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What are some great games that require you to bust out a notebook and pen?

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I just got finished with beating Riven for the first time. I adored the way the game seeped into my real life with pages of notes about the world I was discovering. Are there any other games that can match this feeling? That really work best when you have a journal in hand?

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Bathilda_Bagshot@lemmy.world
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charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works
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First and only game I was able to think of. Good stuff

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NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world
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I sketch out factory designs for Satisfactory

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Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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Same my friend, same. I’m starting my new factory on Friday and I’m getting ready for the math.

Btw if you’re not already, we’re here at !satisfactory@lemmy.world

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Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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I wasn’t already, but I am now.

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The following games all typically do not hold the player’s hand. They are to varying degrees, some give you a map and/or journal, some do not.

  • TES III Morrowind
  • King’s Field 1-4
  • Snatcher on SEGA CD
  • Dark Souls 1-3, Demons Souls, Bloodborne, and Elden Ring
  • Ultima Underworld
  • Silent Hill 1-4
  • Shadow of the Colossus
  • Tunic
  • Super Metroid
  • Hollow Knight
  • Rain World
  • System Shock 1,2
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Omega@lemmy.world
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I love the Morrowind recommendation. Also, unlikely suggestion, but I had to get a pen and paper for The Great Crystal dungeon on Final Fantasy XII.

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Zulu@lemmy.world
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Tunic!

The “final” puzzle took a whole page of paper. It was brilliant

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MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org
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I still smile whenever I stumble upon these pages of my college block

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Blackmist@feddit.uk
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The loading page was some straight up bullshit though.

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Zulu@lemmy.world
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So many instances of…

“…no…nooo… NOOO”

Then it works

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lastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.works
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The Witness

Lots of diagrams

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FurtiveFugitive@lemm.ee
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This. So many sketches and diagrams the month I played through this one.

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Silverchase@sh.itjust.works
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I left my computer to go out with friends to have wings. I was thinking about the puzzle I left behind on the trip there. I was trying to draw the patterns on my phone while we waited. This game gets into your head.

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reboot6675@sopuli.xyz
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Agree, I filled like half notebook with this game

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Object@sh.itjust.works
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I remember opening Paint to solve that incremental puzzle in the mountain only to realise there’s multiple symbols in the same space

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