🎉 LudoNarraCon 2025 begins on May 1 🎉
Our annual celebration of storytelling returns bringing discounts, demos and dev talks including Keep Driving, Promise Mascot Agency, and The Horror at Highrook 🥳
We’re proud to announce that our annual story-focused Steam festival, LudoNaraCon, will return from May 1 - 5 😀📅
The festival includes heaps of playable demos from some of the most hotly anticipated upcoming narrative titles, discounts across many games in the selection, and a program of in-depth talks with media and game creators - including Lucy James from Friends Per Second who will be hosting a fireside chat with Sam Lake from Remedy Entertainment 🤩
Playable demos and discounts will be offered on a tremendous variety of games until May 8, in addition to the Story-Rich Megabundle - a wallet-friendly way to get 10 amazing narrative games at a massive 87% off!
This is truly a story-rich love affair with plenty of grand games including:
Real estate romancer Building Relationships
Disco Elysium-like and tabletop-inspired CRPG Esoteric Ebb
High seas adventure Herald: An Interactive Period Drama
Small-town store sim inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories
The roadtrip management RPG Keep Driving
Monster multiplayer dating sim Monster Prom 4: Monster Con
Cursed character RPG Promise Mascot Agency
Meditative cemetery exploration from A Mortician’s Tale director, Seasonala Cemetery
Lovecraftian mystery RPG The Horror at Highrook
The cozy tea shop sim about uncozy topics, Wanderstop
Farming horror allegory We Harvest Shadows
Strange Scaffold’s genre-defying Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3
Our own participating games include the upcoming narrative adventure set in the afterlife - Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo, the magical non-linear adventure Scrabdackle, the 90’s anime-inspired JRPG Wander Stars, and the literal big bang(er) sequel Nirvana Noir. Our recently released games such as Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, Afterlove EP, and 1000xRESIST are also taking part 🥰
For those that would like to get a deeper understanding of these great works of fiction, LudoNarraCon 2025 is offering a packed schedule of main stage content. Across 15 hours, expect five fireside chats, nine panels, and two demo streams.
Just some of the participants:
🤩 Sam Lake, the Creative Director of Remedy Entertainment, known for the Max Payne series, Alan Wake series, and Control
🤩 Tony Howard from the award-winning studio Black Tabby Games, known for Scarlet Hollow and Slay the Princess
🤩 Xalavier Nelson Jr. from Strange Scaffold, the studio behind I Am Your Beast
🤩 Adam Vian of SFB Games, developer of survival horror hit Crow Country
🤩 Remy Siu, founder of sunset visitor 斜陽過客, developer of 1000XRESIST
…and a few of the panels:
📺 How to make an old school narrative driven game appeal to a modern audience
📺 Empathizing with difficult characters
📺 Dark Comedy: the art of writing real, relatable and funny stories in games
…with much more to be revealed!
We’re also ecstatic to welcome independent media outlets Remap Radio and The Besties, and documentarians Noclip will all be taking part to host panels, demo playthroughs, and fireside chats throughout the event 🤝
This is LudoNarraCon’s seventh year showcasing indie narrative video games, and we believe it continues to pioneer the digital gaming festival space, offering an inclusive, community-led environment for fans and newcomers who share a love for storytelling through gaming 🫂
You can expect:
📖 50 exhibiting narrative-rich games from talented indie developers
📖 15 hours of panels and fireside chats with industry veterans on various fascinating topics on the impact of narrative in video games
📖 25+ new and updated demos will be available to download and play during the digital festival, many for the first time ever
📖 170+ games on sale during the event
For more information, visit the festival’s website and subscribe to our newsletter to get notified when LudoNarraCon goes live, and join our official Discord to get some LudoNarraCon goodies!
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