LudoNarraCon is Live Now Celebrating Narrative in Games
One of the most exciting times of the year is here – LudoNarraCon, a digital convention dedicated to celebrating narrative video games and the people who make them, is now live on Steam! It will run from May 1st – 5th (or 2nd – 6th, for us Aussies living slightly in the future.
LudoNarraCon shines a light on a slate of both upcoming and (reasonably) recently released narrative-heavy titles, with 49 featured titles showcased both on their website and on the dedicated Steam event page. You can check out the full list below, with links to the relevant Steam pages, 20 of which will lead you to playable demos for both soon-to-be-released and released titles!
- 1000xRESIST
- A Week in the Life of Asocial Giraffe
- Afterlove EP
- Battle Suit Aces
- Building Relationships
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
- CLICKOLDING
- Compensation Not Guaranteed
- Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3
- Death of the Reprobate
- despelote
- Detective Dotson
- Esoteric Ebb
- Expelled!
- Great God Grove
- Heart of the Machine
- Herald: The Interactive Period Drama – Complete Edition
- inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories
- Interstate 35
- Judero
- Jump the Track
- Keep Driving
- Kill The Clock
- Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo
- Monster Prom 4: Monster Con
- Nirvana Noir
- No Case Should Remain Unsolved
- Pine: A Story of Loss
- Promise Mascot Agency
- Psychotic Bathtub
- Schrödinger’s Call
- Scrabdackle
- Seasonala Cemetery
- Sub-Verge
- The Berlin Apartment
- The Crimson Diamond
- The Crush House
- The Horror At Highrook
- The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show
- The Rise of the Golden Idol
- The Séance of Blake Manor
- Tiny Bookshop
- Two Falls (Nishu Takuatshina)
- UNBEATABLE
- Until Then
- Usual June
- Wander Stars
- Wanderstop
- We Harvest Shadows
For anyone looking for recommendations on places to start, I’m still happily working my way through the demos of upcoming titles, but I have found early favourites in ‘A Week in the Life of Asocial Giraffe’ and ‘inKONBINI’! I also can’t miss the chance to give a special shoutout to one of the featured full releases, 1000xRESIST, which got my award for ‘Biggest Surprise’ last year.
Alongside that whopping great list of games, you can watch a whole heap of panels featuring developers and prominent industry officials across the next few days – including fireside chats, retrospectives, and deep dives into themes like grief or comedy.
Don’t miss the chance to check out these titles while the demos are live, and if you like any of them, it really helps the develops out if you add them to your wishlist to show Steam that you’re keen! I for one will be aiming to check out every single one of the games on this list, and plan to be yelling about them to whoever will listen in the coming days.
