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Message: [QUOTE="Ian Naxieas, post: 66457, member: 4966"] Alien: Isolation obviously! Isolation is even in the name! It'll totally make you not want to be alone though. As for a serious answer, Darkwood comes to mind first. You do have some allies, but most the game is spent alone, exploring, foraging for supplies and either fighting or avoiding beasties. Then there's the nights. You're stuck in your shelter, alone and isolated by the darkness that [I]will [/I]kill you if you're foolish enough to step outside. You just gotta survive until morning, but all manners of beasties and other strange occurrences make sure you do not have an easy time doing so. Fucking love Darkwood. I've mentioned it before and will continue to do so forever. I second The Long Dark. You are truly alone and isolated in northern Canada in the middle of a really bad winter. You survive by going from area to area, picking up clothing, supplies and even weapons to fend off the strangely aggressive wolves and bears. Well, you're probably fucked if you run into a bear, but you might get lucky! The cold is your biggest enemy however. Always be on the lookout for shelter and places to start the ever life saving thing known as fire. The atmosphere is wonderful too. As someone who has lived in the upper Midwest and has been through many blizzards, the feeling of being trapped as the wind and snow slams your shelter and makes things creak is perfect. I've never played it, but I hear wonderful things about Firewatch. You're a dude alone in a fire lookout tower that ventures out to do stuff and your only contact is a lady over your radio. Sorry I didn't make it sound more interesting, but give it a look at least! The Subnautica games are another good choice. You're alone on an alien planet, doing your best to survive while looking for a way off the planet. Really beautiful and peaceful game... until you go deeper and find some things you do not want to fuck with. Your focus is on staying alive, scavenging supplies and blueprints so you can build up an underwater base. Good shit. I can't give a strong recommendation to it, but Elite Dangerous might be something to look into if you like space. If you join the base game servers you'll find (and probably be harassed by) other players all the time, but if you go into a private game or go out far enough you'll be entirely alone. I've played the game a few hundred hours and I've spent most of it in deep space, being the first to discover many solar systems. It's a really beautiful game with really great ship controls and atmosphere, but ultimately you'll be grinding for ships and upgrades a hell of a lot and as is usual with procedural generation, everything starts looking very much the same. I've quit playing and I don't exactly regret my time spent in it, but a lot of that time was doing a whole lotta nothing. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is a great game as well. When you play as Alex you're alone in an empty mansion that's dripping with atmosphere and shit starts getting really weird as your sanity dwindles. When you're playing as other characters, you do occasionally encounter other people but you never know who is a normal person and who is a fucking Bonethief. At least personally that makes me feel very alone and isolated, you don't know who or what is out to get you. Wow, that's a whole lot of words. I can think of a bunch of games to mention, but I am le tired. I shall return and dump more later. With luck some other folks might shoulder some of the burden and recommend games I would. x) [/QUOTE]

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