Which games blow your mind, but only if you know nothing about them in advance?
Best examples I can think of are:
- Outer Wilds
- Doki Doki Literature Club
- The Stanley Parable
What are yours?
(please no spoilers)
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
And probably Tears of the Kingdom too but I haven’t played it yet.
TotK makes BotW feel like a tech demo
If you’ve played botw, you basically can’t play totk blind by the nature of the games’ similarities
God of War 2018. I played all the original games but I was still just a casual fan. I heard about the new game coming out but didn’t really pay much attention to it. I eventually play it and holy crap I didn’t know it was going to be what it was. Before playing it, I had RDR2 as my game of the year but GOW really stole it in the end.
Doki Doki should be 90% blind. Players need to understand they’re going into a horror game.
But I’ll also add one, Detroit: Become Human. While it’s based on replaying it a massive number of times, going in blind makes the story a lot better.
My gf watched me play through all of Detroit, and then started to wonder “what would happen if x didn’t y?” Aaaand rabbit hole time.
David Cage gets lots of shit for his games, but If you experience them blind without spoilers ahead of time I find they’re pretty good interactive movies.
Factorio
For normal Factorio i would not absolutely agree,but for space age this is absolutely true. It takes a lot from you when you already know how to get started on the new planets.
Hollow knight. The exploration of that game is absolutely the pinnacle of world layouts
The Xenoblade games. Probably Xenogears and Xenosaga, too, but I haven’t played those yet.
Partially agree. The series as a whole fully agree, game by game is iffy
XC1 can absolutely stand alone and really needs you to go in blind
XCFC doesn’t make sense without having played XC1
XC2 again can stand alone but you’ll catch some story stuff sooner if you’d played XC1
XCTTGC makes no sense without XC2
XC3 is this bizzaro mess I’m still not sure what the fuck happened but I think it does need XC1 and 2 background knowledge
XCFR retains XC3 heavy reliance on the previous games, but cranked up to levels that makes the Star Wars sequels seem almost reasonable
Bioshock.
Rez and Fez. Similar names, very different games.
The Zero Escape Series. I wish I could play it again without knowing anything.
Same with Professor Layton games (for the big plots).
Chants of Senaar - You interpret alien languages.
Echoing Zero Escape. The twists and turns of the series are absolutely magical, and I wish I could play the end of 999 for the first time again.
I got lucky and was there when my partner played for the first time, and watching his shock was a treat!
Some slightly more obscure ones:
- Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean
- Planescape: Torment
Also surprised Metal Gear Solid hasn’t been mentioned yet.
Is it even possible to play MGS without spoilers these days? Maybe I’m online too much, but I feel like I’ve seen 50% of it through memes alone.
The quantity of things to spoil in that game, though. So much happens.
- Katana ZERO
- Undertale
- Kitsune Tails
Inscryption absolutely blew my mind. I’d toss Undertale on there too.
Inscryption totally lost me after the cabin. Felt like having the rug pulled out from beneath me.
Tunic. Knowing how to do the puzzles defeats the fun of the game.
+1 Loved every time I learned a new mechanic through the game.
Paradise Killer
Morrowind.
I mean, it's a 22 year old game, but since you asked nicely... 🤷♂️
Seeing that silt strider just outside Seyda Neen after the intro to what looked like your run of the mill D&D style fantasy RPG was a surprise, to say the least…
… and it was just the beginning.
It’s a real shame later Elder Scrolls games mostly lost that otherworldly feel.
What they did to The Summerset Isles in ESO is a crime against Auriel and the 9 divines. I was expecting mushroom houses, and they made rivendell.
I’m not salty and bitter. Bethesda is salty and bitter.
It’s almost impossible to have not been bombarded with the main story and seeing if Morrisons by this point. But when this game came out it was an experience and a half. Unlike anything I had seen before at least. Sure, Ultima, TES 2, etc all existed. But none of them had never sold their world so effectively if you ask me.
