What's your favorite game without killing?

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[–]Vigte 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

It depends on your definition of killing.

If you see "death because of your choices and circumstance" as not murder - then I would suggest Banished or Frost Punk (you build a city/town - people die of old age or in work accidents, the cold etc, they also have kids).

Sim City is also a fantastic, straight forward non-violent game.

Syberia 1, 2 and three a fun, click to move adventure games that (if they include death, I haven't got there yet).

I always loved the King's Quest series as a kid, KQ6 for life! (you can die if you make the wrong choices though, so still, death).

Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 is endless fun - but again, people CAN die if you construct your rides with no regard for physics. (Same with Planet Coaster, but I never tried it).

Game Dev tycoon and Railroad Tycoon are also fun.

In reality, the most fun I've had avoiding 99% of violence though, has been Mirror's Edge - minimal combat (aside from disarming/knocking out and scripted death in cinematics, unless you CHOOSE to shoot them - one of the few games to offer a "no murder" trophy) - truth and red pills abound and being the main character just feels right.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yeah I veered off track by saying 'death' instead of killing or murder. Great suggestions man, thanks.

[–]Vigte 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Anytime dude - I'm sure I have some more to make, but I figured that was enough haha.

Did you check any of them out? Find any you like? Sorry - I wasn't sure if it was suggestions for kids games or just for yourself, so I tried to keep it real.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I put Banished and Frost Punk on my list to check out. I enjoyed both SimCity and Mirrors Edge. Adventure games is a good call. Man King's Quest is going way back. I remember getting stuck and doing a bit better at Space Quest.

[–]Vigte 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, the king's quest is not for the young! I found that out the hard way too...

To be fair, I think the difficulty of games has diminished MULTIPLE times over since the 80's - and it shows.

HUDs, objective markers, hints, walk throughs.

Back in my day, boy lemme tell you...