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azuarc posted...

The game that annoyed me the most on the "can't tell you" front was Outer Wilds, which isn't even a meta-twist game, but holy crap if you wouldn't see literally every reference to Outer Wilds for a while go "just trust me bro, it's so amazeballs good but I can't tell you why." They refused to even explain the gameplay, the genre, or anything else.

To be fair it's because the first loop, which is like an hour, is so damn good and impactful if you don't know the twist. If you just played that, and then quit the game because you don't like exploration deduction games, you would still have a great experience, since it's a very different genre than the rest of the game. The demo of the game that was around for years was mostly this part of the game, so that's how the word of mouth spread initially.