Storyteller (video game)

Every page is empty, save for a title. It is your duty to fil these pages with the most captivating tales, —Narrator reading, Storyteller, Introduction.

Storyteller is a video game about arranging elements in a story to solve puzzles. The player is presented with a book named Storyteller with pages that serves as a level select. Each section has a prompt, along with story elements of scenes and characters that the player must place in panels. By going through each scenario and completing it with characters and scenes, players earn crowns used to mark progress. The book is split into several chapters, each with their own theme. For example, chapter one covers the theme of life and death, chapter two covers the theme of broken hearts, etc.

The Microsoft Windows and Mac OS versions of the game can be found here on Steam. Those with a Netflix subscription can play on Android here, or on iOS here. A Nintendo Switch version was also made and can be found here. It was developed by Daniel Benmergui and published by Annapurna Interactive on March 23, 2023.

Not to be confused with the Storyteller System, the core ruleset created by White Wolf Games for the World of Darkness and Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game.

• Back from the Dead: The player can bring dead characters back to life by using a revive scene.
• Development Hell: According to an article published in the Buenos Aires Herald, the game took over a decade of development.
• Driven to Suicide: A character that is heartbroken from the death of their love will drink a bottle of poison themselves if placed into a poison scene.
• Easy Amnesia: If they player uses an amnesia scene with a character, they can forget something important like a relationship.
• Gay Option: If the player depicts two characters getting married, they wed regardless of their gender. Under some scenarios, a player can remarry a character, leading to a bisexual option as well. Some scenarios have a limited character pool requiring at least one gay wedding, making the option less of an if and more of a who.
• In-Game Novel: The mechanism the game presents itself through is a digital representation of a hardcover book named Storyteller, complete with pages the player must turn themselves. As a result the story of the game is told through such a book.
• Love Hurts: Some prompts call for this, such as arranging for the death of one of a married couple or for a character to reject their spouse.
• Modesty Leaves: Adam and Eve both have these covering their privates in their illustrations.
• Narrator: One reads out the events of the book.
• Our Ghosts Are Different: A character used in a panel after they die is illustrated as a ghost.
• Storybook Opening: The In-Game Novel Storyteller must be literally opened.
• Tampering with Food and Drink: A character with a motive may poison wine to be drunk by an enemy if allowed.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: The illustration of Edgar features blue hair.