7 Games with Interesting Narrative: Citizen Sleeper, Inscryption, Reigns, Papers, Please & More

This is my new series of micro case studies of games with interesting narrative mechanics: Narrative Nibbles. Today we check out Citizen Sleeper, Inscryption, Papers, Please, Reigns, Pyre, Steve Jackson's Sorcery! 2 and Ord. Go play all these games!
00:00 Intro
00:32 Pyre
01:43 Ord.
02:34 Steve Jackson's Sorcery!
03:50 Citizen Sleeper
05:09 Reigns
05:58 Papers, Please
07:20 Inscryption
08:39 Outro
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[@zejugames5045]

Very interesting, I hadn't heard of some of these!

[@NewToNarrative]

Nice, go check em out!

[@henriquebg89]

"Reigns is basically Tinder for narrative design".
I couldn't describe it better.

[@NewToNarrative]

Haha i wonder if its relevant for the kids

[@honaleri]

Another interesting example for another video might be Wildermyth.
It's a nice procedural story game. Play it too much and you'll see through its process, but essentially, the characters all have personalities, and each personality has potential random stories that can emerge as you proceed through the story, various outcomes alter traits and this offer new events as the story emerges, dialogs are altered based on traits and essentially, the game otherwise plays like a tactical RPG over the lifetime of your party. Romances, births, deaths, losses and gains. Lots of minor dramas to the back drop of some calamity.
A very fun time and a simple but very effective Procedural story system.

[@NewToNarrative]

Ah yeah I actually bought it to coop with some friends, but didnt get around to it yet! Will do now, thanks!

[@KV-vc1vj]

Daan the viking