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Games that force you to make hard choices (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Civ Beyond Earth has the neat approach that it replaces the old "build a spaceship to alpha Centauri" with three different technological endings each with different moral implications. The game is about human transcendence so any ending is going to be about changing humanity.

The problem is that the game itself is not one of the better entries in the Civ series otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah please tell me you’ve played Alpha Centauri.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yes, many many many years ago. Beyond Earth is the palest of pale imitation.