Examples

Evocative Space: Hades, which evokes our familiarity with Greek myth

Enacting Stories: Dishonored, which has you playing out Corvo Attano’s tale of revenge against an evil conspiracy

Embedded Narrative: Tacoma, which has players slowly piecing together the events that transpired on a space station before they arrived

Emergent Narrative: Sid Meier’s Civilization V, which creates narratives for players out of its many interacting systems and the rise and fall of each civilization