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[prokopetz]

hey, I love games like Hadean Lands, Obra Dinn, and Heaven's Vault, that teach the player their system basics in the tutorial *and* expect them to figure out the late game with careful study and consistent logic. I think it's a bit of a high bar, but could you recommend any more clever logic games? Shenzen IO and TIS-100 are TOO deep, and setting violence like Obra Dinn's is fine, but I can't get into Danganronpa's, if that makes sense.

My taste in puzzle games tends to run to the abstract rather than the narrative, but if that’s not a dealbreaker, I could probably come up with a few. How about any of the following?

Baba Is You - Given its popularity, I’m like 99% sure you’ve heard of this one already, but on the off-chance that you haven’t: it’s a Sokoban-like block-pushing game, with the twist that the rules that govern play – right down to basic stuff like collision detection and which object is “you” – are expressed in the form of in-game objects that can be manipulated. You’re basically reprogramming the game on the fly, with the goal of each puzzle being to find a set of rules that renders it solvable. Starts out very basic; the late game is mind-bending in multiple sense of the phrase!

Beglitched - A self-described “cyberpink” puzzler that’s essentially a fusion between Battleship and Minesweeper, with a light narrative adventure game overlay. Gameplay consists in main of a series of “hacking battles” where the challenge is to figure out where on a match-three puzzle grid your opponent is hiding. Wrong guesses hurt you, and many opponents can move between turns as well. Some levels change things up with extra or alternative goals, typically linked with the overarching story.

Counterfeit Monkey - You mentioning Hadean Lands immediately put me in mind of this one. Short version: it’s parser-driven interactive fiction where you play as a character armed with a device that can remove letters – one at a time – from the name of any object, and objects will transform to match their new monikers. You later gain the ability to insert letters, find anagrams, and so forth, and it’s actually kind of amazing what transformations the game anticipates. (And yes, you can turn a whole lot of things into dicks if that’s your inclination.)

Hexologic - A pure abstract puzzler made up mainly of logic puzzles masquerading as math puzzles. The basic idea is to arrange the playing field so that the number of dots in each row and column adds up to a certain value. Successive layers of increasingly complex restrictions on how you’re allowed to lay things out are built up on top of this, until near the end you’re dealing with hexes on opposite sides of the board interacting with each other in not-always-obvious ways.

Magnibox - A game where you play as a magnet. Literally – you’re just a cartoon horseshoe magnet rolling from place to place. Predictably, the puzzles are all based on attracting and repelling various objects, moving either yourself or the targeted object accordingly. Later stages introduce successively more block-pushing elements, though there’s never any platforming per se; gravity only takes effect after you complete each move, so speed of execution isn’t a factor.

Recursed - A puzzle platfomer where rooms are linked not by doors and passages, but by treasure chests that you need to hop inside of. Each room is thus “inside” another room – hence the game’s title. The trick is that you can pick up treasure chests and carry them with you, including into other treasure chests. This lets you do stupid tricks like cloning objects, instantiating multiple copies of the same room, and even de-instantiating the room you’re currently standing in. Figuring out how to do the last one is actually required to access the game’s true ending!

Shift Quantum - A cyberpunk puzzle platformer that plays with the idea of negative space. Your basic special move is to completely invert a level’s layout, such that all open spaces become solid terrain and all formerly solid terrain becomes open space. Throw in some standard puzzle platformer tricks like air dashing and block pushing – and a few non-standard ones, like fiddling with which direction is down – and you have a pretty solid set of tools. Notably, this is the only game on this list to include a full-featured puzzle editor.

Snakebird - I guess you could describe this one as a turn-based platformer? The gameplay videos will show you what I mean. It’s a bit of an outlier with respect to your “must have a tutorial” criterion because it actually sells its tutorial as a totally separate game, Snakebird Primer. It’s not super clearly communicated, but the developer’s expectation seems to be that you’ll start out with the primer, then only buy the full game if you manage to complete it. This may be reasonable given the full game’s difficulty: it starts where most puzzle games end.

The Swapper - This one is likely to cross the line for you violence-wise, but it impressed me enough with its puzzles that I’d be remiss not to include it. You play as an astronaut armed with a projector-like gun that lets you create copies of yourself and “swap” your consciousness (and player control) between them. As you may have gathered, many puzzle solutions involve tossing your clones into various person-shredding hazards; it’s not gory by any means, but some of the fates you’ll abandon your clones to are enough to make any sensitive person cringe.

The Talos Principle - Here’s another one I’m sure you’ve heard of, but just in case! This one’s about an android solving real-time logic puzzles at the behest of a questionably deific voice in the sky. The gameplay verges on being a walking sim at times, and most of the puzzles revolve around correct placement of various gadgets, with not much in the way of required action (though there are some puzzles where a quick trigger finger permits alternative solutions). Violence is limited to vaguely humanoid robots getting blown up or knocked over.

I’m not sure where you stand regarding action gameplay (none of the titles you name-checked are action games), so for completeness, Baba Is You, Beglitched, Counterfeit Monkey, Hexologic, Magnibox and Snakebird are strictly turn-based. Recursed and The Talos Principle involve some real-time platforming, but execution is not technically demanding. Shift Quantum may or may not challenge your reflexes – I’d recommend trying out the demo to get a feel for it. The Swapper definitely demands precise timing, though you can slow down time a bit by holding a button.

[radicalseabies]

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[magichuenicornart]

Some seriously spooky characters commissioned by @sendmcnuggetsnotnudes! I wish I was playing in this one shot campaign lol

[essayofthoughts]

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I’m torn

Is more the vibe I’m after.

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[liointrouble]

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Phone, wallet, go card? Like thats the minimum. How boring. More interesting things would be whats in my tiny hello kitty ‘bag kit’ including but not limited to, at least one DS game, a rock, and a d20.

017: How would you describe yourself in 3 words?

BAD AT SELF-REFLECTION. Does that count? How about; smol, salty and abtruse?

[frostyviking]

accent??

9/10

[prokopetz]

Hey, sorry if you've answered this already, but I'm interested in running an inception-style heist/mystery game. What rpg system do you recommend? I have been looking at Lacuna, Noirlandia, and Technoir, but those are all a little off, you know?

Lacuna would have been my first pick if you wanted to play up both the surreal brainfuck angle and the trust/paranoia dynamic – Cobb is basically a perfect example of a Senior Agent, in Lacuna’s mechanical parlance – but if you’ve already ruled that one out, I suspect you’re looking for something with more explicit support for the heist side of play.

That in mind, you might give reskinning the Leverage RPG a try. There isn’t a whole lot of distance between its “flash back to retroactively justify impossible preparations” conceit and straight up dreaming things into existence, so you wouldn’t have a long way to go – you’d mostly be doing tonal cleanup rather than tweaking rules. The only major downside is the near total lack of out-of-the-box support for modelling the dream world’s mounting surrealism.

(I seem to recall that there’s also an Inception hack for Elizabeth Sampat’s Blowback floating around somewhere, but I can’t lay my hands on it at the moment – all I’m coming up with are dead links. Maybe something to investigate if the preceding suggestion doesn’t suit.)

[jungle-ion]

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[ashleybenlove]

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The moon is also called Luna! The sun is occasionally called Sol!

Good point. Though, I wish those alternate names were used far more often.

[puppypunkrock]

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[liointrouble]

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[post-wombat]

yes hello I have a question, how are you this cute?

Reasons. 

You might have to do a couple of tests to figure them out though.

[jungle-ion]

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