I recently finished The Last of Us 2. My girlfriend sometimes watches me play my games. And while I thought that TLoU would be a great game to follow, it was hard for her to watch (due to the violence). I wonder if there is a game that would be easy or even interesting for her to watch while I play, without it having to be something strictly “family friendly” , that also has fun gaming mechanics and isn’t just a walking simulator.
Looking forward to any ideas! :)
If you or your girlfriend aren’t prone to motion sickness, I’d recommend the Portal games and Outer Wilds.
All games from Supergiant games are an automatic recommend from me, but if you’re not into fast paced violent games which a spectator might not be able to keep up with, maybe skip Hades and go for their earlier titles.
Both Ori games may be a good choice too since she can enjoy the eye candy and story alongside.
I think the Telltale games would be good for this. Something relatively short, easy to follow and the storylines from the different games are fun and varied.
Have you asked her if there are any games she would be interested in watching? If there’s a game I want to see the story of but am not interested in playing it myself, I ask my husband to play it. (BioShock, Mass Effect, Assassin’s Creed, shooters or platformers in general). I usually help with puzzles or give input on dialogue options if I want to.
I’d say you can try the Witcher 3. It’s story rich so could be interesting to just watch too. Lots of violence though, but most of it is quite cartoonish imho so maybe it’s still okay.
My girlfriend loves to watch me play games. She likes to do “comms” as she says, where she researches tough boss guides, cool weapon locations, etc while I play. It’s interactive for her, and she doesn’t have to learn how to play the game (she doesn’t enjoy most video games and finds them frustrating). One of her favourites was Elden Ring, but really any RPG is a ton of fun for her. My dad used to watch me play video games sometimes too when I was younger, and he liked the Fallout games specifically.
My wife played Pokemon and Mario Kart before we dated. After dating for a bit she took a bit of interest in what I was playing and even started playing some games on her own.
My wife liked watching:
Witcher 3
Red Dead Redemption
Assassin’s Creed (pre-Origins style games)
Portal
Devil May Cry (besides DmC)
Prototype
Xenoblade Chronicles
L.A. Noire
Spiderman
She joined me or played some others on her own:
Stardew Valley
Rust (surprisingly)
Conan Exiles
Golf with Friends
Animal Crossing
Dinkum
Core Keeper
Terraria
Truck Simulator
Ori and the Blind Forest
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag (she liked to gather supplies and do small secondary quests, or just sail around)
The all-time winner was Breath of the Wild, she loved to watch and play it, and sometimes I watched her play it too. She solved problems in very different ways than I did and it was interesting. Example: my primary way to kill Guardians was to deflect blasts, while she just rode her horse at them and cut them apart. You can imagine how nuts Tears of the Kingdom has been lol.
I feel it might be worth mentioning she did not enjoy watching or playing:
Monster Hunter
Any flight/space sims (Ace Combat, Elite Dangerous, etc.)
Factorio
Minecraft
Remnant
Deep Rock Galactic
Vermintide/Darktide
most Metroidvanias
Civilization
If I had to guess at what these share in common, its a lack of story and NPC interactions, or pacing that makes it less interesting to watch.
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Life is Strange would be a great one! Just don’t get the remastered because it’s very buggy and has a worse art style in my opinion
If you or your girlfriend aren’t prone to motion sickness, I’d recommend the Portal games and Outer Wilds.
All games from Supergiant games are an automatic recommend from me, but if you’re not into fast paced violent games which a spectator might not be able to keep up with, maybe skip Hades and go for their earlier titles.
Both Ori games may be a good choice too since she can enjoy the eye candy and story alongside.
You need story based games for that:
Detroit become human
Or any of the Quantic Dream games really.
My spouse really enjoys when I go through the Yakuza games.
I think the Telltale games would be good for this. Something relatively short, easy to follow and the storylines from the different games are fun and varied.
Outer wilds I think would be an excellent game to play for the first time with a partner and each try to work out how to progress together.
Stardew Valley
Factorio, and then lock her out for hundreds of hours
Have you asked her if there are any games she would be interested in watching? If there’s a game I want to see the story of but am not interested in playing it myself, I ask my husband to play it. (BioShock, Mass Effect, Assassin’s Creed, shooters or platformers in general). I usually help with puzzles or give input on dialogue options if I want to.
I’d say you can try the Witcher 3. It’s story rich so could be interesting to just watch too. Lots of violence though, but most of it is quite cartoonish imho so maybe it’s still okay.
My girlfriend loves to watch me play games. She likes to do “comms” as she says, where she researches tough boss guides, cool weapon locations, etc while I play. It’s interactive for her, and she doesn’t have to learn how to play the game (she doesn’t enjoy most video games and finds them frustrating). One of her favourites was Elden Ring, but really any RPG is a ton of fun for her. My dad used to watch me play video games sometimes too when I was younger, and he liked the Fallout games specifically.
My wife played Pokemon and Mario Kart before we dated. After dating for a bit she took a bit of interest in what I was playing and even started playing some games on her own.
My wife liked watching:
She joined me or played some others on her own:
The all-time winner was Breath of the Wild, she loved to watch and play it, and sometimes I watched her play it too. She solved problems in very different ways than I did and it was interesting. Example: my primary way to kill Guardians was to deflect blasts, while she just rode her horse at them and cut them apart. You can imagine how nuts Tears of the Kingdom has been lol.
I feel it might be worth mentioning she did not enjoy watching or playing:
If I had to guess at what these share in common, its a lack of story and NPC interactions, or pacing that makes it less interesting to watch.
Thank you for this personal recommendation. Was interesting to read from first-hand experience!
The Spider-Man games on PS5 have great storytelling.
Cyberpunk 2077
God of War and God or War Ragnarok
Destiny 2…… lmao j/k
Stray is great for an audience