What games have a lonely atmosphere?

What games have a lonely atmosphere?

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Fair warning -- it's a walking sim. Then again, walking sims are probably some of the best "lonely" feels you'll get.

The Witness

You mean desolate?

The game of life ; ;

Stalker soc

most scifi horror games like dead space or system shock

Riven, the sequel to Myst. I happen to be playing it without a guide right now. I kind of cracked the colored pebbles puzzle, the press goes down and works, but doesn't seem to do anything, I gues I have to do something to the domes first.

This thread is looking pretty desolate and lonely, At least you got what you wanted OP.

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Uru: Ages Beyond Myst has to be of the loneliest atmospheres you will ever find in a game.

Huge environments to explore and no one to interact with, the game will leave you with a crippling sense of isolation the longer you play.

Zork II

No Man's Sky

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lmao

Talos Principle

It's called Real Life don't expect any of the bugs to get fixed anytime soon tho.

Best part about playing riven blind is physicaly getting a notepad out and scribbling symbols and shit, trying to piece things together, then everything actually coming together.

It's a shame there will never be an adventure game as imersive and great. Dev's today would be far to afraid to put people off with overarching puzzles like that.

Europa Universalis.

Arma 2 armory mode

The Talos Principle

>What games have a lonely atmosphere?- 19 posts and 4 image replies shown.
The holy trinity of really lonely games are:
The Void
Silent Hill 2
Shadow of Colossus

Still worth mentioning are:
Riven
The Long Dark
Stalker at times
Pathologic at times
Talos Principle (though that game was more comfortable than lonely).
A lot of people will probably also say Limbo, though I personally found it just dumb as fuck.

Damn that game was fucking AWFUL.

The Witness did. Sadly... as it turns out getting overarching puzzles like that is not going to guarantee your game will not become a pretentious wank anywawy.

That puzzle game where you are a robot and god gives your orders

Metroid.

That's Talos Principle. And it's WAY more fun if you install Serious Sam's voice pack instead of Elohim.

>And it's WAY more fun if you install Serious Sam's voice pack instead of Elohim.

kek didn't know abou tthis

I don't really suspect anyone on this board has played this absolute gem of a game, but... this. It's wonderful too.

It's a DLC that replaces all of Elohim's lines with Serious Sam mocking you for being incompetent and calling you a monkey.

yup, got mine right here

The Stalker games, you feel alone and isolated even when there are NPC wandering the map near you thanks to the desolate atmosphere, the wind, rain and all the distant ambiant sounds.

The Void is really good in terms of athmosphere and the feeling of being isolated in a strange place but I don't know, I always feel like I'm being watched by something in this game.

>this wasn't posted yet
of all games i've played in my life this one has probably the most terrifying feeling of complete loneliness and fragility of life
fuck that ending too
plays like ass though, so be warned

Gothic 2 once you clear out the Valley of Mines of enemies.

CoP is even worse. Especially without Atmosfear to make Stalkers into zombies during Blowout.

Really loved it. It got me into gardening.

I played it for half an hour, bored got and stopped

minecraft

It gets interesting when the different organisms start really interacting.

This is not a puzzle spoiler: don't forget to push the glowing button on the press once it's down. Really obvious thing but I missed it despite solving all the puzzles in the game on my own.

Your life

I haven't played it but Quern looks pretty awesome

yeah, the button is what made me sure that I had the pebbles in the right position, because the press worked but nothing else happened yet gotta figure out the next step in the master plan now.

Yoshi Story
DK64

your pussy game

Battleborn.

Also doubles as a 'game only you played'

Is Myst worth it

space engine

Unreal and Unreal Return to Na Pali.

I'd say so.

This. Also Valley.

The final puzzle just frustrated the fuck out of me due to how much walking back and forth you had to do if you were still experimenting to figure out exactly how it worked.

Though I still appreciate the Myst series for not being afraid of being frustrating. As tempting as it can be to complain about bad game design when you're stuck, it just wouldn't be the same if it was an optimized experience where all the puzzles are playtested to make sure they're approachable for the average person and you get hints if you're stuck for more than 3 minutes.

A game can be lonely without being desolate. See .

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That subway station in 3 reeks of loneliness for me.

Looks interesting but not 19 bongs interesting

The Long Dark
Subnautica

My life

Battleborn servers are pretty lonely

WHAT GAME?
oh weight its abe

thanks guy who post with no clues

Primordia

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primordia is GREAT. i love it.

Kingdom Hearts Disney worlds.

my friends and I played myst at a lan party, once.
all eight of us on all our pcs playing at the same time trying to sort out the clues and we had a whiteboard up and everything.
i know it's not how it's meant to be played but we had so much fun.

the number code at the start we brute forced with trial and error while two other guys read everything in the library for clues.

people dropped off to sleep one by one until there were only a few of us left. we got fucked on that piano spaceship tone code thing because we were playing realmyst and the slider was super sensitive.

eventually I was the last one playing and I fininshed it just as dawn broke. it was one of the best gaming times of my life.


bad ending too lmao

dat atmosphere

The MMORPG Tibia.

Explore the great abandoned game. Occationally run into a bot who has been running for ten years.
See if you can solve twenty year old riddles such as the cryptic bonelord language or the mystery of the desert dungeon levers.

STALKER
The Long Dark
DayZ.

Gameplay-wise it's meh, but you do feel lonely.
>The Void
Except it's not. Because you're constantly talking to sisters and brothers.
I never felt lonely. It's comfy as fuck and the music is superb. If anything, it's a romantic game.
First half, maybe. The second half is your typical adventure game stuff.

It's one of those weird sort of subjective feels.
The Dig had it.
The Journeyman Project had it.
Return to Zork had some.
Old 3D sims definitely had it.

I have a hard time trying to pin down more modern games that had this feel.

SOtC
Parasite Eve

Steam Friend Threads

oh shit, how did no one post WORLDS yet

i spent a few months exploring it and just documenting everything i found

wierd statue gardens full of hands
abandoned shopping malls full of stores full of all random shit

just.. deserts
the same four people never moving or talking on every day but when you see them theyre always in different spots

now THAT is a lonely game

>Because you're constantly talking to sisters and brothers.
Yes, who are either completely alien, antagonizing, or condemning you. Except for Sister Death. Who kills herself pointlessly, in an attempt to help you (as literally the ONLY character that gives a fuck about you, and end up hurting you even more in her selflish love for you.
It's a pretty lonely game. In the same way you might find yourself really lonely at a party.

youtube.com/watch?v=TIZrHe-93WU

It’s still there. It's just less pronounced because there's more detail in everything now.

Yume Nikki.

>I played it for half an hour, bored got and stopped
You should give it another try. It's a game that really does not look like much (unless you are big into hard sci-fi), and it's a slow burn, but damn is it actually good, and does it actually get better over time. Mechanically and narratively.

Shame the last stretch is such a pain in the ass. The game requires you to 100% in order to even GET to the final area, and 100% some of the levels is just infuriating busywork. Also, it's kinda ugly and does not control great, first of which can be explained by the fact that it's a one-man-made project, the latter by it's iOS origins...

Condemned: Criminal Origins

Most of the game takes place at night.

How did you make it run on modern pc? I couldn't make it work on mine, the game starts in a very small square in the middle of black field and it crashes constantly

>Sotc
This, I loved this lonely unreal atmosphere that Forbidden Lands had.

It could be offputing if you're more used to story driven point and click games, but i would say it's worth trying.

this spider thing called fallen_angel was here when i last logged on, four years ago

Sounds fun, but Myst is honestly not that hard user.

ScummVM on the DVD version of the game, works fine, hasn't crashed once.

It has an ios port lol

fuck

what the fuck man

game was shit and the jumping mechanics were shit

Most of Fallout 3/Fallout New Vegas is really lonely without companions, especially when you aren't near a settlement

Sunless Sea

Miasmata. Go play it.

Miasmata is a bloody awesome game and hugely underrated and fascinating piece of design, but I would not say I ever felt lonely playing that game. The explorative instinct kicked too firmly in: I was never feeling alone, I was constantly too busy charting maps and figuring out paths, being desperately lost, experimenting the the Creature's A.I., consistently getting better at hiking and charting, and shitting my pants during the night. Never felt or thought about absense of presence of another person.

Glad somebody talked about The Long Dark

Anyway, watch this video and listen to the music

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>someone else who played it
Desolate adventure games still spook me after what this game did to me when playing it as a kid. Starts you out with a feeling of abandonment, and then makes you realize you're not actually alone. The surprise wears off, but the expectation that it might happen again stays with you. In my case, it stuck with me into other games with the same kind of atmosphere, like Myst. And in real life to some extent.

And it's not even a horror game. Just a really ominous puzzle game.
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Yeah, I still remember first time visiting the beach. It was unforgettable. Replayed it recently and it was meh. Nice visuals and sound, but the gameplay/puzzles and story are meh.

Now picrelated from 1996 is still a great game with solid gameplay and engaging story. And at times it feels lonely as fuck.

It left a huge impression on me, but mainly due to my impressionable age when playing it. To this day, I don't think I could play it alone in a dark room. A little sad to hear it doesn't quite live up anymore. It had some great parts, with the soundtrack, some really complex puzzles (fuck the submarine though), and a world with an appealing sense of mystery. But it has a lot to compete with from the golden age of point and click adventure.

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Miasmata is great. It can feel a little lonely being all alone with corpses at certain places, but that feeling is overshadowed by the exploration and being tracked.

I should play it again. It suprisingly tread a balance between comfy and genuine terror at times. Hopefully not playing it since its release will have wiped most of the map from my memory to explore.

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