Do actual NONviolent videogames exist?

[Grimplewurst]

Now, I know this is a murky topic and all that, but I'm looking for some opinions from all of you out there. Is there such a thing as a truly nonviolent video game. And before anyone comes up with something like "Deal or no deal (now on PC)" I'd like to point out that I'm talking violence in quite a broad sense... And besides, that's not a game.

 

[LiquidGrape]

Audiosurf
Lucidity
Machinarium
Samorost 2
World of Goo

Just off the top of my head.

 

[JediMB]

Tetris.

Unless you consider it blockicide.

 

[Mana Fiend]

Tetris. Very simple game, nothing gets killed. Also, Pong.

Damn, ninja'd.

 

[SamuelT]

Erm...Phoenix Wright doesn't actively has scenes of violence in it. Neither does SimCity 4 (Although it references it.)

There are plenty, just look at all the puzzle games. But these are the ones off the top off my head.

 

[Rylot]

Any of the guitar/band games that have saturated the market.

 

[Grimplewurst]

But isn't the idea of a competition like pong, where you're grinding your opponent into ping pong related dust and Tetris, which awards you for making blocks simply disappear still a form of violence?

And Machinarium has instances of violence in it. The player just doesn't necessarily perpetrate them...

 

[Pegghead]

GUITAR HERO!

'Nuff said.

 

[Blubberburg]

Games like Tony Hawk (ok they have bail violence and recently you can now swing your board at people)
theres those random games that try to be sold on animated girls like deadoralive beach vollyball(havent played it but assuming its violence free)

But your statement seems decent, like those said above theres tetris and other silly puzzle games and thats about it

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Most racing games ever made. Proper racing games that is, like World Rally Championship or Gran Turismo. "Racing" games like Road Rash don't count.

 

[Najal]

But isn't the idea of a competition like pong, where you're grinding your opponent into ping pong related dust and Tetris, which awards you for making blocks simply disappear still a form of violence?

And Machinarium has instances of violence in it. The player just doesn't necessarily perpetrate them...

If you take that approach then literally any sport can be described as violence. In any "game" there are usually winners and usually losers (though in videogames there is often only one player, they can still win or lose) and so the idea of "winning" would be violence against the loser?

No, not all games are violent.

Braid
Monkey Island
The Sims
Sim City
etc.

 

[Soulgaunt]

But isn't the idea of a competition like pong, where you're grinding your opponent into ping pong related dust and Tetris, which awards you for making blocks simply disappear still a form of violence?

And Machinarium has instances of violence in it. The player just doesn't necessarily perpetrate them...

No, that isn't violence. That is merely competition. Violence would be something along the lines of physically hurting someone or murder. So unless the blocks in Tetris are alive and show signs of being in pain when you clear a row, then it isn't violent.

 

[Snownine]

But isn't the idea of a competition like pong, where you're grinding your opponent into ping pong related dust and Tetris, which awards you for making blocks simply disappear still a form of violence?

And Machinarium has instances of violence in it. The player just doesn't necessarily perpetrate them...

I fail to see how pong or tetris are in any way violent. Winning doesn't equal violence.

 

[JediMB]

But isn't the idea [...] Tetris, which awards you for making blocks simply disappear still a form of violence?

If you want to get technical, the player's task in Tetris is to line up the blocks in horizontal rows. It's the game that then removes them from the playing field and awards the player with points.

It's no more violent than a game of solitaire.

 

[Moriarty]

But isn't the idea of a competition like pong, where you're grinding your opponent into ping pong related dust and Tetris, which awards you for making blocks simply disappear still a form of violence?

And Machinarium has instances of violence in it. The player just doesn't necessarily perpetrate them...

with a definition of violence that broad, you can't even get to breakfast without violence. Hell you couldn't even brush your teeth

 

[ClaptonKnophlerHendrix]

Manhunt
Viva Pinata?

 

[Hurr Durr Derp]

But isn't the idea of a competition like pong, where you're grinding your opponent into ping pong related dust and Tetris, which awards you for making blocks simply disappear still a form of violence?

Competition is not violence.

 

[Macgyvercas]

Really? No one's mentioned Bejeweled yet? Huh.