A list of indie games that take you to weird places with weird vibes.
My favorite genre of video game, go to a weird place and meet other weird people while you explore the weird little world and learn about the meaning of life.
Truberbrook
A sci-fi set in 1960s Germany. Quantum physicist, Hans Tannhauser wins a lottery he quite determinedly, did not enter, to visit the tiny, strange, remote and rather dead town of Trüberbrook. On your first night you have your research papers stolen, meet a woman who insists on you going up the mountain with her, and get far more than you bargained for in terms of multidimensional, universe warping nonsense.
Night in the woods
Mae, and anthropomorphic cat, drops out of college to come back to live with her parents in her dying home town in the American rust belt, for reasons she refuses to explain. Here she discovers that not only has the town moved on from where it was when she was younger, but the people have too, and she's forced to battle with this as well as supernatural dreams about instrument players, and a town full of a range of weird people that feels just as alive as she does and have their own stories and lives.
eastward
After the world was threatened by a substance called 'miasma', the lasting human population hides in cities that offer some form of protection. Your main character finds himself a miner in a controlling and subterranean town, knowing nothing of the outside until he finds a mysterious girl and takes her in. You go from being the best, frying pan wielding miner, to getting kicked out of the town into the wider, post apocalyptic world, exploring the weird settlements of the outside and making friends with equally weird acquaintances.
oxenfree
A group of 5 teenagers take the last boat out to an old military fort for an overnight party on the beach. There are legends about the island, that sometimes you can pick up frequencies to radio stations that don't exist, and that is how you unwittingly open a ghostly rift tied to the islands past, your friends start disappearing, and you need to solve whats going on by exploring the island, and the frequencies in the old military tech that haunt it.
disco Elysium
You're a cop, or rather the closest this unpoliced area of revachol can call a cop. You're drunken, and a drug addict, and a body has been hung on a tree outside for the past week, threatening to start a civil war between corporate and unions and minor militias for the past week, beginning to rot. As a husk of your past, apparently accomplished self (though you cant remember that, you cant even currently remember your own name after the bender you went on) you need to try and solve the mystery, alongside your partner Kim. Along the way you can also decide to join a union, or a bootlicker, a drug addict, or wear some very questionable clothing while telling a woman her husband died, all while being fully narrated to by 24 weirdly talkative voices in your head.
Everybodys gone to the rapture
This is a town with no people, just an empty place with the stories of those that were. In the shopshire countryside a town exists where everyone has disappeared, only bright orbs to lead you around the valley, listening to telephones, radios and recordings, as well as the lights themselves morphing into their human counterparts, to show the past events that led to everyone disappearance, symptoms of illness, before eventually fading, unexplainably, into lights, an infection created by a none human entity, a 'pattern', which can travel from human to human. A look at the tangled lives of humans in the town, and eventually how they reacted to their quarantine and those around them vanishing.
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Still Wakes the Deep is Amnesia: The Rig
Still Wakes the Deep set in December 1975, on an oil rig named Beira D in the North Sea. After fallen from the roof, Glaswegian electrician named Cameron "Caz" McLeary must navigate through the oil rig following a catastrophic event looking for a way to escape while surviving the harsh weather and evading the pursuit of a mysterious creature.
The Thing meet The Rig meet Deepwater Horizon meet Annihilation meet Lovecraftian horror
that's my short review
(8/10)
I hope Amnesia fans will takes this
because Developer is The Chinese Room (Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture)
I love Caz's relationship between Brodie, they cared and banter each other.
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"Everybody's Gone to the Rapture", by The Chinese Room.
"The magnetic field is causing disruptions to phone signals and the rest of the electrics. There are voices on the line; it's 4am. Maybe everyone is up looking at the light show.", from Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.
"Sleeping baby, darling child.
Clouds and starlight, starlight, starlight.
When you wake, you will be mine.
Starlight, sleep and love.
Sleeping baby, shadowed dust.
When we're called to go, we must.
Into starlight,
Sleep and love.",
from Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.
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just had to block some rando cause there were like 10 gifs in their post and i couldn't scroll past them, the app just crashed every time. love you tumblr
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i finished the game everybodys gone to the rapture. hoo boy. i was crying. oh my god. play this game. finding stuff is a little hard very annoying i think i missed most of franks story thanks to it but! it's worth it for the writing
spoiler stuff under cut i guess, im a respectful member of society
specifically after realising the planes were for the airstrikes, and that wendy was so full of joy to see them only for them to be her death. AUGH.
also the visuals of the airstrikes too with the light when lizzie was talking about the planes,,
and stephen. stephen ☹️. i disliked him for a while but that bit at the end!! his chapter!!! it got me so hard man tears rolling down my face. AUGHHH
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okay i know this game is old now
but does anyone know 'everybody's gone to the rapture'? i just replayed the game after a few years and my god its just so fucking good
i really need to talk about it
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