Manifesting

Games in which you turn thoughts (typically words) into reality as a mechanic

  • Alan Wake
  • Scribblenauts
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gemstone iv

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Backspace Bouken

There was a joke program that looked like notepad, but eventually the letters would fall down and form a big pile at the bottom of the window. I can’t find it though

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Rudora no Hihou

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I feel like one of the games in Infocom’s Enchanter trilogy must have had a spell that could do this, but it’s been so long since I’ve played them.

Nier

Persona 2

Psychonauts 2

Oh, speaking of which: Counterfeit Monkey.

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Infocom’s Nord and Bert Couldn’t Make Head or Tail of It was centered maround transforming objects using puns if that counts.

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I’m always learning of Infocom blindspots.

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I haven’t played it, but I know Quadrilateral Cowboy is about ā€œprogrammingā€ the world. Like, it’s an adventure game where you have a magical console where you can type code to change the game world. It’s supposed to be pretty cool!

If we’re counting ā€œhackingā€ games there’s Hack ā€˜n’ Slash which is a Zelda style game that lets you do this to a limited extent, as well as Glitchspace, an FPS.

similarly there’s that else.Heart(Break) game right?

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B U L L E T gun in enter the gungeon

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If there’s not already a Felix the cat game where you think up items and exclamation marks and then grab them out of the thought bubbles to use them, then there probably should be

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oh that’d be a great context-sensitive button thingo and inventory diegesis yeah