Read our best game diaries, if you've got a spare week or so

Read our best game diaries, if you've got a spare week or so

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Over the years we've turned our experiences playing games into a lot of stories, most literally in our game diaries. They're fun features, and hopefully reading them will make you consider playing your next game in a novel way—maybe not with over 200 random mods installed, but perhaps as a favorite fictional character or with a challenging limitation—and turning that into a narrative, even if it's only in your head. You don't have to be a professional storyteller to think about decisions in-character, and you may find yourself enjoying them even more.

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Game Mount & Blade
Diary by Evan Lahti

Among Mount & Blade's many overhaul mods, Star Wars Conquest is a highlight. It fills the medieval sandbox game with stormtroopers and hutts, and lets you play basically whoever you want. Gamorrean smuggler? Sure. Twilek merchant? You do you. Droid jedi? Go off, my child.Playing as a party of bears(opens in new tab)
Game Pillars of Eternity
Diary by Christopher Livingston

I have 61 hours in Pillars of Eternity and I did not realize this was even possible, but with an entire party of ranger PCs, each with bear as a companion animal, you can just leave the humans at home and march off as a pure-bear party.

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Game Crusader Kings 2
Diary by Rich McCormick

The Game of Thrones mod for Crusader Kings 2 lets you pick and choose from George R. R. Martin's cast of mostly doomed War of the Roses analogues, leading them and their dynasties through the long winter. Rich chose Ned Stark, a character he sums up as "naïve and unflinchingly honourable", then tried to keep him alive in this grim and cynical setting.