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what are some games that are dark and/or surreal that deal with fairly mature themes?

(basically, what are some games that are the equivalent of arthouse cinema?)

pic unrelated

>> No.1560062
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Dreamweb is one of my all time favorites, just play it with a guide in hand for those console parts and puzzles you need the physical manual to complete.

Despite the painfully dated grfx, the voice acting, music, and atmosphere are amazing.

In the game, you never really know if you're really saving the Dreamweb metaworld, or if you have lost your marbles and are just running around killing at random over voices in your head. Expect a short and bittersweet run.

>> No.1560074

>>1560039
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg1VEV4QhtA

>> No.1560076
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It definitely gets a bit tougher if you limit it to /vr/ relevant stuff.

The first one that came to mind for me was Cosmology of Kyoto.

>> No.1560078

Megaten series.
>>1560074
This, and also the first two shadow hearts games.

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This?

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>>1560062
>See this thread
>First post in my mind was dreamweb
Based anon

Also do not miss I Have No Mouth

>> No.1560095
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Despite being a VN, Divi Dead is actually a thriller, not a sex romp. The few sex scenes in the game are there to disturb and horrify you instead of titillate.

>> No.1560125

Nice thread. It's a shame I have no suggestions to share.

>> No.1560134

>>1560076
part of the idea of the thread is that limit. we can easily find things that satisfy these criteria in the new millennium. the difficulty comes in finding older things that also satisfy them.

>> No.1560143

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA1qz2QQ89E

This is a pretty weird Amiga launch title

>> No.1560165

>>1560143
>3:35
What... the fuck am I watching?
Wow, this is 8bit indie hipsterism before indies were a thing.

>> No.1560176

>>1560089
i should try to get that to work on my chromebook's chroot. that'd be a pretty good, long game to have between classes.

>> No.1560182

The Lost Souls of Tong-Nou.

>> No.1560187

>>1560165
The late Bill Williams made a lot of weird games, he's once been called the Stanley Kubrick of video games, best yet these were actually games with stuff to do unlike today where you have dumb games where you walk through houses.

Mind Walker is a pretty neat game, and has a pretty nice soundtrack that actually makes you feel insane

>> No.1560207

>>1560187
>unlike today where you have dumb games where you walk through houses

i thought i was on /r/lewronggeneration for a moment there

>> No.1560224

>>1560207
It's not really "oh no, wrong year" thing, I just hate how indie devs think "(Pixels + Story +Progressivism) - Gameplay = art" when games like this are pretty artistic while at the same time being an actual game with a goal and things to do and challenge

>> No.1560231

>>1560143

I think my head just splode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrb2Oc6naDI

>> No.1560239

>>1560224
fair enough

>> No.1560271

>>1560143
That looks and sounds incredible.

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>>1560062

One of my favorite games ever.

>> No.1560321

>>1560039
Pic unrelated? Have you even seen the bathtub scene in the movie?

>> No.1560327

>>1560321
the movie deals with some heavy shit, yes, but it wasn't the most relevant image in the world

>> No.1560359

>>1560143
Dude holy shit this game.
This game brings some weird feelings I have that are triggered by my personal view of retro technology. Feelings of virtual worlds that are infinite, but my interaction with them is claustrophobic. It's really hard to explain this.
The horizon on that matrix plane in that trail-to-crystal is a good example of a trigger to this, but, really, this whole game triggers this feeling.

>> No.1560371

>>1560359
>trail-to-crystal part

Fix'd.

>> No.1560421

>>1560143
>7:00
Jusenkyo springs lol

>> No.1560425

>>1560421
Well, if it's the "Cursed Spring of Drowned Everything". Yes, i got the Ranma reference.

>> No.1560702

Deus Ex Machina for the ZX Spectrum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwJBsYJ16IE

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weird dreams on the amiga

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>>1560702
HOLY FUCK BALLS JON MUTHA FUCKIN' PERTWEE IAN DURY THIS IS THE GREATEST THING I HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED AURALLY AND VISUALLY SECOND ONLY TO 14 STRAIGHT HOURS OF CLASSIC WHO ON SHROOMS

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Balance of Power

>> No.1561494

Web Dimension and Master of Lamps were both a bit surreal and not quite game-like. I think of them as a bit arthouse even though they don't have really heavy themes.

>> No.1561559

>>1560039
The sad face makes it all come together.

>> No.1561597

What's OP picture from?

>> No.1561609

>>1561597
Looks like Rule 34 to The Brave Little Toaster

>> No.1561613

>>1561597
The Grave Little Toaster

>> No.1561735 [DELETED] 

Not /vr/, but Killer7 sounds like exactly what you're looking for.

>> No.1561743

>>1561735
If it isn't retro, it doesn't belong in a thread in /vr/ asking posters for /vr/ content, now does it?

>> No.1561762

Morpheus- PC

>> No.1562686

>>1560095
This. Towards the end of the game, if the MC started kicking doors in and taking names that would have given me more of a boner than the sex/rape/whateverthefuck scenes.

>> No.1562708

>>1561609
>rule34

he's commiting suicide with the toaster, not fucking it. You drop the toaster in the bath and electrocute yourself.

>> No.1564201

>>1560143
> Mind Walker
holy shit the memories.
Gonna watch that longplay video RIGHT NOW

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>>1560039
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lWaQe8LPW0

>> No.1566875

>>1560095
This one was great. Even if I was so bad I kept getting the same ending because it's not all based on choices.

>> No.1566879

>>1561613
11/10 pun, dude.

>> No.1567135

Here's another really strange Amiga game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLZHdA-6B7Y

And from the same guy who brought you mind walker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnc3vI0fgJA

>> No.1567901

bumping because of interest

>> No.1569023

>>1560143
>Bad thoughts attack you with devastating Nihilism Beams.

>> No.1569034

>>1569023
"They're gaining on us!"
"Let me handle this. EAT NIETZSCHE, MOTHERFUCKERS"

>> No.1569096

Captain Blood? As far as I can fucking comprehend it, anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkpo4RBSqoU