Tag: Knowledge-based Progression
Games that are difficult or impossible to replay or un-spoil, as the main progression system involves knowledge acquired while playing the game and retained in your brain instead of your save file. These are the kinds of games where spoilers are a significant issue as everything learned before playing the game is something that can’t be learned while playing it, and as such my reviews of these games may be vuage.
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Chants of Sennaar
A (mostly) puzzle game about language. Specifically languages you don’t know. And if you’re thinking “oh this sounds like Trunic,” then you’re a little mistaken because the main goal of the game here is to learn and understand the languages. The game helps with this.
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DEATHLOOP
8 people, 8 kills, one day. Can’t be that hard right? Though when you wake up knowing nothing, with a face full of sand on the beach it’s not gonna be easy figuring out what to do or even who you are. As is customary for games that are easy to spoil, uhhh… Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1252330…
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Taiji
Ever since I finished The Witness for the first time back in 2017, I’ve been looking for a puzzle game that follows that same formula, and this year I found it with Taiji. Instead of being a first person puzzle game about completing puzzle panels where you fill in the edges, this is a top-down…
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The Forgotten City
In The Forgotten City, you are a detective/archaeologist exploring lost ruins and investigating the civilisation within, in order to learn what the ruins are and how things work. One of the first things that happens in the game is you find a time portal in the old ruins. Stepping into it has a suspiciously Doctor…
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The Witness
This is a hard one to recommend because it takes a certain type of person to enjoy the concept of this game. You’re dropped in a world devoid of life but full of puzzles, with no direction other than the controls. Move to the door, click to open solving mode, draw a line from the…
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Tunic
Fox game fox game fox game. So in this game you play as a fox, and this makes me happy because I like foxes, foxes are the best little critters, and I may or may not be a fox irl writing game reviews by bashing my pointy snoot against the keyboard. That being said: Steam:…
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Outer Wilds
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/753640 £19.49 Humble Bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/outer-wilds £19.49