story plays out is so cool. Afterward I hassled my wife to play it because she loves that murder mystery stuff but she bought it and still hasn’t played it lol.
Anyway highly recommend if you’re into puzzle games.
Nice. I have that one on my wishlist. I’m not ready to start a new game so it’s on the back burner until the Steam sale.
If it helps, Obra Dinn is relatively quick. I think it took me around 10h. I find game length to be a big decision maker for me these days.
Believe it or not, it was a flash game. You can’t play it online anymore, though you can find it for download somewhere I’m sure.
It was called “Obliterate Everything 2” - it was just a small game about space battles, with fairly simple mechanics. But the amount of depth it got from that was so absurd. The difficulty curve was a bit wacky, and I remember talking at length to my friends about the various game design principles I’d learned from observing and judging it.
Outer Wilds and Omori. Both beautiful games and if I had to choose one to play through for the first time again, I couldn’t.
Oh yeah omori kind of fucked me up for a few days. I really appreciate it but it’s not something I think I’ll replay anytime soon.
