Player exposition

Culture concept

Player is made aware of things the protagonist does not and could not know, regardless if this has any use for progressing in the plot. Commonly involves a cinematic showing what the antagonist is doing at the time.

games

platforms

The Book of Unwritten Tales 2

WIN 2015-02-20

Lucius

WIN 2012-10-26

Saints Row: The Third

WIN 2011-11-15

Ys: The Oath in Felghana

WIN 2005

WIN 2014-02

X360 2011-12-20

WIN 2011-10-27

The Book of Unwritten Tales

WIN 2009-04-02

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

WIN 2011-08-26

ArcaniA - A Gothic Tale

WIN 2010-10-13

Wolfenstein

WIN 2009-08-18

This does not require breaking of the 4th wall as it is purely a narrative mechanic to deliver events that are happening roughly at the same time without having to recap them later on when someone tells the protagonist of it, if they're ever made aware of it.

Games by year

The first Player exposition video game was released on October 1991.

Beamdog, Capcom and THQ published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows		40
Linux		12
Mac OS X		7
PS3		4
X360		3
Wii U		1
Xbox One		1
MS-DOS		1
PS		1
PSP		1
Win3.1		1

Most common companies

Beamdog	6
Capcom	5
THQ	4
Terrible Toybox	4
Devolver Digital	3
Nordic Games	3
Winterwolves	3
Crocodile Entertainment	2
Activision	2
Square Enix	2
Alice Soft	2
Sega	2
Frozenbyte	2
Atlus	2

Player exposition

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