This paper proposes a rhetorical reconceptualization of the insights generated by Interactive Digital Narratives (IDNs) seeking to represent complexity. It challenges the notion that IDNs offer a transparent window onto complex phenomena, arguing instead that they function as persuasive procedural, narrative arguments about complexity. Walter Fisher’s Narrative Paradigm is positioned as the most effective lens for this analysis, shifting the evaluative criteria from factual accuracy to Narrative Rationality supported by Procedural Rhetoric. The paper deconstructs how systemic, embodied, and transformative insights function rhetorically to provide users with “good reasons” for belief and action regarding complex systems. By treating the IDN as an authored, persuasive model rather than a direct simulation of complexity, this work clarifies how subjective, imaginative engagement in that model can yield critical insights into the constructed nature of that system. The understanding of those insights can support democratic discourse in an increasingly algorithmic world.