I'm late to the party, but I'd recommend Kathy Rain as a dark pixel art game with some horror elements and mature themes. It's one of my favorites. No Case Should Remain Unsolved also fits the bill - it's a story about investigating the disappearance of a child with some interesting gameplay mechanics. The last one on my recommendation list is TEST TEST TEST, a puzzle game about time loops and the horrors of the existence of an office worker (it's free on Steam, yay!). Oh, and I loved your list, I'm going to check out some of the games!

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Players don't play SOMA. SOMA plays players.

You sulked at the game the learning curve was too steep for you soo you made this video roasting the game .. good job I hope you feel better about your self.

I love Solaris

As an Outer Wilds fan (which also has a fantastic DLC by the way!) this video made me get Rain world. Oh boy is this world something!

This video is on point! Soma leaves you with so many questions about our existence, conciousness and what an enternity actually is. All get under your skin and you start to look at yourself in a different way. I can't think of any mainstream game studios, which have managed to execute something like this game. Fritctional Games are an underrated game studio. They made Amnesia which turned mainstream, but I think that game was met with superficial treatment for being just the "scariest" game, rather than being truly understood for the gruesome story and unique elements in it.

Liked your speech, although I imagine that recently you saw the list of hobbies that women considered the least attractive on m'en, 1st place ... Playing videogames Remember that around 90% of gamers are men and that men spend 5 to 1 times on games than women So, hope motherhood will be soon portrayed in a game

I think indie is actually really easy to define. Indie = small team and small budget (cannot be own by a large company). Content is irrelevant. Also what starts as an indie game doesn't have to stay an indie game. Like Minecraft is a really good example of a game that started as an indie but no longer is

im a cat person and stray disappointed me, dont feel like a game just a interactive movie i dont feel like Annapurna make games they just make trends

Every time I dip below sea level I hear the faint whispering... "Like and subscribe."

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What would a game of "being a mother" look like. Geniuinely curious,...

TLDR: You didn't understand the game. The whole purpose of the game was to make you understand why Ending E is the most profound piece of philosophy in the 21th century. 3:00 - This is exploring the concept of othering to accomplish their job which is to kill machines its to dehumanize the machines because the people giving the orders to 'kill the machines' know that the machines share the exact same core and logic as the androids...Germans had to go through the same conditions in WW2 before they could blindly follow orders or how Trump is othered in modern day to justify/cause what will happen on attempt 3 or 4. 19:00 - the game isn't trying to do justice to themes or issues. It's mostly making fun of those philosophies while installing Yoko's own philosophy which is culminated in ending E. The whole point of the game is 'What does it mean to be human and how would none humans know what it is to be human' and the examples of religion and philosophy in the game are ONLY there to show how humanity will be received by non humans long after our passing...which is impossible which is why the robots took Kierkegaard's 'leap of faith' literally. 29:00 - This explores 2 things. 1) don't judge a book by its cover and 2) The long battles of censorship Japan has had to overcome Fan Service in Japan has cultural significance...You applying your own morales to cultures you don't belong to is very similar to robots trying to interpret philosophy without the context in which they were written.

i remember when Markiplier decided to kill the robot at the bottom of the ocean all those years ago. i had been SO MAD at his choice. That robot was all that was left of that woman. And then she ceased to exist entirely. I had to pause his playthrough to cool off and really think it over. And the sheer horror of hearing Simon on the other side of that door. That you were a copy. Masterful. Horrifying and terrible. No game has affected me in such a way since. SOMA is special.

This is literally exactly what I like about hiking. Wandering through the woods on poorly marked and maintained trails, mapping it out in my head, discovering new locations and paths. It's wonderful

Kinda looks like a bird person actually. Like a bird who is also a person.. you get it.

Monty Zander's voice in the video! Yay!

Vigeogames industry, trying to look artsy: Are you a Gun Dad or an Ax Dad? Me: I'm a goose, a little, naughty, nonbinary, childless yet time-constraint goose. *HONK*

Imo walking simulators are just interactive story’s that you experience…. We’ve reached a point where video games have evolved into more than just how it was with pac man and Tetris … those type of games pioneered the concept of what games are supposed to be .. which is all about the challenge… but nowadays they’re making games that focus more on story’s .. and walking simulators .. just leave out the challenge part and let you explore the world and its story .. which is cool if your just looking for a immersive chill experience to get lost in

As a few people have said before in the comments section, you put my thoughts about the game into your video. Thanks a lot. I wanted to get into the story, but I just couldn't connect with anything in the game. As far as the A2 character, she was intriguing to me, but it was a disappointment in the end. I constantly felt like I was missing something because of all the praise, or I felt like I didn't understand what the heck was going on and tried to find the deeper meaning. Also, when they touched on some kind of philosophical subject, I was like, "Oh, it's going to get deeper," and then they left it and never dug into it.

I do get your argument at 7:00 but Death Stranding has robots that can do the deliveries for you.

Was randomly recommended your channel by KZbin, always have to give a fellow Aussie a sub. Keep up the good work and i agreed on most of your points. I think indie is just one of those things, "you know it when you see it", most of the time...

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I like the sentiments in this video but the only thing that bothers me is that its only been about year since the comet hit, there for only about 6 months at the most since that copy of robin was loaded into that machine, and only about 4 or 5 months since Catherine 1 died

SOMA gives you the same feelings that extinct animals possibly went through. I tend to think about the Kauai o'o, which went extinct in the late 1980s. In 1987, an audio recording was made of a male o'o singing a mating call, not knowing he was the last of his kind. The recording is eerie and it emanates pure loneliness, which is what characters like Simon go through

I dont have a problem with indie games being polished. Actually i think they often are, the ones that are not are usually the highly experimental ones.

I thought I was the only one

Uhhhhh that last part about protagonists needing to be messy, while showing Joel from the last of us, did you forget about ellie?

I've always dreamed of making my own games, but self-doubt kept me from taking the plunge until I played Signalis a few years ago. The thought of not "making it" does not concern me very much, because no matter what happens I'm happy that I've found something that I love to do with the limited time I have in this life. This was a great video and filled up my tank, great takes!

Me and a friend, aged 46, grew up on the Amiga platform in the 80's, and have been gamers all our lives. We enjoy playing through and experiencing walking simulators together. We do this instead of watching movies.

10:47 This is a pretty ridiculous criticism of a game- god forbid developers think of a cute way to celebrate everyone they worked with. It’s such a creative way to make players reflect on the game they’ve just finished which at the same time gives them something to do since it’s a mini game that shows you the actual cartoon appearances of each contributor whose name you shoot down with the laser gun (as opposed to sitting through 2 minutes of words on a black screen/skipping credits entirely) I found that the email spam too was a pretty funny touch that for me gave the game a light cynical tone that worked well with the rest of its humour

Outer wilds is an amazing game , I ve played nothing like that before, but was it really necessary to spoil so much of the game in that intro 🤦‍♂

I cannot tell you how much I adore your videos

While I don't agree with all your critique (I think a lot of the aesthetic, repetition, simplistic motives, etc. are intended to give the player a hopeless, nihilistic mindset) Your entire section on the lore REALLY gets at my exact takeaways from the game. I don't think Automata did a good enough job of sprinkling its lore into the game in ways people could stumble across it and want to learn more. In Fromsoft's games, there are plenty of NPC and boss lines, recurring symbols and aesthetics, and things like item names that hint at there being a lot more at play, and invite the player to look a bit closer. There was a bit of that in Automata, but not nearly enough. I think a lot of people, like myself, finished the game, were confused about what really even happened and why, and went digging for answers online. Whether those answers form a full enough picture of the story to be satisfying is up to you. I think Automata is a good game but not a fantastic one, I definitely found myself wanting something even a bit more concrete as far as answers go. All in all, nice video essay!

It pisses me off how Sony worship this game and cancel Days Gone 2 even tho Days Gone was a MUCH better game!

So I see a lot at the beginning that the focus is on racism. I have been around long enough to know that it isn't that simple. It might be more best described by elitism. I recall several stories of movies or shows that were canceled or changed because "the audience just wouldn't understand." As if the audience is somehow this mass of idiot children and the execs alone are the pinnacle of intelligence. Sometimes that comes out in that insane comment about black women not liking horror. Really, that is a silly notion. There seems to be this trend of infantilizing everyone. Oddly, I was just talking with a coworker about how where I work has been infantilizing employees more and more lately. See "black people like horror" isn't even a thing one might have to research. It isn't as if they are from Venus or something, they are humans like all of us. My point is, there is a wider systemic problem that sometimes manifests as racism and mysogany but also other ways.

What a weird world we live in when you have to place that disclaimer on the video.

When I didn't turn off Simon 2 I didn't see it as "he's stuck with a life of terror." That's a false dichotomy. There are infinite possibilities. There is the possibility Simon 2 could do something I can't even imagine.

If you think games dont have diversity, thank god you dont watch anime. 99% is the same and its really hard to find good mature stories on that medium.

"What is the worst thing you can think of? How about the idea of infinity?" Well, that triggered the trauma of contemplating the idea of either eternal stagnation in Heaven or eternal torture in Hell as a 12 year-old.

I hear that most women who play video games play Mobile games like candy crush. Why do you think this is the case? Did Candy crush market to women more or is there something about Candy crush that woman inherently like more for some reason?

The ending was crazy 😢

I'm stealing 'celebration goo stream' as my new favourite euphemism. Congrats!

Ay you got a new mic? Thissen sounds pretty good! What is it an Audio technica atr2100?

So pretty much. The story seems to make u feel bland and like it's all for nothing...almost like....the entire meaning of the game. "These androids don't have much personality and don't know how to show thier emotions any other way than just saying them" U mean...they are Robotic and act as if having emotions is new and unnatural to them? .. yeah... duh. That's the point. "The landscapes were dull and empty" Kinda like...a post-apocalyptic world? Yeah that's the point Fighting the same style of enemy over and over is dull..... yeah. Like the androids did for thousands of years....that's the point. I mean. Dissecting each thing and trying to make each piece into your favorite Game of course isn't going to make it seem bad....you are losing the forest for the trees here.... the game is just like that world is. In almost every way.

Not my favorite but a game I really enjoyed and would love if more people knew about it: Wuppo Now, this video was great. I''ll totally be checking out your channel from now on, keep it up!

Having to relive the moment at 2:13 did not prepare me for 5:31 why Kat why --Joel