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Games From the Multimedia Era That Treat the Screen as a Cabinet of Curiosities

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Games About Archaeology That Make Discovery Feel Earned
Games About Archaeology That Make Discovery Feel Earned
by game_tinkerer  • 
In common: Myst
For players who want a ruin to become more meaningful as they understand it. These games reward reading inscriptions, comparing accounts, observing machinery or deciding how carefully to uncover a...
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First-Person Adventure Games Built Around Mechanical Worlds
First-Person Adventure Games Built Around Mechanical Worlds
by game_tinkerer  • 
In common: Myst
A lever becomes more interesting when you can trace what it moves and why someone built it there. These adventures reward that curiosity, from islands with connected transport and power systems to...
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Games for People Who Love Maps, Codes and Notebooks
Games for People Who Love Maps, Codes and Notebooks
by game_tinkerer  • 
In common: Myst
There is a particular pleasure in turning a page of uncertain observations into an idea worth testing. These games make room for that pleasure, whether you enjoy sketching a route, comparing...
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PSP Games That Feel More Than Smaller Console Imitations
PSP Games That Feel More Than Smaller Console Imitations
by game_tinkerer  • 
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A few minutes with a handheld can be enough to untangle a perspective puzzle, chase a better lap, or march an army into rhythm. These games give the PSP its own reasons to come off the shelf. Some...
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Shareware Games That Were Worth Buying Beyond the First Episode
Shareware Games That Were Worth Buying Beyond the First Episode
by game_tinkerer  • 
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The free episode could be a complete evening on its own. The real question was what you got when you registered: a new setting, a bigger challenge, or an ending you actually wanted to see. These...
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Xbox 360 Games That Capture the Downloadable Arcade Boom
Xbox 360 Games That Capture the Downloadable Arcade Boom
by game_tinkerer  • 
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Xbox Live Arcade put high-score chases, couch co-op, and small experiments on the same Xbox 360 download shelf. Start with Geometry Wars for the launch-era score chase, Braid for the puzzle side...
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Games That Tell a Story Through Places and Objects
Games That Tell a Story Through Places and Objects
by game_tinkerer  • 
On a similar theme
I like noticing what someone left on a desk, which part of a home they kept and how a familiar room has changed. These games make that attention part of playing: you arrange belongings, follow a...
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Point-and-Click Adventures Told Through Expressive Animation
Point-and-Click Adventures Told Through Expressive Animation
by game_tinkerer  • 
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A reach, a refusal or a change of posture can tell you what an adventure character wants before anyone explains it. These games make those performances worth watching while you explore and solve...
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Games That Look Like a Painting You Can Walk Through
Games That Look Like a Painting You Can Walk Through
by game_tinkerer  • 
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I am drawn to worlds where a brush-like edge, a wash of colour or the way light falls makes moving through a place feel different. These games offer that pleasure through several approaches...
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Point-and-Click Adventures With Fair Inventory Puzzles
Point-and-Click Adventures With Fair Inventory Puzzles
by game_tinkerer  • 
On a similar theme
For players who enjoy collecting and using objects when they can explain why an idea should work. I favour stated needs, tools with learnable rules, readable interactions and puzzle chains you can...
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Games for People Who Struggle With First-Person Motion
Games for People Who Struggle With First-Person Motion
by game_tinkerer  • 
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I favour games that let me study a stable scene, choose when it changes and spend less time turning a camera. This selection offers alternatives to first-person movement, from fixed puzzle rooms...
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Games Where Exploration Is Its Own Reward
Games Where Exploration Is Its Own Reward
by game_tinkerer  • 
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Sometimes the reward for taking another path is a different sound, a room that changes your understanding of its occupant, or the moment an unfamiliar place begins to make sense. These games put...
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Point-and-Click Adventures That Transform an Item's Meaning
Point-and-Click Adventures That Transform an Item's Meaning
by game_tinkerer  • 
On a similar theme
For anyone who enjoys noticing a second function in an ordinary object. These adventures reward looking at shape, material, behaviour or context and asking what else a thing could do. The range...
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Pixel-Art Games That Do More Than Look Retro
Pixel-Art Games That Do More Than Look Retro
by game_tinkerer  • 
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A small sprite can tell you that a dash is spent, a creature is nervous or a stretch of floor is about to become dangerous. That is the pixel work I love: art that helps you play and gives a world...
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Games With Interfaces That Are Part of the World
Games With Interfaces That Are Part of the World
by game_tinkerer  • 
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I enjoy an instrument that feels as though my character could actually use it. These games make documents, tools, terminals or control stations part of how you understand and act on the world. I...
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Games for People Who Think They Do Not Like Games
Games for People Who Think They Do Not Like Games
by game_tinkerer  • 
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You do not need to learn a controller before finding something worth playing. These are starting points for people drawn to stories, music, making things or laughing with friends, with the opening...
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Gentle Games for an Exhausting Evening
Gentle Games for an Exhausting Evening
by game_tinkerer  • 
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Some evenings need a small, agreeable thing to do. Build a wall, find a cat, put a book on a shelf or follow a path simply because it looks inviting. These games give you something to attend to...
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Real-Time Strategy Campaigns Worth Revisiting
Real-Time Strategy Campaigns Worth Revisiting
by game_tinkerer  • 
Trending in Games
A good campaign gives you a reason to change the plan. An evacuation, a moving front or a mission built around a small force can be more memorable than another hour of producing the same...
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