What should I play next
Ask for the shape of the challenge.
Not “something hard” — something that leans on the axes you want leant on and stays out of the way everywhere else. Demanding on strategy, forgiving on execution, under twenty hours. Everything below is scored through your own calibration, so “demanding” means demanding for you.
You have not calibrated, so this is matching against an average player. It still works; it is just not about you yet.
CalibrateSign in and this can read the ask out of a game you have already beaten.
Read out of Super Mario Bros. Wonder
The same shape with the volume down, for when that one took it out of you.
A Short Hike
2019 · adamgryu · ~2h
About as hard as deciding to take the long way round — the summit is never in doubt, only when you get there.
What Remains of Edith Finch
2017 · Giant Sparrow · ~2h
There is nothing here to fail. It is in the catalogue because the bottom of the scale has to mean something for the top of it to.
Firewatch
2016 · Campo Santo · ~4h
Map and compass navigation with no waypoint marker is the only thing in it that asks anything of you at all.
Journey
2012 · thatgamecompany · ~2h
Effectively unloseable, and built that way on purpose — the only thing you can fail to do is look up.
Unpacking
2021 · Witch Beam · ~4h
There is no fail state, only the quiet friction of guessing where somebody else would keep their mugs.