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Some background: OK, the reason I never got into the vidya games when they first came on the scene was because the repetition/tediousness of grinding through the levels absolutely bored me to tears. This would have been in the '80s or so, but I even gave up on modern-day Sims b/c even with the hacked modules, there was still too much makework for me to have to do, to get it to where/what I wanted.

My question: Is it possible to get games these days are that basically like walkthrough novels on this mythical "easy" setting? I.e., no grinding, no dying, no resets, no weird traps, interesting characters/plot/worldbuilding/storylines? Like the Choose Your Own Adventures books. (Yeah, yeah, now I'm really dating myself.) Would prefer hard SF, but I am so not into the shoot-everything-you-see-as-you-meander-through-the-apocalypse thing.

TL;DR: Old fart wants to try new entertainment sources but doesn't want to have to work (too hard) for them.

*that are :P

Telltale Games, The Walking Dead

Yup, perfect example. I can't think of anything else quite like those, though. Portal is not your typical game (no grinding, etc), but there is death, there is some degree of difficulty and though the story and writing is absolutely fantastic, it isn't anything like the Telltale games where you can make your own decisions and see the consequences of those decisions. Those games are pure, interactive storytelling.

(I wish there were more games like those, tbh. I love 'regular' games, but TWD games are very immersive and cool.)

OP

I'll look up Telltale Games, thanks! Question, I assume The Walking Dead is based on the TV show with the zombies?

Yea, it's based in the same universe as the TV show, but you don't need to actually watch the tv show to enjoy it. There's a cameo or two, but they're small and you won't be missing much. It feels very much like a stand alone story, with its own cast of characters.

The Tell Tale Games (The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us). I think that is what you mean? They are basically interactive stories.

You want to look into visual novel/simulation games.

Um, visual novels? I confess I don't know much about the genre, but that sounds like what you're looking for.

This makes me think of the Fate/Stay Night interactive game-comic-show-thingy that I only got partway through because it would have taken too long to get to a save point...anyway, I think there are a number of things like that in the animanga world? You definitely have an element of choose-your-own-adventure; there are actually several paths you can take with F/SN and different endings, but you don't do any gamey stuff other than making those choices, you just read/listen/look at pictures.

I agree with the others that you probably want to look for visual novels. I'd recommend some but most of the ones I've played through are ones that I was curious about because they were supposed to be really fucked up, like Saya no Uta.

OP

Thanks, I didn't even know visual novels were a thing! (I always thought this was the latest term for trade paperbacks/hardcopy graphic novels, tbh.)

Yeah... this pretty much describes most AAA titles these days.

lol All kidding aside, this entirely depends on how much effort you think is too much effort. I've been playing games since the 80's and these days almost all modes feel too easy to me for almost all games. I don't know that I can fairly judge how difficult something would be for someone who has never picked up a controller/mouse before.

You can definitely look up games by genre, but to be frank I think you might have to be willing to accept that it's going to be really hard to get into for the first little bit while you develop those motor pathways. Even on easy modes.

Fallen London is everything but the hard SF, it is free, text heavy, with incredible lore and writing and death is just an inconvenience/ an opportunity to get even more lore and other things!
Winterstrike is a bit more SF, but it is shorter.

If you take the visual novel suggestions, look here for interesting ones:
http://renai.us/ These are all free ones. So the quality varies a lot.

They mostly are focused on romance, but some non-romantic ones exist.
http://renai.us/game/adrift is a favorite. but it has some deaths in it if you make the wrong choices.

http://taarradhin.cyanide-tea.net/

Cyanide-tea make a lot of good, pay what you want ones. They play with the typical tropes of these games a lot. This is a favorite of mine, the "True route" is excelent.
Cinders is an excellent commercial one.
Dysfuncional Systems is another, but it has two parts and part 1 has two endings, (spoiler) neither is nice.

A million "thank you"s from OP, Fallen London looks like just my thing!

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