I've been recently been thinking about Arkane Studio's Prey which is a immersive sim, with a pretty good rogue like dlc, that probably has one of the strongest hooks of any game I've played. If you liked Halflife, System Shock, or Deus Ex it's definitely worth a play.

Are there any titles that might not have been commercially successful that you feel everyone should give a shot?

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[–] FlyingSquid 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can I go with a game from the 90s? Because the adaptation of Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is one of the best games I ever played. Ellison himself voices the "evil" computer, AM and instead of trying to win, you have to make the correct moral choices so your character can finally be allowed to die. You play multiple characters (not concurrently), so you have to do this multiple times. It's brutal but so good. I know very few people who even know it existed.

[–] FireTower 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Games of any time period are valid. The two reasons I made the post were:

I was watching Nocllip's documentary on the production of Prey & for a game that has possibly the best first 15 minutes of any game it got middling reviews & it really disappointing the devs that they work was overlooked. So I figured that perhaps some people here might enjoy it who had overlooked it or simply never heard of it.
I thought it'd be a great spring board for everyone who has that one game they love that they can't ever talk about.

I actually heard about that game for the first time the other day in a YouTube video on philosophical questions in video games that I had playing in the background while doing other things.

[–] FlyingSquid 9 points 9 months ago

It's on archive.org if you ever want to play it. Not sure if it's DOS or Windows, but either way, an emulator will take care of that issue.

https://archive.org/details/i-have-no-mouth-and-i-must-scream-usa