LudoNarraCon: Indie festival on Steam celebrates games with history

Now in its 6th year, Publisher Fellow Traveler is hosting LudoNarraCon, a Steam event focused on indie games that strive to further explore the boundaries of familiar narratives in video games.

Last year, LudoNarraCon (a word game based on “ludo”, the Latin word for games or “ludonarrative”, the expression for storytelling in (video) games) and “Con” for “convention”) had some real ones Indie pearls on display. For example, the impressively beautiful space adventure The Invincible (test), the role-playing musical game with a star cast Stray Gods and the horror adventure Slay the Princess were among the games presented in 2023.

This year, for example, the online con is attracting visitors with the card-based role-playing game The Horror at Highrook, in which you play as a team of investigators who want to find out more about a cult and its activities in an old mansion. Anyone who loves board games like “Betrayal at House on the Hill” should keep The Horror at Highrook on their radar!

Maybe for everyone who needs a little distance from constantly slashing zombies or saving the world Fishbowl something. In the coming-of-age story, you spend your time mainly doing normal tasks such as working from home, making video calls with your loved ones, or discovering memories of earlier events in your life while tidying up. An absolutely heartbreaking story.

Apart from many demos and special offers on Steam, LudoNarraCon also offers numerous panels with exciting topics about the background of video games. Developers talk about the tension between story and gameplay in their games or discuss the connection between story and music. You can watch the live streams of all panels directly via Steam.

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If you want to take a look at the numerous free demos, you’ll have to wait and see. The LudoNarraCon 2024 only runs today, May 13th, 2024 and is Accessible directly via Steam. After that, indie fans will have to wait another whole year until the next con.