Noita, Caves of Qud, Trails in the Sky Second Chapter
I’ve spent so long on Noita, I love it and it treats me so badly. I’m really not very good at it. I’ve barely scratched the surface and largely stopped after I had a successful (basic no secrets) run. I still go back to nuke myself into oblivion every now and then. I do love setting everything on fire.
I do love setting everything on fire.
Including yourself, as is tradition.
Rimworld, Dave the diver, football manager, xcom2 wotc
War for the overworld. I was a big dungeon keeper fan back in the day, and didn’t learn about WftOW until recently.
Ooo, colour me intrigued. I loved the Dungeon keeper games back in the day. Are we talking spiritual successor or just invokes some of the same feelings?
From what I understand, it is a spiritual successor. I don’t know if it’s made by the same people, but the game is similar enough and more polished and modern, to the point where it could pass as a sequel.
Neon White
(Neon White good)
in the quest to fill an outer wilds-shaped hole in my life I have picked up and am currently playing The Witness, Fez, and The Talos Principle. Also I’ve been slowly working my way through Chips Challenge and The Baba is You since like 2020.
Those are some nice games and while nothing could yet fill the Outer Wild shaped hole for me (except the DLC, play that one if you haven’t yet) I can also recommend the following games which are in one way or another similar (but again: only in certain parts, nothing is like OW yet):
- Heaven’s Vault (very multi-branching/non-linear adventure where you learn to decipher a fictional language while traveling through space with your robot companion, great writing & world building)
- Eastshade (relaxing open world with great atmosphere & without combat where you solve quests by painting pictures)
- Return of the Obra Dinn (nice logic game where I really felt like a detective and also wanted to figure the story out)
- Disco Elysium (contender with OW for Best Game Ever in my mind. Wonderful, life like characters and the writing plays your emotions like an instrument from laughing to crying and back. Pirate it however, since the original developers got duped out of their studio)
Also: play the Talos Principle DLC if you like the atmosphere and style of the main game. I really enjoyed the forum/community board feeling from the imprisoned robots in the DLC as somebody who lived through the 2000’s internet era.