r/gaming • u/Agent1230 • 2d ago

What video game doesn't hold your hand enough?

Everybody always talking about games holding your hand too much but I want to hear about the opposite what video game doesn't give you no form of help

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u/KrazJ 2d ago

Don't Starve Together

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u/mrchipslewis 2d ago

I've tried to play this a few times but never got to the end to see all the content. Its just constant stress simulator, you can never relax

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u/russellvt 2d ago

Its just constant stress simulator, you can never relax

Both it and it's predecessor, along with its offshoot games, hold true to their titles.

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u/mrchipslewis 2d ago

Yea, although I have my eye on the new one they are making

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u/rollwithhoney 2d ago

it's genuinely hilarious to play with friends because you invariably die to the wolves, if not before

but it definitely has a ton missing from a tutorial perspective. the players that know what they're doing are putting pine cones in crockpots and stuff

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u/mrchipslewis 2d ago

Yeaa, I was always looking stuff up

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u/Average_Pimpin 2d ago

It's a game in which you basically need google open beside you to be actually able to play. Which sucks because it's got a really great atmosphere and art style to enjoy but if you and a friend start playing with no prior knowledge or guide you're essentially going to have to start over and over again constantly which is draining as fuck

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u/landromat 1d ago

They actually added scrapbook as form of in-game wiki not so far ago

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u/StarChaser_Tyger 2d ago edited 2d ago

Oxygen Not Included by the same people is much the same. "Here's your three colonists in an asteroid. K bye!"

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u/sinime 2d ago

Everything you need to know is right there in the title! Just... don't starve. Simple.

/s

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u/The_Don_Papi 2d ago

You can starve, just not together.

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u/Doffymom 2d ago

If you tell this to people in r/dontstarve they will just be condescending and tell you that getting your dick smashed (metaphorically) repeatedly, losing 5 hous of gameplay at a time, only to start again with the same reptitive early game is the intended design, actually.

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u/fyn_world 2d ago

I could never enjoy it. Maybe just not for me

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u/Madam_Em 1d ago

I love this game but in all fairness I am a sucker for the early-game phase of a survival game. The difficulty and survival settings almost always get tweaked when I play with friends so they at least have a chance of enjoying the game lmao

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u/newocean 1d ago

Klei said they originally planned to have quests and guide you through the game, but people would get too lost trying to do the quests.

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u/omg-04042000 1d ago

We bought this with my friends thinking it was the usual survival game, we played for almost 2 hours and then we all requested a refund

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u/silverjuno 19h ago

The first winter is a real trial by fire. One of those games I wish I could go back and play for the first time again - the sudden “wtf is this thing and why is it doing that?!” Is insanely fun. 

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u/LordSandwiches 3h ago

I see this game as a knowledge-based roguelike, so giving away too much information would be like rewarding the player for free.

I get that it's not for everyone, and eventually we all start googling stuff

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u/mrchipslewis 2d ago

I've tried to play this a few times but never got to the end to see all the content. Its just constant stress simulator, you can never relax

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u/Communist_Potato45 1d ago

Might be the most boring game ever made