Taiji
- A 2D puzzle game where you slowly unravel how to solve each different element of the puzzles, eventually culminating in a massive puzzle gauntlet. Basically identical in concept and execution to The Witness, but still very much its own unique and fun game.
The Golden Idol
- A puzzle game where each level you must examine a scene to figure out exactly what happened, eventually piecing together the full story over several levels. Don't let the art style put you off, it's an incredibly well done game. Most similar to Return of the Obra Dinn in concept.
Stories: The Path of Destinies
- an action RPG with a branching choice-driven storyline, but not every story has a happy ending... You'll piece together the true story over multiple playthroughs and eventually find the one true path. It wasn't a particularly life-changing game but it was still a lot of fun and worth checking out if it sounds interesting!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Probably not for everyone here but 'I was a Teenage Exocolonist' is one of the best games in that category I ever played. You feel the developer's love in every character and storyline and being able to have so many different outcomes really made it feel special.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I have it on my wishlist but I've put off buying it because I thought it was just a visual novel. I'll have to check it out now!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I love Celeste for this exact reason!

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[–] dexa_scantron 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lingo too! Gosh I wish I could forget Lingo and play through it again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I experienced Lingo through my friend discord streaming their playthrough of it. It's an awesome game but my goodness did we have to have a thesaurus open for some of the puzzles! I definitely would recommend anyone reading this check it out though, it's incredibly unique! I'd say the closest game in terms of vibes is Antichamber, but with word puzzles.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I have some suggestions that fit this category with varying degrees so I will include some justifications so you can decide if you want to include them in your own playlists

Her story/the stanley parable :: fit the category perfectly
subnautica :: Survival game with heavy exploration. Unusually for this genre it has a story which you can only progress by finding some clues and piecing them together
the witness :: This one has been mentioned already but I just wanted to reiterate that although it may seem like a simple puzzle game it's a good fit for this category. Here's an excellent analysis of it that you can watch after playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZokQov_aH0
The talos principle :: the main part of this game is just a puzzle game so it seemingly doesn't fit very well. However, along with those there are some characters which ask you some philosophical questions which you unintentionally end up mulling over while solving the puzzles. By the end of the game you have understood some things that can make the ending very meaningful and emotional.
antichamber/gorogoa/superliminal/baba is you :: Simple puzzle games but they are solved by lateral thinking where you're constantly pushing the boundaries and rules of the puzzle itself
into the breach :: rougelike tactics game. Someone else mentioned how roguelikes in general fit this category and this is my honorable mention
hacknet :: You are given some tools that can open some doors but you have to learn how to exploit those doors to open the remaining ones

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

holy shit wawa

[–] yamanii 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

OP's image is pretty good but some recommendations posted are really stretching it specially the RPGs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

You aren't wrong but it's just people having fun recommending games they think are cool and I'm never going to turn that down

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Chants of Senaar mentioned!!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Noita and Who's Lila? 🙏

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Didn't think while reading and got 'I want to fuck(ing) fellas' and I concur

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

yeah that too

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I almost feel like you're describing a job.

I'm always having to learn new practical skills for work, and getting into things I know nothing about and having to learn them to be successful.

The difference is that the skills you learn from playing games usually are not transferable to the rest of your life. There's some exceptions to this but most of the stuff you learn from complex games are completely fabricated for the game and have very little bearing on real life.... Though, am argument can be made in many cases, such as kerbal. I haven't played kerbal, but I understand there's some reasonably accurate orbital mechanics and rocket science involved. This is just one fairly obvious example that I know of. Not to be confused with a comprehensive list of games with practical educational value.

For me though, I usually don't want to learn anything useful while playing a game, since that's basically what I do for work. So any game, like our example of kerbal will, in all likelihood, feel like more work to me, which is decidedly not the objective I'm going for by playing a game.

I dunno. Different games for different folks or whatever.

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[–] Philharmonic3 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

The whole soulsborne series

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Toki tori

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