Do actual NONviolent videogames exist?

[JEBWrench]

If you are a good enough player, you shouldn't be shot, therefor removing the violence

But you still have to use those rockets on a genetic life form.

 

[Billion Backs]

Depends on how far you're willing to go with that whole "broad definition of violence" thing.

Because at some point, simply living is a very very violent act. You kill microorganisms and don't even know it!

Even if your own body didn't aggressively defend itself from various microorganisms by itself, the act of breathing would inevitably suck some in and leave them in less then comfortable situation.

Every action is violent using a very broad definition of violence. Complete inaction - and not just individual inaction, just complete time stop for everyone and everything, would produce completely non-violent environment. Unless you consider taking away any form of motion and time a form of violence, which it is, but if time stops, there's no difference because...

 

[omega 616]

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

That was pretty much my point...
which leads me to wonder (and I know it's true for me) that we all play games for that rush we get from the 'violence' whether it be in competition or in suffocating people with plastic bags. And for the lols.

Your definition of violence is a little deluded, unless the squared in tetris are screaming and bleeding then it isn't violent.

Theres no aggression or anger involved, I doubt many people get angry then think "I know how I can unwind, I will make blocks disappear", it's usually "I will kill a butt load of people".

So while most games have violence in, puzzle games (among others) definitely don't.

 

[XJ-0461]

Tetris
The Sims
Gran Tourismo
Football games (the English sort of football)
Solitaire (I know it's a card game, but I reckon most people have only played it on a computer)

They're all non-violent.

 

[Riobux]

The first thing that sprung to mind was Ilomilo. It's got absolutely dead zero violence. There's plenty more as mentioned above, but that was my initial thought just because of how cute it is.

 

[ClunkiestTurtle]

Yes they do and in abundance, the reason that most games are voilent in one way or another isn't because they can't think of how to make a game without violence its just that people kinda like a bit violence in games...

 

[Petromir]

Tetris
The Sims
Gran Tourismo
Football games (the English sort of football)
Solitaire (I know it's a card game, but I reckon most people have only played it on a computer)

They're all non-violent.

FIFA back in 98 when it turned 3D you could actually punch other players.

Any football game that includes roy keane is automatically violent

I've yet to play a footy game where you cant tailor your tackling it a way that would constitute violent.

 

[Guffe]

Well sports games are not violent as in blood but as in any sport accidents happen but in the games you wont even notice it, it will say a dude is injured and must be taken off the pitch. Also the Harvest Moon searies in violence free, unless fishing is violence??

What did you mean by violence in a broad sence?
If you see this you may answer ^^

 

[Cowabungaa]

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

Not only do they die, they suffer and are horribly tortured:
Tetris is the most gruesome game out there!

 

[noctifyre]

Is the Bible Game violent at all? I wouldn't know since I've never played it.

 

[RobThePrezodent]

the sims, although everyone always ends up getting bored, locking their character in a box and starving them to death or something along those lines. sega superstar tennis (an absolutely dreadful game that sadly i own because it came free with my xbox)

 

[Wraithspine]

A few from my Steam list...

Audiosurf - Although I am technically speeding down a road, headbanging to heavy metal while crashing into stuff even though it is a coloured block.

Peggle - Shooting pegs. I'm trying so hard to squeeze some violence out of it but I can't

QuantZ - Ball bashing. Violent? nah not really.

World Of Goo - I can kill the goo things and throw them at each other so you can squeeze violence out of this game if you try.

Killing Floor - No wat

As a post-note it seems the only games w/o violence are "Indie" games. It says a lot about the gaming industry as a whole I suppose.

 

[Mister Benoit]

No one has mentioned Harvest Moon yet? A farming/dating simulator? Well, crops die if you don't take care of them, so technically it's violent...

I absolutely hate the dog in Harvest Moon 64 & Friends of Mineral Town. I always tend to either leave him in the woods or on my roof, then attempt to beat him with a Hoe.

 

[Mechsoap]

hmmmmmmmm, no evry games pretty much has some thing that can relate to intense violence

 

[Natdaprat]

It's ignorant to think that all games are violent. There are countless games that don't include violence, and they're usually the most intuitive. Tycoon games spring to mind.

 

[Xyphon]

No one has mentioned Harvest Moon yet? A farming/dating simulator? Well, crops die if you don't take care of them, so technically it's violent...

You can smack your animals with farming tools and actually hurt them, starve the animals and watch them die of disease.

Pretty violent if you ask me.

 

[fletch_talon]

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.

Deal or No Deal, is both non-violent and a game.
You know what it is on TV? A gameshow.
You know what it is when you buy it in a cardboard box in a toystore? A boardgame.
So what is it when its on a computer? A computer/videogame.

I'm sorry if I seem like I'm being mean here, but I'm getting quite irritated by the constant denouncing of things that people don't like.

Farmville's not a game.
Wii Sports is not a game.
There's only three Star Wars movies.
Escape From Monkey Island doesn't exist.

So don't take it personally its more of a whole heap of frustration let out at an inconvenient moment.

Back on topic. Most Harvest Moon games are entirely non-violent... Well you can accidentally (I hope) hit your animals with tools, and there is a chicken competition that's like a sumo wrestling match...
Damn I guess it doesn't count.