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Games that force you to make hard choices (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by kadu@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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Hey all!

I'd like to request recommendations (spoiler free!) for games where you need to make choices, take sides, kill or not kill someone, follow or do not follow orders, but where the consequences actually matter - and most importantly, where the choices aren't "obviously good choice vs obviously bad choice".

Give me games where I can choose to side with one kingdom or another, but there's no clear moral high ground, or where I need to decide to save someone dear to me at the cost of innocent lives. I do not want things like "save all the children and get the happy ending and make flowers grow" versus "kill everybody and everything blows up and the world gets all its water replaced by acid".

What games fit this requirement?

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[-] dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza 5 points 9 months ago

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Life is Strange 2, there are some tough choices and the outcome is not obvious at all.

[-] Aielman15@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I'm a bit sad that the game didn't resonate with the public. It was a very emotional journey and I liked it more than the first one, but every time the LiS series is brought up, people treat it as the black sheep and mostly mention it only to recommend to stay away from it and try the others instead.

[-] calamitycastle@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I completely agree. I want a new bigger one! I thought the writing in 2 was great, considering how cringe some of it was in LiS and Before the Storm (which I still loved anyway).

LiS2 is a brilliant brilliant game

[-] Aielman15@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Despite the cliché high school writing, I fell in love with the series playing the first LiS, but the ending was a huge let down for me. It was too abrupt and none of my choices up to that point mattered.

I wasn't able to finish BtS, too much teenage angst for me. One of the minigames in the first episode requires you to be a dick to your adoptive father for no real reason, and I get it, that's pretty much the point - Chloe was in a downwards spiral at that moment in life - but I just couldn't bring myself to play as her for the entire game. I liked her a lot more as a deuterantagonist in the first game.