The Rise of Zen Gaming: Games with No Purpose- EXO ONE

The emergence of a new genre of games...?
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Exo One - exo-one-game.com

[@74neverlast]

100% agree with you observation - there is a huge demand among the working population for computer enhanced mind dissolving interactive experience/games.

[@hoozndooznsnizn8077]

Lmao LATE to this. People laughed at me for loving this game, and they “don’t get it”. I can’t tell you why I love this game, or what keeps me playing it everyone once and a while. Simply, it’s just good stuff. Great soundtrack too

[@sigmasplatinumrust5184]

This game was so chill and peaceful and also fun at the same time I really hope they expand on this or make a second one with more planets and things on the planets to explore but still keep its same level of awesomeness

[@AndrewWilsonStooshie]

Like you I'm not really a gamer and probably because there's a lack of games like EXO ONE. I have enough going on in my job and life that if I do play a game it is purely to chill out. The idea of taking a character through a narrative arc that takes 23 hours to compete just doesn't do it for me. I do hope this is the start of a new trend.

[@mbeware]

The game is chill, but I think you missed things... There is a plot : you have to find the crew of the Jupiter mission. There is progression : you get some powerful/level upgrades when you reach some destinations. There are subtile clues in the environment (light in the sky, vision of the picture of the crew and such ) that direct you to those things. You are right. The game is very relaxing. It remind me of flowers, a game I used to play on the PS3...

[@DisruptionTheory]

Funny thing is I was about to include the Jupiter plotline but decided against it since it’s not a focal point of the game and the game itself doesn’t push you into it. Same with the power ball things- there is no UI mechanism that actively point players towards them… in other words everything is optional

[@teknomanning]

Amen.After I played SABLE.I am hooked😊👍🏿

[@KyleSector]

It feels like someone used the UAP/TicTac/UFO encounters as inspiration for building a game based on gravity manipulation craft

[@RobleViejo]

Exo One has information that wasnt to be made available to the public Thats all Im going to say, this small indie game is so huge you wouldnt imagine I will explain some of it: Alcubierre Warp Drives warp Space-Time itself what is depicted in Exo One is accurate to the (cough) "theoretical" way these work (You can make a vehicle with a Warp-Drive, but "UFOs" are NOT vehicles)

[@Napstone]

I was just gonna say "I get that in GTA V" and boom, you talk about GTA lol ... My intense game playing days of university are behind me, but after a stressful day I just drive around GTA V enjoying the scenery and taking it all in :) Great Video. Great Channel! Your videos are so clean and you speak elegantly and eloquently well without any BS lol

[@DisruptionTheory]

Thanks I really appreciate it! I put a lot of effort into them

[@solinovo3219]

Immediately thought of the game "Everything" pretty relaxing and a bit about zen too

[@DisruptionTheory]

Def will check it out thanks !

[@Imp_Prints_Art_Nature]

I love this game. Has the same feeling of Journey and Abzu and Everything is a good one too

[@Titanus_mothramommy69]

We need more games like this bro

[@4OozandCHR0NiC917]

this game was the best game to play along right after finishing outer wilds

[@DietmarEugen]

An early zen game: Proteus (2013).

[@Turbo.M777]

Child of Eden on Xbox 360 is just a cool ride, and a beautiful experience. It does have enemies though.

[@BasilVII]

Will get exo one today Beyond Blue is also a great chill game

[@DefiDonut]

prlly the best commercial this game will ever get. sweet vid!

[@BlindTrustProject]

Some gamers like me really loves immersion over Gameplay and "strats" etc. And some people just don't get it. I can spend hours doing nothing in FLight Sim, Elite Dangerous or Exo One and have tons of fun and being completely bored one minutes into an Deck builder or Turn based tactic game...

[@liams7409]

Tetris effect. Cool vid, ive had the same thought. Cant wait for exo one release, its on another level, pun intended.

[@dandara87]

you should play JOURNEY, which is a bit more complex but it carries the same Zen/chill Vibe

[@haripatel8277]

Dark Souls, great Zen Gaming franchise!

[@DisruptionTheory]

Check it out, thanks for the recommendation!

[@doug5372]

Lol

[@eprisplays]

My top zen game is Playne the meditation game.

[@DisruptionTheory]

hadn't heard of it, will check it out thanks

[@kyoMcMushy]

Severely underrated creator!

[@DisruptionTheory]

Thank you so much 🙏

[@kaloyanbogdanov924]

nize video!

[@symphony137]

Games like Flower and Flow did this more than a decade ago :)

[@cooterclappa3441]

What game were you playing in the beginning?

[@DisruptionTheory]

Exo One

[@cooterclappa3441]

@@DisruptionTheory thank you! Wish they would make a mobile version.

[@DisruptionTheory]

@@cooterclappa3441 same!

[@Turbo.M777]

Anyone have any other recommendations for games like this? Only thing that comes to mind is child if Eden. Which is dope, But not Zen

[@z50schild]

Gathering sky

[@mattmccaughen8082]

It's says hit A and nothkng happens 😓

[@Vasharan]

Some examples of zen-based games that spring to mind: - Flow - Thumper - REZ (Although this has combat and bosses) - Audiosurf - Absolute Drift - almost any runner game ever - Superflight - Feather - Sable (although I found the traditional gameplay elements to be very intrusive in the exploration) - AER (IMO AER is the game Sable should have been, it has almost all the same elements, but just tuned a bit better) - ABZU - Unpacking - I've heard good things about it but haven't played it.

[@DisruptionTheory]

Damn good list!!

[@Itstheoaks]

I feel like the game STEEP is similar to this it's just shredding on mountainsides

[@ThePenGass]

Lumines but thats progressive and highly mechanics based no story tho lol

[@DisruptionTheory]

Will check out thanks !!

[@JeffThings]

Aren’t you, the player, level 3 and creating the plot for level 4? Maybe it’s the ultimate extension of the game of life…

[@MarquisDeSang]

Then play Venineth because it is even better.

[@knowledgeablebro6970]

No Man Sky is the best zen game yet you should try 🙂

[@mindgame8394]

Can you tell me the relese Date?

[@DisruptionTheory]

I read don’t know, judging by the website it should’ve came out already but seems to be a delay

[@mindgame8394]

@@DisruptionTheory thanks :)

[@OminusMentor]

Did you play this game for like 5 minutes? You do progress and move onto other planets and or moons...at one point it seems you are close to a small star...which has asteroids surrounding it...and you build enough momentum to jump from asteroid to asteroid...there is a water planet...and so on...

[@DisruptionTheory]

At the time the game wasn’t even published, it was just a demo and I went off the public info

[@OminusMentor]

@@DisruptionTheory oooooh really? Didn't know they did a demo...my bad

[@antemasq6520]

speedrun to nowhere

[@DisruptionTheory]

Will check it out, thanks!

[@RobleViejo]

"This game has no plot, no points and no characters" Thats 100% not true 👀

[@DisruptionTheory]

At the time of the video that’s the information that was public, not sure how it’s developed since

[@RobleViejo]

@@DisruptionTheory Understandable, Have a Nice Day

[@GSCSTRYDER]

I would agree, but I'm also going to disagree, there is a story in this game but it's not the priority