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If you liked Journey's anonymous, transient multiplayer, try Dark Souls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Souls. Although it does it in a more "hardcore" style of game - an RPG, with fighting, and lots of dying - it accomplishes the same gripping, emotional experience that is so fleeting in modern games. It's memorable because of how it limits communication and forces you to use gesturing and the environment to explain your intentions to one another.

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Saying Dark Souls is "hardcore" is an euphemism :)

While quite a different experience, Dark Souls is the "gamiest" game I've played in a long time. While environmentally immersive, the game forces you to remember it's a game. You have plan, optimize and exploit. You don't feel bad by being cheap, because the game is also cheap. All my gaming senses were constantly being tested.

Quite the contrast with the recent trend in "immersive" and "cinematic" games. Dark Souls is a game that knows it's a game and expects you to remember that as well.

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