Every journey needs barriers to grow on - to make it worthwhile

A community dedicated to reward ballsy-singleplayer games for stucking to their vision and making games feel "grand", "unpredictable" and "mysterious" again.

As such every game that features a so called "assist-mode" or similiar sliders/toggles to completely customize the fundamental rules of an singleplayer game will be recorded here.
Games are judged by the extent of their features and how restricted they are.

Positive - games with no Assist Mode or sliders to compromise the gameplay experience.
Dedicated difficulty Levels are fine, as long they maintain the possibility to lose. Also games with exclusive hardcore modes that deactivate all possibilities to use assist mode functions during playthrough permanently can be positive.

Neutral: Games with extensive options to customize the gameplay experience, but restrained and/or restricted to reward interacting with the Core-Gameplay-Loop like its intended.

Negative:
Assist-Feature under the disguise of "accessibility". Allows you to circumvent the games design-goals and rules with no detriments.
Every piece of content and reward can be received with no effort. Punishing players taking the game on at face value, by not acknowledging the effort ignoring the assist mode options. (no ingame rewards, exclusive challenges, achievements etc)
Only games that completely trivialize core-parts of its gameplay-loop land here.
Also Remasterds and Remakes will be judged more critically as their is a direct comparison to the original, inheriting much potential to distract from a more worthwhile experience.

The extent of each games "Assist" functions will be listed.
Wheter you agree or disagree with the purpose of this group, is up to you.

Feel free to view positive or negative listings the opposite way, it's not our intention to tell you what you have to play and how you wanna play it. Our intention is for you to find what you want, building a community of like-minded people and inspire aspiring game-developers to become transgressive in todays market with a purpose.

Every listing is based on their willingness to compromise on the mediums unique characteristic of having to push through resistance, it does nothing say about the overall quality of the games, besides this factor.