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Somebody Else’s Story by @EJoyce is a twine game in the Goncharov milieu. It’s a brief vignette, taking only a few minutes to play. At first, it seemed so slight that I wondered if I needed to be much better versed in Goncharov lore to get something from it, but after exploring its choices through a few replays, I did get it (and probably should have been tipped off from the title).

It also echoes a theme of Andromeda Chained, above: Katya knows that she and Sofia are endangered just by their proximity to the people in their lives, but further seems to have a metafictional awareness that she and Sofia are bit players in this drama, that the plot counts them as expendable.

If you’re looking for a lunch break game, have something additional queued up for afterward: this probably would work best as an aperitif.

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