Fortune Telling games

[modernmodron]

One of my favorite concepts is "fortune telling video games" and there actually seems to be quite a few - there's just something about the concept that draws designers to it I think. I know i've tried my hand at a few designs of fortune telling games. I'm only going to pick out a few here to highlight, but will probably make replies to this post showing off other games as they occur to me :P

Taboo: The Sixth Sense

this one was interesting because it was actually released on the NES. I always really liked the aesthetic of it, with the figured popping up from the cards. and it also had you type in your 'question' for the reading, which as far as I know did nothing other than help you feel like you were interacting more with the results.

Electronic sweet-n-fun Fortune Teller

http://partytimehexcellent.itch.io/electronic-sweet-n-fun-fortune-teller
oh my gosh I can't tell you how much I love the look of this game, the colors are just so fantastic and cute, and it's an indie game that's an actual NES rom! I would love to try to get this on an actual cart or something.

I remember reading an article somewhere about indie fortune telling games, but for the life of me I can't find it right now.



and not to toot my own horn :toot: but I made a pixel art tarot deck that you can check out here
http://greedoslastwillandtestament.tumblr.com/tagged/tarot

Comments

[peppertsuki]

Aaa, the pixel tarot deck is super cute!

Edit: If you haven't seen it yet, the creators of the Witch Quest RPG made their own tarot deck of 28 cards, all unique rather than using the more familiar imagery. https://wilper.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/the-crowdsource-witch-quest-tarot-draft/

[modernmodron]

ahh! that's lovely :D thank you for sharing it

[thegaygamer]

Here's one I've been meaning to pick up for ages now: House of Tarot for Game Gear. Sadly, it's Japan-only, but it tends to be *really* cheap and it has great box art, so it's probably worth buying even if you can't understand it :)

Oh, and video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeUELWFyELw

[moon_hotel]

ohhhh gosh this is such a good post! I've always been fascinated by the space of "digital occult" stuff and I keep trying to find more! thank you so much for the recommendation of SWEET N FUN FORTUNE TELLER, it looks adorable :^)

Off the top of my head, there's also Puzzle Bobble 4/Bust a Move 4, which has a fortune telling mode in it as well! There's a video of it here (you can use it after you beat the puzzle story mode), and though the translation is really poor, it's still super nice.

Also, it's not really a game per se, but I really love the digital Tarot of the Holy Light app for Android and iOS. I have that and the physical copy of the deck and both seem to work really well for me!

I still really love your pixel tarot deck btw, i'd love to own a copy one day!

[modernmodron]

oh! I didnt know puzzle bobble had a fortune telling mode, that's just so cute :3

[modernmodron]

I nearly forgot this wonderful gem!
The Monkey Fortunetell

http://fortunetell.alienmelon.com/
it has just wonderful music and glitch visuals. I love how organic and noisy it feels - it also does that neat thing where the game seems to exist in its own universe, like it was released on a mirror version of windows 95