Games without Sound

Hey all,

I was just wondering what games you would recommend for someone, me, who wants to play a game without the sound. Do you like to listen to music while playing a game with its sound off or do you consider that ruinous for the game experience? I personally enjoy it sometimes, but what games do you think work best with this situation. Obviously puzzle games like Tetris or similar type of games are easy to recommend, but I'm curious for other recommendations.

Thanks duders!

I play most of my ARPGs (like Torchlight 2) with the music turned-off and most of the sound turned-off. If I can, I'll still have the announcer for the low-mana/low-health warning and I'll listen to my own music.

I play Hearthstone without music too.

I just spent two hours playing Kerbal Space Program while listening to the director's commentary to On Her Majesty's Secret Service, so there you go. You don't need the sound for Kerbal.

It depends hugely on the game. Some I prefer to play with the sound off after I get into them, others I consider the sound an essential part of the experience all the way through. Usually it's MMOs or something that requires similarly repetitive gameplay which I like to turn the sound off on and just play podcasts or music over. I think that's pretty common.

I typically go with sound unless I'm doing a grind in the game. I don't mind missing the same repetitive songs. I usually listen to podcasts or lectures online.

Casual games are good (as you mentioned), MMOs tend to be fine as most don't need sound, and a lot of Open World games, like Skyrim, don't really need sound. Any adventure game can be fine without sound, really, if you don't mind reading.

As much as I adore the soundtrack to The Binding of Isaac, it's a great game for listening to other things whilst you're playing. I typically would listen to the bombcast while I'm playing it.

Lots of multiplayer games I tend to listen to music/podcasts while playing by myself. If I have friends playing with me I don't like having any sound other than the actual game I'm playing going.

One of my friends likes to have music in the background even when he's on his mic, it's very irritating.

Essentially all turn-based/"meant to be paused" strategy games, like XCOM, Civilization or Europa Universalis

I usually play Diablo 3 while listening to the bomcast.