Basically story-oriented role playing games, instead of dress-your-virtual-doll-and-find-the-jumbo-potatoes "RPGs".

Like for fuck sakes, I have way more fun reading a totally rail-roaded choose-your-adventure book game than with GOTY shits.

Or please point me at your favorite choose-your-adventure mobile-books, I love them. Or good AI-DMs, I tried one once and didn't really like it.

No, I can't join an IRL TTRPG group cuz where I live :cri: and I don't like to talk to my computer either.


Edit: Dang, thank you all!

  • prolepylene [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Planescape: Torment is getting kinda old but it's clear it was a big inspiration for DE, so it might be worth trying that if you haven't before.

    If you're okay with something a bit more casual, I like a lot of the stuff inkle puts out. I would personally recommend Heaven's Vault, about a space archeologist peicing together an ancient language and other mysteries.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Heaven’s Vault

      "Hmm, interesting"

      Best British Game Award

      Dang it

      Nah for real, do you reccomend the Inkle "Sorcery!" saga too?

    • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      all those baldur's gate things really although torment is probably the most like of those

      • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Play the Baldur's Gate series on an easier difficulty if you're not too familiar with ADnD/ don't want to read up too much on it. They're fun, but I can see that being off-putting for some people.

        Neverwinter Nights 2 and its expansions and Pathfinder: Kingmaker are also pretty cool when it comes to having more choices to make.

        Edit: And Tyranny for one of the newer wave of CRPGs.

        • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          right, those games have a bunch of combat that may or may not add to your experience. I'd even recommend just cheating at Torment, that game kinda only has combat for marketing reasons.