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Good singleplayer games without any story? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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Players usually want a good story in their games. I can enjoy a good story too, but sometimes I just want to get going and do stuff without listening to several minutes of dialog in-between action.

Do you know any games where there's no story (or very minimal/skippable one), and the game mechanics alone carry the game?

EDIT: Thank you all for the suggestions. There are some that I've never heard of and look very interesting. Will definitely pick some of them up.

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[–] [S] 4 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Rogue-lites are probably a good suggestion, considering I played and enjoyed Bullets Per Minute and Rogue Legacy. Also Dead Cells is probably one of my favourite. If there's at least some form of progression then I think I'll like it so I'll look into the others you mentioned. Thanks.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    If you liked Bullets Per Minute, pick up Metal: Hellsinger. Not a roguelite, but a very well-structured single-player story-minimal (~10-15 second voiced introductions to each level, occasionally a 1-2 minute, voiced cutscene between stages) game. It's more like Doom - set arenas, with set encounters across varying difficulties - with a more refined, BPM-style "shoot on the beat" system. And it sports an insanely good original soundtrack with guest vocalists from across the spectrum of metal.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Hades deserves to be in this list if you've not played it.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Hades for sure has a story. Probably the best implementation of story in the whole genre.

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