Craft your personal narrative in early 2023

As a fan of each literature and puzzle video games, Storyteller has been considered one of my most anticipated video games of the yr. The sport takes place within the pages of a storybook, and requires gamers to mix completely different parts like characters, settings, and objects to create coherent tales. There are a number of methods to resolve every puzzle, making for some enjoyable, inventive, and difficult gameplay. Storyteller was first introduced throughout final yr’s Annapurna Interactive Showcase, which confirmed off the fundamental mechanics of the sport in a brief trailer. After nearly a yr and a half of ready, Annapurna lastly introduced Storyteller‘s official launch date for Steam and Nintendo Change: March 23, 2023.

Whereas indie darling manufacturing facility Annapurna Interactive is publishing Storyteller, the whole sport was a made by a single developer, Daniel Benmergui. It’s a easy premise for a sport, however after taking part in the demo, I can say that it’s impressively crafted and polished. Storyteller is by far essentially the most quaint little puzzle sport I’ve seen in a very long time, and based mostly on its participating gameplay, I anticipate it would make an actual title for itself as one of the pleasant releases of subsequent yr.

Lots of Storyteller‘s puzzles are based mostly on traditional tales like Romeo & Juliet, Dracula, the Biblical e book of Genesis, and extra, a lot to my delight as a former literary classics-focused English main. Except for the time-looping tackle Hamlet that’s the 2019 journey sport Elsinore, and I can’t consider many different video games that draw on traditional lit, however they actually ought to. I might give something for a Telltale-style narrative sport based mostly on John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, or a Jane Austen-inspired relationship simulator. We’re at all times speaking in regards to the intersection between video games and movie, however I’m way more intrigued with video games that take closely from literature, just like the beloved and elegantly-written Disco Elysium.