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Which games blow your mind, but only if you know nothing about them in advance?

Best examples I can think of are:

  • Outer Wilds
  • Doki Doki Literature Club
  • The Stanley Parable

What are yours?

(please no spoilers)

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Subnautica. You can only play it for the first time once.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely this. I am jealous each time I recommend it to someone who hasn't played it yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I'm glad there was a thread about Subnautica in here.

absolutely stunning, especially if one has any kind of decent audio system

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I tried it a few years ago and gave up after an hour of not knowing what to do. But I had this week off and tried it again, it I'm really enjoying it this time. It's not like anything else, and once that initial bump is passed its learning curve is really quite good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It is one of my all-time favorite games. I have unfortunately played it to death; I've run out of stupid challenge runs. The game has a story and uniquely for survival games it has an ending, there's a Win The Game button. But the game is as much about the story you're going to create; the way you choose to go about things, the order you decide to explore in, the happenstances of your adventure are maybe more important than what the wiki says the story is. Savor that.

I will offer this hint. I don't think it's a spoiler; I think there is a strong possibility this hint will prevent you from alt-tabbing out to look up the wiki and accidentally encounter a spoiler. But I will tag it as a spoiler anyway.

spoilerIf you find yourself without an immediate goal, you're milling about the ocean thinking "well now what?" Go deeper.