2022 was a stellar year for narrative-oriented videogames, with plenty of thought provoking titles that tackled a wide range of issues and ideas. Here are five story-focused games you don't want to miss.
With videogame budgets continuing to swell and these heightened expenses seemingly limiting the risks AAA releases can take, it can be tempting to feel skeptical about this medium’s future. Thankfully, plenty of titles outside the big-budget space are actively pushing the bounds of what games can be. This year was defined by smaller-scale endeavors with outstanding storytelling, labors of love that seemingly came from lived experience or extensive research.
While events aren’t portrayed in a linear order, it still maintains the hallmarks of any successful suspense-driven yarn, rewarding with a steady supply of unexpected twists. This organic process of discovery makes each turn particularly gratifying, and when I first uncovered something genuinely unsettling, it had much more of an impact because this investigation was in my control.
Also, these movies are entertaining in their own right, each working as a homage and parody of various filmmaking eras. One is a bawdy religious-themed period-drama, another a French New Wave-styled thriller, while the third is brimming with late ‘90s identity-swap cheesiness. The performances are excellent as well, sometimes channeling intentional camp while others convey dread, and Manon Gage’s portrayal of Marissa is particularly magnetizing.
Over time, its barrage of imagery begins to click, and while it never outright states the “truth” of what’s happening, certain sequences provide enough context to draw satisfying conclusions. From its heavy allusions to psychopomps and the afterlife, themes of grappling with grief and accepting loss come into focus as we traverse a terrifying place trapped in limbo. Its fragmented presentation and the specifics of its science-fiction world reveal a preoccupation with identity and memory.
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