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profits. As the player becomes immensely rich, the difficulty of making money becomes trivial
and the game's resistance becomes slack, possibly leading players to wonder what the point of
so much money actually is.
Platform : Flash
Price : F r e e
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Analogue: A Hate Story
(Christine Love, 2012)
Verbs, Story
At the beginning of Analogue , the player enters an empty spaceship that was built to carry a
civilization over many generations to a new world. Rather than exploring the ship by walking
around it, the player explores the history of the vanished civilization by reading documents that
were left behind, now made accessible by interacting with two digital intelligences that still
remain in the ship. Much of Analogue involves piecing together and interpreting these frag-
ments, letters, and diary entries to understand the social structure and personal intrigues of the
ship's passengers, which are based in part on changes in the society of ancient Korea, mak-
ing the game's themes a fascinating blend of history and sci-fi. At certain moments, the verbs
available to the player and the visual context of the game become entirely different as you're
moved to a stark, monochrome, command-line interface that allows you to control the ship's
systems directly. It's in these moments that some of the crucial branching points determining
the outcome of the story occur.
Platform: Windows, Mac, Linux
Price: US $10. Free trial also available.
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The Banner Saga (Stoic, 2014)
Verbs, Scenes, Resistance, Story
At the heart of The Banner Saga is a turn-based game of tactics played with teams of charac-
ters who move and attack each other on a grid. This game in turn revolves around a constant
choice between two verbs: will you “wound” an enemy unit's ability to wound you back, or
“break” their armor, making it easier to wound them back? The choice between these two
options remains surprisingly rich throughout each battle, especially as your own units become
 
 
 
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