Beholder 2
Beholder 2 is an Adventure, Strategy, and Single-player video game developed by Warm Lamp Games for Multiple Platforms. It takes you in a vast land where almost every citizen dreams of working as the Prime Minister. However, you’re a lucky man, and your dream has come true. In the dystopian city, you have an opportunity to become a responsible officer who is decorated by the Wise Leader, or you can become a cruel person capable of smashing anyone who stands between him and the seat of the Prime Minister. In the game, you’re a part of Ministry. You have a golden chance to shape your future with your hands and experience the brilliant gameplay to become the master. The game introduces multiple endings, depending on your actions, and it provides you with story-rich gameplay with a mix of Politics, Atmospheric Puzzle, and Strategy game elements. The 3D environment allows you to navigate the world from a third-person viewpoint, while the Single-player mode enables you to play the game alone with NPCs.
#1 Beholder
Beholder is an Adventure, Strategy and Single-player video game developed by Warm Lamp Games and published by Alawar Entertainment. The game offers a thrilling gameplay inspired by Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Ray Bradbury. In the game, the player controls the protagonist named as Carl, who is a government installed landlord in the state of totalitarian. The government hires the player to spy on the tenants, and his ultimate task is to chase the tenants and efforts to record their conversation. There are a series of levels, and the player manipulates the landscape from a side-scroll perspective. The player needs to reports anyone of violating the laws and fulfill the objectives to earn points. In the game, the player has an option to follow the instruction of the government or team up with those people who are suffering from the oppressive directives. With excellent mechanics, wonderful gameplay, and exciting graphics, Beholder is the best game to play.
#2 Nancy Drew
Nancy Drew is a Series of games that offers various Action-Adventure and Point-and-Click exploits of the character of Nancy Drew. The series features over a dozen games and is one of the longest running series of mysteries that tends to provide you with quality entertainment and immerses you deeply with the brilliant stories. Available on various gaming platforms such as PC, Mac, Linux, Nintendo and Smart phones, Nancy Drew offers Interactive and Visual Novel style aesthetics and allows you to solve puzzles, talk to NPCs, Collect items, and solve crimes and Mysteries. Being a fantastic video game series, Nancy Drew offers some of the most amazing Video games in the series and some of them are big hits such as Nancy Drew Adventures, Nancy Drew Dossier and Nancy Drew Mobile Mysteries etc. Throughout the series Nancy Drew offers a number of different environments, stories, characters and various gameplay experiences etc. With all the fantastic story-driven gameplays, Nancy Drew lets you enjoy both exploration and Detective aesthetics and that is what makes the whole series a marvelous creation of all time.
#3 The Wolf Among Us
The Wolf Among Us is an Interactive Drama, Episodic and Graphic Adventure video game developed by “Telltale Game”. The story of the game is based on “Bill Willingham” Comic Book Series named as “Fables”. The game takes you back to the past in the year 1986 and fits you right into the character of “Bigby Wolf” a law enforcing officer. “The Wolf Among Us” starts off with you as the protagonist saving a fable girl from the attack of a woodsman. You take her to your place where she heals her wounds and leaves saying that “You are not as bad as People think you are”. Chapter ends and in next chapter someone gives you the news of the fable girl’s head resting at a Woodsman doorstep. Sherrif “Ichabod Crane” orders you to investigate and solve the case and take “Snow White” with you as your assistant. “The Wolf Among Us” is a super thrilling and exciting case solving and detective video game that lets you solve murder cases by investigating and collecting the clues/evidences and by interacting with objects and NPCs. The game has a twisted and strange story that literally makes you dive deep into imagination and curiosity. Wolf Among Us offers a brilliant Episodic, Interactive and Story Driven gameplay and beautiful visuals to enjoy.
#4 Broken Age
Broken Age, an epic Point-and-Click Adventure game is developed and published by Double Fine Productions. The story of the game revolves around the life events of two teenagers named Vella Tartine and Shay Volta. Vella’s life hangs in between life and death as she is to be sacrificed to protect her village from a giant monster Mog Chothra and Shay is an astronaut on a ship fully controlled by a computer who thinks of herself as an over protective and overconfident mother of Shay. Vella lives in a world where people believe that sacrifices can save them from Mog Chothra, but vella is not ready to die. She escapes the beasts attack and runs away. She finds a temple that is actually Shay Volta’s Ship. She wakes Shay up from stasis and with the help of Shay they make a weapon and when “Mog Chothra” re appears Vella kills the creature. The storyline of the game and graphics along with gaming environment are astounding.
#5 Tales from the Borderlands
Tales from the Borderlands based on the original Borderlands is an Episodic, Interactive Drama and Graphic Action-Adventure video game developed by Telltale Games. Set in the Borderlands universe, this point and click graphic adventure video game lets you be anyone of the two main protagonists Rhys and Fiona, Explore the game world, interact with game objects, engage yourself into conversations with NPCs and make choices that will eventually effect the story and will set the course of events. Tales from the Borderlands provides with some gun-play elements too and features the same mechanics that were previously used with Borderlands and provides with procedurally generated guns and ammunition. Tales from the Borderlands have some more episodes yet to come out and will definitely amaze you with what it has to offer. For a great Adventure and interactive Drama experience, you should totally play this game.
#6 Creatures Such As We
Creatures Such As We, created by Lynenea Glasser is a text based Interactive Adventure and fiction based video game. The game features a customizable protagonist who provides his/her services on the moon as a tour guide. The game lets you set up yourself into the character of the protagonist, interact with objects and NPCs by a text based game-play and allows you to explore and find your suitable date among other AI players. “Creatures Such As We” allows you to engage yourself in an elegant and sophisticated game-play in which you can interact with NPCs (Non Player Characters) emotionally and figuratively and change the course of the story metaphorically. As the game lets you change the course of the story by the actions you perform, Creatures Such As We provides with different game endings too. With an award of Best Interactive Game of the Year, Creatures Such As We is an amazingly engaging and quite addictive video game to play. Do try it out.
#7 Gemini Rue
Gemini Rue is a Graphic-Adventure, Interactive Drama and Cyberpunk video game developed by Wadjet Eye Games. The story of the game bases on point-and-Click Puzzles and investigations and lets you explore the game world, interact with NPCs, collect clues and objects and engage in quite exciting Gun-play. The game takes place in the Gemini Star System in 23rd century and allows you to get into the character of Azriel Odin a gangster turned Law Enforcer. You must ride in your ship and travel to Barracus in search of your brother Daniel kidnapped by Boryokudan a terrorist organization. You must also collect the clues and objects pointing in the direction of your brother’s current location. You will be required to get information from the NPCs and solve some puzzles in order to find answers to the questions you have. As Matthius Howard will be your companion throughout your journeys, you can get help from him on specific points in the game by exchanging your place with him. You must eliminate the Syndicate too and save the whole universe along with your brother. Gemini Rue is a great Graphic-Adventure and interactive Drama based video game to play and enjoy. You should totally give it a try.
#8 SIMULACRA 2
SIMULACRA 2 is a Simulation, Puzzle, Adventure, Horror, Action, Visual Novel, and Single-player video game offered by Kaigan Games. It serves as the sequel of the SIMULACRA and offers similar gameplay with the original one. During the gameplay, the player takes on the role of an inspector named Murilo, whose main task is to investigate the crime and murder of a lady, Maya.
The evidence of the murder is the victim’s phone, where the player needs to reveal the secrets behind the death. The player can inspect different NPCs that act as the family members and friends of Maya. The game provides the player with an AI police squad to recover the phone media, such as contacts, photos, texts, calls, and other more.
The result of the game depends on the decisions a player makes, and it comes with multiple endings as every time the result will be different from the last. The murderer can be Maya’s friend, family member, relative, colleague, or any stranger, and it all relies on the logic of the player’s investigation. The game has core features, such as A Phone, Crime Investigation, AI Police Squad, NPC Interaction, and Multiple Endings.