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3 Video Games Where Your Choices Actually Make a Difference

Games where choices matter often narrow what matters to character death or branching endings.

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Games where choices matter often narrow what matters to character death or branching endings.

The short version

  • These narrative-driven games do it differently.
  • Large-scale narrative branches are engaging for a reason.
  • They're satisfying, and they make you feel a sense of influence over events and characters you care about.

What happened

Like with video game romance, however, they have become somewhat stale and predictable in form. So for this list, I decided to look at three games that use branching narratives in bolder and unexpected ways.

Why it matters

Which sounds fun, and it is, until your delusion stat maxes out and you die.

Summary by Nerd News Network. Read the full article at Polygon via the links above and below.

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