Patent ID: 8303403

Claim:
A gaming system configured to present a list of available episodic wagering games of a plurality of episodic wagering games, each episodic wagering game of the plurality comprising at least two logically linked game-play units, wherein successful completion of one of the game-play units is necessary, in accordance with game logic of the respective episodic wagering game, for a player to advance to one or more remaining game-play units of the logically linked game-play units, the gaming system comprising: a wagering game device configured to present, via one or more display devices, a wagering game to a player; a game context manager including one or more processors and at least one memory device, the memory device storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the game context manager to operate with the wagering game device and the one or more display devices to: identify a current player advancement level based on previous game-play of the player in one or more of the game-play units of at least one episodic wagering game of the plurality; determine a first subset of episodic wagering games of the plurality that can be played on the wagering game device; determine one or more context rules based on a comparison of respective game-play units of the first subset of episodic wagering games and the current player advancement level of the player; calculate, by processing the one or more context rules, a second subset of games that are available to the player, the second subset being selected from the first subset; and display the second subset of available games to the player for selection.