one shot, Celeste, A Hat In Time, Castle Crashers, kingdom hearts, goat simulator (fun fact it recently got a remaster!), hollow knight, rain world
Idk if it "went really hard" but I had fun playing Epistory. It was very cute.
I came for the typing fun and stayed for the emotional story.
What a great game!
Bugsnax starts out like a fun cross between Pokemon and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, but it gets weird and dark.
Honestly, Minecraft.
Everyone remembers the moment they first realized nighttime and darkness is unsafe.
And as the years go on, more and more lore and items and events have been added that makes the game even more unsettling when you stop to think about them.
makes the game even more unsettling when you stop to think about them
respectfully disagree. I ive recently been playing a Minecraft version 1.5 mod and omg it's so much more eerie than modern versions. It doesn't help that torches burn out after a while lol
The first time you heard that sssssSSSSSSBOOM right behind branded every player with an eternal fear.
Also, shoutout to the moment they added fire spread. Way back in ye olde alpha days, you'd just randomly set stuff on fire to keep monsters out. Then fire spread suddenly made this dangerous and the world feel a whole lot more risky.
That brief period where fire spread was super op- you'd stumble upon decimated wastelands from natural fires.
When real-world horrors are too existential and complex to implement, more tangible, definite horrors must be created to make a game world a better approximation of reality.
frog fractions
Another Crab's Treasure looks like a cute game about a crab trying to get his stolen shell back but is actually about how capitalism crushes everything in its infinite lust for power and how it cannot be reasoned with, only destroyed.
Cuphead? Idk if it’s quite “cutesy” but with all the old-timey graphics it doesn’t strike me as something that should’ve been so tough
100%-ing that shit during lockdown was one of the hardest gaming feats I've ever accomplished. Next lockdown is going to be the DLC.
Factorio
Kirby. The only note on its official age rating is "fear"
Ecco the dolphin.
I never owned a Sega but my dad had one and this game. I wasn't there often enough to get good at it but I loved it. Great game.
Cult of the Lamb
Stray
You play as a cat in a post-apocalyptic world where human already extinct.
Hollow Knight
But depending how you feel about bugs it might not be as much cute as it might be nightmare fuel
I guess I'll start us off with Undertale... In my view the defining game of this genre
Yeah. When I read the headline, this was the first game that popped into my head.
Ristar!
I mentally think of it as "Sega's Kirby". Not because it has any specific similarities to Kirby in gameplay. But simply because it is similar in tone and vibe. A super cute game that is secretly about fighting an eldritch entity.
.... And as every Sega game in the 90s, it is exciting arcade action from beginning to end.
Doki Doki Literature Club comes to mind
Tunic.
Lil' Gator Game.
Slime Rancher.
Doki Doki literature club. I watched it being streamed for a bit. I thought it was just a dumb Japanese school girl high school drama game then suddenly one of the girls offed herself. Was not expecting that.
Little Inferno turns into something completely else.
Just finished the game. Can't reccomend it enough. It's very cozy.
The Binding of Issac.
Eternal Sonata
Turnip boy commits tax evasion.
Pony Island
It Takes Two
Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley. Literally be gay, do crimes: the game.
Wobbledogs (I should put this on my steam deck)
Bugsnax
Don't Starve looks cutesy but is completely unforgiving.
Stardew Valley - getting to know some of the villagers
Undertale - right off the bat
Sheepy - lol wtf I'm emotional
RimWorld
Kena: Bridge of Spirits
Digimon World for ps1 seems cute at first, but then becomes nightmare fuel in a lot of places.
Escape from Tarkov
Celeste is pretty cute but can get quite difficult if you try to complete everything.
UFO50! Most of those games are very cutesy, upbeat, and warm in their art + sound design. At least a dozen games will cater to your taste and are bound to turn into favorites.
The entire Parodius series.
Momodora?
Both Drawn to Life games get hard right at the last moment. And the second one throws an enormous plot curveball at you after you defeat the last boss.
That was the game that inspired this post like bro 6 year old me was not prepared
Root
Night in the Woods
I recently played the GameCube version of Chibi-Robo and I was surprised by how that game ends. It very quickly turns into a horror game without warning right before the final (and only) boss.
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