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How Modern RPGs Cured Me of Save-Scumming

Summary Save scumming in video games involves exploiting saves to change game outcomes. RPGs like The Witcher discourage save scumming by delaying consequences of choices. Games like Baldur’s Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance teach players to embrace failures & avoid save scumming. Save scumming is a subset of the “cheesing” tradition in video games, and I’ve always used this…