Fall into the place of bones. Urge on the stagnant residents who are lost to corrupt virtue. Use sins as your tools to improve their existence. Expose the cabbages pretending to be people. Learn about the razor blades hidden in your walls.
Ossuary might be the most fun religious game I've ever played since the Shin Megami Tensei series. Ossuary is basically Bible Adventures but for Discordianism - and actually fun to play.
But what's Discordianism, you ask? Well, in the late 1960s, a small group of american counterculture theorists, magicians and writers decided to sketch out a parody...
Buyer beware: Treat this game as if it were a visual novel with very little to no gameplay. It's more of an interactive venture into philosophy and whatnot. A "Talk N' Walk" if you will. Gameplay amounts to talking to NPC's over and over and collect a variety of four particular "core aspects" each of the 4 main NPC's will require of you. In doing so,...
Enjoyable philosophical puzzle game.
Make no mistake: Ossuary is a highly intellectual pastime. But it is not pretentious. It shows you different moral or ethical positions, but doesn't assign any one to you. The philosophy is not retrofitted to some pre-existing puzzle gameplay (*cough*Talos*cough*), but rather integral to the game: as you explore...
This game came out in 2013 and I only learned of its existence a few days ago. The surprise for me was seeing how good it was received back then, so I wonder who else, besides me, also let this little game slip past their fingers. That said, I was given the chance to check this game out, and I’m glad I did so.
Ossuary is the name of a place, somewhere...
It is short.
The gameplay is text-based puzzle solving.
It is confusing, and in the end seems to ask more questions than it answers.
If you are still undeterred, I highly recommend you buy this brilliant game. Its writing manages to evoke a unique and often unsettling lore and setting, and it poses questions with an intelligence I have scarcely seen...
