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What Expedition 33 Taught Me About My Own Storytelling

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Amrit Birdi
Jun 04, 2025
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Sometimes a game doesn’t just entertain — it holds up a mirror.

While playing Expedition 33, I found myself constantly thinking about the story I’ve spent years building: RID OF YOU, my anime-inspired graphic novel series, which is currently live on Kickstarter, in its third and final volume.

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Both stories are, at their core, about memory, longing, and the unbearable weight of the past.

But what fascinated me was how Expedition 33 takes a subtly different path at every turn. It asks what it means to confront truth. RID OF YOU asks what happens when we don’t.

That contrast — and the places where the two stories unexpectedly align — became the lens through which I experienced the game.

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