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What are your favorite experimental games?
- Thread starter Aurica
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I found Viscera Cleanup Detail quite refreshing.
Instead of being the hero of the story, you're the lowly janitor tasked with cleaning up after the Big Event is over. I found myself thinking, "Why hasn't anyone else thought of this premise yet?" like 5 minutes into the game.
Really Zen gameplay loop and tons of diverse maps to boot.
I haven't tried VR yet, I'd like to. But a game is more than it's mechanics, and RS II nailed just about everything else as well. When I do make to the jump to VR eventually, these games will be at the top of my list :).
That I had to wait to the 2nd page to find this is disappointing.
Space Funeral. Philip the perpetually crying child and Leg Horse have adventures around Scum Village. It plays like an old JRPG filtered through the ravings of someone on a massive acid overdose.
One of my favorites is Starseed Pilgrim. It was really interesting to use the starseeds to expand the little island you started on in order to explore. Each seed would produce a certain type of growth and you had to learn all the rules about how fast a particular seed would grow, where it would grow, etc. It had wonderful musical cues, it had that very stark white void of a background that really focused you on just what you could interact with. Really interesting game. Never was any good at it and didn't make it very far, but it's a game that I've thought a lot about ever since playing it.
Undertale. For combining light bullet hell gameplay with RPG mechanics, and for questioning the player for making choices that they would only make in a game.
Papers, Please. Gameplay-wise it succeeds at being frustrating and convoluted on purpose to make a point, and does it well. Narratively it does a good job of making you feel like you're living a meager and oppressed life.
Papers, Please. Gameplay-wise it succeeds at being frustrating and convoluted on purpose to make a point, and does it well. Narratively it does a good job of making you feel like you're living a meager and oppressed life.
Speaking of Wide Ocean Big Jacket, I really like the way it was presented. I've seen it described somewhat like the video game equivalent of "directing a short film".
Some of my favourite scenes have the camera pan between different people in a group; you got to decide who could speak, and in which order. Gives me that weird sensation of being able to direct a convo without having to be a part of it.
First two I thought of. Really enjoyed the laid-back feeling of both of them.
Would "Thomas Was Alone" count as experimental? I mean, it's a platformer, but it really tries to make you have emotions for simple square shapes.
for its time i thought Rez was highly experimental. it was really completely different back in the days of the original release.