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Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Transistor
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Even the Ocean 2016Also contemporary and earnest
Pyre 2017Also contemporary, grave and richly built
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Song of Farca 2021Also contemporary, plot-driven and grave
Prey 2017Also contemporary, grave and earnest
Causal Loop 2026Also contemporary, grave and earnest
Tides of Tomorrow 2026Also contemporary, grave and earnest
Cyber Manhunt 2021Also contemporary, grave and plot-driven
Detroit: Become Human 2018Also contemporary, grave and earnest
Dredge 2023Also contemporary, grave and richly built
Shinsekai: Into the Depths 2019Also contemporary, grave and earnest
The same feel, in other forms
Books
Embassytown 2011Also contemporary, grave and earnest
Three Moments of an Explosion 2015Also contemporary and grave
Area X 2014Also contemporary, grave and earnest
Albums
- Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness 2005Also contemporary, richly built and grave
- Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager 2010Also contemporary, grave and richly built
- No Earthly Connection 1976Also grave, contemporary and plot-driven
Films
Patema Inverted 2013Also contemporary, grave and earnest
Nightbreed 1990Also grave and earnest
Neo Tokyo 1989Also contemporary, grave and plot-driven
Series
Dollhouse 2009Also contemporary and grave
The OA 2016Also contemporary, grave and earnest
Kaiba 2008Also contemporary and grave
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