As I'm writing about all the games I played this year, I realise my experience with We Three Shall Meet again was something special. Who other than Sam Dunnewold would find such a tenderly beating heart inside of a brilliant twist on the body swapping genre.
Not only that, but this game got me excited about journaling, something no other journaling game has ever succeeded in. Maybe it isn't so much a journaling game as it's a letter writing game where you keep your letters secret and only share a desperate hint about its contents with the people you need to say so much more to.
I'm still getting my head around We Three Shall Meet Again, but meanwhile you should just get this pdf and set up a game.
A deft and subtle story telling game that let's everyone be a player and a GM. Truly collaborative where you let each person take the wheel and do your best to honor what they did. I've never played anything like it and now I want to play a dozen more like it.
This is one of those games you experience and then think about for the rest of your life. Get 2 other friends you love and play this. Play it over weeks and months. Play it over Discord, play it in person every once in a while, play it by writing letters. But play it.
I'm now playing for a third time and it's different every time. The allegories you can pull from this game - disability, plurality, queerness - are simultaneously subtle and not subtle at all, and they depend strongly on your playthrough. This is a perfect low-commitment game if you can't hop online every week; it's largely play by post/journaling game.
I love the form of this game and hop to see more asynchronous stuff arise!
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As I'm writing about all the games I played this year, I realise my experience with We Three Shall Meet again was something special. Who other than Sam Dunnewold would find such a tenderly beating heart inside of a brilliant twist on the body swapping genre.
Not only that, but this game got me excited about journaling, something no other journaling game has ever succeeded in. Maybe it isn't so much a journaling game as it's a letter writing game where you keep your letters secret and only share a desperate hint about its contents with the people you need to say so much more to.
I'm still getting my head around We Three Shall Meet Again, but meanwhile you should just get this pdf and set up a game.
A deft and subtle story telling game that let's everyone be a player and a GM. Truly collaborative where you let each person take the wheel and do your best to honor what they did. I've never played anything like it and now I want to play a dozen more like it.
This is one of those games you experience and then think about for the rest of your life. Get 2 other friends you love and play this. Play it over weeks and months. Play it over Discord, play it in person every once in a while, play it by writing letters. But play it.
This game is so much fun!!
I'm now playing for a third time and it's different every time. The allegories you can pull from this game - disability, plurality, queerness - are simultaneously subtle and not subtle at all, and they depend strongly on your playthrough. This is a perfect low-commitment game if you can't hop online every week; it's largely play by post/journaling game.
I love the form of this game and hop to see more asynchronous stuff arise!