AI: The Somnium Files
AI: The Somnium Files is a Horror, Anime, Visual Novel, and Single-player video game developed by Spike Chunsoft Co, Ltd. During the gameplay, the player takes on the role of a protagonist named Kaname Date, whose main mission is to investigate the murders and explore suspects to solve the issues taking place in Tokyo.
The game divides into two sections, such as Investigations and Somnium parts. The game has multiple ends, as it depends on the way a player examines the case. The character uses its AI abilities, such as X-ray vision, zoom-in, and others that will help the player to make progress. In the somnium part, the player utilizes a machine called Psync Machine that will detect the suspects and key witnesses who denied to say something.
The player needs to solve many puzzles and examine different clues, and the game provides six-minute gameplay to solve the case. To generate a reality-based outcome, the player must investigate the different cases deeply. The core features of the game are Female Protagonist, Psync Machine, AI Abilities, Two Sections, Multiple Endings, and Different Puzzles.
#1 Punch Line
Punch Line is an Adventure, Anime, RPG, Visual Novel, and Single-player video game developed by Mages. Inc. During the gameplay, the player takes on the role of a protagonist named Yuuta Iridatsu, whose major task is to get his body back from a ghost to the original character. While exploring the house, the player views the environment from a first-person perspective.
The player roams about a horror house where the player can set up pranks in the rooms of NPC. The player possesses poltergeist abilities that allow the player to disturb the humans, such as producing loud voices or destroy the objects randomly. The player must solve puzzles to complete the mission of regaining the lost soul.
If the pranks set by the player gets successful, then the player gets to advance throughout the gameplay. The player also equips possession ability that permits the player to control humans through magical powers and turn them in favor of the character. The core features of the game are Possession Ability, Numerous Puzzles, First-person View, Pranks to Trap, and A Haunted House.
#2 Zero Time Dilemma
Zero Time Dilemma is a Visual Novel, Puzzle, Point-and-click, and Single-player video game developed by Spike Chunsoft Co, Ltd. It serves as the third main title in the Zero Escape series, offering similar gameplay to the last releases. A masked person called zero kidnapped almost nine persons, and the player needs to escape from the horrible antagonist.
The game offers a Decision Game mode where all the characters contain a three-player team, and the player can choose any team by taking the lead of the team. The player must complete several room puzzles to get to the advance. The game contains several fragments where each fragment consists of 90-minute gameplay and offers a Floating Fragment system that permits the player to select the desired fragment based on the image.
The player will come to explore thirteen rooms from a first-person perspective and needs to find out the clues and solve puzzles to unlock more. After completing the escape section, the player needs to make the decision, such as a character seems to lock on a chair with a gun ahead of the character and the other character in the clutch of an incinerator.
The player needs to rescue both the characters, and if the player stops the incinerator a bullet from the gun fires and divides the skull of the character into two halves on the chair. The core features of the game are Multiple Endings, Nine Characters, Three Teams, 90-Minute Gameplay, First-person Perspective, and Several Puzzles.
#3 The Silver Case
The Silver Case is an Action-Adventure, Visual Novel, Puzzle, and Single-player video game played from a first-person perspective, developed by Grasshopper Manufacture for multiple platforms. The gameplay orbits around answer segments, text-based, and point-and-click mechanics. During the gameplay, the player assumes the role of a detective who inspects several serial murder cases takes place in the city of 24 Wards.
Behind all these murders, the only serial killer, Kamui Uehara, is responsible, but he is in a prison of the mental hospital and the doctors suggest that he can’t commit any crime. The player needs to reveal the mysterious planning of the killer to rescue the city from more crimes. The game offers two different scenarios, such as transmitter scenario and placebo scenario.
In the transmitter scenario, the player needs to examine several cases, while the placebo scenario allows the player to investigate ty taking the role of a journalist. Each scenario has six chapters that contain both text-based, and scenery events and the player must solve various puzzles to proceed further. The core features of the game are Several Quests, Different Puzzles, Twelve Chapters, Two Scenarios, First-person Perspective, and A Mystery to Reveal.
#4 Life is Strange
Life is Strange is a Single-player Graphic Adventure and Interactive Fiction video game by Square Enix. The game consists of five main episodes and focuses on the character of a Photography student named as Maxine Caulfield. Maxine Caulfield discovers out that she has the special ability to reverse time and any specific moment. The story takes a twist when Maxine foresees a huge Storm raging to destroy her town and that the time when she realizes that she’s the only one to prevent it from happening. Life is Strange allows the players to control the character of Maxine Caulfield and follow the narrative as it unfolds into all the storyful actions that the player character performs. Amazing trips to the past, fantastic quests, freedom to explore and the ability to manipulate environmental elements, loads of challenging puzzles and game ending based upon the actions performed by the character, Life is Strange offers a truly remarkable gameplay experience that is based on pure graphics and interactive elements. With an episodic gameplay, various character archetypes, a great story, graphic adventure nature and point-and-click puzzles, Life is Strange offers beautiful visuals and an impressively addictive gameplay to enjoy. Life is Strange is available to play on Microsoft Windows, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox and Linux platforms.
#5 The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead, Developed and published by Telltale Games is an Action-Adventure, Graphic and Interactive Drama based on the comic book (The Walking Dead Comic Book Series) of Robert Kirkman. The game is set in an era of Zombie Apocalypse in Georgia, the story revolves around the life of the protagonist Lee Everett a former university professor, and a young girl named Clementine. Lee Everett helps a group of survivors stay alive and he leads them. Due to an open world gaming environment and a third person gaming perspective the player along with all the people roams freely and interacts with the item easily. The player controls the protagonist and helps him and other people fight against the hordes of zombies using every weapon they have. The life rate of survivors depends on the fighting abilities of all the fighters. With super cool graphics, a well-written storyline and many weapon choices, The Walking Dead provides with an amazingly fascinating game-play.
#6 Policenauts
Policenauts is an Adventure, Visual Novel, Interactive Drama and Single-player video game developed and published by Konami for multiple platforms. The plot revolves around the detective, who traverses to a space colony to investigate the environment surrounding the murder of his ex-wife and the disappearance of her new husband. The player uses the first-person perspective to navigate the world and uses the point-and-click interface to control the movement of the protagonist, interact with the environment and communicate with NPCs. The game introduces the shooting segment like Snatcher video game, where the player needs to defend the character from incoming foes. During the gameplay, the player can use the shooting trainer at the Department of Police to test his accuracy and reflex. There are a variety of tricky puzzles available including the event where the player has to dismantle the bomb, flowing the instruction of his partner. Policenauts offers prominent features such as Exploration, First-person Action, Point-and-Click Gameplay, Multiple Challenging Levels, and more.