Tag: Story Rich
Games where the primary emphasis is on the story more than the gameplay.
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NOISZ STARLIVHT
Gay rhythm game bullet hell. That’s certainly a sentence to start a review with. Let me explain. So NOISZ is a pretty standard rhythm bullet hell visual novel with a bunch of story and lore implication that I’m not 100% on because I haven’t played it, but when I saw NOISZ STARLIVHT, one thing stood…
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The Entropy Centre
Portal inspired puzzle game with a talking puzzle gun. Need I say more1?
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The Room
Yet another bundle of games, each with the same premise and controls. The Room is a series of point & click puzzle games with an overarching plot told through notes left behind by the people you’re trying to track down. The series starts off simple enough, you start with a box, and you have to…
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Filament
This is a brutally hard puzzle game, where the main mechanic involves controlling a small robot to wrap wires around pylons to open the exit. There are a dozen or so puzzle mechanics, which are each isolated to one set of puzzles, and introduced at the start of the set. Solving puzzles gives you more…
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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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INFRA
Yet another one that I was recommended by a YouTuber I follow, but this time it was Real Civil Engineer. I got about 3 videos into the playlist before I stopped and went to play it myself, and I’m glad I did. The game surprisingly has a very intriguing plot, which is not something you’d…
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Ikenfell
I have so many praises that I want to sing about this extremely cute and queer fun witch game! The story is incredible, the battles are surprisingly engaging and have some timing mechanics to add an extra bit of skill to the battles, and the world building and design is just wonderful.