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BioShock

Made the player's own obedience the subject of the story — the medium's cleanest thesis statement.

Released 2007 Developer Irrational Games Publisher 2K Games Platform Xbox 360 Genre Immersive sim Era Broadband & the console shooter

Mechanics this game introduced

These are recorded as first appearing here. Each links to a full history of where the idea went next.

Narrative · 2007
Player-Agency Narrative Twist
A player-agency narrative twist turns the story onto the player's own obedience, revealing that doing as you were told…
Origin: BioShock

Mechanics it built on

Ideas BioShock inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Explicit Morality Axis 1985Systemic Solution Space 1992Found Audio Log 1994Environmental Storytelling 1994Regenerating Health 2001

Descends from

System Shock 1994

The BioShock series in this dataset

2007
BioShock this page
2013

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