3 Video Games Where Your Choices Actually Make a Difference

This year's open-world RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker and its many choices raise the question of what it really means for choices to matter in a game. We tend to judge branching narratives by big dramatic effects on how things play out or by hundreds of endings, as seen in the attention paid to Baldur's Gate 3's endings. Years earlier, the smaller ways the Mass Effect trilogy changed across three games were often overlooked in favor of the restrictive outcomes in Mass Effect 3.