Story-rich games, visual novels, interactive fiction I’ve tried and you should too.
The Pizza Situation is an indie game project about a freshman college student named Roni. He has a dream about seeing a girl with pink hair at a party and her stealing a slice of pizza from him. His goal is to use social networking to solve the problem and prevent this girl in his dream from doing so in real life.
This is a visual novel/interactive fiction about you moving into a town of cryptids. If you're unfamiliar with the term, cryptids belong to the pseudoscientific/mystical study of cryptozoological creatures, mythical beasts basically. Bigfoot, Mothman, etc. Cryptid Crush also includes supernatural creatures like ghosts and other questionables.
Ader the buck is your basic rural raised one-eyed stag from the country, protagonist and comic relief. He's jumpy and blasting into nervous confrontation with just about everybody in the game. I enjoyed his character because he managed to say things just as much inflammatory as they were polite and humble. He's basically a goofy guy who you'll probably enjoy.
A Long Journey is such an amazing collection of genres, it's holistic in its approach. We're talking space outlaw, trading sim, story click, adventure. The art is beautiful, the design is brilliant, and well, this game is one to keep an eye on. And it just got boosted by a major Kickstarter success, so expect to see it further developed and probably make it to full release.
Brok the Investigator is a side-scrolling point-and-click cartoon adventure detective story. Fully interactive, voiced characters. It's chock full of feel-good, heartwarming, animal noir gameplay. And what would an animal people noir be without a detective croc named Brok? The game…