Games you can't lose

I know what you mean about visual novels, but if you want to try one that's not anime styled and is completely voice acted (so reading lots of text is not really required), have a look at Eliza from the Feb Humble Choice, I really enjoyed it, and LeonFowl loved it so much he made a thread about it 😁

And there is Doki Doki Literature Club :D

I haven't really played any VNs but bad ending means it ends right? :p My point was much more like you can play without any concern of "YOU DIED" message. :D

The interesting thing is that it can't be attributed to the established PnC-development skills of the game's well-known publisher, Wadjet Eye Games, as they're not also the developer on this one. As a further note, Wormwood Studio's second game "Strangeland" is tentatively placed for a release later this year, and it seems to be done to a similar style as the first game. So if you do get into the game, there'll potentially be something to look forward to.

Side-note, while technically "Cinematic Adventure Games', several Telltale Games, along with the first Life is Strange, also have Overwhelmingly Positive. As do these more traditional PnCs: Secret of (and) Curse of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Fran Bow, Sally Face, and Technobabylon (that one published AND developed by Wadjet Eye).
[Note: This isn't meant to be a comprehensive list, it's just the ones that came to mind. ^.^]

Y'know, if you're looking for some others to poke at.^.^

Haven't played Euro but heard it's quite bad in comparison (maybe bc its older, dunno) and got American Truck for free. Was pleasently suprised. Nothing for every day but every now and then it's almost meditative

And yes, Portia seems to be pretty much the standard as of now (until animal crossings comes out on pc, i presume)

No problem. :)
I do love games like that too.

Just don't go AFK while swimming or diving.
In fact, that seems like valuable advice for general application. :P

lol, truth.

On both accounts: so did I.

Don't know, actually. Never played 3rd one, but it's impossible or at least very hard to die in previous title. Quick google search.

No probs! Have fun and entertain younglins, train them well. :D

Yeah, I struggle with games like Planet Coaster and Planet Zoo, where they literally place you in the middle of a big open space and say "build what you want!" I love the idea behind it -- total freedom! -- but it's like my imagination gets paralyzed. I need a goal to work towards.

I'm odd, I know

The alternative confuses me, actually. I mean, freestyle as an option once you're already skilled in several integrateable dance forms, that's totally understandable. That seems like a great way of looking at things from different perspectives, and developing a more robust range, and is likely rather enjoyable to boot.

But as an alternative use of the time that could be spent on learning fundamentals? Well, I can't say I'm intimate enough with dance education to offer an opinion I could firmly support but nevertheless, from my perspective, that just seems like poor teaching methods [excluding perhaps circumstances where it's more in line with the needs of the students but, given your stated perspective, that clearly wasn't the case here].

Well, at the very least, I wouldn't say your perspective is "odd", even if it did somehow end up being against majority opinion. ^.^

Yeah, it's a walking simulator, but the narrative is so brilliant! It's a quite short (took me about 2-3 hours).

You can die, but there's no real penalty other than time.

If that is good with you, then Terraria even more! ( I'm not a fanatic I swear)

Also Battle Chef Brigade, if you are okay with a faster gameplay style. Brawl with monsters, get ingredients from them and from plants, play match-3-cooking, get points for good stuff and beat the other chef in a cook-off! If you lose, game just offers you to change your loadout / bonuses, and you try again. You can even plan what you'll do beforehand, it's learnable. I'm pretty confident on this suggestion, my non-gamer GF beat it while learning how to play with a controller and liked it. ( Just don't play it on hard, normal is fine, last few matches are a bit challenging)

yes, tomb raider is much easier than stephen's sausage roll, even if you can die in the former.

Seems like I forgot to add PUSH and klocki to it, which I completed as well, Delete I seem to have wishlisted, just like NABOKI so those 2 games will come later ^^

I haven't played it myself yet, but I had a couple of different friends who swore by Warband [the standalone expansion/revamp of the first Warband] while also stating a much more reserved opinion of the original release. In fact, they so heavily recommended Warband (especially with mods) over the base game and the other, later-released standalone expansion of With Fire & Sword, that I ended up with Warband wishlisted and the other two ignored, following those conversations. :P

Of course, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord just released to Early Access, so.. best bet may just be to give that one a firm look. ^.^

I keep meaning to go back to it! I haven't played that much of it yet. I will say it's not quite as relaxing as it first looks - you don't have complete freedom of flight, as in you can't just go straight up for as long as you want, you kind of swoop up in small bursts and gradually descend so you have to spend a little time at the start getting the hang of it to gain altitude.

There are puzzles but no real indication of where to go so you may spend a long time getting to one side of the map to realise what you need is on the other side. Part of the puzzle is how to reach certain areas since they are higher up than you and you will have to explore a fair bit to find the next thing to interact with. There are achievements for exploring and finding little secrets.

It is quite a soothing game and you can't really die (you fly between islands in the sky and if you glide too low you will be teleported to the nearest island's respawn point).