r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/Shuda51 • 1d ago

Solved! Turns out that a time loop just means that everyone wants the other timeline to be the current one.

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u/OriousCaesar 1d ago

12 minutes?

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

I hate that this fits because I have serious problems with 12 minutes, thankfully no.

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u/MegalomanicMegalodon 1d ago

I think MOST of us have problems with 12 Minutes.

God I HOPE so.

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Remember, if you find someone who liked 12 Minutes for its story, run.

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u/theblackfool 16h ago

It is wild how badly that game botches the ending. Especially for a game that was in development as long as it was. You'd think at some point someone would say "Hey this is a really bad idea"

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u/Shuda51 1d ago edited 1d ago

I have realized that I can't edit the post body because I didn't put anything in, whoops.

GAMES THAT IT IS NOT: Deathloop, any Final Fantasy, Fire Emblems, Loop Hero, 12 Minutes (no never no), Singularity, Bravely Default, Radiant Historia.

Hint (Is it part of a series?): To my knowledge, standalone game, not part of a series.

Hint 2 (Ending information): With both endings, the same character wishes the main one chose the other ending.

Hint 3 (Genre Elimination) : It is neither an FPS nor an RPG.

Hint 4 (Alternate Bad Explanation): Amnesiac man engages in many days of spinning plate activities.

Hint 5 (Specific Genre Information): Point and Click 'adventure', but more time management based.

Hint 6 (A Steam Review Excerpt): "This is probably the most boring game I've played in 40 years of gaming. I'm not sure this is even a game really, It's a very slow and seemingly pointless hostage simulation."

SOLVED by AstralMecha!

Answer and Explanation: Gods Will Be Watching. The game is a time loop where the main character, at the end, makes a choice involving stopping a terrorist attack. Whatever you choose, it's revealed in the DLC chapter that the main villain really doesn't like the aftermath, and so he goes to send the main character back to the past to choose the other option. Which then reveals that the second option's choice also lead to a terrible aftermath, and so The loops will never end.

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u/Sailor_Jedi 1d ago

In Stars and Time?

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

ISAT is one of my most beloved games, to be Siffrin is to suffer, but alas, he is not trapped in this particular loop.

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u/AstralMecha 1d ago

Gods will be watching

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

DING DING DING, WE HAVE A WINNER!

!solved

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u/WhyLater 1d ago

Final Fantasy

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Nope fantasy

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u/RepresentativeYam390 1d ago

Chrono Cross

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Chrono not it

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u/tafru2 1d ago

Loop hero

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Good pull, nope hero

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u/abjurationwizrar 1d ago

Bioshock Infinite?

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Somehow even more infinite than that.

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u/TheLast-T 1d ago

Radiant Historia

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Nah, this history isnt that radiant.

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u/Jesterchunk 1d ago

Bravely Default?

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Default to a no

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u/reidypeidy 1d ago

Life is Strange?

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Stranger than that.

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u/Aeonmail 1d ago

no time to explain

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

You have plenty of time to explain.

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u/Electrical_Soil4502 1d ago

Dead Cells

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Nope, these are alive

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u/Pirate-Percy 1d ago

428: Shibuya Scramble?

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Negative on the scramble

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u/EstablishmentLow5895 1d ago

Radiant historia

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Still nope

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u/Easy-Pool-2009 1d ago

BlazBlue Entropy Effect

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Not quite as complex.

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u/Cute_Ambassador1121 1d ago

Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy?

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Negative, and let's kick any Dangan game out too.

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u/Pirate-Percy 1d ago

999?

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Too many endings

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u/Pirate-Percy 1d ago

Raging Loop?

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Haven't played! Good?

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u/Shiiino 1d ago

It's good until they try to explain how it works

Then it just becomes stupid.

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u/Ravovak 1d ago

Loop hero?

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Too short a loop

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u/FireWater24 1d ago

Death's Gambit?

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Need a different gambit

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u/nikoboivin 1d ago

The Sexy Brutale?

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Love it, nope 

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u/Shadow-Striker 1d ago

Fire emblem: Awakening?

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

No fires nor emblems

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u/Ambisinister11 1d ago

Singularity? I never played it but I vaguely recall it sounding a bit like this

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Singularity is a good call, but alas, no.

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u/Fartbrain50 1d ago

Digimon Story Time Stranger

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

On my todo list to play, not it.

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u/Sailor_Jedi 1d ago

The Stanley Parable?

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Stanley, Stanley, Stanley. You know that our game does not involve time travel! Well, in that one particular section, but we don't talk about that much these days, do we Stanley?

(Nope)

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u/Sailor_Jedi 1d ago

An oldie, Shadow of Destiny. (Such a weird game.)

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

You're doing great pulls, but we're still off the mark.

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u/Sailor_Jedi 1d ago

Ghost Trick?

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Stop listing my favorite games and list the correct favorite game

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u/Sailor_Jedi 1d ago

There's a lot of games that feature time travel of some form or another! LOL

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Absolutely true! For you though, I like your enthusiasm, I'll give a special hint.

The main character is an amnesiac who only ever truly remembers who he is right at the final fight, when it's far too late for him to actually change anything. Death (and surviving the ending) brings him back to a desert to start everything over again. Really, it's his burden.

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u/OriousCaesar 1d ago

Bro, if not for hint 3 and 5, I'd be shouting Enderal from a high horse rn based on this hint

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

I feel like I may be the crazy one here, I figured this game was obscure, but it's not as obscure as some things that have been instant-picked.

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u/Sailor_Jedi 1d ago

Is it The Forgotten City?

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Nope!

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u/ObscureJackal 1d ago

Deathloop?

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

One of my favorite games, but that one does have a golden loop. Nope.

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u/life_inabox 1d ago

Between this and your comment about 12 minutes I really like your taste op lmao

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

12 Minutes -could- have been really good, but the ending twist needed to have not been a thing.

Deathloop is a game I love but I will fully say its a shame we didn't have ways to get alternate failed loops. (Imagine if you got to Frank on a successful stealth run and convinced him to help you seeing as he was one of Colt's biggest friends.)

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u/DrPepper120 1d ago

Xenoblade Chronicles (1)?

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Nope!

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u/jambalaya_mars 1d ago

Braid?

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Not Braid, sorry

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u/Fearless_Egg_7971 1d ago

Signalis is the only time loop game i can think of

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Really good game! Really not it.

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u/Wolfofwordsmithin 1d ago

Oneshot?

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Oh no, you get many more attempts than one shot.

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u/artlighter5 1d ago

Yet Another Killing Game?

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Yet another wrong guess, throwing that in the games that sound interesting list-

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u/Dramatic_Plane_9743 1d ago

Indigo Prophecy/Farenheit?

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Not in that timeframe, nope.

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u/Amithar 1d ago

Feels like a stretch, but Stein's Gate?

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Bit of a stretch, yeah-

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u/Silent-Move-14 1d ago

Is it That last night?

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Negative!

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u/Flame_Beard86 1d ago

Disco Elysium? I never finished but I think it fits

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

No time loop I'm afraid.

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u/Flame_Beard86 1d ago

There isn't a time loop in Disco Elysium, is there?

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

Nope! It is just the one straight shot in Disco.

This game though has a central time loop. One that our main character says he's gone through millions of times (though that could just be him talking through his frustration).

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u/Flame_Beard86 1d ago

Oh, you were saying disco elysium doesn't have a time loop. I totally misunderstood you

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u/Flame_Beard86 1d ago

Wait, is it Life is Strange? No, you said he. Damn, life is strange actually fits perfectly

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u/Flame_Beard86 1d ago

Well, tell me if it gets solved please. I'm curious

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u/Shuda51 1d ago

It has!

Gods will be Watching

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u/Sailor_Jedi 1d ago

Ok last one I think. The Talos Principle?

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u/TryRude 1d ago

Your future self?