Players usually want a good story in their games. I can enjoy a good story too, but sometimes I just want to get going and do stuff without listening to several minutes of dialog in-between action.

Do you know any games where there’s no story (or very minimal/skippable one), and the game mechanics alone carry the game?

EDIT: Thank you all for the suggestions. There are some that I’ve never heard of and look very interesting. Will definitely pick some of them up.

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Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord. Even the main campaign is basically just the sandbox.

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Ultrakill. Sometimes guys will talk to you, but its rare (only before bossfights), can mostly be ignored, and can be skipped after listening to it the first time.

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Ready or Not is basically just a swat game with no story or dialogue that matters to gameplay.

Or a building or strategy game. Something like Cities: Skylines would maybe be good if you like that sort of genre.

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Elden Ring is apparently good. And the dark souls games as a whole. Almost no story

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Dredge. I think there’s a bit of a story but really you’re just going out fishing.

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Another unusual game. I like this suggestion, thank you.

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