BNR: When it comes to video games, there’s a type of frustration that I enjoy- this frustration falls into two categories. The first is common to games like FTL: Faster Than Light- it’s frustration over things outside of your control. Frustration over the fact that a random event turned you for the worst, and that if you had taken an odd step somewhere earlier, things just might have turned out differently- but there was no way of really knowing.
Kerbal Space Program, on the other hand, takes this frustration and turns it upside down. When there’s a failure of some sort, of any sort in Kerbal Space Program, it’s your fault for making a mistake. It’s something you can go back, fix, and smile smugly at your screen when your spaceship actually makes it into space.
Terraria, Kerbal Space Program, and Path of Exile can be incredibly hard for players to get into without ample prior genre experience.
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