High consciousness games

[charlie cho]

@Yog I salute to your guidance....... I will look into it ......

[DocWatts]

If you happen to enjoy exploration and/or survival games, I'd highly recommend Subnautica. Simply put, it's almost certainly the best Survival/Exploration game I've ever played.

The game drops you on an alien Ocean world and asks you to survive without any weapons by exploring your environment and understanding its ecology. 

 

[Yog]

@charlie cho Good luck and beware blessed one. Your ego wont like it hehe. It can get addictive too, so there is that.

@DocWatts Damn that game gives me nostalgia, I cant wait for Bellow Zero. Its actually the game that inspired me to grow stuff. Now I have a couple of plants around the house, might turn into food soon

Its also been one of the most effective horror games for me, going deep into the dark with that clumsy low power paper seamoth and you hear a leviathan scream. Max fun/no fun!
 

Edited November 24, 2020 by Yog
The horror

[Eren Eeager]

Green hell 8.5/10

A great survival game with an actual storyline . You take ayahuasca multiple times in the game. It is very enjoyable. 

Frostpunk 10/10

Great citybuilding/survival game. You are responsible for building a city in the middle of frost that had covered earth. Many will die and you will have to take many hard decisions. Stage blue vibes. 

Blair witch project 7/10

Nice horror game. You play as a person complaining of PTSD/schizophrenia searching for a missing boy. 

The long dark 8.5/10

A brilliant survival game in the Canadian wilderness. You are against frost, storms and even wolves. 

Factorio 8/10

Factories building on an alien planet. 

Death stranding 9/10

Stunning visuals, calming environment. I think you have heard of it but still. 

The walking dead series 8/10

Very nice and can get intense and emotional as you develop attachment to the character 

 

 

[DocWatts]

1 hour ago, Yog said:

@charlie cho Good luck and beware blessed one. Your ego wont like it hehe. It can get addictive too, so there is that.

@DocWatts Damn that game gives me nostalgia, I cant wait for Bellow Zero. Its actually the game that inspired me to grow stuff. Now I have a couple of plants around the house, might turn into food soon

Its also been one of the most effective horror games for me, going deep into the dark with that clumsy low power paper seamoth and you hear a leviathan scream. Max fun/no fun!
 

Same! I've been replaying Subnautica recently, and the video / audio design is masterful in the way it evokes feelings of both wonder and dread. 

[Yog]

I'd add this one into the list if you want a game that has good political stuff in it.

You can play as pacifist, xenophile, xenophobe, hive mind, materialist, spiritualist, collectivist, individualist....ect societies.
 

 

[martins name]

All games exist on the spectrum between being a skinner box/entertainment and being interactable art. 

Good art teaches wisdom or shows you what life could be. That is consciousness raising.

[charlie cho]

@DocWatts thanks man. Kenshi is so fun! I'm playing it, and i learned so much about myself through this simulation. (funny how much we can learn from other creator's worlds) LEarned how cruel I am. 

[charlie cho]

@Yog thanks man. Kenshi is so fun! I'm playing it, and i learned so much about myself through this simulation. (funny how much we can learn from other creator's worlds) LEarned how cruel I am. 

[charlie cho]

@Yog what kind of political stuff? 

[Yog]

@charlie cho  Its mostly about the way you design your empire, you have a lot of parameters, such as ethics, or authority.

You can design it to be an egalitarian, xenophile, individualist and pacifist, full democracy type of civilization, or lets say you can design it to be spiritualist, xenophobe, militarist type. Each of these stats morph your attributes and force you to play in your designed style. Its a background game mechanic thing.
 

Glad you liked Kenshi.  Its almost a monument of the mechanisms that wake up hidden potential in us. 

The game in a way is very neutral, but the world it is set in is so harsh that you start doing weird stuff you thought you wouldn't do having a "choice".

You start the game and think, well I'll build a peaceful walled city, produce food, help the world, but in due time you'll be peeling peoples skin off and nailing them to crosses, just so you mark your territory and scare raiders away. And you'll love it.

A potential spoiler and a friendly traveling tip:
Holy nation are 100% racist, if you have any non white green-lander male characters in your squad, they will enslave you, unless you tell them that your squad mates are your slaves. The paladins are fanatic and can chase you for hours, lol.

Edited December 9, 2020 by Yog
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[juvoci]

@charlie cho

I played Runescape for many years as a child. Taught me a lot about economics (markets), finance (investment), hard-work (grinding), goals (99 Prayer) commitment, friendship, tribalism (clan rivalry), betrayal (friends scamming / hacking / turning on friends), greed (players prioritizing Runescape gold over friendships and integrity), fame (I grew a popular Runescape YouTube back in 2010), and probably more.

That being said, I wouldn't recommend the game to anyone nowadays. It's too much of a time-sink. The value received is proportionally low to the effort invested, relative to other activities like studying, building a business, physical exercise, etcetera.

=]  <3

Edited December 11, 2020 by juvoci

[Osaid]

1 minute ago, juvoci said:

@charlie cho

I played Runescape for many years as a child. Taught me a lot about economics (markets), finance (investment), hard-work (grinding), goals (99 Prayer) commitment, friendship, tribalism (clan rivalry), betrayal (friends scamming / hacking / turning on friends), greed (players prioritizing Runescape gold over friendships and integrity), fame (I grew a popular Runescape YouTube back in 2010), and probably more.

Runescape also taught me how to type extremely fast lol

Although I'm not sure if I'd recommend it to anyone, I would only play for nostalgia I think

[juvoci]

@Osaid

Ah, yes, that too.

Actually, great typing speed might be the most valuable skill I gained from playing so much Runescape.

I took a typing test a few months ago and scored 140 WPM which apparently is extremely high.

[Yog]

A game about spirituality and philosophy.

I've never seen a game written this well. There is so much depth in it.

You can play the combat part but its not mandatory, most things can be solved with dialogue, its almost a game-book. Its meant to be played this way .

You start of as a castoff of the Changing God, falling from the sky. You are trying to escape from an ancient Lovecraftian scope being, The Sorrow. It is trying to hunt you down and devour you, because you cheated death, not sure if physically, but it tries to break into your mind.

There are ways you can get into the maze of your mind and play there instead of the "real world". You will need to go there in order to finish some quests. Its a very deep game, but be aware that there is a lot of reading, good and hypnotizing reading.

Don't forget to chose the "scan thoughts" skill at the start, its much more fun with it. There are more dialogue choices, people talking weird stuff in their heads, some are empty, some are hilarious.

I see @Leo Gura liked Disco Elysium, well I am sure he will like this one too
 

 

 

Edited December 21, 2020 by Yog

[DocWatts]

4 hours ago, Yog said:

A game about spirituality and philosophy.

I've never seen a game written this well. There is so much depth in it.

You can play the combat part but its not mandatory, most things can be solved with dialogue, its almost a game-book. Its meant to be played this way .

You start of as a castoff of the Changing God, falling from the sky. You are trying to escape from an ancient Lovecraftian scope being, The Sorrow. It is trying to hunt you down and devour you, because you cheated death, not sure if physically, but it tries to break into your mind.

There are ways you can get into the maze of your mind and play there instead of the "real world". You will need to go there in order to finish some quests. Its a very deep game, but be aware that there is a lot of reading, good and hypnotizing reading.

Don't forget to chose the "scan thoughts" skill at the start, its much more fun with it. There are more dialogue choices, people talking weird stuff in their heads, some are empty, some are hilarious.

I see @Leo Gura liked Disco Elysium, well I am sure he will like this one too
 

 

 

Please tell me you've played Planescape Torment, this game's spiritual predecessor 

[DocWatts]

Fallout New Vegas also comes to mind for being as Gold standard when it comes to in depth writing, a well realized world, nuanced and believable characters, and player choice.
 

 

[DocWatts]

Oh and of course Knights of the Old Republic 2, which was a philosophical deconstruction of Star Wars, written by the same person who wrote Planescape Torment, Chris Avellone. Puts the Ideology of the various factions in the setting under a microscope, and explores many of the implications of those belief systems in nuanced and interesting ways.

It might have perhaps the best written character I've ever encountered in a game as well.
 

 

Edited December 21, 2020 by DocWatts

[nistake]

I'm not really into games anymore, but this game 'Journey' looks really promising. Gonna try it out for sure.

[Yog]

8 hours ago, DocWatts said:

Please tell me you've played Planescape Torment, this game's spiritual predecessor 

Oh no I haven't, Not yet.

I first heard of it when I found about Numinera.
I immediately bought it on Steam So I have it.
It looks very promising.