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If only speaking from personal experience, many games nowadays have an almost implicit requirement to search up a "before I play" guide or a "beginner recommendations". If nothing else, many people want to Google "missables", to ensure that they can fully experience a game.

What is your recommended game that requires nothing but the player to be in the moment and enjoy the experience?

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[–] pizzaboy7269@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago
[–] InfernoUSMC@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Firewatch. I’ll say it a million times to every one I ever can. Amazing game

[–] Nativedavid33@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Horizon: Zero Dawn. The story is just a masterpiece. It's the only game I've ever played where I WANTED to collect, listen, and read all of the small lore pieces. The combat is incredible and the enemies are so diverse, unlike your typical recycled RPG enemies. I want to say so much more about this, I'm struggling not to give any information here. It's a game that you need to go in completely blind. With no expectations, you'll have an amazing time. Hell, even with high expectations, you won't leave disappointed. This is a game that was so good, Sony started developing two sequels before the first one was released.

[–] prigglesteen@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

TUNIC

One of the most fun and fulfilling games to figure out on my own

[–] ahartfield@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

The Persona series. I just started playing 4 and I went in blind, then fell in love with the game.

[–] crudemandarin@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Hollow Knight!

[–] mstop4@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

The Stanley Parable (Ultra Deluxe): the game experience is better if you try to just wing it and experiment as you go along.

Hypnospace Outlaw: 95% of the content of this game is optional and a lot of it is buried in some pretty deep rabbit holes. Despite that, it's still more fun going in blind, wandering around, and get lost in the game, without any prior planning on getting a specific secret. Even if you're thorough, you'll probably only experience less than 50% of all the content in your first playthrough.

[–] groenteman@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Outer wilds

[–] superhakerman@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Doki Doki Literature Club

[–] Rcisvdark@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Very well known game, but Undertale.

[–] GuardianHelix@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] ezk3626@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I agree but I had to restart my first five games because I kept starving to death when I ran out of food packets.

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[–] cheesemangee@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago
[–] NeppyMan@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Undertale, although it's pretty hard to avoid spoilers at this point.

Doki Doki Literature Club.

Spec Ops: The Line. (although to be fair, unless you know it's NOT just a generic shooter, you might give it a pass)

[–] rizsamron@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Outer Wilds

SOMA

Return of the Obra Dinn

[–] Kataratz@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Leramar89@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Disco Elysium, The less you know the better and funnier it is.

[–] geoffnolan@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Saint_Link@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Any “Choose Your Own Adventure” type game.

Mass Effect, TellTale games, Baldur’s Gate, etc.

[–] PiXeLonPiCNiC@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Horizon Zero Dawn

[–] HavelTheRockJohnson@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Games like phasmaphobia or lethal company. The moment those games stop being chaotic and start becoming methodical they immediately lose all the charm they had for me.

[–] jextech@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Danganronpa games, Zero Escape games, Raim Code

[–] tr0tsky@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Doki Doki Literature Club

[–] Bladebrent@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Ghost Trick

Phoenix Wright (edit: as many people have said, yes sometimes you'll need to look up a guide, but it is VERY easy to get spoiled so be careful looking up a specific character or for youtubers who spoil the case)

The MISSING: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories

Ib, Omori, Yume Nikki (all 3 of these games are kind of the same vein but still recommended)

YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story (I havent actually played this one but its interesting and Its hard to bring up without spoiling it)

Spark the Electric Jester (at least 2 and 3 if you just want a wtf reaction to the endings)

[–] Pozzg@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Witcher 3, Mass Effect trilogy

[–] FireNova@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

BioShock

Factorio

Divinity: Original Sin 2

[–] Pulsiix@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago
[–] General_Welfare@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Control, I had no idea of anything about it other than it was free on PS+ the atmosphere is gripping from the first second and then it just keeps getting better.

[–] MasterOfZiltch@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Totally agree. Nothing made sense. Nothing was supposed to make sense. Gorgeous.

[–] npcknapsack@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Journey would have matched this. Don't know if people still play it or don't know it, but not knowing can lead to a craaaazy cool revelation.

[–] LotusCSGO@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

There are people that have never played Halo 1 and don't know anything about the story or what happens. They absolutely should not google anything or know anything other than it's a great FPS as they play it.

[–] Thekheezesteak@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Ghost Trick

[–] random-user-420@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Zelda BOTW and TOTK. Exploring the world at your own pace makes it way more fun and there is no need to lookup anything because they give you enough of an idea of where to go (unless you don't want to waste time searching, but then the question is why are you playing an adventure game if you don't enjoy the exploration). Plus, the shrines are so much more fun to complete when you figure it out yourself instead of just watching a video guide

[–] Flaxscript42@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Eternalanrete@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

NieR Replicant Ver. 1.22 and NieR Automata. Pure experiences.

[–] LDM123@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Doki Doki Literature Club. You won’t experience it right if you know anything about it beforehand.

Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines. Half the fun is figuring out what to do yourself.

[–] amanon101@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Detroit: Become Human. I wish I could play it completely blind! I first got it after watching vids of it of YouTube so I never got the opportunity.

[–] SuburbanCumSlut@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nier Automata. In my opinion, it's one of the greatest games of all time, and it needs to be experienced in its entirety firsthand.

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[–] swordfiend@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

The forgotten city

[–] AveragePrune89@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I love the title of this thread and then most answers are giving actual spoilers thus making the games less blind for those who haven’t played them…

[–] CrimsonSica@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

To The Moon

[–] nazariomusic@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

If you've never played Kotor before, play it without looking ANYTHING up online about it. You'll thank me later.

[–] DAS_BEE@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Journey. It's beautiful and mysterious and relaxing and you should just experience it

[–] turbokarhu@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago
[–] FascinatedOrangutan@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Sigmling@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Where are the old school indies at??? Tender Loving Care. The gameplay is a mix of 3d exploration and psychological questions which ultimately shape the game as it progresses. Super fun and strange.

[–] dirtybird131@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Doki Doki. Even if you read about it, it still wouldn’t make sense, but GOD DAMN would it ruin THAT moment

[–] Bidomeus@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago
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