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| === Interactive fiction === | === Interactive fiction === |
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| | Interactive stories that earn their runtime: |
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| | * Graham Walmsley's [[:games:The Thirty Nine Steps]] (~2 hours) adapts the Buchan spy thriller into a well-paced story world. |
| | * Jim Nelson's [[:games:According to Cain]] (~3 hours) is thematically ambitious and features wonderful, moody writing. |
| | * Drew Cook's [[:games:Repeat the Ending]] (~6 hours) at first blush hews to conventional adventure game tropes, but then thoroughly subverts them with a chorus of paratextual voices and interactions whose meaning is realized by the ending. |
| | * Obsidian's [[:games:Pentiment]] (~15 hours) is a work of thematic and artistic ambition, scope, and historicity. Mostly linear with both immediate branching and long-term global variables influencing the ending. |
| | * ZA/UM's [[:games:Disco Elysium]] (~25 hours) uses choices to explore where we find hope in a world of despair. It lets the player prioritize aspects of the protagonist's personality, and allows quite a bit of nonlinear exploration within a linear overall plot. |
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| === Recommended videogames === | === Recommended videogames === |
| Games I still intend to play, especially those that have been recommended to me. | Games I still intend to play, especially those that have been recommended to me. |
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| | * [[games:Pendragon]] (owned, ~2.5 hours) |
| | * [[games:Overboard]] (owned, ~2.5 hours) |
| | * [[games:The Vanishing of Ethan Carter]] (owned, ~5 hours) |
| | * [[games:OneShot]] (owned, ~5 hours) |
| | * [[games:Still Wakes The Deep]] (~5 hours) - I like The Chinese Room and this is apparently more mechanics-heavy than their previous games and has fantastic acting and sense of place. |
| * [[games:Beacon Pines]] (~5 hours) | * [[games:Beacon Pines]] (~5 hours) |
| * [[games:Strange Horticulture]] (~5 hours) | * [[games:Norco]] - [[https://www.polygon.com/reviews/23025400/norco-review-point-and-click-adventure-windows-pc-mac-ending|because]]. WOFF found this underwhelming, but it got lots of other positive press and seems up my alley. (~5 hours) |
| * [[games:Norco]] ([[https://www.polygon.com/reviews/23025400/norco-review-point-and-click-adventure-windows-pc-mac-ending|because]]) (~5 hours) | |
| * [[games:The Case of the Golden Idol]] ([[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1677770/The_Case_of_the_Golden_Idol|Steam]]) compared to Obra Dinn (~5 hours) | * [[games:The Case of the Golden Idol]] ([[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1677770/The_Case_of_the_Golden_Idol|Steam]]) compared to Obra Dinn (~5 hours) |
| * [[games:Kentucky Route Zero]] (~10 hours) | * [[games:Kentucky Route Zero]] (owned, ~10 hours) |
| * [[games:SOMA]] (Jeff recommended) (~10 hours) | * [[games:SOMA]] (Jeff recommended) (~10 hours) |
| * [[games:Metroid Dread]] (~10 hours) | * [[games:Metroid Dread]] (~10 hours) |
| * [[games:Heaven's Vault]] (uniquely for me) (~15 hours) | * [[games:Hi-Fi Rush]] (owned, ~11 hours) |
| | * [[games:Heaven's Vault]] (uniquely for me) (owned, ~15 hours) |
| * [[games:Nobody Saves The World]] (~15 hours) | * [[games:Nobody Saves The World]] (~15 hours) |
| * [[games:NORCO]] - WOFF found this underwhelming, but it got lots of other positive press and seems up my alley. | * [[games:Lorelei and the Laser Eyes]] (owned, ~20 hours) |
| * [[games:Still Wakes The Deep]] - I like The Chinese Room and this is apparently more mechanics-heavy than their previous games and has fantastic acting and sense of place. | * [[games:Wildermyth]] (owned, ~30 hours) |
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| Games marked "owned" but not "played:" | Games marked "owned" but not "played:" |