You should definitely play both Crusader Kings and Dwarf Fortress - the feeling that you get when you read it: “Hah, it feels like in real life but damn it’s crazy” Is true for gameplay of both games in general. When things are simulated with enough details, stories appear!
Even the amount of pre-written stuff for Crusader Kings is insane.
I once got seduced and murdered by my own sister as revenge for murdering my brothers to inherit their kingdoms. The funny part was that the “getting seduced by my sister” part was apparently a scripted event based on actual history. And that’s just one example.
That sounds like the north Iberia start, with the 3 brothers each with their own kingdoms and the intrigue sister.
That’s right, I just can’t remember anyone’s names.
Dwarf fortress is wild to read about. One of these days I’ll be brave enough to try it.
You can download it off the Devs, and it’ll be free, but the UI is about as opaque as a foot-thick wall of lead.
Alternatively, you can buy the Steam version, and that one is way more accessible.
Reminds me a little bit of Minecraft updates.
With Minecraft you have the Herobrine story - a player claimed in a video that another player named Herobrine was showing up in his offline game and causing chaos. He was trying to create a creepypasta rumour that Minecraft was haunted by the creator’s dead brother, and probably only failed because he was careless and let himself be caught on audio saying that’s what he was doing.
Ever since, the developers occasionally release update notes that include the line ‘removed Herobrine’.
Stardew Valley had one that said something to the effect of “fixed the Geneva convention violation”
The patch notes for The Sims had to be my favorite.
Ah yess… Pregnant Sims can no longer brawl & When the meteor hit building every sims will evacuate unless it’s school
Children can no longer Woohoo with the Grim Reaper
Population control.
Gotta start young I guess
We had a classic bot on r/SubSimGPT2Interactive that was trained on discussions about Dwarf Fortress. It was always one of my favorites even though I had never played Dwarf Fortress, and it took me a while to realize that more than half of the absurdity it was generating was due to the game just being like that. GPT-2 was merely shuffling the deck and dealing the cards
I love the sims patch notes
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