That's a very vague question. Games like Prey, Cyberpunk 2077 and Hellblade have made me think more about what makes us who we are.

Universal Paperclips (web-based incremental game) does a good job of this.

My kneejerk response anytime I hear philosophy and games together regardless of context is always going to be Xenogears.

Most stories deal with some level of philosophical issue(s) among plot, but some deal primarily with philosophical issues over plot (or through plot).

I'm open to hearing about either... but do tend myself toward stories / games that deal primarily with philosophical issues.

I think SOMA would fit in that category.

How about Alpha Centauri? It is first and foremost about different opinions on what our place in the world is. Each of the faction leaders has a distinct philosophy, replete with thought-provoking quotes.

Most games are more about morale or "right or wrong". Papers Please and Orwell put you in a position where you have to decide which information to use and which not, who you let pass and who you don't.
Many many decision based games let you decide who to let down. Often there is no "right" decision, you fuck up no matter what you do.
And of course there are these "what we are" questions you find often in Sci-Fi (almost every game in the cyber punk genre is about that). You can't separate the story from the issue. The issue can only be shown through the story.

Personally I would exclude all games where you have to chose a faction or make a decision. That's the end of philosophy. That's where a path is chosen and the question is answered.


Can you make an example what type of philosophical issues you mean? What questions?

Knowing what you are looking for might help to find something.

Talos Principle was pretty loaded with this, but I didn't finish it as it was a tad too long and overstayed its welcome. Eventually got bored.

There's cases like Skyrim's Civil War, where one quest line has you siding with one side or the other, and both sides have some deeply problematic aspects.

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The Swapper opens with a Wittgenstein quote and alludes to the eternal epistemological discussions between empiricists and idealists.

As is been said previously, Alpha Centauri is a notable example of a game that tries to offer a social and ideological representation of paradigms with each faction. Maybe clichè or too generalistic but even richer and more mature than any Civ game.
Also in every technlogical advance there is a series of aphorsms or messages that use to be pure phylosophics.

And it is a must have game, of course.

Oh. And I forgot Bioshock.

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There are quite a bit. The Talos Principle has been mentioned, already.

There are others.

- The Witcher series questions what makes you really human. There's a quest in TW1 where a vampire says to Geralt "thank you, witcher, for being human."

- Far Cry 2 starts quoting Nietzsche and in general asks good questions about violence, good and evil.