What we do
Hindsight may be 20/20, but preparedness relies on the quality of your foresight.
How prepared are you?
Narrative Gaming brings the future into focus, enabling you to identify risks earlier, make more informed choices, and plan with greater confidence.
Through immersive simulations, we help decision-makers explore future risks, test strategies, and prepare for critical choices before they are faced with them.
Today’s challenges rarely fit neatly into one category. National Security, Geopolitics, Technology, Resilience, Preparedness, Climate Impact, and Corporate Risk intersect in ways that are unpredictable and rapidly evolving. Traditional workshops and analysis can explain the issues, but struggle to inspire confidence, let alone action.
Narrative wargaming bridges this gap by combining conventional analytical tools and subject matter expertise with the driving force of active participation.
Unlike conventional wargames or abstract models, our games place players inside the immediacy and complexity of plausible near-future events. They must confront uncertainty, face credible adversaries, and weigh trade-offs under pressure, while practising collaboration and coordination within and across teams.
As a result, policies can be tested and evaluated safely and privately, a process that exposes vulnerabilities and challenges assumptions, improving their next iteration and informing future planning.
Our 5-Stage Methodology
The result is a methodology that not only prepares leaders for complexity but equips them to respond with clarity, confidence and resilience.
Our 5-Stage Methodology
Understand
Work with stakeholders and SMEs to analyse the scenario space—mapping actors, tensions, dilemmas, and interdependencies.
Design
Shape the structure, objectives, and narrative arcs. Build in strategic ambiguity to reflect real-world uncertainty.
Develop
Create role briefs, injects, turn sheets, and media feeds. Playtest to ensure immersion, plausibility, and flow.
Deliver
Run the game with expert facilitation and adjudication. Use live injects to stress-test decisions in real time.
Report
Capture decisions, analyse outcomes, and surface insights. Translate findings into actionable recommendations that inform planning and communications.
Our 5-Stage Methodology
Understand
Work with stakeholders and SMEs to analyse the scenario space—mapping actors, tensions, dilemmas, and interdependencies.
Design
Shape the structure, objectives, and narrative arcs. Build in strategic ambiguity to reflect real-world uncertainty.
Develop
Create role briefs, injects, turn sheets, and media feeds. Playtest to ensure immersion, plausibility, and flow.
Deliver
Run the game with expert facilitation and adjudication. Use live injects to stress-test decisions in real time.
Report
Capture decisions, analyse outcomes, and surface insights. Translate findings into actionable recommendations that inform planning and communications.
Narrative wargaming is more than a game; it is a catalyst for strategy.
The insights it generates are not theoretical; they are lived and felt. That makes them more memorable, actionable, and enduring than static reports or workshops.
To deepen impact, we link our narrative gaming services with our specialist supporting consultancy services:
- Strategic Planning – turning insights into clear objectives, actionable plans, and aligned leadership.
- Strategic Communications – refining the narratives that carry strategy forward, ensuring messages resonate internally and externally.
The result is a methodology that not only prepares leaders for complexity but equips them to respond with clarity, confidence, and resilience.
Use Cases
Our narrative games deliver high-impact insights across areas like AI and corporate strategy to defence, national security, crisis response, and critical infrastructure. Whether supporting government agencies, energy and financial services, or the defence community, we help leaders stress-test decisions, uncover blind spots, and build resilience in the face of accelerating complexity.
The future favours those who prepare.
Get in touch to rehearse your future, today.