Story-Rich Megabundle live till 21st Dec
I don’t tend to write up Steam bundle discounts, but thisisa rather good one. As the name suggests, LudoNarraCon and Fellow Traveller’sStory-Rich Megabundlenets you 10 well-received narrative-heavy games for around £20, €23 or $25, including three games I’d personally say are among the choicest chunks of digital scribble to ever grace an SSD.
Those three areParadise Killer,RoadwardenandCard Shark. All excellent, all “story rich”, all otherwise extremely different. Let’s count the ways.
Paradise Killer is an almost offensively cool first-person adventure in which you are a detective investigating a mass murder. Which might sound prosaic, so let me swiftly add that all the parties concerned are immortal, and that the setting is a pocket universe full of bizarre monoliths and temples. You can accuse a character of doing the deed at any time, but you’ll probably want to poke around and speak to as many people as you can before committing to anything, if only because the Lovecraftian resort ambience is so dreamy, with “colours that really make blood spatter pop”,in Alice B’s words.
Roadwarden? I’vebanged on at no end about Roadwarden, so I’ll try to keep this brief: it’s a text-based RPG that’s styled like a storybook, in which your job is basically to map and restore the paths of a wilderness province, while doing favours for villages along the route. It’s one of the finest fantasy games I’ve played. Jay (RPS in peace) wassimilarly impressed.
The other games in the bundle are No Longer Home (which"combines monsters with more adult fears"), Yes, Your Grace (which Sinliked, despite feeling let down by the ending), Wytchwood (which Alice B alsoliked, summarising it as “a dark fantasy fairy-tale to-do list that takes full advantage of its premise and has a lot of fun with it”),Glitchhikers: The Spaces Between(which Alice Bdid not like, calling it “a beautiful walk through weird spaces, interrupted by frictionless, uninteresting conversations”), King of the Castle (“Game of Phones”), Behind The Frame: The Finest Scenery (“short and very sweet”), and Before Your Eyes (which Ed says isbetter when you have hayfever).
Do any of those take your fancy? If the answer’s yes, you’ll want to get your skates on. The Story-Rich Megabundle is live till 21st December. Of the ones I haven’t played, Wytchwood strikes me as the catch.
