question of the day: if I asked the Fediverse to help me name this game, would I regret it
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Let's try this instead.
What are the names of your favorite story-driven games? Preferably science fantasy or fantasy in genre.
(Boosts appreciated, I want to collect as many titles as possible for analysis.)
- urban fantasy, but I recently played the first two Blackwell games ("The Blackwell Legacy" and "Blackwell Unbound"), and despite a small amount of adventure-game nonsense, both of those were really first-rate tone pieces. Really enjoyed.
- "Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery" was more a puzzle game, granted, but it had a pretty good (if fatalistic) narrative arc and unusual worldbuilding
- completely outside your categories: "Papers, Please" had some great story and setting built into the bureaucracy-em-up gameplay.
@packbat "bureaucracy-em-up" is an amazing turn of phrase for that game
@InspectorCaracal @packbat oh, Return of the Obra Dinn would be a great addition to your list here too! same dude who did papers please and all
also the Metal Gear Solid series for story-driven i think. i haven't played any of the games, but i do quite enjoy listening to Super Bunnyhop do analyses of them lmao. i'd honestly count them as modern science-fantasy. it tries to be science fiction but then you've got, like. well. GESTURES AT THE FEAR, ETC.
