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Hey all!

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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[–] DwightAllRight@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 year ago

Witcher 3, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, Nationstates.net , all are excellent options along this line.

[–] Arcane_Trixster@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Banner Saga

[–] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

War hospital puts you in charge of a WW1 medical camp trying to allocate limited surgeons, nurses, medical supplies as people come in injured from the front line.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Depends on the kind of games you enjoy.

While not particularly about consequences of decisions, I highly recommend Frostpunk. It always feels like any decision is about trying to choose the less horrible one, but without ever knowing if it will work out or not. The atmosphere of that game is just superb.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I haven't finished it, but I'd say Vampyr makes you make some difficult choices

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[–] gogosempai@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Detroit: Become Human fits the bill perfectly! It's a great game with some of the hardest choices you'll ever make in a game period.

[–] knatsch@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, your grace, is a great short game

[–] MechanicalJester@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just answer our increasingly difficult questions.

Trolley problem: One track is one person, the other is 10

Next level

Okay well now the one person is your mom, and the 10 are 1 year olds you don't know

Next level

Okay the one person is your best friends mom and the 10 are young kids from your immediate or extended family

Next level

Okay the one person would cure cancer tomorrow, and the 10 are friends or family

...

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The trolley problem is easy all of these questions are easy

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[–] Nanners@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I’m not sure I’ve seen it posted here, a little older, but the TellTale Walking Dead games are killer. You make full choices that affect your game later. Tons of fun, not a ton of action gameplay but the stories told are next level IMO

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