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--- games [2022/12/07 16:09] – [The Mines of Memory] brad
+++ games [2025/04/01 17:53] (current) – [Recommended] brad
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 | {{topic>games?recommended +trio &nodate&nouser}} | {{topic>games?recommended +quartet &nodate&nouser}} |
 ^ Others ||
-| {{topic>games?recommended -solo -duo -trio -quartet -videogame &nodate&nouser}} ||
+| {{topic>games?recommended -solo -duo -trio -quartet -videogame -interactive_fiction &nodate&nouser}} ||
 === Interactive fiction ===
 {{topic>games?recommended +interactive_fiction &nodate&nouser}}
+Interactive stories that earn their runtime:
+   * Graham Walmsley's [[:games:The Thirty Nine Steps]] (~2 hours) adapts the Buchan spy thriller into a well-paced story world.
+   * Jim Nelson's [[:games:According to Cain]] (~3 hours) is thematically ambitious and features wonderful, moody writing.
+   * Drew Cook's [[:games:Repeat the Ending]] (~6 hours) at first blush hews to conventional adventure game tropes, but then thoroughly subverts them with a chorus of paratextual voices and interactions whose meaning is realized by the ending.
+   * Obsidian's [[:games:Pentiment]] (~15 hours) is a work of thematic and artistic ambition, scope, and historicity. Mostly linear with both immediate branching and long-term global variables influencing the ending.
+   * ZA/UM's [[:games:Disco Elysium]] (~25 hours) uses choices to explore where we find hope in a world of despair. It lets the player prioritize aspects of the protagonist's personality, and allows quite a bit of nonlinear exploration within a linear overall plot.
 === Recommended videogames ===
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 ==== Alleson-approved ====
 Games my wife enjoys.
+{{count>"alleson-played"}}
 {{topic>alleson-approved &nodate&nouser}}
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 {{count>played videogame board cards dice pen-and-paper "interactive fiction" no-prep sport}}
-{{count>"played on Apple II" "played on PC" "played on Android" "played on iOS" "played on TI-83" "played on TurboGrafx-16" "played on Genesis" "played on 32X" "played on Dreamcast" "played on NES" "played on SNES" "played on N64" "played on GCN" "played on Wii" "played on Switch" "played on PS1" "played on PS2" "played on PS3" "played on PS4" "played on Game Boy" "played on GBC" "played on GBA"}}
+{{count>"played on cabinet" "played on Apple II" "played on PC" "played on Android" "played on iOS" "played on TI-83" "played on TurboGrafx-16" "played on Genesis" "played on 32X" "played on Dreamcast" "played on NES" "played on SNES" "played on N64" "played on GCN" "played on Wii" "played on Switch" "played on PS1" "played on PS2" "played on PS3" "played on PS4" "played on Game Boy" "played on GBC" "played on GBA" "played on PSP"}}
 === Collections ===
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   * Terry Cavanagh games: [[games:Dicey Dungeons]], [[games:Super Hexagon]], [[games:VVVVVV]]
   * [[games:Humongous Entertainment]]
+  * [[games:Sonic (series)]]
+  * [[games:Mario|Mario (series)]]
 === Oddities ===
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 === To be catalogued ===
 This project started [[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tJ26VDY_scjGLDMDJaiN8SBj8vrxUJ8mPw_8g2JfCNg/edit#gid=0|in this spreadsheet]] but I'm gradually moving it to this wiki (250+ to go). A sampling of games I still need to document here:
-[[games:Oxenfree]], [[games:The Fox in the Forest]],  [[games:Quixx]], [[games:Iota]], [[games:Everybody's Gone to the Rapture]], [[games:Metroid Prime]], [[games:Too Many Ninjas]], [[games:Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes]], [[games:Orion Trail]], Rinkworks games
+ [[games:The Fox in the Forest]],  [[games:Iota]], [[games:Metroid Prime]], [[games:Too Many Ninjas]], [[games:Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes]], [[games:Orion Trail]], Rinkworks games, [[games:Lumines]], [[games:Ridge Racer]] (PSP), [[games:LocoRoco]] (PSP), [[games:Burnout Legends]] (PSP)
 Virtual friendly:
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 Games I still intend to play, especially those that have been recommended to me.
+  * [[games:Pendragon]] (owned, ~2.5 hours)
+  * [[games:Overboard]] (owned, ~2.5 hours)
+  * [[games:The Vanishing of Ethan Carter]] (owned, ~5 hours)
+  * [[games:OneShot]] (owned, ~5 hours)
+  * [[games:Still Wakes The Deep]] (~5 hours) - I like The Chinese Room and this is apparently more mechanics-heavy than their previous games and has fantastic acting and sense of place.
   * [[games:Beacon Pines]] (~5 hours)
-  * [[games:Strange Horticulture]] (~5 hours)
+  * [[games:Norco]] - [[https://www.polygon.com/reviews/23025400/norco-review-point-and-click-adventure-windows-pc-mac-ending|because]]. WOFF found this underwhelming, but it got lots of other positive press and seems up my alley. (~5 hours)
-  * [[games:Norco]] ([[https://www.polygon.com/reviews/23025400/norco-review-point-and-click-adventure-windows-pc-mac-ending|because]]) (~5 hours)
   * [[games:The Case of the Golden Idol]] ([[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1677770/The_Case_of_the_Golden_Idol|Steam]]) compared to Obra Dinn (~5 hours)
-  * [[games:Kentucky Route Zero]] (~10 hours)
+  * [[games:Kentucky Route Zero]] (owned, ~10 hours)
   * [[games:SOMA]] (Jeff recommended) (~10 hours)
   * [[games:Metroid Dread]] (~10 hours)
-  * [[games:Heaven's Vault]] (uniquely for me) (~15 hours)
+  * [[games:Hi-Fi Rush]] (owned, ~11 hours)
-  * [[games:Pentiment]] ([[https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/pentiment-review|compared to Disco Elysium]]) (~15 hours)
+  * [[games:Heaven's Vault]] (uniquely for me) (owned, ~15 hours)
   * [[games:Nobody Saves The World]] (~15 hours)
+  * [[games:Lorelei and the Laser Eyes]] (owned, ~20 hours)
+  * [[games:Wildermyth]] (owned, ~30 hours)
 Games marked "owned" but not "played:"

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