What are some games that require you to take notes?

I have a dirty secret: I had about 2 pages of notes on fallout 4, decided to play it without ever fast traveling, using map, or enabling compass/quest markers. It was okay but gold old so I dropped it after 30 hours

I did the same and that's the reason I kept playing for another 20 hours, but I never came across anything similar. My roomate is a bethesdacuck and when I asked her how she came across it she just said that a character explicitly told her to look for the letters/numbers then line them up, and the voiced protagonist spelled it out when she got to the end.

the worst part is that even though that's how she experienced it, she thought it was really cool and was really confused when I said how I just randomly came across it without the quest.

Like, really? You expect me to harvest 200 plants of six different varieties and then remember how many of which types of seeds I need to buy, without having a shopping list to consult?

Those coordinates when building nether portals between points of interest aren't going to remember themselves.

Fuck NOTES; I used to make entire SPREADSHEETS for the resource-intensive products like processors and modules.

Fuck NOTES; before Kerbal Engineer and MechJeb, you couldn't even make orbit without a nomogram and/or a cheat-sheet with orbital mechanics equations plus a calculator and stopwatch.

Fuck NOTES; I made custom CHECKLISTS for my favorite aircraft along with emergency procedures and airspeed specifications, and kept paper versions handy when I flew. Every flight was also done following a list of VOR radio stations and compass headings, of course.

Just the ones I can think off of the top of my head.

With or without Bobmod?
Because vanilla Factorio is almost too simple.

I've really got to start playing it sometime. Last week, I just started a properly-serious-for-the-first-time playthrough of Morrowind roleplaying as Nerevar reborn ( Skills and behavior he probably did). I've beaten the game once before, but I was 12 and didn't take it seriously over a decade ago.

Ultima series games

I wish more games had the ability to annotate maps in the way that Ultima Underworld did.

Legend of Mana

grimrock

system shock 1

elminage gothic

Masters of Orion

like other anons have said just look for old games that were rpgs or adventures.

Fucking Morrowind. Half the time you need to write down directions for easy access or some code or passphrase. I still remember getting lost looking for some burial tomb for 2 hrs cause I wrote it down wrong.