![Gone Home Concept Map By Noam Zomerfeld](http://eleganthack.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/gone-home-concept-map_v3-copy-300x83.png)
Because I teach a Story class at CCA, I have collected a deep bench of Interactive Fiction/ Games with strong narrative. I rated them because some of the students had delicate sensibilities. But it’s just my 2cents, not a “official” rating. The students did wonderful concept maps of key game ideas.
Enjoy!
Suggested games
The Room https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-room/id552039496?mt=8
Puzzle game, gorgeous graphics, Wikipedia “Through the game, a story involving the research of an unnamed person into the fifth Classical Element, “Null,” which is described in notes found through the various box puzzles.”
Drawn http://www.bigfishgames.com/games/5164/drawn-the-painted-tower/
Gorgeous art, puzzles in context. Iris is missing, but her living paintings hold the clue to her disappearance.
Botanicula http://botanicula.net/ insects go on an adventure to find a safe home from a blight. insanely cute, great music.
Broken Age http://www.brokenagegame.com/
Broken Age describes the story of two teenagers with no immediate apparent connection between the two, each “seeking to break the tradition with their lives”
Lego Harry Potter https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lego-harry-potter-years-1-4/id404086528?mt=8 It’s Harry Potter, people. If you haven’t seen the films, you might want to do both.
![Bastion-concept-map-by-DanielleForward](http://eleganthack.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Bastion-concept-map-by-DanielleForward-300x291.png)
PG-13
Bastion https://www.supergiantgames.com/games/bastion/
A third-person shooter… maybe, with a story of a post-apocalyptic words. truly beautiful (and much copied) great music, and choices that matter.
Device 6 http://simogo.com/work/device-6/ see wikipedia for plothttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_6
80 Days http://www.inklestudios.com/80days/ try to traverse the world in 80 days as the Jules Verne character. You can shape Passpartout’s character via your choices. Steampunk!
PG-R
![A Dark Room by Dan Klein 2015](http://eleganthack.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/DarkRoomDanKlein-300x200.png)
The Walking Dead http://www.thewalkingdead.com/games/ Zombie apocalypse. Also, your choices will shape your character.
A Dark Room http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/ (also IOS) Read the new yorker articlehttp://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/a-dark-room-the-best-selling-game-that-no-one-can-explain
Blood and Laurels http://versu.com/2014/05/28/blood-laurels/
Rome with an empire change, and you know what that means. Blood, intrigue, sacrifices… Of note: you can choose to be gay, or bi.
Yearwalk http://simogo.com/work/year-walk-ios/ (warning, a bit dark) Mysteries and murders as a young man does a “walkabout”
Gone Home http://www.gonehomegame.com
Creatures Such As We (Lynnea Glasser) http://www.ifcomp.org/1123/content/CreaturesSuchasWeIFComp2014.htm (can be found on Apple App store also)
You’re a dutiful tour guide on the moon – and a fan of computer dating games. This is a computer dating game, which provides landscape for brilliant meta-commentary on popular games and the challenges of delivering emotional narratives in the commercial video game industry. While niche gaming fans are sure to appreciate the in-jokes and the nuanced look at the work of narrative game development, this is also an incredibly engrossing tale of labour, life and loneliness in the future.
![Device6 by Christopher Paniati](http://eleganthack.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Device6ChristopherPaniati-171x300.png)
No Rating bc it’s a Platform – Who knows what humans will do.
Storium https://storium.com/ Storium is a group story telling platform, so it’s hard to say what your story will be.
Fallen London http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/
Also, Check out this article for more.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/22/interactive-fiction-awards-games