1 player games?

[kindkit]

Anyone want to rec me some games? They need to be playable by one person, using a phone or a PC without a controller. I'd prefer science fiction, fantasy, or horror* with a strong story component and not much need for hand-eye coordination or the ability to push a zillion keys in an exact sequence in half a second. And I'd rather pay for the game up front than have to make in-game purchases in order to play successfully.

(*For horror games, please not too gory* and not rape-y at all.)

(ETA: On reflection, "gory" was probably the wrong word. I'm fine with moderate violence [think action movies] and blood, so long as violence isn't the main point of the game. What I'd like to avoid is graphic [think horror movies] violence, and disgusting stuff like zombies.)

Thanks!!

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[snickfic]

"Kind of creepy or horror-y, requires NO dexterity whatsoever" is exactly my favorite kind of game, so I have some recs. :D

Fallen London is a text-based browser game about the city of Victorian London, which has been brought underground by mysterious entities. It's a great mix of macabre, humor, and general steampunky goodness. I've happily played it for 10 years for free, but there's also a subscription option if you want to support them (or the microtransaction route, but like I said, I've played it for free). The worldbuilding is completely bonkers and it just keeps going and going. The downside is there's a lot of grinding. No rape, occasionally a little bit gory but played in a humorous way? It's generally very light in tone.

Kentucky Route Zero is a gorgeous, atmospheric point and click game about... capitalism? A guy with a truck is trying to make a delivery and ends up on a mysterious road that might not exist. I play it on Steam.

Oxenfree is a point-and-click game about a group of teenagers exploring an island one night and having a lot of weird experiences. There's a science fiction element that gets stronger as you go through, and you're trying to solve a mystery, so there's a little bit of puzzle-solving. Available on Steam.

The Last Door is a point-and-click game with pixel art (!), about a man in the late Victorian era who receives an alarming letter from a friend with whom he once did a dark ritual. THis is definitely the darkest of my recs, and there's some blood, but it's heavily pixelated blood. This is mostly a puzzle-solving game (and I had to cheat about once per chapter and check a walk-through), but it's got great atmosphere and I genuinely enjoyed the art. The very first chapter is the best, though, IMO - by chapter four the the worldbuilding went pretty far off the rails, and I quit playing after that. On Steam.

[kindkit]

"Kind of creepy or horror-y, requires NO dexterity whatsoever" is exactly my favorite kind of game

Yay! All your recs sound amazing. It's a shame about the worldbuilding problem in The Last Door, because otherwise it sounds right up my alley, with the Victorian setting and the dark rituals and all. I like occult horror a lot. A little while back I watched the Rusty Quill Streams playthrough of Cultist Simulator, and I was deeply disappointed that the game mechanics were so bad, because the premise was so exactly my jam that I was tempted to buy it anyway.

(BTW I'm fine with a bit of blood or not-super-graphic violence, I just want to avoid really icky stuff.)

Thanks!