Great games to play without spoilers

[Saelune]

You're more likely to have never heard of the sun.

The what, sorry?

 

[Worgen]

I got spoiled thoroughly about Undertale's genocide run ahead of time.

Oh oh oh, UNDERTALE. If you are lucky enough to have not heard anything about it then don't look it up. Its one of those games that is great to go into totally blind.

Mostly for PC:
- David Lynch Teaches Typing (Free)
- Save the Date (Free)
- Analogue: A Hate Story (I played it before it was on Steam, I don't remember if that version is free now, but it's on Steam as well, short visual novel)
- To the Moon (it's on sale all the time, a few bucks RPG maker story based game, no big twist, just good short story game)
- Night in the Woods (great Millennial coming of age story in a small, dying rust-belt town)
- Firewatch (walking sim, short and compelling)
- Gone Home (walking sim, short and compelling)
- Metal Gear Solid V (long AF, but the best in the series gameplay wise, story is mostly on optional tapes)
- Nier: Automata (can be long AF to get all 26 endings)
- Mass Effect (the first one is so hard to play now, garbage combat and Mako driving and inventory compared to ME2&3, but really good story reason to play that fully sets up the series)

- Mario Odyssey (first Mario game where plot actually matters and you don't want to be spoiled by the few surprises)


@OP - You know, you're basically asking for a list of games with story twists... which somewhat defeats the point of playing a game with a story twist.

Doesn't say he was spoiled on the true pacifist. Still plenty of good there.

 

[Drathnoxis]

Nethack. But playing it without spoilers would actually be really, really tough.

Well, that goes on my list then. I've heard the name but nothing else. Thanks. Or do you mean not knowing anything about the game makes it really difficult?

I meant difficulty, there's not really much story in the game. Reading up game mechanics on the wiki is called spoilers in the Nethack community.

You should still play it, though, because it's a great game! But it's not really for everybody.

 

[Chessrook44]

I'm going to throw OneShot in there. It's a delightful little game, and I highly recommend it.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

Hey, I just came back here to say that Dust: An Elysian Tail is indeed a very good game. It's basically Banjo-Kazooie meets Ninja Gaiden Black but 2D.

 

[Dalisclock]

- To the Moon (it's on sale all the time, a few bucks RPG maker story based game, no big twist, just good short story game)



@OP - You know, you're basically asking for a list of games with story twists... which somewhat defeats the point of playing a game with a story twist.

Man am I glad that I got to experience To the Moon completely blind. When I played it the only thing I knew about it was a review I read in an actual gaming magazine years prior that gave it 93/100 and called it one of the greatest achievements of storytelling in games. I had no idea what the plot was even about, and boy what a ride it was. I'm trying to get myself to play the sequel, Finding Paradise, but that kind of game requires a certain mindset which I'm not at right now.

Twists can be found elsewhere than in stories. In Undertale, for example, there's the whole choice thing, and discovering small surprises like the thing with the Spider Donuts or the Stick.

I recently replayed To the Moon, then went on and blind played Birds Story and Finding Paradise.

I'll only say two things. Play Birds Story before Finding Paradise if you haven't already, because it adds a bit of context to the latters story and Finding Paradise isn't nearly as depressing as To The Moon.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

I'm going to throw OneShot in there. It's a delightful little game, and I highly recommend it.

I might play this later on actually.

 

[Bad Jim]

You were spoiled on Bioshock Infinite? I actually played that game, and I still have no idea what was going on.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

More than anything else:

Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven [https://www.gog.com/game/mafia]

THIS.

I would like to add Mafia 2 to this list. If still unspoiled and in a buying mood, I invite you do research. If it is available on Steam, I do hope it is fully intact with no audio or other parts mysteriously missing.

While not feeling quite as rounded or complete as the original, I still enjoy booting up Mafia 2 to just drive around with the car radio on. I find it to be quite soothing. With every hardware upgrade, this game has become more beautiful and more impressive, long before the universal death knell that is Mafia 3. Shameful. Sad.

I would love to recommend Demon's Souls to be added to this list. Unfortunately, though, it no longer offers the full experience with the servers having been shut down a week ago, eliminating the human factor that was sprinkled throughout this seemingly bleak and dark ride. It was this game that gave me hope when I had felt none. It was almost an accident when I first played it, despite having believed everyone who said it would be a masochistic, brutal, permadeath no-fun affair. I have never looked at video game writers and critics the same. Hell, I have never looked at any human being, including myself, the same.

Demon's Souls is the game I bought when I felt nothing else was on offer to soothe the pain and tickle the itch. I have given away many a copy in the years that followed. The vast majority was played to platinum completion.

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