I just got finished with beating Riven for the first time. I adored the way the game seeped into my real life with pages of notes about the world I was discovering. Are there any other games that can match this feeling? That really work best when you have a journal in hand?

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[–] silverchase@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Her Story is a detective game that starts with you sitting at a computer, not even knowing what mystery you're supposed to investigate. You have to search through the computer's database for police interview footage to figure that out. Then you have to figure out the answer to the mystery you think you need to solve. The interview clips have a lot of details for you to track and link together. I had to make a big chunky note for this game and even had to implement a system to keep track of the likelihood of the statements.

If you want more point and click adventures, try the Submachine series, which was originally in Flash but now remastered as a ten-game compilation called Submachine: Legacy. The developer trained as an architect, so you get to admire intricate, hand-drawn architecture porn. It starts off as a typical 00s Flash room escape, until you realize it was all a… hallucination. You realize that you're actually going to explore a vast, utterly lonely underground world as you try to track down the only person who seems to know how to get out. Teleportation and parallel universe travel come up a lot in the series, so keeping notes will be useful. Incredible dark ambient soundtrack, too.

[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It reads like it would be a game similar to "A normal lost phone" and "another lost phone“ - two of the best phone puzzle games I‘ve played.

I might give Her Story a try

[–] silverchase@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not familiar with the games you mentioned, so I went to check them out. And look what we have on the Steam store page!

Reviews

“It shares some of the feeling of Her Story, albeit featuring today’s technology and with less of a focus on the crime angle. But it has the same small moments of revelation, all of which come together to form a story in its own neat yet meandering way.” Rock Paper Shotgun

Guess that means you have to play it now.

[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Currently on sale on GOG for € 0.89 - got it

https://www.gog.com/en/game/her_story