Last but not least, Card Shark is a cutthroat but jolly period escapade from Reigns developer Nerial. Jay (RPS in peace) was similarly impressed. It's one of the finest fantasy games I've played. Roadwarden? I've banged on at no end about Roadwarden, so I'll try to keep this brief: it's a text-based RPG that's styled like a storybook, in which your job is basically to map and restore the paths of a wilderness province, while doing favours for villages along the route. You can accuse a character of doing the deed at any time, but you'll probably want to poke around and speak to as many people as you can before committing to anything, if only because the Lovecraftian resort ambience is so dreamy, with 'colours that really make blood spatter pop', in Alice B's words. Which might sound prosaic, so let me swiftly add that all the parties concerned are immortal, and that the setting is a pocket universe full of bizarre monoliths and temples. Paradise Killer is an almost offensively cool first-person adventure in which you are a detective investigating a mass murder. All excellent, all 'story rich', all otherwise extremely different.

Those three are Paradise Killer, Roadwarden and Card Shark.

As the name suggests, LudoNarraCon and Fellow Traveller's Story-Rich Megabundle nets you 10 well-received narrative-heavy games for around £20, €23 or $25, including three games I'd personally say are among the choicest chunks of digital scribble to ever grace an SSD. I don't tend to write up Steam bundle discounts, but this is a rather good one.

Sevens the card game