Around Christmas I introduced my mom to Steam and from there to The Room, The Room 2, and Myst.
She's finished them all now and, well, lemme just share the email I just got:
I finished the room, and the room two. Is there anything similar I could purchase? I'm hooked. I looked for the room 3, and I saw such a thing when I showed the game to my sister last night - she went looking for it to buy. But, Steam didn't have one.
This is all your fault. You have to help me.
*manic grin*
I've been digging around the interwebz and did get her The Tiny Bang Story, but I've got a feeling this isn't going to scratch the same itch.
She's playing all of these on a laptop that's a few years old, it's got a decent amount of ram and an i7 processor, but I'm not sure what the graphics situation is.
So, dearest forumers, what games would you suggest for a slightly older laptop that can be found on Steam that would scratch The Room itch?
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it works fine on my surface on medium to low graphics
I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
unfortunately, this isn't an option I know she'd love it, but it would take moving heaven and earth to make it happen...and wouldn't help with when she gets up at 4am obsessing about shit, which is what she uses these games to quell
I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
idk if she'd like it but it is a top tier puzzle game
I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
are you trying to give your grandmother porn?
I mean, I'm not against it, just wondering....
It's time for your mom to go into the world of Online Riddles.
http://ask.metafilter.com/298800/Best-online-riddles
no I'm just trying to give her puzzles about evenly cooked meat!
I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
it's about the game aspect of it, the time eating and brain distracting bit
somehow she doesn't think she's smart enough for riddles, though she just blew through several difficult games in less than a month
It'll run on a toaster
The theme isn't one you would expect to immediately resonate (It's supposedly about building space chemistry buildings, though it doesn't really have anything to do with real chemistry), but the nice thing about it that it both has solutions, and really optimized solutions.
So you solve a puzzle, and feel great, and then get a graph where you rate worldwide, and then you can choose to further optimize or move on to the next one.
After a while you end up thinking in Widgets.
A bit friendlier in the same space are Mini Metro (Make metro lines) or Big Pharma (Optimize making pharma factories). I think all of these are also available on tablets, though not recommended on phones.
Obduction is basically Myst 2016. I never played it though.
If you can log into someone elses steam account with The Witness installed, or quietly buy it, download, test, and refund if it doesn't run, that is definitely recommended.
Stephen Sausage Roll is supposed to be deceptively hard. It's a lot like the block puzzles that were popular in the 90s.
You could also see if she enjoys the 90s adventure game genre. There's a humble bundle with the Day of the Tentacle remake up right now.
Also how does she feel about tower defense? And if she likes it, do you think if I got her this game and she played it she could give me tips on how to beat this one level? I am seriously stuck.
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What about the 999 series. (Zero Hour is on Steam...9 hours 9 persons 9 doors im not sure about.)
Oh. If shes looking for something more quirky...how bout some old Lucasarts adventure games like the Maniac Mansion series, or monkey island.
For more 'real-world', Lumino City, and the Machinarium / other Amanita ones, they'll all run on older laptops just fine.
Little Inferno's fairly non-cpu-intensive and "puzzle solving" (-vs- world of goo, which definitely requires more speed)
The Kentucky Route Zero series might be worth a look, though they're pretty distinctive so if she doesn't like them she probably really won't like them.
I played through Zenge recently, it's short and easy but also pretty relaxed.
I'd strongly recommend following up with Riven. It's not for everybody, but for people it clicks with there aren't many other games like it. It's kind of the antithesis of adventure games where you just click stuff together when you get stuck. Riven is very much a logic puzzler that requires the player to take notes.
EDIT: There are also a bunch of free Flash games on Kongregate that might be good for killing 10 or 20 minutes: http://www.kongregate.com/escape-games
Just make sure you don't accidentally get her anyone the movie...
This is the first thought I had.
There's a career mode where you progress through a tech tree, have to purchase parts to build the rockets, do science experiments, complete contracts to do certain things (Put satelites in an exact orbit, explore other planets, etc), etc. There's also a Sandbox mode where you get all the parts, money and contracts are turned off, there's no need to do science, etc.
However, the game itself is essentially an unlimited create-your-own-puzzles-within-puzzles game. You create a space station (the puzzle), and then it's also up to you to figure out the best way to get it where you want it to go (the solution). How you do that is completely up to the user by figuring out how much to break it down into sections, how to get those sections where they need to be, and then how best to put it all together.
It's definitely not for everyone as it's absolutely driven by the user's imagination in what they want to do next and their ability to make that happen, but if she get's into it it can easily take her mind off of other things when needed. Plus she'd also end up learning and mastering basic orbital mechanics and fancy words like apoapsis/periapsis and prograde/retrograde.
I have not played it myself but it got great reviews.
Oh hey, I just finished that game; was also on sale on GoG recently.
Extremely short and easy. No puzzle took longer than a minute to do, and most time was spent trying to position the two bros.
It wasn't bad, exactly. Just simpler than I had hoped.
Also controlling the two bros together was more annoying than fun.
I might second World of Goo? My mom liked and finished it, and she's not much of a gamer at all. If I don't count "bubble shooter", that is. (Some no-name Puzzle Bobble/Bust-A-Move clone.)
I couldn't get into Little Inferno, too sandboxy for me.
http://www.gameboomers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/forums/2/1/ADVENTURE_GAME_DISCUSSIONS
(I have not played them.)
Yeah, my mom is real big into adventure/puzzle/mystery games where there's a good mix of like hidden item and other puzzles along with some standard adventure game type stuff. I think she gets most of them from Big Fish Games which has lots of cheap games and trials available although I'm pretty sure it also used to come with tons of bloatware.
twitch.tv/tehsloth