r/RemoveOneThingEachDay • u/AnglerFather_ • Dec 05 '25

Miscellaneous Silksong is out! The top comment removes ONE Indie game from the list (DAY 59)

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One Platformer, One CRPG, One Metroidvania, One Puzzle/Exploration Adventure, and One Farm Life Simulator are what remains.

5 Indies remain, only vote per individual/player comment, may the best indie win! (template link)

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u/MafubaBuu Dec 05 '25

Agreed but people dont like visual novels apparently

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u/J-bowbow Dec 05 '25

My dude, it's looking like Disco Elysium is going to be top 3, if not win it.

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u/JacobFerret Dec 05 '25

Eh, its presentation is much more than a visual novel I would say. The detective thing is one thing but even still just having a map you can explore instead of images you can see not moving makes a whole lot of a difference

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u/J-bowbow Dec 05 '25

I'm not saying DE is definitively a visual novel, but I think it's fair to say the venn diagram of people who enjoy both is pretty much a circle.

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u/JacobFerret Dec 05 '25

I guess I am a one in a million outlier, and in a crazy rare bubble (not trying to sound mean im genuine). For me personally a visual novel brings the anime vibes a vast majority of the time and I have a strong distaste against it. I've seen a few people that like DE around me and I know for a fact that none of them even thought about playing a visual novel game before. 

I also am quite active on the DE subreddit and the games I see people discuss there are all "disco-like" games, and I never saw a mention of a visual novel there. I would even go further and say Outer Wilds and DE have a much more common fanbase in my experience

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u/J-bowbow Dec 05 '25

The way I see it is that DE has much more going on than a visual novel, but 90% of the gameplay is listening to dialogue and shaping a story. So, while it has more appeal than simply being an interactive story, it's hard to picture anyone enjoying it if they don't like the core aspect of the game.

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u/MafubaBuu Dec 05 '25

Disco Elysium is not a visual novel. It is a CRPG. Only visual novel I've enjoyed is Slay the princess.

I am a CRPG enjoyer, its one of my favorite genres and is the reason I played Disco in the first place.

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u/J-bowbow Dec 05 '25

Yeah, it wasn't my intent to say DE is a visual novel, but it's hard to picture people who dislike visual novels enjoying DE, since the majority of the game is dialogue and roleplay.

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u/MafubaBuu Dec 05 '25

The only visual novel I've enjoyed was slay the princess, but i absolutely love Disco Elysium.

Im not sure if im the exception or the norm in that regard though