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What’s the most innovative game hook that never took off or got copied? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by massred@alien.top to c/gaming@level-up.zone

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Basically what’s a game that you’ve played that seemed so mind blowingly unique at the time but for one reason or another the game never took off and other developers didn’t pick up and run with it either.

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[–] Pegussu@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Given that logic puzzles are hard to make and it'd be for a relatively niche audience, I'm not entirely baffled by no one ripping it off, but I'm surprised we haven't had at least one developer copying Return of the Obra Dinn.

[–] Drakkeur@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Haven't played it but chants of sennaar feels pretty similar from what I've seen you're just deducing words instead of people identity

[–] doodwtfomglol@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

If you like Obra Dinn, Check out Curse of the Golden Idol! It has comparable detective / event reconstruction gameplay