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submitted 1 year ago by kadu@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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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[-] hark@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Triangle Strategy. I hit a number of points where I had to think hard to make my decision and even then I wasn't sure if it was what I should've gone with. Trying to save and reload to pick something else is futile since I'd just run into another tough decision down the line which modifies things further and it'd take too long to play through multiple key points. It's an amazing strategy game as well.

[-] Arcane_Trixster@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Banner Saga

[-] knatsch@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, your grace, is a great short game

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Depends on the kind of games you enjoy.

While not particularly about consequences of decisions, I highly recommend Frostpunk. It always feels like any decision is about trying to choose the less horrible one, but without ever knowing if it will work out or not. The atmosphere of that game is just superb.

[-] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

War hospital puts you in charge of a WW1 medical camp trying to allocate limited surgeons, nurses, medical supplies as people come in injured from the front line.

[-] MechanicalJester@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Just answer our increasingly difficult questions.

Trolley problem: One track is one person, the other is 10

Next level

Okay well now the one person is your mom, and the 10 are 1 year olds you don't know

Next level

Okay the one person is your best friends mom and the 10 are young kids from your immediate or extended family

Next level

Okay the one person would cure cancer tomorrow, and the 10 are friends or family

...

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[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I haven't finished it, but I'd say Vampyr makes you make some difficult choices

[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Does it though? Do I om nom and gain power or do I not isnt really that deep.

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean it also fucks up the city if you kill the community pillars.

[-] Doublepluskirk@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, tanking a district makes that area harder and doesnt feel great; however, if you don't kill any of them, the combat is really hard because you're under levelled. So you have to make moral judgements and choose who is "best" to kill.

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[-] Nanners@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I’m not sure I’ve seen it posted here, a little older, but the TellTale Walking Dead games are killer. You make full choices that affect your game later. Tons of fun, not a ton of action gameplay but the stories told are next level IMO

[-] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

"Passage" is a very short one. But the choices matter.

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