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Story Breadcrumbs

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Story Breadcrumbs	comment	There are multiple ways for a video game to tell a story, but they generally fall into two major categories. The first is more direct, with player control (or at least a good amount of it) being briefly removed to deliver a short movie or cinematic that will convey the game's narrative. The other is more indirect, and comes in the form of epistolary scraps of information lying around the game world for the player to find or ignore at one's leisure. This includes item and enemy descriptions, NPC dialogue, and even details in the environment itself such as worn architecture. These are called Story Breadcrumbs, as rather than deliver all information in a large loaf of bread, information is given in much smaller bite-sized morsels. In academic game design they may also be called "embedded narrative"note though this term frequently refers to all story elements embedded in the game, including the aforementioned control-removing cutscenes, and is used to distinguish it from Emergent Narrative and "environmental storytelling." The standard cutscene and story breadcrumb approaches aren't mutually exclusive, with most games using some mix of both. As such, these breadcrumbs are meant mostly as a form of Worldbuilding in most cases, giving the player additional context about the game world (or sometimes the character themselves). Of course there are games, namely those with a heavy focus on exploration within some sort of isolated setting, that use this as its main method of story delivery. After all, if the player is already meandering all over the game world as it is, why not weave the story into that? Story breadcrumbs allow the game's fictional world to feel more alive, but the downside of games that make heavy use of them is that, as previously stated, they can be more easily ignored than a cutscene. So depending on how the title is structured, there's a chance that the player could miss some of the more important breadcrumbs, or just struggle to figure out how all the information connects, and find themselves hitting the end credits clueless as to what the story actually was. When a video game has an Apocalyptic Log, it's almost always split up to be pieced together non-linearly. This is often presented in Anachronic Order or hidden inside Flavor Text or a Lore Codex, and may be interspersed with playing tips. Compare the non-videogame Scrapbook Story. Contrast Exposition Break, Dialogue Tree, and All There in the Manual. For detective stories see Linked List Clue Methodology.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_102b7173	comment	inFAMOUS has "Dead Drops", recordings left by the agent you've agreed to rescue that help flesh out the backstory.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_11fd7982	comment	In the Metroid Prime Trilogy, Samus can use the Enemy Scan function on computers and equipment to find logs from the Space Pirate villains, the Federation, and various alien races. The first Metroid Prime game is such a severe example of this that it's possible to complete the entire game without a single clue of what you're doing or why you're doing it, if you don't use the Scan Visor much. Literally all the story, aside from some introductory text, is in logs and scans. The later titles include some cutscenes and basic plot development, but most of the exposition is left to you to find.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_1215a23d	comment	Genshin Impact: Additional lore can be read from the Flavor Text of weapons, artifacts, consumable items and quest items (especially books). There are also those that would play a video when interacted, such as the "Wind, Courage and Wings". Character Story entries provide additional text-based lore for the characters which can be unlocked by increasing their Friendship Levels. The "Voice-over" part also lets you peek into their characteristics through their quotes. Aside from the Talent info, the characters' ability descriptions also provide more backstories, although bit by bit. The loading screen may randomly mention additional lore and backstories aside from providing gameplay tips.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_139bfb53	comment	Outside of the opening and ending cutscenes, much of Lunistice's story is delivered through text logs, one for each stage, that are unlocked after obtaining all four letters in both acts as Hana and then entering the secret area that appears near the goal.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_145d53f0	comment	Five Nights at Freddy's takes this to the max, with only a portion of the clues actually being words. More specifically: In the first game, your only clues to the backstory might not even show up in your playthrough — one of the random events that might happen is the list of rules might change into one of several newspaper articles, which reveal that the animatronics are probably haunted by a group of children murdered at the pizzeria, and that the place is set to close by the end of the year. In the second, you get some info from the Phone Guy's messages, but for the most part you get lore from minigames that have a chance to play once you get killed. The minigames have simplistic graphics and gameplay, but they also show lore events. There are four minigames. 'Bring Cake to the Children', where you play as Freddy and must move between children whenever they get unhappy to bring them cake, while one child is left outside. Eventually, a car will pull up and a man will kill the child. A Marionette jumpscare follows. 'Go! Go! Go! Foxy', where you play as Foxy and run from one room to another to entertain children, and after a few rounds of this, the same guy who killed the first child will be in the starting room, and all the kids will be dead, ending with a Foxy jumpscare. 'Give Gifts/Give Life', where you play as the Puppet and give gift boxes to the dead children, followed by putting masks of the animatronics on them (strongly implied to be a metaphor for helping them haunt the animatronics), capping off with a Golden Freddy jumpscare, and a game where you play as Freddy and follow the Puppet to try and prevent the murders. You can also encounter the Murderer. The third game has the Phone Guy's recordings, plus between-the-night games/cutscenes (you can move around freely, but can't change how it ends) which tell how the animatronics were broken and how Springtrap came to be. If you can follow the obscure hints in them, you can unlock the secret minigames, where you find and comfort the ghost children, allowing them to move on. The fourth game has between-the-night minigames plus a few random alterations to the room. An IV or a bottle of pills will appear next to the bed, hinting that the player is actually in the hospital after having their head crunched in by Fredbear. Sister Location has the requisite death minigames, plus blueprints for the animatronics and, for the first time, full voiced lines from the animatronics and protagonist. After Custom Night, completing each preset will grant you more cutscenes of the aftermath of the game. Pizzeria Simulator has more voiced animatronics, plus Cassette Guy. Ultimate Custom Night has death quotes from each animatronic, which range from silly ("don't you hate being killed by obscure secondary characters?") to deeply plot-relevant. Help Wanted has Tape Girl's tapes and the strange rabbit mask you can find in the DLC Curse of Dreadbear, both of which tie into the existence of Glitchtrap and his motives. Said rabbit mask is a Sequel Hook for the next game, and hints that Help Wanted's protagonist didn't escape "digital consciousness transference" after all.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_177ba579	comment	Sister Location has the requisite death minigames, plus blueprints for the animatronics and, for the first time, full voiced lines from the animatronics and protagonist. After Custom Night, completing each preset will grant you more cutscenes of the aftermath of the game.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_185747f3	comment	In Her Story the whole of the gameplay is piecing together the story breadcrumbs found in the short video clips.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_187d570a	comment	Devil May Cry 4: Fortuna is an island. If the level design, cutscenes and environment didn't make it obvious enough that the game's setting is surrounded by water, then the in-game Map menu's background will. This interface also confirms additional context or lore regarding the setting, such as the rainforest being named "Mitis Forest", and the frozen mountains being named "Lamina Peak". The central, residential area is also labeled as a "castle town", which goes along with how Lady describes it in the Devil May Cry shop.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_18ce7450	comment	The Shmup Hellsinker manages to do a strange mix of this trope and Purple Prose. Much of the story is bits and pieces that is hidden in the prose, but that only holds part of the picture. The game namely also uses the trope in it's classical use with loads of bits of story hints and dialogue hidden away deep in the game itself that only the most obsessive of gamers might find.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_1adee40d	comment	The Secret Reports from The World Ends with You. Not only do they help flesh out the world and setting but they also give detail to the various circumstances of the plot that Neku and his friends weren’t privy to.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_1cc8e29f	comment	In Destiny, a great deal of the initial release's story and plot were found via the grimoire entries on Bungie's website. Hidden collectibles would unlock more grimoire entries, further filling in these backstory details. Additionally, there was flavor text on armor and weapons and other items that would add additional little details. The grimoire was eliminated with Destiny 2, adding in scannable items which would draw commentary from your Ghost. Starting with Forsaken, lore book entries could be unlocked by completing missions, fulfilling objectives, and finding collectibles which would fill things out.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_223c2a48	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Most of Link's forgotten memories are retrieved through an optional sidequest where you find the locations corresponding to saved pictures on the Sheikah Slate. These memories involve Link's past interactions with Zelda as they looked for ways to find out how to defeat Calamity Ganon.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_2a4482ad	comment	In The Secret of Monkey Island, the title island is littered with notes from Herman and the Cannibals addressing each other, and sometimes Lechuck, which were used as their communication methods, and varied from things such as that the catapult was very dangerous and should be dismantled to complaining that the Monkey head makes too much noise at night.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_31313512	comment	ANNO: Mutationem: Several major sections of information that expands on characters and exposition about the Post-Cyberpunk world are emanated through the Lore Codex, various documents, speaking to numerous NPCs, and reading personal journals that are found in specific areas.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_334c4b70	comment	An Untitled Story has some story breadcrumbs hidden in The Secret Library. Some of them are provided by Ghosts, the Sky Town citizens and three birds who are found outside of Sky Town.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_36395288	comment	While every Kirby game can be played as a simple quest to defeat the Eldritch Abomination of the Week, many of the later entries use the bosses' pause menu Flavor Text to provide elaboration on several plot-critical characters, including their origins, motivations, and sometimes even hints of connections with other forces of evil Kirby's previously dealt with.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_3802ca35	comment	Rule of Rose: These are scattered about everywhere and in many different forms, including newspaper articles, old photographs, interactions between the other orphans and several objects that hold some sort of deeper meaning to Jennifer. Of course, given the game is implied to be Jennifer's internal journey to put her own shattered memories back together, this type of storytelling is to be expected.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_38814a9a	comment	Dead Cells spawns "lore rooms" in stages, which contain interactable objects that give out information related to the game's setting. They can be disabled if you don't want to be distracted by them. Other bits of lore is told through loading screen text and the few lines of dialogue you receive in special cases.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_3aa8ba37	comment	In Quantum Break, the plot centres around a complex time travel accident, so there's collectable documents scattered throughout the game explaining what's going on behind the scenes and explaining the scientific side things. Acquiring certain items even unlocks bonus character diaries in the menus, and it's all compounded by TV episodes spliced between the game's chapters, which are effected by the game choices to boot and show the perspective of secondary characters and antagonists. Or, if you'd prefer, you could just skip or not read the collectables and ignore the TV show provided you don't mind having zero idea what's happening outside of protagonist Jack Joyce's perspective.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_3f2aa506	comment	Much of Fisher-Diver's story comes from the diary entries left behind with the guffins scattered about underwater.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_41cc1c3a	comment	Halo 3: ODST features audio recordings scattered around New Mombasa, telling the story of a girl trying to rescue her father during the Covenant invasion of the city. The thirty of them can be collected from certain pay phones, ATMs, and other kiosks; no matter where you find them, though, you'll always get them in order.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_4ba244d1	comment	In the first game, your only clues to the backstory might not even show up in your playthrough — one of the random events that might happen is the list of rules might change into one of several newspaper articles, which reveal that the animatronics are probably haunted by a group of children murdered at the pizzeria, and that the place is set to close by the end of the year.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_4ba244d2	comment	In the second, you get some info from the Phone Guy's messages, but for the most part you get lore from minigames that have a chance to play once you get killed. The minigames have simplistic graphics and gameplay, but they also show lore events. There are four minigames. 'Bring Cake to the Children', where you play as Freddy and must move between children whenever they get unhappy to bring them cake, while one child is left outside. Eventually, a car will pull up and a man will kill the child. A Marionette jumpscare follows. 'Go! Go! Go! Foxy', where you play as Foxy and run from one room to another to entertain children, and after a few rounds of this, the same guy who killed the first child will be in the starting room, and all the kids will be dead, ending with a Foxy jumpscare. 'Give Gifts/Give Life', where you play as the Puppet and give gift boxes to the dead children, followed by putting masks of the animatronics on them (strongly implied to be a metaphor for helping them haunt the animatronics), capping off with a Golden Freddy jumpscare, and a game where you play as Freddy and follow the Puppet to try and prevent the murders. You can also encounter the Murderer.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_4ba244d3	comment	The third game has the Phone Guy's recordings, plus between-the-night games/cutscenes (you can move around freely, but can't change how it ends) which tell how the animatronics were broken and how Springtrap came to be. If you can follow the obscure hints in them, you can unlock the secret minigames, where you find and comfort the ghost children, allowing them to move on.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_4ba244d4	comment	The fourth game has between-the-night minigames plus a few random alterations to the room. An IV or a bottle of pills will appear next to the bed, hinting that the player is actually in the hospital after having their head crunched in by Fredbear.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_4c849aac	comment	In Journey (2012), the backstory of the world you travel through is explained through brief visions at the end of each level and murals that you can uncover by exploring each game area thoroughly.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_4ce969a9	comment	Marathon tells its story by means of computer terminals that give text-based infodumps. Certain terminals are required to progress, but others are secondary ones which simply give more information about The 'Verse and what is going on.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_4d6ad22f	comment	Virtue's Last Reward has a bunch of documents that you get from completing rooms without hints that expand the world a bit and explains things that happened in the game. Though unfortunately it hands you some of these before the twists, making the game spoil itself similar to Moon, listed above.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_514b9ee5	comment	SIGNALIS: The notes and other documents Elster finds are informative of the circumstances about the planet's situation and the status of the Colonized Solar System.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_52690c13	comment	In Penumbra, the Apocalyptic Log is scattered up in individual notes to be found along the quest.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_549fcfe8	comment	Subnautica: The scanner allows a player to scan objects and creatures, which adds information on them to the data bank. The radio points out the location of story-relevant sites, including ship wreckage. Most of these are optional.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_57ad0c07	comment	Resident Evil, not known for complex plotting, has plenty of completely optional story in journals left lying around. They actually make for an engaging backstory.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_58808436	comment	Higurashi: When They Cry and Sea Bed have "TIPS," which are pieces of story exposition that are "out of narrative" with the main point-of-view characters, and unlock after certain chapters of the story have been completed.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_5a47599	comment	Plentiful in the Batman: Arkham Series. The first game has it to give backstory on all the characters through profiles, interviews, and a series of cyphered chronicles. The sequel is a more straightforward case, as the Collection Sidequest uncovers tidbits on how things got to this point between games.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_5afbc0cb	comment	Undertale: The narrative gives enough hints along the way about Flowey's origin, particularly in the Genocide and Neutral runs, to at least put together a decent idea of who he actually is. A straight-forward answer and closure is one of your rewards for obtaining the Golden Ending of the Pacifist Run. W.D. Gaster, a character who fell into the core and thus ceased to exist from the game's narrative completely, takes it one step further since you need to actively cheat, hack the game, and even read the game's code to find all but one of the references to him. Given the nature of the game, he's essentially someone who was Dummied Out In-Universe. Deltarune has major details regarding certain characters being explained by various NPCs once they are spoken to after completing a certain event.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_5bfa9c98	comment	Warframe hides away many Worldbuilding and backstory details behind weapon descriptions, warframe codex entries, cephalon fragments found throughout the Solar System, synthesis imprints from Cephalon Simaris, Leverian expositions and even enemy codex entries; Stalker's entry contains significant insight into Tenno's backstory.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_6026151a	comment	In Not the Robots audio logs are unlocked as the player gains experience from clearing levels. These logs give the only hints about why the office building is abandoned and full of hostile robots.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_6800dddc	comment	Moon: Remix RPG Adventure: Many story events are hidden or need to be pieced together over time and as you collect items, with the Minister's role in the game's events being very obtuse to find.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_6f6f742b	comment	In The Cave there are cave paintings you can find that describe the backstories of the three characters you are currently controlling.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_6fb6a807	comment	Predator: Hunting Grounds doesn't have a lot of storytelling going on in-game, being an Asymmetric Multiplayer game pitting soldiers against Predators. The lore is found in audiotapes by key figures who had firsthand experience dealing with Predators, including Dutch Shaefer, Peter Keyes, and Isabelle Nissembaum, which suggest that Predators are coming to Earth with increasing frequency due to the combination of global warming making it a more attractive planet to visit, and humans proving themselves to be dangerous, and entertaining, game for hunting.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_7318210e	comment	Dragalia Lost has this in each of the Wyrmprints, whether they're just silly little fluff pieces or setting up future events. It's also how the backstories of the Agito are told going in order: Sword->Blade->Dagger->Axe->Lance->Bow->Wand->Staff->Manacaster.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_7357234c	comment	In Beyond Good & Evil you either talk to every character multiple times and read every message sent to you, or experience a less impactful story and become confused over how exactly their world works. That is probably the biggest flaw in an otherwise great game.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_747d9a6f	comment	In [PROTOTYPE], many background events are explained only in optional Web of Intrigue nodes.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_749a0710	comment	The FNAF fangame Fredbear and Friends goes for a more typical approach, as you can find a number of audio tapes throughout the story's first section. While most of them are recordings of customers being interviewed about what the pizzeria meant for them, some are more sinister, such as the warning of a suspicious man stalking the premises, or a mention of the guards going missing at night.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_74a4c713	comment	The whole plot of Kingdom Hearts χ is done this way, with the story only popping up after dozens and even hundreds of unrelated missions, making it the slowest paced story in the franchise.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Most of Link's forgotten memories are retrieved through an optional sidequest where you find the locations corresponding to saved pictures on the Sheikah Slate. These memories involve Link's past interactions with Zelda as they looked for ways to find out how to defeat Calamity Ganon. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: This emerges when Link investigates the geoglyphs that now dot the land, as, from them, he is given visions of the missing Princess Zelda. This time, these memories are Zelda's own, showing what happened to her after she was sent back in time to Hyrule's founding.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_755997ac	comment	Doom Doom³ can be treated as a classic level-based shooter as long as you treat PDA's as parts of a Lock and Key Puzzle. However, if you delve further into them than just for finding door codes, there's a plethora of information on how Mars City was faring before your arrival, including the increasingly bizarre and frightening incidents (people hearing voices, pieces of heavy equipment that activate on their own and cannot be shut down at all, behavioral changes in personnel, and so on) caused by the latent demonic activity invited in by the teleportation experiments. The audio logs and e-mails detail those incidents from the perspective of ordinary workers, oblivious to the satanic nature of the bad things happening around and sometimes to them. The 2016 game continues the trend with logs about the various enemies you face, the areas you visit, and the characters you meet. The last one in particular answers questions never brought up in the base game, such as why Samuel Hayden has a cybernetic body and why Olivia Pierce is so eager to study and assist the demons.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: While the series has always had cutscenes that give you a general idea of what's going at the present time of the story, beginning with Halo 3 they have also included terminals, data pads, or audio logs scattered throughout the levels that divulge additional information on the backstory and expanded universe of the series. Halo 3: ODST features audio recordings scattered around New Mombasa, telling the story of a girl trying to rescue her father during the Covenant invasion of the city. The thirty of them can be collected from certain pay phones, ATMs, and other kiosks; no matter where you find them, though, you'll always get them in order.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_755d59cb	comment	God of War Ragnarök: The main duo won't find Vanaheim's crater or what caused its existence from following the main story or watching a cutscene. They'll have to travel around, complete quests for the spirits who died there, and pay attention to the environment to find out what this place is and why it looks just like the hole Kratos left while fighting Thor.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_7ac58c7	comment	Everybody's Gone to the Rapture makes the player explore the deserted Shropshire village of Yaughton, attempting to piece together what happened by witnessing fragments of conversations that the villagers had with each other in the hours leading up to their disappearance.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_7b2ca7a2	comment	Bayonetta: In the first game, there are various pages from "Antonio's Notebook", which provide backstory on the city of Virgid as well as the lore of the Umbra Witches and Lumen Sages among other things. They were written by the late Antonio Redgrave, famed journalist and Luka's deceased father. In Bayonetta 2, there are "The Journal's Echoes" which play the same role as Antonio's Notebook in the first game, giving backstory regarding the town of Noatun, the sacred mountain Fimbulventr, and the God of Chaos, Aesir. These pages were written by Luka himself, taking after his father. It's said that Luka left these fragments of his notebook on purpose so that Bayonetta could find them to help her in her mission.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_7c6bf8d3	comment	Hunted: The Demon's Forge has corpses you can question for bits of backstory and enemy descriptions.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_814af133	comment	The backstory of Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs unfolds as we discover Oswald's journal entries, which are scattered around the building.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_81ef4508	comment	Poppy Playtime: Regarding Playtime Co's Mysterious Past, the tapes found in each chapter implied they were involved in human experimentation. Along with the fact that the factory is deserted in the present suggests it didn't go quite the way they wanted it to.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_8545fc37	comment	Welcome To Boon Hill: The stories of the people buried in the graveyard can be pieced together by reading what's written on the headstones.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_85c23558	comment	The Spectrum Retreat has two sets of these: The text logs scattered throughout the hotel, left behind by the Penrose's designer Cameron Worrall, which detail the behind-the-scenes workings of the place and the Spectrum company. The flashbacks found in puzzle rooms and later, the hotel as well, which refer to your character's past, through dialogue, images, documents, or some combination of those.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_8601c91f	comment	The 2016 game continues the trend with logs about the various enemies you face, the areas you visit, and the characters you meet. The last one in particular answers questions never brought up in the base game, such as why Samuel Hayden has a cybernetic body and why Olivia Pierce is so eager to study and assist the demons.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_8662248c	comment	Help Wanted has Tape Girl's tapes and the strange rabbit mask you can find in the DLC Curse of Dreadbear, both of which tie into the existence of Glitchtrap and his motives. Said rabbit mask is a Sequel Hook for the next game, and hints that Help Wanted's protagonist didn't escape "digital consciousness transference" after all.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_88043b11	comment	World of Goo tells much of its story through the Sign Painter's... signs, which just as often contain gameplay advice. Then there are the occasional messages found on other signs.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_895ca9e7	comment	Lila's Sky Ark: Not for the present story, but for the backstory—and hinting at what's really going on. In various places Lila may find letters, most written by herself, describing her life as a military child, and the work of her stern, one-eyed, military-scientist father.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_8da0ea80	comment	In Pokémon Red and Blue, the abandoned, wild-Pokémon-overrun Pokémon Mansion on Cinnabar Island holds a scattered number of journal entries describing the capture of Mew and the mysterious birth of its child Mewtwo, whose "vicious tendencies" apparently cannot be curbed. Well, not without a Poké Ball...
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_8f8233e	comment	Blasphemous does this with not just each item you find, but also each upgrade and prayer to show just what an unbearable Crapsack World Martyrdom Culture Cvstodia is.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_91c0063d	comment	In Shadow Complex, guards that don't immediately see you will often talk to one another, dropping hints on what's going on with the plot.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_91f0df16	comment	Salt and Sanctuary borrows a lot from FromSoftware's above examples, even in terms of how it structures its narrative. The only way to learn about the harsh world you're trapped in and figure out what's going on is to read what you can from Story Breadcrumbs in the item descriptions and skill tree, and listen to what the few NPCs willing to speak to you can say. And true to form, there are still a lot of blanks left for you to fill in.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_93acba01	comment	Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia has a couple versions of this. First off are the Memory Prisms, which you can find scattered about various places (usually, but not always, in towns) that expand on certain characters' backstories, as well as giving more information on characters added for the remake. For example, how Zeke and Tatiana met, how Berkut and Rinea met, and a time where Jesse saved Silque from bandits shortly before the start of the game. The other example would be the stone tablets scattered throughout the new post-game dungeon, Thabes Labyrinth. They explain the origin story of Awakening's Big Bad, Grima, telling how he was created and giving some information on his creator, Forneus.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_96f0d0b	comment	The PC version of Mario Is Missing! has all of the Excuse Plot set up for you in the opening, but during the actual gameplay, you can check newspapers for developments on things like what is currently happening with the penguins, as well as Mario himself keeping in contact with you on how he's doing and how the Koopas are reacting toward your efforts to stop the funding of their "melt the South Pole with hairdryers" plot.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_97e7606f	comment	In Alan Wake, collectable pages of Alan's novel Departure tell you what's going to happen, what has happened, and the motivations of the Eldritch Abomination nipping at your heels throughout the game. Failing that, it becomes difficult to see what's happening outside of Wake's perspective, or to see the deeper motivations of the antagonists.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_9b602c3f	comment	Deltarune has major details regarding certain characters being explained by various NPCs once they are spoken to after completing a certain event.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_9d969ea0	comment	Lakeview Cabin Collection follows the same pattern. You can also pick up certain items, which appear on your 'character select' menu and can be inspected. The exact amount of storytelling done this way varies; III offers several scraps of paper that can be found with relative ease, while IV has only one document, the Last Will, which requires considerable effort to track down.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_9f89a5f0	comment	Pokémon: In Pokémon Red and Blue, the abandoned, wild-Pokémon-overrun Pokémon Mansion on Cinnabar Island holds a scattered number of journal entries describing the capture of Mew and the mysterious birth of its child Mewtwo, whose "vicious tendencies" apparently cannot be curbed. Well, not without a Poké Ball... Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire adds a new backstory to the Abandoned Ship (now called Sea Mauville) in a similar fashion. You can find various letters and other reports lying around the ship; details include why it was shut down and some rather depressing info on some of its former workers.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_a2add1d3	comment	Splatoon 2: The Octo Expansion DLC campaign is more upfront with its story elements, but still has eleven unlockable chatlogs which expand on some of the game's characters and the nature of the Deepsea Metro, in addition to poems attached to the collectibles received at the end of each test chamber, reflecting Agent 8's inner thoughts.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_a2add1d4	comment	Splatoon 3: As well as the sunken scrolls, this game's campaign has the Alterna Log, which details how remnants of humanity survived the apocalypse, ended up wiping themselves out, and how the aftermath gave rise to the Inklings and Octarians. The final log reveals Mr. Grizz's backstory, but you’re in for a Brutal Bonus Level if you want to get it.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_a4514a75	comment	The enemy logs in Iji; unusual in that the player's actions, such as taking the Pacifist Run route, can influence the contents.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_a6fb0678	comment	In La-Mulana, many of the tablets scattered throughout the levels, once Lemeza has what it takes to decode their glyphs, will reveal background information on the ruins, often doubling as puzzle hints.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_a84d4f31	comment	Thousand Dollar Soul only reveals a tiny portion of information in certain endings. After finding them all, you still have to piece them together to understand the whole story.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_a993be1f	comment	The important backstory of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords is hidden in obscure dialogue options, which may or may not show up depending on your gender, Force alignment, influence with each particular companion and even the number of previous walkthroughs. It takes at least two of them to get even a vague idea of what's going on and even more of those, combined with lurking through the dialogue files, to get all subtleties.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_b0666b59	comment	Neverwinter Nights and Baldur's Gate are prone to this with "book" items that you can read using the "Examine" command, which tell brief stories about the history of the Forgotten Realms, which is where the games take place. None of these stories are ever really useful to the plot, but the books are worth a couple gold if you sell them.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_b5a2b326	comment	The main storyline of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind places you smack in the middle of the final chapter of the millenia-old drama revolving around the Heart of Lorkhan and the Living Gods of the Tribunal. If you want to learn the contents of the previous chapters, however, you have no choice but to read most of the in-game books, converse with members of the Temple, and generally keep your eyes open for any clues, as the game world is absolutely steeped in the Tribunal lore.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_b848381c	comment	Slime Rancher: The previous owner of Beatrix's ranch, Hobson Twillgers, left notes all over the Far, Far Range before he left on his last great journey. They often contain encouragement for his successor, his memories of the place he left the note, or his musings on life. Similarly, in the sequel, there a drones all over the islands which relay messages from a previous explorer's travels.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_bb8aaf31	comment	Gone Home drops you off at your abandoned home with only your family belongings to tell the story of what happened. Despite the horror tone of the show, the story you piece together is related to your family's drama ever since the player character left her parents' house. While her parents faced a tough patch on their marriage as they stirred away from each other and her mother fell for a younger co-worker, the player character's little sister falls in love with a girl in a Coming of Age Story.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_bfb483af	comment	Splatoon: All games in the series reveal various background details about the world, the Inklings, Octarians and various other creatures that inhabit it via the Sunken Scrolls. Each game has them as collectibles hidden in the single-player levels, with the scrolls being pictures of various elements with research notes attached to them. Splatoon 2: The Octo Expansion DLC campaign is more upfront with its story elements, but still has eleven unlockable chatlogs which expand on some of the game's characters and the nature of the Deepsea Metro, in addition to poems attached to the collectibles received at the end of each test chamber, reflecting Agent 8's inner thoughts. Splatoon 3: As well as the sunken scrolls, this game's campaign has the Alterna Log, which details how remnants of humanity survived the apocalypse, ended up wiping themselves out, and how the aftermath gave rise to the Inklings and Octarians. The final log reveals Mr. Grizz's backstory, but you’re in for a Brutal Bonus Level if you want to get it.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_c00614a7	comment	Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles tells little snippets of the game's lore and the player's ultimate goal through random encounters with NPCs on the map and through the player's own diary entries. In fact, the game is perfectly happy to let the player go about their caravan duties indefinitely until they eventually infer that to continue with the story and beat the game they're supposed to charge their chalice with the 5th element to be able to travel to Mount Vellenge and destroy the source of the miasma.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_c071d334	comment	Dear Esther has the protagonist wandering a remote Hebridean island while voiceovers tell the story of a saint who came to the island centuries ago, a man who moved to the island decades ago to make his fortune, and a man recovering from a car accident. Very little information is given about how these three characters relate to each other or the protagonist, or even which of them the protagonist is connected to.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_c7a2f584	comment	In Axiom Verge, though the exposition is delivered through cutscenes, further elucidation of the backstory is left to notes hidden in many obscure places.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_cd95b8df	comment	Dead Space series has parts where you arrive on the scene after the inevitable necromorph outbreak has taken hold, meaning you can only find documents and recordings that reveal what lead up to and happened during the massacre; save for a few vital documents that auto-play, the game doesn't force you to view any of them.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_cfa2662	comment	Lakeview Cabin relies on the player's observational skills to tell its Backstory, with little details like the picture over the bed, the booze bottles strewn around or the bubbles near where the monster emerges. Lakeview Cabin Collection follows the same pattern. You can also pick up certain items, which appear on your 'character select' menu and can be inspected. The exact amount of storytelling done this way varies; III offers several scraps of paper that can be found with relative ease, while IV has only one document, the Last Will, which requires considerable effort to track down.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_cfb3439a	comment	In Brütal Legend, there are artifacts scattered all over the landscape which play cutscenes detailing the history of the world. Unless you've been diligently hunting them down, you'll reach a point in the game where characters (including the one you play as) start talking about the Black Tear Rebellion as if the player should know what it was.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_d2bb929d	comment	The plot behind the Soul Series of Fighting Games is given almost entirely through character, weapon, and stage profiles. Further complicating the plot is that these profiles generally only say what the relevant character knows; If the character doesn't know his opponent's name, that opponent is just called a "mysterious swordsman/monk/bandit/soldier/etc," and figuring out which character that is (if it is a named character at all) requires context work.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_d4e47577	comment	Doom³ can be treated as a classic level-based shooter as long as you treat PDA's as parts of a Lock and Key Puzzle. However, if you delve further into them than just for finding door codes, there's a plethora of information on how Mars City was faring before your arrival, including the increasingly bizarre and frightening incidents (people hearing voices, pieces of heavy equipment that activate on their own and cannot be shut down at all, behavioral changes in personnel, and so on) caused by the latent demonic activity invited in by the teleportation experiments. The audio logs and e-mails detail those incidents from the perspective of ordinary workers, oblivious to the satanic nature of the bad things happening around and sometimes to them.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_d5166b44	comment	While the series has always had cutscenes that give you a general idea of what's going at the present time of the story, beginning with Halo 3 they have also included terminals, data pads, or audio logs scattered throughout the levels that divulge additional information on the backstory and expanded universe of the series.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_d77d4eb7	comment	In Sundered, players need to listen to the Shining Trapezohedron’s history lessons in the crystal rooms and read various lore snippets hidden in the skill tree to get a complete picture of the plot.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_d77e9e33	comment	Pizzeria Simulator has more voiced animatronics, plus Cassette Guy.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_da72cf97	comment	The Legend of Heroes - Trails: The Black Records that are hidden in various areas describe significant events throughout the history of Zemuria. Their origin isn't explained until Trails of Cold Steel.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_e386027c	comment	Tyrian features cubes dropped by particular enemies on each level, which can hold stuff from reasonable backstory details, to silly advertisement and propaganda, to stuff like the hot-dog ninja. Since the game is a scrolling shooter with branching levels, it is pretty easy to miss a cube-holding enemy somewhere.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_e5d7548d	comment	Gylt has diary entries, which are revealed to be people's thoughts magically changing into diary form without the people themselves writing anything down. One person even remarks that everything they don't want to think about ends up in these diaries anyway.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_e5da0fa0	comment	Myst and its sequels. As a series about magic books, mundane journals fill in a lot of story padded by background information.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_e7745039	comment	What Remains of Edith Finch has a variation, where the random notes pull you in to flashbacks detailing the death of one of Edith's family members. Molly has her final diary entry, Barbara has a comic book, Gregory has a letter from his father to his mother, Sam has a series of photographs, Lewis has a letter from his therapist, Milton has a flip book, and so on. The entire game is actually Edith's flashback; she died in childbirth and you are playing as her son reading her diary.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_e9cb2780	comment	Gears of War 2 has little trinkets you can find that tell the stories of dead soldiers.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_ea377bc0	comment	The System Shock and BioShock series both have often-eerie audio recordings from before and after the disasters happened that you can easily listen to while still walking around.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_ea684cd0	comment	In Bayonetta 2, there are "The Journal's Echoes" which play the same role as Antonio's Notebook in the first game, giving backstory regarding the town of Noatun, the sacred mountain Fimbulventr, and the God of Chaos, Aesir. These pages were written by Luka himself, taking after his father. It's said that Luka left these fragments of his notebook on purpose so that Bayonetta could find them to help her in her mission.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_ea696eec	comment	Metro Exodus: The plot is explicitly about travelling through post-apocalyptic Russia, looking for a new place to live, but you learn the back stories of the areas that you visit by overhearing NPC conversations, and by finding random documents and audio logs.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_f0688fff	comment	Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire adds a new backstory to the Abandoned Ship (now called Sea Mauville) in a similar fashion. You can find various letters and other reports lying around the ship; details include why it was shut down and some rather depressing info on some of its former workers.
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Story Breadcrumbs / int_f5855286	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: This emerges when Link investigates the geoglyphs that now dot the land, as, from them, he is given visions of the missing Princess Zelda. This time, these memories are Zelda's own, showing what happened to her after she was sent back in time to Hyrule's founding.
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Blackout (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Bloodborne (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Book of Hours (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Braid (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Bread & Fred (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Bubbaruka! (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Bubble Bobble (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Code 7 (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Code Vein (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Colorless Poems (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Cookie Run (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Crimson Skies (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Darkwood (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Dead Cells (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Dear Esther (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Death and Taxes (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Deliver Us the Moon (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Devil May Cry 4 (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Devotion (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Diablo (1997) (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
DoomÂ³ (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Enshrouded (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Epic Seven (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Escape Lala (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
FAITH: The Unholy Trinity (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Fallen London (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Fallout 76 (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Fear the Dark Unknown (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Final Fantasy Type-0 (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Fire Emblem Gaiden (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Five Nights at Freddy's (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Gadget: Past as Future (Video Game) / int_792418a0	type	Story Breadcrumbs
GARAGE: Bad Dream Adventure (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Ghost Suburb (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
God of War RagnarÃ¶k (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Goddess of Victory: NIKKE (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Gods of Incremental (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Gone Home (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Green Hell (Video Game) / int_792418a0	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Gylt (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Haydee (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Her Story (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Hitman: Blood Money (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Hollow Knight (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Hollowbody (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Iji (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Inscryption (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Jurassic Park: Trespasser (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Jusant (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
L.A. Noire (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
La-Mulana (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Legends of Runeterra (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Lila's Sky Ark (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Lords of the Fallen (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Lunistice (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Man of Medan (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Marathon (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Mario Is Missing! (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Marrow (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
MementoMori: AFKRPG (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Metro Exodus (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Metroid Prime (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Mirror's Edge Catalyst (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Monster Hunter: Rise (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Monster Train (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Moon: Remix RPG Adventure (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Night of the Full Moon (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Nightcry (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Nioh (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
No Man's Sky (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Noita (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Outerplane (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Path of Exile (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Penumbra (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Perception (2017) (Video Game) / int_792418a0	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Phantasmagoria (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Phantom Rose (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
PokÃ©mon Ruby and Sapphire (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Pony Island (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Poppy Playtime (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
QUESTER (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Raft (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
ReCore (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Ready or Not (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Revita (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Road 96 (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
SINoALICE (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
SOMA (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
See No Evil (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Shadow Complex (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Shing! (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Sincere Deceit (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Sky Rogue (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Slay the Spire (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Slime Rancher (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Slime Rancher 2 (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Soul Series (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Splatoon 2 (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Sword Art Online (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Tacoma (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Tales of Maj'Eyal (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
The Bridge (2013) (Video Game) / int_792418a0	type	Story Breadcrumbs
The Cave (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
The Conduit (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
The Flame in the Flood (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
The Forest (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
The New Resident (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
The Trader of Stories (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
The X-Files Game (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Til Morning's Light (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Time Bandit (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Toraware no Shoujo (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
TRON: Evolution (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
TRON 2.0 (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Tunic (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Uncharted: Golden Abyss (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Undercurrent (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Underrail (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
VESZTESEG (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Valley (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Wick (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
World of Assassination Trilogy (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
World of Goo (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Yume 2kki (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
ZombiU (Video Game) / int_792418a0	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Splatoon (Video Game) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Wine & Roses / Videogame	seeAlso	Story Breadcrumbs
Broadcast Static (Web Video) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Ross's Game Dungeon (Web Video) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Soviet Womble (Web Video) / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs
Scavengers' Reign / int_afbf2c80	type	Story Breadcrumbs

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