Players usually want a good story in their games. I can enjoy a good story too, but sometimes I just want to get going and do stuff without listening to several minutes of dialog in-between action.

Do you know any games where there’s no story (or very minimal/skippable one), and the game mechanics alone carry the game?

EDIT: Thank you all for the suggestions. There are some that I’ve never heard of and look very interesting. Will definitely pick some of them up.

  • arcrust@lemmy.ml
    23·
    2 years ago

    Factorio. All about letting the factory grow.

    I also started playing wizards of legend recently. It takes maybe 20 minutes to get through the tutorial, then it’s just game. I’m enjoying it so far

  • Glide@lemmy.ca
    12·
    2 years ago

    This is such a hard question to answer without more information. There are a literal ton of mechanically good games with minimal/no story across a massive variety of genres. What are you into? Surely your interests run deeper than “don’t make me read, don’t show me a movie”.

    I’d start to look into rogue-lites; games that kill you rapidly are less inclined to lore-dump before they get to it, instead either hiding the story around the game world, or giving you snippets between runs. Dead Cells, Bullets Per Minute, Crypt of the Necrodancer, Rogue Legacy, Into the Breach, Enter the Gungeon. That should cover a wide birth of genres, anyway.

    Be more specific and we can give you far better recommendations.

    • GrimReaperCZ@lemmy.zipOP
      4·
      2 years ago

      Rogue-lites are probably a good suggestion, considering I played and enjoyed Bullets Per Minute and Rogue Legacy. Also Dead Cells is probably one of my favourite. If there’s at least some form of progression then I think I’ll like it so I’ll look into the others you mentioned. Thanks.

      • Stillhart@lemm.ee
        2·
        2 years ago

        Nova Drift is one of my favorite rogue-likes, highly recommended. Check out the youtube channel “Ultra C” for a ton of different rogue-likes.

      • Glide@lemmy.ca
        2·
        2 years ago

        If you liked Bullets Per Minute, pick up Metal: Hellsinger. Not a roguelite, but a very well-structured single-player story-minimal (~10-15 second voiced introductions to each level, occasionally a 1-2 minute, voiced cutscene between stages) game. It’s more like Doom - set arenas, with set encounters across varying difficulties - with a more refined, BPM-style “shoot on the beat” system. And it sports an insanely good original soundtrack with guest vocalists from across the spectrum of metal.

        • Prox@lemmy.one
          2·
          2 years ago

          Hades for sure has a story. Probably the best implementation of story in the whole genre.

          • geoh@lemm.ee
            1·
            2 years ago

            Yeah it does, but I wouldn’t say it’s the main attraction. It’s good, but I wouldn’t call it story driven.

            • Vordus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              1·
              2 years ago

              The gameplay loop uses getting to interact with the characters and to advance the various subplots as part of your reward/consolation at the end of each run. I’d call that story-heavy.

  • Sordid@beehaw.org
    9·
    2 years ago

    Kenshi is a post-apocalyptic sandbox open-world RPG / base-building game with a bunch of lore but absolutely no plot for you to follow.

  • shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol
    6·
    2 years ago

    Minecraft. Cities Skylines. RimWorld. Helldivers.*

    *You’re going to need to co-op to have any chance in the mid to late game.