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Dystopian Games
Hey guys, sorry if there is a similar thread. Couldn’t find one when I searched. Anyway without further ado I’ll get straight to the point.
Do you know of any good dystopian games the kinds of for example Gemini Rue?
Thanks!
Hey guys, sorry if there is a similar thread. Couldn’t find one when I searched. Anyway without further ado I’ll get straight to the point.
Do you know of any good dystopian games the kinds of for example Gemini Rue?
Thanks!
Yes, the only games that follow GR are,
Moment of Silence and to some extent Primordia.
I am sure gamers here will guide with more like Technobabylon or Shardlight etc.
But MomentofSilence is essentially Orwellian.
my fav plot, Dystopian!
but not necessarily following GR idea ‘r plot
as nomadsoul said , add:
Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals
Blade Runner
Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy
AlternativA
A New Beginning
Future Wars
Perry Rhodan
DreamWeb
Neuromancer
Culpa Innata
Manhunter
Beneath a Steel Sky
Angel Devoid
There is also:
Legacy: Dark Shadows.
http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/17567
Strangely, I actually enjoyed this very low budget game.
I enjoy playing adventure games on my Alienware M17 r4 and my Nintendo Switch OLED.
Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals
Blade Runner
Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy
AlternativA
A New Beginning
Future Wars
Perry Rhodan
DreamWeb
Neuromancer
Culpa Innata
Manhunter
Beneath a Steel Sky
Angel Devoid
1.
Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals
Blade Runner
Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy
Perry Rhodan
A New Beginning
Beneath a Steel Sky
Dead Synchronicity2.
Future Wars
DreamWeb
Neuromancer
AlternativA
Culpa Innata
ManhunterAngel Devoid
quoted & edited in two categories for helping you Pikafak or just pointing out at (imo) the best of the list and the 2nd best, but keep at mind that some are very old and might need to track and follow their reviews and release date.
my fav plot, Dystopian!
but not necessarily following GR idea ‘r plotas nomadsoul said , add:
Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals
Blade Runner
Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy
AlternativA
A New Beginning
Future Wars
Perry Rhodan
DreamWeb
Neuromancer
Culpa Innata
Manhunter
Beneath a Steel Sky
Angel Devoid
Advie: PhD in dystopian gaming.
Maybe add Rise of the Dragon, A Mind Forever Voyaging and perhaps B.A.T. (hybrid)
my fav plot, Dystopian!
but not necessarily following GR idea ‘r plotas nomadsoul said , add:
....Advie: PhD in dystopian gaming.
Maybe add Rise of the Dragon, A Mind Forever Voyaging and perhaps B.A.T. (hybrid)
ma man, ma man,
dont shoot me but i never played AMFV,
or maybe ahem* you gotta shoot me as i did not play any infocom texts, that why we need you and karlok at the test experiment ,perhaps
My definition of “dystopian” seems to differ. Some of the games mentioned here are just futuristic. In others, the dystopian setting is more of a backdrop and they could just the same happen in the wild west or in feudal Japan.
That being said, games that definitely fit the bill IMO are Papers Please, Normality and The Feeble Files. The problem is The Feeble Files is really awful and Normality I liked but I suspect I wouldn’t have liked it today.
that why we need you and karlok at the test experiment ,perhaps
I wrote a passage there and then had my work undone by someone who apparently didn’t want the main character to be female.
go and make him/her a female again if you want.
or even you can dismember his balls, whatever,
i also wanted to take the plot toward something like the movie 8MM, but then same as here, the Wino guy had igonred the line/ i input.
but anyways, i dont mind what he
is making of the thread, its like challenge inside the challenge, HELL!! we adventure gamers were born for this (un)kind of shit, : ]
My definition of “dystopian” seems to differ. Some of the games mentioned here are just futuristic. In others, the dystopian setting is more of a backdrop and they could just the same happen in the wild west or in feudal Japan.
That being said, games that definitely fit the bill IMO are Papers Please, Normality and The Feeble Files. The problem is The Feeble Files is really awful and Normality I liked but I suspect I wouldn’t have liked it today.
you could be right due to the fact that i can not **sense** the word in its native sense, dystopia the word senses to me always as the word post-apocalyptic would, and i understand still, it does not need to be futuristc to be so, but most of literature (imo) had dealt with post-apocalyptic in the sense of upcoming story of sorta imagination for the futue, like PKD or Orwil.
yet i am intersted to hear of you a certain title (a famous book or movie) which i could sense the word dystopia without the act of dark serious *future* but rather a current timing, from the author perspective?
Dystopia must be a dark future, that’s pretty much the definition. That being said, let’s say we take a game like Cognition and add that it happens 20 years in the future and they’re all horribly underpaid and depend on drugs to go through their day. It would turn it into a superficially “dystopic” game, but I wouldn’t classify it as such.
In the games I mentioned, the society the protagonist is a part of is an integral part of the story. You can’t tell the story of Normality without the culture it describes, for instance. That’s the distinction between “a game that occurs in a future we might not like” and a game where this dark state of society in the future is inherent to the story.
Let me tell you about Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth, the funniest dystopian game out there that actually raises some very serious themes. The setting is post-atomic war, surviving humans return back to the surface inhabited by peaceful mutants. People immediately start another war against mutants, enslave them and establish a totalitarian government with a madman in the lead. And then the new big-eared hero is born. The game’s old and very obscure, but the wonderful graphics and tons of animations make it timeless.
PC means personal computer
Is dystopia complete without bigbrother society?
Anyway add Dreamfall to the list.
I’m glad the definition of dystopia got cleared up, as I can’t see how can Rhodan: Myth of the Illochim / The Immortals of Terra: A Perry Rhodan Adventure fit under it. It’s a great scifi though.
Seeing as most of my favourites are already brought up, I can add only few more.
I liked:
The Silent Age
The Rebirth/The Reaper (short free prequels to fantastic Shardlight)
Not the best of my experiences but everyone its own:
Richard & Alice
Haven’t got a chance to play, but maybe somewhat dystopian:
Conspirocracy
Deponia tetralogy
It doesn’t get much more dystopian than Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today
I’m glad the definition of dystopia got cleared up, as I can’t see how can Rhodan: Myth of the Illochim / The Immortals of Terra: A Perry Rhodan Adventure fit under it. It’s a great scifi though.
Yeah I agree, I don’t recall anything dystopian about Perry Rhodan. In fact many of the previous mentioned games are imo great sci-fi, but not really outright Dystopian.
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