Jul 22, 2018
I know I have a slightly neglected non-violent games list.
But there’s a entire lovely tumblr dedicated to just non-violent games.
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I know I have a slightly neglected non-violent games list.
But there’s a entire lovely tumblr dedicated to just non-violent games.
@nvgotd
Game idea: you take the "pretend to be an NPC" gameplay of games like Spy Party, but you invert it: you automatically move and interact like an NPC and use a very limited gauge of energy to do unique actions. You and three other players enter a massive real-scale theme park full of NPCs (all relatively low-poly like you, a la Sims 1 or Katamari) and you each have a goal and have to meet back up to complete your "day" and win. You can work together to make up for your dysfunctional natures, or split up and work on your objectives individually, which would intentionally never overlap or conflict. Only one player will get the objective to "try every flavor of ice cream at the park", for example, and no other objectives will directly interfere with that in any way. Different characters would have different unique abilities, like the ability to stretch out your arms to grab things from far away, or the ability to tell a boring story out loud to make other park guests leave your immediate space, but these all use up valuable and limited energy. The purpose of you moving and looking like and acting like NPCs is that one of the difficult factors is keeping track of who and where your friends are. The only in-game communication is locational, so you just have to agree to meet back up at a certain time and place and hope they make it if you get separated. You can hold hands, ensuring you move as a group, but that makes you move slower and have less available actions.
Somebody got any recommendations for non-violent video games for pc? Other than The Sims ;)
Non-Violent and Non-Combat Games
As requested I’ve put together a list of pacifist and non-combat games with varying degrees of violence. As with all lists, all corrections and additions are encouraged.
Pure pacifism:
1000 Amps
About Love, Hate and the other ones
Always Remember Me
Animal Crossing Franchise
Anti-Chamber
Aquanaut’s Holiday
Audiosurf
Below the Root
A Bird Story
Blueberry Garden
Chains
Closure
Cogs
Cook, Serve, Delicious!
Craon Physics
Dominique Pamplemousse in “It’s All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings!”
Most Edutainment Titles
Electroplankton
Endless Ocean
Ether One
Fez
Flower
From Dust
Gone Home
Grow Up & Grow Home
Hacker Evolution Franchise
Harvest Moon Franchise (not including the Rune Factory spin offs)
Hexcells
ilomilo
Journey
Kairo
Kentucky Route Zero
Love and Order
Lovely Planet
Matches and Matrimony: A Pride and Prejudice Tale
Mirror Moon
Most dancing and rhythm games
Nightsky
Nintendo Pets Franchise
Osmos
Overcooked
Peggle Franchise
PixelJunk Eden
Professor Layton Franchise
Proteus
Q.U.B.E
The Room Franchise
Secret of the Magic Crystal
Seiklus
Starseed Pilgrim
Sudoku Games
Superflight
Tetris
Thomas Was Alone
To the Moon
Vessel
VVVVVV
Waking Mars
The Witness
Windosill
World of Diving
Zenbound
No combat but minor violence (usually towards the player):
Ace Attorney Franchise
American McGee’s Grimm
Analogue: A Hate Story & Analogue Plus
And Yet it Moves
Braid
Broken Sword Franchise
Cinders
Dark Fall Franchise
Dear Esther
Depression Quest
The Dig
Dive to the Titanic
Gish
Ghost Master
Ghost Trick
Grim Fandango
Heileen Franchise
Hidden Object Games (mostly)
Jolly Rover
Katamari Damacy Franchise
Kerbal Space Program
Knytt Franchise
Life is Strange
Little Big Planet Franchise
The Longest Journey
Miasamata
Minesweeper
Monkey Island Franchise
Myst Franchise
Monster Loves You
Most sports games (obviously not including things like Wrestling)
Nanashi no Game
Narbacular Drop
A New Beginning
Nyx Quest
Papers Please
Papo & Yo
Plants Vs. Zombies
Puzzle Agent Franchise
Portal Franchise
Redshirt
The Shivah
Stacking
The Undergarden
The Unfinished Swan
The Yawhg
World of Goo
Non combat games with extreme violence:
Alter Ego
Amnesia Franchise
Anna
Beholder
Ben There, Dan That
Bionic Heart Franchise
Catherine
Daylight
Five Nights at Freddy’s Franchise
Hatoful Boyfriend (in some of the paths)
Haunted Memories
Kholat
LIMBO
Murdered: Soul Suspect
The Mystery of the Druids
Neverending Nightmares
Outlast
Papers Please
Pathologic
Slender: The Arrival
The Stanley Parable
Still Life
Surgeon Simulator
Trauma Centre: Under the Knife Franchise
Non-lethal combat only (but still violent):
Batman Arkham Franchise
Dreadout (same as Fatal Frame)
Fatal Frame/Project Zero Franchise (the combat is about capturing ghosts with your camera)
Full Throttle
Pokemon Franchise
Receiver
Remember Me
Sonic the Hedgehog Franchise (the original games had you releasing animals from robots rather than destroying them)
Pacifism runs (games with violence that can be played completely non-lethally if the player desires):
Alpha Protocol
Civilisation Franchise
Deus Ex Franchise
Dishonoured
Fallout Franchise
Metal Gear Solid Franchise (with some exceptions, usually bosses)
Mirror’s Edge
Minecraft (Optional peaceful mode with no monsters)
Thief Franchise
Trine
Undertale
Honourable Mentions:
Visceral Clean-up Duty is about cleaning up the aftermath of violence and contains extreme gore, but is entirely pacifist in play-style.
TRI: Of Friendship and Madness Review
by Chris Adkins
It's a fox! Kill it! Wait...sorry, wrong game. TRI is a game that is focused on puzzle solving and tranquility rather than violence and death. The player is dropped into the realm of the Odd God and is imbued with an increasing amount of powers in order to navigate the world and solve puzzles. ...
A List of Non-violent Games from Maslab's Steam Games List
I don't think I could have made a clunkier title if I'd tried. Anyway.
A relatively recent conversation with a friend of mine got me thinking about violence and video games. No not if they cause violence or not, but why are so many games violent? This got me wondering how many of my games were actually violent, so I decided to make this list.
Please note this is not comprehensive by any means; I am simply making this list from games that I own on Steam. Please feel free to send me corrections or make your own additions.
Here I am defining a violent game as one in which generally the player is the one asked to commit violence upon another person. Instances where there is violence committed on the player such as death will not count against the game (such as in Portal). This rule will be flexible based on the game and its intended message.
Gore and blood will also not necessarily be a factor, as gore can exist without the player initiating violence, and vice versa. This will be flexible, however. Games like Amnesia are right out because of how prominent violence is in the story and game, even though the player never initiates violence.
Games where violence is not the focus and/or is exceedingly rare will still be on the list. Violent games will include things like Crusader Kings, though, or else I'll have to put Game of Thrones here too.
One final note: I'm not saying these games are good.
LaSalle Ishii no Child's Quest is an RPG, but instead of fighting demons, you're tasked with managing a trio of up-and-coming pop stars. Encounters are non-violent, and instead center around persuading people to support you (or just not stay mad at you) by saying the right things and using plenty of charisma. Basically, you "fight" with words. Isn't that just the coolest thing ever? Plus the commercial is bonkers:
LaSalle Ishii no Child's Quest. Look it up.