22 Best Drama Games

Shannara is a 1995 Adventure and Single-player video game based on the series of books with the same name by Terry Brooks. The game introduces the exciting characters from the novels and the original story takes place after The Sword of Shannara and before The Elfstones of Shannara. At the beginning, the player assumes the role of the protagonist named as Jak Ohmsford, who is the son of Shea. During the gameplay, the protagonist encounters Allanon, who tells him of the horrible warlock lord’s return. After that, the protagonist set off into the land of Shannara to save the world. The game uses some elements borrowed from role-playing games such as top-down perspective world map exploration and turn-based battles. The game has no real role-playing system such as experience points, character development, statistics, and more. There are a variety of levels and each level has its unique difficulty and a set of challenges to complete. Shannara offers core features such as Turn-based Battles, Top-down view, Interactive, Point-and-Click Interface, etc. Try it out, and you’ll like it.

Bad Apple Wars is an Adventure, Visual Novel and Single-player video game developed and published by Sksys Games for PlayStation Vista. The game brings a thrilling story revolves around a female protagonist, who finds herself in the afterlife, after a car accident on the first day of her school. According to the story, the female character standing before the strange school called Nevaeh Academy. The student will start his or her new life after graduating from the school. A man wearing a rabbit head informs the protagonist her untimely demise, the protagonist must attend the opening ceremony of the school. During the ceremony, a loud blast breaks the war out between the Bad Apples, the group of students opposing the school. The player takes on the role of the protagonist, who must simulate the story, interact with non-player characters, select the choices to advance, and find a way out. Bad Apple Wars includes prominent features such as Multiple Endings, Dialogue-based System, Tons of Choices, and more. Try it out, if you love playing Visual Novel games.

Simulacra is a Narrative Horror, Adventure, and Single-player Simulation developed and published by Kaigan Games OU. The game offers a thrilling story, revolving around a woman named as Anna. During the gameplay, you finds a phone of a woman named Anna, in which you see a strange video for her crying for help. The game takes place on a mobile phone. The missing woman friends have no idea where the missing woman is. The content in the phone offer the fragments of clues to her fate, but it is up to you collect the clues from the mobile content and solve the mystery to find the woman. The game lets you a chance to experience a detective life, unleash your skills and solve the mystery behind the scene. It offers the similar gameplay to Sara is Missing game. The storyline becomes more complex as you navigates it. Solve mind-bending puzzles, and manipulate the phone for clues. Simulacra offers prominent features such as Realized World, Unique Gameplay, Expansive Narrative, Five Possible Endings, Solve the Recurring Image, and more. Try it out.

Amnesia: Memories is a mix of Visual Novel, Otome-based, Romance, and Dating Simulation elements developed and published by Idea Factory International. The game supports Single-player mode and revolves around a female protagonist who must hide her recent loss of memory while exploring the relationships with five different men. You can get into the role of the female protagonist, and you have to select your romantic path in the beginning. There are five different people, each with a different story, and unique personality. You have to choose one of five men as your love interest and progress through the story. Go to date with the guy and find a place to romance. There are twenty multiple endings, depends on the decision taken by you. The game features three different mini-games such as Air Hockey against other Characters, Rock, Paper, Scissors, etc. Amnesia: Memories offers prominent features such as Parameters Affect your Relationship, Five new Men. Unlockable voice Images, etc. With superb gameplay, impressive graphics, and well-written story, Amnesia: Memories is the best game to play and enjoy.

Syberia 2 is an Adventure, Exploration and Single-player video game by Microids. It is the second installment in the series of Syberia. The game combines the elements of puzzles, third-person perspective, and adventure. In this entry, the game introduces more realistic characters and the environment. It takes place in stunning environments consists of jungles, snow-covered, mountains, and towns. Explore the game world, solve different puzzles and level-up. The story revolves around the protagonist of the first game named Kate Walker who is an American lawyer and her efforts to find a way out. The protagonist has stuck into a remote dessert called Syberia in Russia, where her main goal is to explore the environment to survive as long as she can. It has a variety of levels and each with its unique gameplay, challenges and more. It offers exciting features, modes, and story. With detailed graphics, mouse-driven gameplay, and brilliant mechanics, Syberia 2 is the best game to play and enjoy.

Analogue: A Hate Story combines the elements of Visual Novel, Romance, and Dating Simulation by Love Conquers All Games. The game takes place in the Sci-fi world and supports Single-player mode only. It has a superb story, in which the humans launched a spaceship into the deep galaxy with a task to establish a first colony on an unknown planet. The ship lost his destination and disappeared. After thousands of year, the ship has been found. The story revolves around an unnamed investigator, and his task to find the reason behind the disappearance of an interstellar ship. The plot focuses on NPCs, relationship, and challenging issues and primary follows the elements of traditional marriage, transhumanism and more. Select the character and dive into the game world where you can interact with NPCs, go to date, and make relation with a handsome guy. It has multiple endings and depends on the actions that is taken by you during the gameplay. With addictive gameplay, and superb mechanics, Analogue: A Hate Story is the best game to play and enjoy.

ICY is a great narrative driven post-apocalyptic, Indie, RPG and Text-based video game by Inner Void. The game is set in a brilliant icy and frozen world with amazingly enhanced graphics to enjoy. You can explore the game world by creating your own character with complete skills and abilities. You have to survive in the frozen world by having bow and arrow fight along with the melee combat and shooting with multiple weapons. The game is based on your survival and the survival of your followers while exploring the frozen icy age of the game world in an amazing work of snow falling. You will lead the group of survivors, hunting food to survive in the ice age. You can customize your character with 10 skills and abilities to make it stronger. ICY is an outstanding game for having fun in frozen world.

Papers, Please or also known as Papers, Please: A Dystopian Document Thriller is a Puzzle video game by an Indie video game developer named as 3909. The game focuses on the Emotional Life of a character who works as an Immigration Officer. Set in the Dystopian country of Arstotzka, the protagonist goes through the Emotional toll every day while deciding about who to let in the country and whom to stop. The ultimate task of the player is to check the documents of people by using various tools and stop the Criminals, Smugglers, and Terrorists from entering the country. When certain discrepancies are discovered in the documents, the players investigates the individuals and tries to collect data about the ones with faulty or suspicious documents. The further investigation includes Full-body Scan, Fingerprint verification, demanding more information, and the decision of denying the entrance, etc. The full day shift of the player doing all the things goes on in real-time and the players does all every day in the game. At the end of every day, players get rewarded with money based on his performance (Less Penalties, Bribes Collected, Items Confiscated, etc.). The players are allowed to use the earned money on daily life expenses such as paying the rent, buying food, and other necessities. The game kind of looks like a Life-Simulation but it is a bit different from that. With a remarkably addictive and involving gameplay, cool 3D visuals and all the amazing benefits of working as an Immigration Officer, Papers, Please offers a brilliant Puzzle and Interactive experience to enjoy.

The Witch’s House is and Interactive Puzzle, Horror-Survival and RPG video game by a Japanese developer and publisher named as Fummy. The game focuses on the character of a young girl named as Viola, who wakes up in the middle of an unknown and dark Forest. She wants to get out of the forest but soon finds out that the only way out of the forest is blocked by the Roses. The other easiest way out of the forest is through an old haunted house that belongs to a Witch named as Ellen. Viola gets in the house and the story takes another turn. As the house belongs to a Witch, it has its own abilities such as shape-shifting and changing the map, etc. Viola starts exploring the house and finds out Ellen’s Diary that tells her about her past. To escape the house and eventually the forest, Viola starts off her journey and as she opens up the doors, she faces countless challenging puzzles. The players are tasked to control the character of Viola, get into the house, solve all the challenging puzzles and find a way out of the house. The Witch’s House offers two endings for the game such as The Good Ending and The True Ending. Both of the endings depend upon the actions that the players perform while playing the game. With an amazingly addictive and horror filled gameplay, beautifully portrayed visuals and the survival element, The Witch’s House is a one of the great RPG Puzzle video games to play and enjoy.

Homesick is a brilliant First-person Action-Adventure, Interactive-Fiction and Indie video game that tasks you to explore an abandoned building, solve different puzzles, interact with objects, find the clues and eventually find out what happened here that made the residents abandon this huge building. With hell of a scary setting, hauntingly beautiful environment, countless challenging puzzles, exploration and Mystery, Homesick makes you feel being stuck into a strange domain between your nightmare and waking world. Homesick offers brilliant 3D visuals, a series of exciting puzzles, a wonderfully well-written story and an immersive game-play. Try it out and you’ll be amazed at every tiny detail of this marvelous piece of art.

Only If is a wonderful First-Person, Action-Adventure, Interactive-Fictional Art and Exploration video game. The game allows you to be Anthony Clyde who after a full night of partying, wakes up on a strange bed with no memory of what happened last night. He gets up and finds himself locked into an unknown building and tries to escape but fails. Your task is to help Clyde explore the building, interact with the objects, find clues, solve some challenging puzzles and escape. The antagonist, who locked you up is the one making hurdles for you, so you must solve every puzzle he throws at you, go smashing through every hurdle and obstacle he puts in your way and use the collected objects as a combination or individually to finally escape the place. With a wonderful setting, great visuals, and an immersive game-play, Only If is a wonderful game to play and enjoy.

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.

Surviving High School is a 2005’s Top trending Episodic Interactive Fiction and Visual Novel video game distributed worldwide by EA Mobile. The game offers new episodes every week and lets the players enjoy a gameplay similar to its Sister game Cause of Death (Closed in 2014). Surviving High School offers characters from another Sister Game, High School Story by Pixelberry Studios. Surviving High School offers a Choice-based gameplay and allows the players to choose their own Adventures and Interactive Fiction. The game is set in a School named as Centerscore High where it features very typical and recognizable Student characters. The players are allowed to control several unique student characters, and they are given the option to choose two or three decisions that may or may not affect the outcome of the each original story. Surviving High School offers an episodic gameplay, and the episodes are grouped into Volume Sets. Each Volume Set contains eight mini-episodes. According to the storyline, the game allows the players to control the character of Autumn Brooks, a Student of Centerscore High. Autumn gets bullied, faces all the bullies with the choices she can make and finally gets transferred to High School Story (Sister game), where she accompanies other characters such as Owen, Wes, and Kami. With an entirely unique concept, Bullying and Anti-bullying themes, loads of cool characters, beautifully created visuals and an impressively addictive gameplay, Surviving High School is a fun Interactive Fiction and Visual Novel video game to play and enjoy.

Haven and Hearth is a Massively Multiplayer Online – Role Playing Sandbox video Game. The game is based on Germanic and Slavic mythologies and offers a little bit different gameplay and mechanics to the traditional MMORPGs. Heaven and Hearth take the players to a Sandbox game world where it allows the players to engage in an interactive experience. The interactive part of the game lets the players change the endings of the game by manipulating its course by the choices they make throughout the gameplay. Initially, the game leaves the players in the wilderness and in an unforgiving environment. It allows players to have essential tools and craft their way through the story. With the progress, the players can have skills and master them by performing various tasks and by exploring the game world. Exploring the world, clearing the land, constructing the buildings, crafting tools and items with the help of available resources and growing crops are some of the main tasks of the game. The ultimate goal of the game is to survive to the advanced levels of the game and eventually convert into fully thrived and advanced societies. Keep on growing in knowledge, technology, and resource management and turn the once small settlement into an empire. With an addictive gameplay, beautiful graphics, and a choice-based interactive environment, Haven and Hearth is a great MORPG video game to play and enjoy.

Sally’s Spa is a cool Time Management video game inspired by the popular Diner Dash but it provides with quite a different experience than the one mentioned above. The game lets you be Sally a Spa and makeover Sensation, who is a proud owner of the most famous and a great Spa in the town. Your task is to take your customers to amazing new real life locations, settle them into your world class Spas, treat them with hot Saunas, manicures, pedicures, massages and enjoy the 25 awesome levels of the game. Sally’s Spa offers beautiful visuals, beautiful sounds and an addictive game-play.

Tri: Of Friendship and Madness is a cool Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platform, Interactive-Fiction and First-Person Exploration and Art video game by Rat King Entertainment. The game takes you to the world of oddities, lets you explore a huge open world from a first-person perspective, find the magical powers of Tri, master them and create your own path in order to know about the wonders of the world around you. If you really want to enjoy this game, you’ll have to go through the twisted corridors, cross the huge gantries, go through a series of dungeons and solve some of the most challenging and complex puzzles by using the powers of Tri and enjoy being part of a strange world. With amazing first-person puzzle, brilliant visuals, objective-based story-line and an addictive game-play, Tri: Of Friendship and Madness is a brilliant game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.

To all the Fans of Just Cause Series, Your favorite Hero Rico Rodriguez is back with a Bang in Just Cause 3. This time, the game lets you have the Freedom of Exploring a 1000 km² world where you can reach to the limits of Skies or uncover the secrets on Seabed, Unleash your Wrath and spread Chaos in ways that are unimaginable to the most. According to the Storyline, You as the protagonist Rico Rodriguez are once more required to travel to the Republic of a Mediterranean vicinity of Medici that is being engulfed into the unlawful and brutal reign of a Power Hungry Dictator and the most Brutal individual history has ever seen, General Di Ravello. Your task is to reach simply to Medici, infiltrate into the close circles of General Di Ravello, and destroy his power and hold on Medici to save it. To complete the addictive and exciting objectives of the game, Just Cause 3 offers amazing Perks, a huge arsenal of Advanced Weapons, fantastic new gadgets, Vehicles and much more to discover. With splendid new and old features such as the ability to Sky Dive, Base Jump and Free Dive, Use Grapple, Parachutes, and Wingsuit to minimize the distances, the ability to cause massive explosions and to destroy military bases, mega structures, harbors and any other things you want, Just Cause 3 allows you to be part of a fantastic and quite brilliant world where you’ll experience Action and Thrill that you seek for.

Gothic is an Action-RPG video game that takes you to medieval Era and tells the tales about a Massive War between Humans and Orcs. The war seems lost and because of that, King sends criminals to Ore mines to extract Magical Ore to build magical weapons. According to the story-line, the player gets thrown out in the Miners Colony and belongs to the Brotherhood, one of three main groups in the mining colonies. With an ultimate goal of getting out of the colony, player struggles and finds himself fighting against both the Orcs and the king’s army. The game tasks you to complete a number of epic quests, slay hordes of wild animals, monsters and other enemies, earn skill points and spend them to enhance your skills, learn about different trades and achieve the highest levels in the game. Gothic offers both one handed and dual handed weapons and lets you choose between different types of weapons, select your own special character and join any of the camps and keep on struggling for your goals. Gothic offers a brilliantly fantastic interactive environments and lets you hunt for animals in order to get food, heal your wounds with the help of wild plants, explore your surroundings and enjoy a real life-like environment. With a totally action packed gameplay, a great storyline, great visual details and lot more to discover, Gothic is one amazing game to play and enjoy. Do give it try if you haven’t played it yet, you’ll definitely be amazed at what this marvel has to offer.

The Stanley Parable is one wonderful First-person, Action-Adventure, Interactive Fiction and Graphic video game like Gone Home. The game allows you to be “Stanley” and lets you choose between your actions either to follow the story or not to follow the story, have a choice or don’t have a choice, act as Stanley or simply don’t act as Stanley, it totally depends on you. This twisted game allows you to explore a strange world, buildings etc. and slowly find out the meanings of almost everything, solve quenching puzzles and be part of a strange strange world. With awesomely engaging story and loads of new content, amazing visual details and background music, voice over etc., and a brilliantly immersive game-play, The Stanley Parable is a wonderful game to play.

Gone Home is a First-person Indie Action-Adventure and Interactive Fiction Simulation developed by The Fullbright Company. The game takes place in the year 1995 and allows you to explore a mansion after coming back home after one long year. Every member of your family is vanished and you are left clueless about their sudden disappearance. In order to find them you must find clues, interact with objects and solve a number of challenging puzzles and mysteries. The game lets you be Kaitlin and allows you to explore the game world from a First-person Perspective, complete various game objectives in order to earn rewards, open up new areas and search for messages scattered all around the game world. Gone Home is an interactive video game that allwos you to look at objects, interact with them and keep on collecting the clues, objects and open up new game world areas to enjoy the game.

Another Lost Phone: Laura’s Story is an Adventure, Mystery, Interactive Fiction, and Single-player video game created by Accidental Queens and published by Playdius. The game offers an exciting gameplay that you have never experienced before. According to the thrilling story, you must explore the young woman’s social life whose mobile phone you have just discovered. It mixes the detective, narrative, and puzzle elements and lets you find clues by combining different elements from the messages, applications, and pictures to progress. You have to scroll the content of phone to find anything about the young woman named as Laura, find her friends and manipulate her professional life. Solve the mystery behind the disappearance of Laura and her lost phone. The story takes place on the entire phone and lets you a chance to experience a life of the detective to enhance your abilities. There are a series of levels with increasing difficulties, and each level introduces a unique task to accomplish. Another Lost Phone: Laura’s Story includes core features such as Combine different elements, explore the Professional Life, challenging Puzzles, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

The Last Dogma is a great First-person Action-Adventure, RPG and Exploration video game that allows you to explore a Dark alternate Fantasy world, enjoy being on some of the most astonishing adventures in the aftermath of the Cold War when US got quite disappointed regarding the matters of World Domination. The game sets you up into the character of Sebastian Arise who works as an AFT Special Agent tasked to eradicate the local Firearm Dealers. One day a simple tracking mission turns deadly and leaves you right in the middle of a cannibal cult known as the Holy Intentions. You must survive by going through a series of difficult challenges, eliminate the cannibalistic individuals, and travel back in time to 1366 A.D in order to stop some serious things from happening. This amazingly Horror and adventure filled game will definitely leave you stunned with all the super thrilling things, graphics and an immersive game-play etc. Try it out and you’ll definitely enjoy it.