I would recommend checking out Jason Rohrer's simple causal games. You have to download them but they are available for Linux, Mac, and Windows. I guess I would describe them as a kind of autobiographical metaphorical art game.
Passage: http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/passag…
Gravitation: http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/gravit…
@7, there's an end. It's not a very satisfying one, but there's an end. There are five things you need to do, each of which represents a break from your normal routine.
The game is you are having a recurring dream....get to one end and it starts over, but you can change the direction of the dream. I think the ending is both disturbing and satisfying, but maybe that's just cause I'm a Buddhist and don't take the illusion to seriously to begin with.
I think "Every day the same dream" is broken. I can't ever get to work without being late. And then there was nobody there. I couldn't sit at any of the cubes and get work done. Pretty frustrating.
And if you're looking for an even more brain-bending-with-directions game than First Person Tetris, I can't recommend "Continuity" enough. Definitely one of my favorite casual games of 2009. It lives here: http://www.continuitygame.com/
Well, in the second game, if you go to work without getting dressed, you get fired. I thought if you came back again (after being fired) you could kill them all. Doesn't work that way.
Oh my gosh, I remember one time downloading a large list of old games from the nineties. Mostly mario and racing games, a lot of games I've never heard of, but amongst the mix, I found something very odd. There was a game that was literally called "rape game", and I'm pretty sure it was a joke. We were drunk and high, and the game was only three levels. The first two, you play as a prostitute (gigolo?), and you have to do really weird and disturbing things for people. The last level, you just run into a room, and you have to press a button repeatedly, before chopping someone's head off. It was very fucked.
Passage: http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/passag…
Gravitation: http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/gravit…
I liked "Every Day the Same Dream." If you liked that, here are a couple more (different creators, different gameplay, same feeling) that got a lot of attention in 2009:
"Small Worlds" - http://armorgames.com/play/4850/small-wo…
"Today I Die" - http://www.ludomancy.com/games/today.php
And if you're looking for an even more brain-bending-with-directions game than First Person Tetris, I can't recommend "Continuity" enough. Definitely one of my favorite casual games of 2009. It lives here:
http://www.continuitygame.com/
Oh my gosh, I remember one time downloading a large list of old games from the nineties. Mostly mario and racing games, a lot of games I've never heard of, but amongst the mix, I found something very odd. There was a game that was literally called "rape game", and I'm pretty sure it was a joke. We were drunk and high, and the game was only three levels. The first two, you play as a prostitute (gigolo?), and you have to do really weird and disturbing things for people. The last level, you just run into a room, and you have to press a button repeatedly, before chopping someone's head off. It was very fucked.