Playing Elden Ring for the first time, and I am such a big fan of the “show, don’t tell” style of storytelling. Are there any other games that employ this style of narrative?
I am currently going through my first play-through of Elden Ring, and the instances of storytelling done just by the world existing is something amazing!!
Like the instances of a plague-ridden village having sick looking skeletons wailing around a fire; a village of a cult worshipping a god who wears a skin, having women performing a sort of mesmerising folk dance in circles, to lure in men to skin them… Some of these places in the game make me just stop for a second a go WOW! There is no book telling me what happened, no long NPC lore dump, it’s just there waiting for you to discover and interpret
Just got me wondering, are there any other games that take this sort of an approach to storytelling? Would be very interesting to see!
Posted Sep 29, 2025, 11:40 AM UTC