I'd like to request recommendations (spoiler free!) for games where you need to make choices, take sides, kill or not kill someone, follow or do not follow orders, but where the consequences actually matter - and most importantly, where the choices aren't "obviously good choice vs obviously bad choice".

Give me games where I can choose to side with one kingdom or another, but there's no clear moral high ground, or where I need to decide to save someone dear to me at the cost of innocent lives. I do not want things like "save all the children and get the happy ending and make flowers grow" versus "kill everybody and everything blows up and the world gets all its water replaced by acid".

What games fit this requirement?

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[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Life is strange is very close to what you're asking, in the game you can rewind time to a limited degree to try different thing, but sometimes your actions only have consequences much further into the game. Even the things that you can rewind and try different things there's rarely a clear better choice, since all of them are morally ambiguous, do you take a picture of the security guard harassing a student or do you intervene? One is obviously better, but the other gives you proof which you might need later on.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Amazed I had to scroll this far to see LiS mentioned.

There's a decision in the first game that legitimately made me get up from the computer and walk away. Absolutely fucking brutal game.

[–] calamitycastle@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I know exactly the part you mean and same. Amazing moment. I also LOVED the sequel. Criminal that it didn't do as well as they wanted because I want them to make an even bigger version next. True Colours was pretty good though