At their core, most games are trying to tell a story. Sometimes this is very simple, and sometimes it is convoluted to the point of parody. You can, however, usually trust what you're being told about a situation. That isn't always the case, though.
A number of games out there use the concept of an unreliable narrator to great effect. Sometimes it's to show what a shameless liar the storyteller is, sometimes it will be to build up to a twist, occasionally it is a sign that the narrator, and by extension, your own perception has diverged from reality. Whichever it is, you can't trust what you are being told.
10 Portal
Portal is a game where you are taking part in a few tests at Aperture Science Laboratories. Guiding you through the tests is GLaDOS, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:an informative, if somewhat caust﷽ic AI that dispenses information on the tests and implies that you're fat. If only that was as bad as she got.
As you progress it becomes clear that perhaps GLaDOS hasn't been completely on the level with you, and the lack of human research staff around is nothing to do with the integrity of the experiment. Eventually failing to follow her instructions is not just a good idea, it's essential for survival
9 ꦚ ꦯ Call Of Juarez: Gunslinger
In Western-themed shooter Call Of Juarez: Gunslinger, you take the role of Silas Greaves, a bounty hunter who is recounting all of his exploits to the staff and patrons of a saloon. He reveals his quest for revenge, which brought him into contact with some of the most famous 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:outlaws of the Old West.
It sounds farfetched, and there's good reason to be suspicious. As it turns out, Silas is not the best storyteller, and as you play through his exploits the world will change as audience members call him out on his nonsense, with whole sequences rewinding and the action even stopping briefly as Silas goes to use the toilet. If you've ever wondered what it would be like to be trapped in someone's drunken rambling, this is the game for it.
8 Lone Survivor�🐼�
In Lone Survivor you play as the seemingly last human alive, as the world has been overtaken with some sort of contagion which has left everyone else dead or 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:turned into twitching monsters. Well, that is what you are tol🌟d, though quickly you have reason to believe♕ that your protagonist does not have the firmest grip on reality. If the strange dreams and the taking random pills were not signs enough, at one point you will walk into an apartment to find it completely normal, with a party taking place.
It soon becomes difficult to tell what parts of the world are the survivor's imagination, which is enough to leave you a little unsure if 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:shooting the apparent mon♏sters is a good idea.
7 Slay The Princess 𝔍 ꦗ
Slay The Princess gives some clues about its goal in the name. In this visual novel, you have been told that you have to slay 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a princess locked in a cellar, or the world will end.
The story is something asserted to you by the narrator, and he gets very upset if you question anything about your task. He will argue, insult you, and eventually even wall you into the area where you are ordered to be in an attempt to make you go and commit a murder. It doesn't really create a sense of conviction in the slaying thing.
6 Dear Esther 💫
Dear Esther is a game where you play as a man, walking across a desolate Hꦓebridean island towards a mast at its very peak. While you walk you hear the presumed main character reading letters to Esther, a woman who he has deep feelings for📖. Esther is dead.
As you progress you find the narrator himself is possibly dying himself, and both the visuals of the setting and the narration seem to slip further into incoherence. The bleak history of the island, the patterns of the gulls, the story of Esther's death, and bible verses blur into one another as you make your final journey.
5 Spec Ops: The Line 𒆙
Spec Ops: The Line looks from the outside to be 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:your average military shooter. This isꦇ absolutely not the case. You take control of Martin Walker, captain of a US Special Forces team sent into a sandstorm-blaste༒d Dubai. You are headed there to investigate a US battalion that has apparently gone rogue.
Things go relatively as expected until your team inadvertently does something horrendous. From there on, things quickly spiral. Walker's mental state deteriorates, and moral choices will influence how drastic a degradation it is. Go too far and you will begin to hallucinate. It's only at the end, on discovering just how much Walker has fabricated in his own mind that you can fully appreciate how far gone your viewpoint is.
4 Braid
Puzzle platformer Braid sees you taking the role of a man named Tim. Tim wants to save a princess who was stolen away by a horrible monster. You progress through the levels and read snippets of narrative that paint a slightly more disturbing portrait of the hero. While you might be jumping around, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mario you are not.
Eventually, the end shows the princess running toward you, but only as it concludes do you find this was a product of Tim's time manipulation. She was trying to run away the entire time.
3 King's Quest
The 2015 remake of the King's Quest series chooses a slightly more subjective framing device in how it conveys its story. Most of the events of the game are recalled by an elderly King Graham to his granddaughter, Gwendolyn. He wants to recall the exploits of his youth in order to inspire the next generation.
Gwen💯dolyn finds reason to doubt the man as the stories carry on. She finds him talking to people no one can see, and his memory begins to fade. By the end, she is helping fill in the details that Graham can no longer remember.
2 Tales From The Borderlands 🌜
In a slightly different trip to Pandora than 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the mainline Borderlands games, Tales From The Borderlands has two protagonists, who both start out quite at odds with one another. They are recounting their story, at gunpoint, and go over their own perspectives. Neither are exactly trustwo🏅rthy individuals, given that one is a shady Hyperion employee tꦜrying to undermine his equally unsavoury boss, and the other is an accomplished con artist who had been trying to scam the latter.
When the two main characters are recounting the same events, you can spend a lot of time picking out small details that are different or 🧸trying to work out when one of them is lying to look better. That part is almost a game in itself.
1 The S🅘tanley Parꦬable
In 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Stanley Parable, you are a man named Stanley whose coworkers have all mysteriously disappeared. That is, at least what the narrator has told you. He also tells you where you need to go to find out why they disappeared. Doing exactly what the disembodied voice tells you is apparently 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the best way to achieve true freedom.
If you feel there's a contradiction in that and disobey the actions the narrator instructs there are consequences, and eventually a few visual aids are placed to show you where the story wants you to go. Follow the adventure line for adventure!