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look back to some of the games for the 8 and 16-bit consoles. They tended to be about fun rather than shock factors. So check out the larger games for the megadrive for example.
Also, I kinda thought borderlands was good in that it adapted to how you prefer to play and the difficulty seemed consistent.
Subnautica comes to mind. It's a survival game with a heavy focus on exploring and a very structured story. Fluff text and the obligatory random documents and audio logs are mostly optional, though the game does have a mystery to solve so some of those you want to pay attention to. No real spikes in difficulty, it's honestly an easy game.
Visual novels fit this rather closely. They're a mixture of book and game, so any fluff you encounter tends to be skippable.
Other than that, I propose The Pegasus Expedition. I found it to be fairly fast-paced.
You don't have many opportunities to grind in Reverse Collapse. The game is hard, though it mainly depends on your ability to strategize than raw numbers. For example, there's one boss early on who's completely unbeatable unless you can exploit her AI into running on some plants.
If you liked Life is Strange, I strongly recommend Lost Records: Bloom & Rage. Made by the same team.
Portal I and II.
Psychonauts I and II, with the caveat that there used to be a HUGE skill spike in the penultimate chapter of #1. I gather they've softened it, but don't know how much.
- Some Pokemon ROM hacks where the difficulty spikes were not too harsh
There are definitely some good pokemon fangames on PC that aren't super difficult from what I remember.
Most other fan games I could think of are either too long, have a good amount of difficulty, or have some sort of QOL thing preventing me from recommending it.
oh also, a less popular one: Wandersong! non-violent adventure platformer about a bard who wants to make the world a better place. a beautiful, mostly linear story in a colorful world. very easy to get sucked into.
Recently, I've been playing a lot of Brotato. However, there is no story.
I mean, if you've enjoyed Skyrim, honestly you can just google "best RPGs of all time" and play any that will show up. I'm gonna go against the grain here and say that Skyrim's world is beautiful and the combat is cool but there's nothing special about the story or the quests. Try enderall, fallout London, gothic 1+2 + archolos, mass effect 1-3, disco Elysium, Witcher 1-3, Baldur's Gate 1-3, Neverwinter nights 1+2, dragon age origins, fallout new Vegas, pillars of eternity1+2, Kotor 1+2, south park stick of truth + fractured butthole, cyberpunk, fable the lost chapters, divinity original sin 1+2, dark messiah of might and magic(fun and underrated, imo), etc.
If at any point you feel like the combat is too hard or whatever you can use cheats and just enjoy the story. All of these have pretty good ones. At least all of these have less grinding and better story than Pokemon games, in my experience.
Beyond that, just go for popular, widely acclaimed games such as rdr2, bioshock, whichever doom you want, portal 1+2, etc.
Planescape Torment.
Definitely. Thought I put it there, but guess not.
Definitely don't recommend Enderal. OP mentioned they didn't want a game with difficulty spikes, and Enderal is pretty notorious for difficulty spiking. Playing Enderal on Normal difficulty is like playing Skyrim on Hard.
It might be okay on its own, but it's not what OP is looking for.
Yeah, that's fair, had forgotten about that. Then again, that's one of the games where cheats can make it playable.
+1 for Enderal
Let me offer a spin on this: the point-&-click adventure Technobabylon, which is more a staggeringly creative and massive series of escape rooms, and not that much of an open world to explore and revisit.
Perceptibly, it has zero grinding and is to the point with what you've gotta do. It is one of the only point-&-click adventure games that I've beaten; I normally dislike the genre, which speaks volumes to how incredible it is.
This is why I sometimes enjoy Ubisoft trash. Especially Ghost Recon Wildlands and Breakpoint. Just the same old shit on a massive map, an okay story, fun gameplay. Easy. Simple. Nice for mindless bullshit.
For an RPG, try Kingdoms of Amalur Re-reckoning.
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I loved that game so much. Haven’t had quite an experience like it since