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[Alex Ros]

You can simply make a game based on a real short story. That's a lot more reliable way to find a real great story-basement. Just read a bunch of Stephen King short stories, for example Most of them are very friendly and easy for reading...

For example, the one that really stuck in my memory...
Mother asks her little boy-son to go to the forest to the river and and catch some fish for a dinner. The boy goes to the forest, everything's cool, he have been here at the forest for thousands time. Lots of familiar details as boy walks through the forest. Than he finally comes to the river, wastes some time to catch the fish. That's the time when you, reader, thinks that something is going to happen and... and it doesn't. The boy is just going back home. And only on his way back home the boy meets a Tall Man. Just out of nowhere. And that stranger tells a boy that he is VERY VERY VERY hungry. And while that stranger is pronouncing words, the boy feels a light smell of sulfur from the mouth of a stranger. He understands that it's not just a stranger. It's a Devil himself. And he is VERY VERY VERY hungry. And it's not the fish the Tall Man wants, no it's not a fish, the Devil wants to eat a little boy. And the boy runs. Just runs as hell... and... and that's it. He ran back home. The end of story.
The simplest story how a little boy met Devil in a forest. But it was SO horrible, you can't believe. The trick is that the part until we meet a Tall Man is a LOT LOT LOT longer than the horrible part. And while the boy is simply doing his doings in the forest, you're becoming more and more and mo... hrrr... relaxed. And than at the most unexpected moment BANG! The Tall Man. And it was so realistic and usual and so immersive so you just believe in everything. You feel like you're by yourself is standing all alone in the forest and here is a f**king Tall Man wants to eat you?!? What the f**k to do?????? And you run... run with your character... and than you can't sleep ))))))

That's just an example. Simple and great...
By the way I'd say simplicity is the hardest thing to catch. Really. Paradox. So there is no real need for a complicated story, it can be real simple, basic.

Well... hmmm... also if you'd love to, you can try Howard Lovecraft and Edgar Poe stories. They're a bit more boring for reading (if you are not used to reading such a prose), but quite thrilling. And the time when all is happening is just like in Amnesia, Victorian times... well, quite a bit later, but nevermind... haunted mansions, villages, ghosts, alchemy, castles, etc... these times ))))))