I'd like to request recommendations (spoiler free!) for games where you need to make choices, take sides, kill or not kill someone, follow or do not follow orders, but where the consequences actually matter - and most importantly, where the choices aren't "obviously good choice vs obviously bad choice".

Give me games where I can choose to side with one kingdom or another, but there's no clear moral high ground, or where I need to decide to save someone dear to me at the cost of innocent lives. I do not want things like "save all the children and get the happy ending and make flowers grow" versus "kill everybody and everything blows up and the world gets all its water replaced by acid".

What games fit this requirement?

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[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Fallout: New Vegas. Hell, Fallout 2. In 2 early on, you only have time to one of two quests and people die when you can't help them. You can't save everyone.

Very different from later games where time doesn't matter and the whole world waits for you.

[–] 9715698@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

FO3 as well - Megaton specifically lives or dies by your decision.

[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

That and Tenpenny Tower are the only instances that stand out in fo3 though.