game order?

[Snow]

Any particluar order these 3 games should be played in?

[Torzelbaum]

Book of Dread was the first game in the series and the gameplay is very different from Godfall so it should probably be played first.

The gameplay in Chronicles is a stripped down / simplified version of what's in Godfall and it is (or can be) a lot shorter playthrough than Godfall. Because of that you might want to play it before you play Godfall but I would not say it is strictly necessary.

There are no narrative links between the games so you can play them in any order without being concerned about that.

[Snow]

Ok so basically more or less incarnations of thematically the same game just from different points in time and with varying mechanics?

[Torzelbaum]

Originally posted by Snow:

Ok so basically more or less incarnations of thematically the same game just from different points in time and with varying mechanics?

Yes. That's more or less it. The games all mainly focus on dungeon crawling and turn based combat.

Dread only lets you have a single party of characters per game. Chronicles and Godfall let you have multiple parties but you still only control one at a time. Godfall also adds some other systems that weren't in the previous games.

The equipment, skill and level up systems are also somewhat different between each game.

There are also differences in the combat mechanics with the largest change being from Dread to Chronicles.