I played the Amnesia Fortnight prototypes OANST gave me. They were pretty patchy, but I liked Little Pink Best Buds, and Mnemonic and Dear Leader were great.
Mnemonic was a first-person narrative adventure in the vein of Myst, with a very noir, Lovecraftian vibe.
You play some kind of PI trying to remember the events of a traumatic day. You do this by wandering between the few scenes he can recall, looking at stuff and trying to see if it reminds you of anything else. If it does, you drag it over to the other thing, and the connection jogs your memory and reveals more of the scene (hence the title).
Example: A body lies in a dark alley. In another scene, a postcard of a daylit city is on a car dashboard. This reminds you of the city in the alley scene, so you pick up the postcard, carry it across to the alley, and hold it up. The PI remembers that he knew this alley, because it was in the town where he bought the postcard, and the black void around the spotlit scene fills in with now-familiar surroundings.
Dear Leader was a Soviet bureaucracy simulator in the vein of Papers, Please, but at the opposite end of the power spectrum.
You play a beloved revolutionary who's just achieved absolute power, and promptly set about juggling the needs of your populace with the puppetry of an Orwellian police state, all without leaving your desk.
Legislate farming centralisation, authorise executions, try not to get assassinated.
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