Great list, I can second Obra Dinn and Antichamber, so I’ll have to try out the rest
Comment on I'm looking for games with unique or experimental game design
simple@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You’ve come to the right place, I also fancy artsy games and unique experiences.
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Return of the Obra Dinn is a great mystery game about figuring out who died and why. You use your watch to go back in time and explore the moment of death of everyone, trying to piece together what happened.
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Viewfinder is a new puzzle game where you take pictures of your surrounding and place them in front of you, turning them back into 3D-space
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Antichamber might be my favorite abstract puzzle game ever. It’s hard to explain and can be a little obtuse (you get lost easily), but basically you explore a lot of world-shifting environments and try to figure out what is needed. Eventually you get a gun that manipulates cubes and stuff. Really, just play it.
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Manifold Garden is a close second after Antichamber. You explore infinitely repeating worlds and shift gravity to solve puzzles. It’s not a hard game and you can finish it in a few hours, but it’s a great experience.
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Journey is probably a game you’ve come across before. I loved this game to death when I first played it on PS3, I’d recommend giving it a shot. It’s also quite short, only about 3 hours long.
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Hypnospace Outlaw is a game where you play on a fake late 90’s operating system acting as a web moderator. I can’t understate how cool this game is, and the seemingly innocent story gets more interesting as you play along.
Sigh_Bafanada@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mikina@programming.dev 1 year ago
Thank you, there are some games I haven’t heard about. Hypnospace Outlaw and Antichamber sounds cool, the rest I’ve already heard about or have on my backlog, but thanks for reminding me that I should finally play them.
I’ve played Return of the Obra Dinn, it’s exactly along the lines of what I’m looking for. Have you heard about The Case of the Golden Idol? It’s similar to Return of the Obra Dinn, in it being a detective game that nails the design and solves issues of that genre in a clever way. I’ve found it in a game awards I’ve recently stumbled upon - the Independent Games Festival, which looks like one of the few game awards that are worth following (the only other one I know about are the BAFTA awards).
Because in general, I’d say that most game awards are a joke. I mean, look at the “Most innovative gameplay” from the last few years of Steam Awards, and compare them to BAFTA or IGF. I may have a different outlook skewed by my interest in game design, but I just can’t get over Stray winning so many game design awards, especially in a year where games such as Immortality came out. I mean, there’s literally not a single unique mechanic in Stray. It’s a platformer where you don’t even have to jump manually -.-
nem0@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I second Antichamber, cool mechanics and ambient and on the shortish side. I had it gifted by a friend that knows I like the kind of games you’re looking for.