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Recommendations for short session games with materialistic progress made with each session (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am not a professional gamer nor do I have much time to invest into a game in one stretch. However I do enjoy the cumulative progress I make with each session I have with the games, specifically progress of acquiring loot, money, powers or in-game materials. Are there any games that try to match my interests?

An example of such games would be Papa Louie's food games. Though these are very simplistic and made for kids, their per-day game sessions (which last about 10 minutes) perfectly fit the idea of the type of game I am looking for. (I could have come up with a more appropriate or mature example, but that is exactly the point why I am looking for similar games.)

I have looked into the genre of roguelikes, however the basic premise of these games are that they start all over again from each session, which is what I am trying to avoid.

I can play on PC (controller included) and mobile. Apart from this, I would really appreciate if the game is under 10GB, single-player and is just easy in general to understand and play.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Outer Wilds. By it's very nature, the game splits itself into 20 minute blocks.

You don't make 'materialistic progress', but you'll almost always make progress in the game; the progress you make is finding out new information. Yes, it starts over every time, but you aren't losing progress. It's also just, in general, an excellent game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I found this game a little hard to get into personally since it seems to tell you very little of what to do in some areas. I do need to pick it up and try again soon though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Second The Outer Wilds. Anything you can do in the game can be accomplished in more or less 20 minuets. There is meta progression in the form of a ship log that keeps track of each run's exploration and important information. You'll probably end up wanting to binge it though to figure out the narrative.

Just made a Lemmy for it yesterday here: https://vlemmy.net/c/outerwilds