Man… How bout something constructive?
Here’s a couple ideas.
A farming simulator souls like
A community service Metroidvania where the world becomes easier to traverse the more people you help
An RPG where you play a pacifist where the classes is negotiator, construction worker, delivery person, fire fighters. Instead of fighting the war, youre building a better world AFTER the wars.
Im looking at the ps store right now and 95% of the games on offer is about beating up or killing people or creatures in some way.
Im a HUGE fan of souls like games and Metroidvanias and I used to be into FPS games.
But Im older now. And Ive come to notice that maybe the violence wasnt why I liked those games but perhaps it was the “kinetics” and meat and potato mechanics that made me like them.
I think Im just tired of all the violence being pushed and marketed to me as a gamer. It’s over represented.
I’ve for a while had the idea for a game in my head wherein you can kill people, but the player will really need to get out of their way to do it, and if they do, the game will go great lengths portraying the corpse as something that once was a human that had thoughts, fears, desires and dreams, just like the player, making sure they understand the gravity of what they had just done.
Of course it’s easy to come up with such ideas. What is hard to do is to come up with some good game mechanics to be used in conjunction with that.