More than 40 games are exhibiting at this year’s LudoNarraCon with 33 sporting free demos. There’s a broad range of stories, from learning old school telecommunications tech in ALJO Games’ Morse, cheating people in Nerial’s tricksy 18th-century scumbag simulator Card Shark, to Fuzzy Ghost’s magnificent sounding Queer Man Peering Into A Rock Pool.jpg. Probably the standout here for me though is Northway Games’ I Was A Teenage Exocolonist, which is apparently a story-led life simulator set on an alien planet with card battles and plenty of teen angst. Sounds much like my own adolescence. LudoNarraCon is organised by publisher Fellow Traveller, who just released the tabletop-esque Citizen Sleeper today too. In his Citizen Sleeper review, Brendy said: “Throwing off the shackles of a faceless process governing your life is a recurring theme in this blend of sci-fi RPG and interactive fiction, and it makes for a strong rags-to-ramen story of one robot on the run. Even when the game’s own systems of dice and clocks clash with its stories of human interest, it is the people who come out on top.” LudoNarraCon runs from today until May 9th on Steam. The full schedule of panels is over here on LudoNarraCon’s site. Disclosure: Xalavier Nelson Jr. is appearing in panels at this year’s LudoNarraCon and writes for RPS from time to time.
