Comment by haunter
1 month ago
The only video game where I really felt that this is more than just a game is Kentucky Route Zero. It’s an incredible experience.
As an example (no spoiler): at one point the story is about a text adventure game and its creators but the way its told is also mimicking the natural language text adventure games. [0] So it feels like you are playing the game itself (KRZ), but the game is also playing itself (the text adventure game), and you the player are also the part of this text adventure game for a time being. Very hard to explain. Like an old school choose you own adventure book but you are the book, the writer of the book, and whoever plays/reads the book too.
0, imagine something like Inform https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/
As a matter of urgency I'd suggest you play the likes of
* Disco Elysium * Outer Wilds * Journey * What Remains of Edith Finch * Beeswing
All masterpieces that take various approaches to Diegetic, Non-Diegetic and meta-Diegetic storytelling aping everything from G.K. Chesterton to Mark Z. Danielewski via China Mieville.