Avoiderdragon: The adventure genre is often misunderstood when it comes to how it should tell a story. Most who have had experience in the genre would recognize the usual linear story broken up by different sequences like puzzles and so on. The ones that did more of stories with multiple endings would do so with branching paths and such, then came binary moralities that did more to appeal to the players’ emotional tendencies. But as with real life, there’s the grey area that doesn’t seem to show as much in games, but that’s what this particular title tries to tackle.
iLLGaming reviews Unrest, a Kickstarter funded game based in Ancient India which explores racism, caste system, corruption and political power.
Owen Atkinson writes: "[Unrest] feels less like a game and more like an extremely vivid choose-your-own-adventure book. ... a poignant exploration of just how much people will sacrifice to save either themselves, their families or their homes, and the unintended consequences that can follow."
James sat down with Indian alt-RPG Unrest, noting it had a "novel approach to the standard formula"
