Do actual NONviolent videogames exist?

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Most racing games ever made. Proper racing games that is, like World Rally Championship or Gran Turismo. "Racing" games like Road Rash don't count.

riding into people can be considered violence.

Which is why I specified 'proper' racing games, as opposed to the likes of Demolition Derby and Carmageddon. The WRC series, and indeed every rally game, follows the format of real rallying - one car driving the stage at a time, therefore nothing to collide with.

Besides, most motorsports have strict rules (and penalties) regarding intentional contact and so such contacts are considered cheating. Therefore in a game of said motorsport contact cannot be considered to be a part of the game.

 

[joshthor]

And before anyone comes up with something like "Deal or no deal (now on PC)" I'd like to point out that I'm talking violence in quite a broad sense... And besides, that's not a game.

Deal or No Deal, is both non-violent and a game.
You know what it is on TV? A gameshow.
You know what it is when you buy it in a cardboard box in a toystore? A boardgame.
So what is it when its on a computer? A computer/videogame.

I'm sorry if I seem like I'm being mean here, but I'm getting quite irritated by the constant denouncing of things that people don't like.

Farmville's not a game.
Wii Sports is not a game.
There's only three Star Wars movies.
Escape From Monkey Island doesn't exist.

So don't take it personally its more of a whole heap of frustration let out at an inconvenient moment.

Back on topic. Most Harvest Moon games are entirely non-violent... Well you can accidentally (I hope) hit your animals with tools, and there is a chicken competition that's like a sumo wrestling match...
Damn I guess it doesn't count.

someone said there is only 3 star wars movies!? Where! ill kill em! everyone knows there are 5!!!! (phantom menace doesnt exist homes...)

 

[Feste the Jester]

Animal Crossing. Unless you count fishing and bug catching as violent.

 

[JokerCrowe]

Flower?
Unless you call your petals being elecricuted "violent". I mean, it looks violent, but...

...

I'll just shut up now.

 

[reg42]

Pong
Bejeweled
I'm a bit into Beneath a Steel Sky, and there's no violence so far.

hmmmmmmmm, no evry games pretty much has some thing that can relate to intense violence

Violence? No, but I can see why you'd say that.
Intense violence? No, that's just false

 

[Legion]

But isn't the idea of a competition like pong, where you're grinding your opponent into ping pong related dust and Tetris, which awards you for making blocks simply disappear still a form of violence?

Well if that's the case Tennis is violent, seeing as Pong is just digital Tennis.

You seem to be using the more poetical use of the word 'violent' as opposed to the generally used term.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

What about the blocks that disappear?

OT: Well, uh, Bejeweled?

... You just contradicted yourself there...

 

[Mcface]

God of War 3.

/thread on this.
games without violence are like.. kids without... uhm.. shit who needs analogies when you have a tank!

 

[Treefingers]

Damn, i've been ninja'd on everything i can think of.

But isn't the idea of a competition like pong, where you're grinding your opponent into ping pong related dust and Tetris, which awards you for making blocks simply disappear still a form of violence?

No. Don't be silly.

 

[Withall]

Games like Tony Hawk (ok they have bail violence and recently you can now swing your board at people)
theres those random games that try to be sold on animated girls like deadoralive beach vollyball(havent played it but assuming its violence free)

For a second there I thought you had written "deadorative" volleyball. (Portmanteau of Dead or alive and "decorative". Seeing as the DoA girls in that game are basically ornamental pieces, I don't think it was too far fetched.

 

[iamjonah]

Here you go (great story on a great, albiet outdated, site):
http://www.actsofgord.com/Chronicles/chapter36.php

 

[Jack and Calumon]

Myst holds the record for least Violent adventure game of all time. To quote the Guiness Book of Records Gamers Edition:

Myst features almost no dialogue, no enemies, no time limit and no way of dying, making it the least violent adventure game of all time.

I guess Golf isn't violent either.

Calumon: But it is that... other thing, you won't tell me about.

 

[KimberlyGoreHound]

Animal Crossing. Other than smacking people with a net, there's no violence.

 

[Wintermoot]

Dance Dance Revolution

 

[Deadlock Radium]

Tetris.

Unless you consider it blockicide.

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And we've also got Gran Turismo and other simulators.

 

[Manicotti]

All the major puzzle games have been mentioned. My personal offer would be Portal as well, since pretty much all conflict is perpetrated against inanimate/inorganic materials (I haven't finished the game yet, just cleared room 19, so I may be wrong but don't want any spoilers outside "Still Alive"). Also, the Tycoon and Sims games (unless you go out of your way to grief the subjects, which isn't necessarily rewarded by game mechanics).

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Manhunt
Viva Pinata?

No, those dicks that make your unicorns explode cause violence.

 

[bam13302]

A game that has absolutely no violence... *shutters* i mean hell, even basic point and click adventures usually have some violence somewhere (Machinarium uses low level violence throughout it) I guess racing games could be classified as non-volent, Osmos (if you look at it right), but actual full (decent selling games) that have no volence anywhere, dam near impossible, hell, the sims even allow violence (kill your sim, lay waste to you city), flight simulators you can crash.. basic violence/damage to yourself/others/property is a part of everything, if a game doesnt have it, it lacks conflict, lacks story, and you would have trouble classifying it as a game, the answer to you question would depend entirely on how strict a definition you use, the strictist definition will return 0 games simply because almost any action can be viewed as violence towards something, and without it, how do you loose.
Puzzle games being the exception as long as you dont take a, sorry, ****ing stupid outlook on them.
Oh, and i love war/fps games with exceptions (Osmos was a great game)
YAY rant!

 

[squid5580]

Any of the guitar/band games that have saturated the market.

Except Lego RockBand. In a challenge you use the power of ROCK to kick a giant octopus's ass.

 

[squid5580]

Manhunt
Viva Pinata?

No, those dicks that make your unicorns explode cause violence.

Viva Pinata is one of the most violent games I have ever played. You beat them down with a shovel and then they engage in cannibalism.