Reading

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Games where players are given material to read; this includes books, newspapers, dialogue, letters, journals, notes, and emails. Both Japanese and Western RPGs as well as story driven Adventure Games tend to ultize this feature, some Open World Action Adventures contain this feature as well.

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Reading in games is usually done through books, letters, journals, notes, dialogue and other paper media. Science fiction or modern timeline games tend to allow players to read through devices such as computer screens in addition to paper forms

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• ATOM RPG: Post-Apocalyptic Indie Game (Game)
• Akane Iro ni Somaru Saka (Game)
• Alone in the Dark (Game)
• Alundra (Game)
• Alundra 2 (Game)
• Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (Game)
• Anachronox (Game)
• Analogue: A Hate Story (Game)
• Arcania: Gothic 4 (Game)
• Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura (Game)
• Atom RPG: Trudograd (Game)
• Baldur's Gate (Game)
• Baldur's Gate 3 (Game)
• Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (Game)
• Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition Pack (Game)
• Baten Kaitos Origins (Game)
• Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean (Game)
• Battle Chasers: Nightwar (Game)
• Beyond Divinity (Game)
• Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain (Game)
• Blood West (Game)
• Broken Roads (Game)
• Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror (Game)
• Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (Game)
• Bureaucracy (Game)
• Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (Game)
• Chrono Cross (Game)
• Citizen Sleeper (Game)
• Cold Winter (Game)
• Colony Ship (Game)
• Comyu - Kuroi Ryuu to Yasashii Oukoku (Game)
• Conarium (Game)
• Cryostasis (Game)
• Cyberpunk 2077 (Game)
• Dark Savior (Game)
• Dead Space (Game)
• Dead Space 3 (Game)
• Death and Taxes (Game)
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Game)
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut (Game)
• Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (Game)
• Dex (Game)
• Disco Elysium (Game)
• Dishonored & Prey: The Arkane Collection (Game)
• Dishonored (Game)
• Dishonored 2 (Game)
• Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (Game)
• Divine Divinity (Game)
• Divinity II: Ego Draconis (Game)
• Divinity II: Flames of Vengeance (Game)
• Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga (Game)
• Divinity: Original Sin (Game)
• Divinity: Original Sin II (Game)
• Doorways (Game)
• Dragon Age II (Game)
• Dragon Age: Inquisition (Game)
• Dragon Age: Origins (Game)
• Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Game)
• Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King (Game)
• Dredge (Game)
• Dungeons & Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun (Game)
• Dungeons of Dredmor (Game)
• Déjà Vu II: Lost in Las Vegas (Game)
• ELEX (Game)
• ELEX II (Game)
• Eden Eternal (Game)
• Enderal (Game)
• Enderal: The Shards of Order (Game)
• EverQuest (Game)
• EverQuest: Depths of Darkhollow (Game)
• EverQuest: Dragons of Norrath (Game)
• EverQuest: Gates of Discord (Game)
• EverQuest: House of Thule (Game)
• EverQuest: Lost Dungeons of Norrath (Game)
• EverQuest: Omens of War (Game)
• EverQuest: Prophecy of Ro (Game)
• EverQuest: Secrets of Faydwer (Game)
• EverQuest: Seeds of Destruction (Game)
• EverQuest: The Buried Sea (Game)
• EverQuest: The Legacy of Ykesha (Game)
• EverQuest: The Planes of Power (Game)
• EverQuest: The Ruins of Kunark (Game)
• EverQuest: The Scars of Velious (Game)
• EverQuest: The Serpent's Spine (Game)
• EverQuest: The Shadows of Luclin (Game)
• EverQuest: Underfoot (Game)
• Fable (Game)
• Fable Anniversary (Game)
• Fable II (Game)
• Fable III (Game)
• Fallout 3 (Game)
• Fallout 76 (Game)
• Fallout: New Vegas (Game)
• Final Fantasy IX (Game)
• Final Fantasy VIII (Game)
• Flash Traffic: City of Angels (Game)
• Fortune's Run (Game)
• Full Throttle (Game)
• Gone Home (Game)
• Gothic (Game)

Concept details

Name

Reading

Aliases

Games

• ATOM RPG: Post-Apocalyptic Indie Game (Game)
• Akane Iro ni Somaru Saka (Game)
• Alone in the Dark (Game)
• Alundra (Game)
• Alundra 2 (Game)
• Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (Game)
• Anachronox (Game)
• Analogue: A Hate Story (Game)
• Arcania: Gothic 4 (Game)
• Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura (Game)
• Atom RPG: Trudograd (Game)
• Baldur's Gate (Game)
• Baldur's Gate 3 (Game)
• Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (Game)
• Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition Pack (Game)
• Baten Kaitos Origins (Game)
• Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean (Game)
• Battle Chasers: Nightwar (Game)
• Beyond Divinity (Game)
• Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain (Game)
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Franchises

• Has franchises: Star Wars (Franchise), Touch! Generations (Franchise), Baten Kaitos (Franchise), Tales (Franchise), Final Fantasy (Franchise), Zero Escape (Franchise), The Elder Scrolls (Franchise), Deus Ex (Franchise), Compilation of Final Fantasy VII (Franchise), Ivalice Alliance (Franchise), Dragon Quest (Franchise), Dungeons & Dragons (Franchise), Star Ocean (Franchise), Valkyrie (Franchise), Chrono (Franchise), Hotel Dusk (Franchise), Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Franchise), Monkey Island (Franchise), The Neverhood (Franchise), Broken Sword (Franchise), Xeno (Franchise), Myst (Franchise), Shadow Hearts (Franchise), The Longest Journey (Franchise), Skies of Arcadia (Franchise), No One Lives Forever (Franchise), Legaia (Franchise), The Sims (Franchise), EverQuest (Franchise), Zork (Franchise), Alundra (Franchise), Call of Cthulhu (Franchise), Dead Space (Franchise), Trace Memory (Franchise), Two Worlds (Franchise), Homefront (Franchise), MacVenture (Franchise)

Characters

• Has characters: Kazami Kazuki (Character), Sakaki Yumiko (Character)

Locations

• Has locations: Library (Location), Norrath (Location), Book Shop (Location)

Objects

• Has objects: Book (Object), Map (Object), Bible (Object), Computer (Object), Nathan Drake's Diary (Object), Spell (Object), Scroll (Object), Diary (Object), Paper (Object), Newspaper (Object), Pip-Boy (Object), Office Chair (Object), Letter (Object), Mailbox (Object), Elder Scroll (Object), Magazine (Object), Hazard Symbol (Object), Dictionary (Object), Notes (Object)

People

• Has people: Yasumi Matsuno (Person)

Related Concepts

• Has related concepts: Hacking (Concept), Students (Concept), In-Game E-Mail (Concept), Dear Diary, I Left This Note For Me In Case I Forget (Concept), Dialogue Tree (Concept), Studying (Concept), Scanning (Concept), Spell Book (Concept), Dyslexia (Concept), Dear Diary, I'm Being Murdered (Concept), Librarian (Concept), Word Games (Concept), Dear Diary, Today I Turned Into a Zombie (Concept), Text Based (Concept), Role-Playing Shooter (Concept), Optional Lore (Concept), MUD (Concept), Genome Engine (Concept), Action RPG (Concept)