>>16730233
Deus Ex Human Revolution would be one, if we're considering it a different one from the first.
Shadowrun Returns has a bit with that, with the cult and the large company that controls it.
Remenber Me was about that too, The Observer as well.
I guess there ain't that many because Social Engineering as a plot device isn't that easy to explore and even harder to expose properly. It takes too long to properly unravel it and you might have lost the player at that point. Way too many details they have to keep track of for everything to make sense. And if you do it too fast, it doesn't feel that interesting anyway.
>>16730026
"Medieval RPG" have expectations that can be easily known and met. There's actually very little creativity requested when working on something like that.
You have your food, your weapons, your walls and towers, castles and villages, all the known jobs and landscape and if you want to include fantasy, there's a very large plethora of mythical creatures and beliefs that you can draw from.
This doesn't just mean the devs have an easier time doing such a game but it's also easier to please the audience who knows very well what they are getting and will have their expectations easily met since there's not that much you can deviate from.
Medieval RPGs can also have a reasonably stock story and nobody really cares as long as the characters are cool or interesting. That's why Bioware managed to make games re-using the same story so many times but they were still beloved by the fans, for instance. You can do more with the story, make some allegory or metaphors, ponder deeper meanings and all that, but that's not what the fans will be looking for.
Nobody plays Skyrim to think what it means to kill Alduin, the thing that's supposed to devour the world at it's end, for instance.
Meanwhile Sci-Fi is far harder to do because it's basically the unknown future. You can do literally anything with it, provided you can justify it with some science and it even becomes a cool part of the game the more interesting the science behind it is. But this does mean that you have to build an entire universe of ideas that's consistent and deep enough to warrant interest in it.
Everyone knows what a Flaming GreatSword is, they don't need to know the game a lot to understand that concept. But a BioCharged Flux Capacitor? That requires getting into the lore and immersed into the game so you have to build interest in it first, way sooner than "medieval RPGs" have to.
The lack of expectations also means a less intuitive game for the players. Big Sword being slower but doing more damage than Small Dagger is fairly intuitive for anyone. Tri-Action Laser Rifles vs AutoShot Plasma Guns isn't that intuitive however.
This also might seem like neatpicking but it's to point out that one of the biggest hurdles that SciFi games have compared to "medieval RPGs" is to get anyone invested into them since they demand a lot more from the player. It's one of the reasons that a generic story simply isn't gonna cut it, you need to actually make it about a theme and fully explore it with the game, the theme itself being the grounding element that the player can relate to.
The player doesn't really give a shit about smuggling eggs of some lesser race until you put it as a moral quandary where he is stealing their young and dooming their race.
Even characters need to be more than just cool or interesting since they only earn those by the way they interact with the story.
TL;DR, "medieval RPGs" are half-made from the start and players can easily understand and get into them. SciFi games offer too much freedom and require heavy investment from the players.
