What category is games like Life is Strange and Until Dawn?

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨turnerpike20@lemmy.ml⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

So both Life is Strange and Until Dawn have what’s called the butterfly effect something that’s kind of a questionable concept at best but it’s somewhat real. Telltale was famous for games like this as well. But yeah it’s like depending on your actions it can change the story and thus play more like a movie with a different possible story. What type of game is this?

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RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Story/Narrative.

Telltale is the most prolific developer of these kinds of games.

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- MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Man. I miss Telltale
  
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  - activ8r@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Pour one out
    
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simple@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
CYOA - Choose Your Own Adventure. It’s a genre for interactive stories where you get to make decisions that affects the story. It’s also a tag on Steam

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- activ8r@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I have found “Choices Matter” also produces good results.
  
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MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They’re basically an evolution of the point and click adventure. This variation is often just called a narrative game or other similar sounding names. Searching for “games like telltale” should give you a good list.

Telltale were the ones that evolved the point and click into the form it takes now just so you know. Supermassive (until dawn) made their take on the genre feel more cinematic and more like watching a movie with choices but they’re ultimately still using the formula that telltale pioneered.

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- echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’m fairly sure years ago that there was a game called alone in the dark that was very similar to this but that was long before telltale. Anything I can remember about it is that it had had fire physics and that every time you started a new level it would load up and say “last time on a loan in the dark” and then give you a tv show style rundown of what you previously done
  
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  - MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That was more of a survival horror game
    
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TotesIllegit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They’re effectively visual novels with light gameplay mechanics for navigation or making some narrative path choices. At least, that’s how I felt about Until Dawn.

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- turnerpike20@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Visual Novels basically involves reading as a requirement.
  
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- activ8r@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  When a Visual Novel and a Point & Click Adventure game love each other very much they have a special hug and a baby genre is born.
  
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MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s called a branching narrative. Most common related Steam tag for finding similar games would be ‘choices matter’.

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turnerpike20@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Like the a character will remember that type of thing and thus might actually bring it up or hold it against another character. Like Until Dawn there’s a part where the gun has blanks and if you don’t sacrifice the character the character the character tried to shoot won’t open the door when he needs it. Which yeah that whole scene was unrealistic because blanks can still kill.

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