I used the scifi/fantasy flair but I accept any kind of recs.
Katana Zero is a game with a very interesting narrative. It reminds me a bit of Hotline Miami, but cranked up. If you haven’t played, I’ll enter into spoiler-ish territory, so stop here if you plan on playing.
Basically, we have our main character as an unreliable narrator because of amnesia/head fucked up by drugs. The only clue to hist past is a war flashback that keeps showing during the game, however, the flashback is all incomplete and screwed up (as the game goes on iteven changes *who* our protagonist thinks he is in the flashback).
Through the game, he slowly starts to remember what really happened, and the flashbacks start getting clearer and we understand what really happened.
The drug in question is a drug used by the government to create supersoldiers. It essentially gives them the ability to slow time and prescience, which is a big part of the gameplay (the character can see ahead all possible futures and plan his execution). And when he meets with others supersoldiers like that, what happens is that both of them can “die” a lot of times in those possible futures until one of them manages to kill the other.
And through the game we also get a lot of stuff that we never know if it’s in his head or not, allucinations, whole characters etc.
Well, that’s it. I admit it might be a bit difficulty, especially because Katana Zero works so well becaue of its medium, idk what kind of book might fit here.
by dinodauro