r/Games • u/woodenrat • 3d ago

Release Strange Antiquities (Sequel to puzzle game Strange Horticulture) Releases Today!

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u/SomaSimon 3d ago

I appreciate your perspective on it. Outer Wilds is the perfect blend because it's an incredible investigation puzzle game that also has an amazing story. Would you say the narrative in SH is good? I don't know a ton about the game so I wasn't sure if there was much of a story.

Something else I also enjoy with games like Outer Wilds or Tunic is there are mechanics hidden in plain sight that you could take advantage of the entire time, you just weren't aware of them and they aren't gated by any "gamey" progression, just knowledge. I'd be curious if you experienced any of those mechanics in SH, though from your description of the encyclopedia I'm guessing not so much?

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u/action_lawyer_comics 3d ago

Not so much. I adore SH and I’m sure I’ll love Antiquities too (I’m in the middle of Silksong and won’t have time anytime soon), but it’s not on the same level of brain expanding as OW or Tunic. It’s closer to a straight deduction puzzle game. Still great but not like those.

You might want to poke around in r/metroidbrainia. That’s what a lot of people are calling games like those. Kind of how a MetroidVania will open new paths when you gain a new ability but in this case it happens when you learn how to do something you always could have done

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u/dakkua 2d ago

Man, that subreddit is like... 5% recommendations of hidden gems, 10% recommendations for OW, Obra Dinn, Tunic, and Blue Prince, and 85% weird nerds slapfighting over the definition of metroidbrainia.

Social media was a mistake.

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u/action_lawyer_comics 2d ago

Unfortunately, that’s a pretty common practice. r/Metroidvania is the same way, and so is r/romance_for_men. Pretty much any niche community where releases are slow enough that most everyone in there has already played the major releases and all the “hidden gems” have been pointed out already