Detroit: Become Human
Detroit: Become Human is an Adventure, Third-person Perspective, and Single-player video game created by Quantic Dream and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The game’s plot focuses on three androids such as Kara, Connor, and Markus. Each character has its unique story and a set of tasks such as Connor, whose ultimate task is to hunt down sentient androids, Kara, who struggle to escape the owner she was serving to manipulate her sentient and defend a young girl, and Markus devotes himself to launch other androids from servitude. During the game, they may perish or survive depending on the selection of dialogues that determine the story. The game is played from a third-person perspective, and several playable characters can die as the plot continues without them. There are many challenging missions, and the player needs to accomplish each one to advance through the storyline. The outcome of the game depends on the decisions taken by the player. Detroit: Become Human includes prominent features such as Third-person Adventure Gameplay, Detailed Graphics, and more. Check it out, and have fun.
#1 Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy
Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Shooter and Interactive Drama video game made by Quantic Dream. This Psyche thriller Film Noir drama is set in the city of New York and its story revolves around the character of protagonist Lucas Kane. Lucas Kane gets assigned on a task to solve the murder cases committed by a man who controls people’s minds by using his super natural powers and then kills them. The Killer gets aware about the activities of Lucas and follows him to a Dinner where he forces his spell over Lucas’s brain and makes him kill a man. You must get into the character of the protagonist and find out the truth about the killer’s spell over you. You must also speed up your investigations in order to stop the killer from killing more innocent people. You must go through the sessions of physical and mental therapy to reduce the manipulation caused by the killers spell. Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy provides with different game endings, all based up on the actions performed by you and the path selected by you. A mental health bar keeps on telling you about your sanity levels so you must keep track of that or else you’ll end up killing another person. With an amazing psycho-horror game story, state of the art graphics and an engaging game-play, Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy is a great game to play, you must try it out.
#2 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.
#3 L.A Noire
L.A Noire is an Action-Adventure, Interactive Drama, Third-person Shooter and Stealth video game by Team Bondi. Featuring the protagonist Cole Phelps the game is set in the city of Los Angeles. Cole Phelps recently joined in as the Detective after serving for years as an officer in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Being a police officer, Phelps worked in a lot of police departments and in every Department, he worked with different partners having different sets of skills in crime investigations and interrogations. Players get to solve the cases of different kinds, assigned to them as the investigation tasks and by using their skills, they are meant to put the responsible behind the bars. This amazingly twisted and amalgamated series of fast-paced action and adventure includes crime scene investigations, interrogations, fieldwork and super thrilling gun battles between the law-breakers and the lawmakers. Player mostly uses melee attacks, a lot of weapons and rides vehicles of different kinds in an open world environment. With greatly 3D graphics, exhilarating game-play and an appealing and well-inscribed story-line, L.A Noire takes you to a new dimension of Action-Adventure and Shooting game experience.
#4 Firewatch
Firewatch is a First-person Action, Adventure and Mystery video game. The game takes the players back to the year 1989 and leaves them right in the middle of the Shoshone National Forest and lets them be Fire Lookout named as Henry. The game revolves around two main characters, Henry and Delilah, Henry’s Supervisor and tells the story of a mystery that formed over a Conspiracy. Firewatch is full of mysterious incidents, happenings, and all the pondering situations. According to the storyline, Henry works as a Fire Lookout, Delilah Assists him as a Supervisor and the story is about finding the roots of mystery that rocked the minds of the characters of the game. It all starts when Delilah Calls on Henry to investigate an illegal Firework at a Lake. Henry reaches to the spot only to find out two teenage girls Skinny Dipping who blame him for leering. On his way back to his watch tower, Henry finds a Cave locked and sees the shadows of a shrouded figure, returns to his Watch Tower and finds it completely ransacked. Next day, Henry gets to Communication line where he finds it cut along with a note from the girls. He plots to scare them away but finds their Camp abandoned. Some time later, on another location, Henry finds a Disposable Camera that belongs to Brian, son of Ned, the outdoorsman, and a fellow Fire lookout. Brian and Ned are both missing. This is where player’s character gets into the play. The game tasks the players to search for Brian, and Ned and the mission Girls, and solve the Mystery that’s bothering Henry big time. Firewatch is all about mysteries and amazing happenings that lead to an epic open world gameplay. With a great story, plenty of room for the gameplay, open world environment, fantastic characters and their own stories, Firewatch offers a remarkable and kind of twisted gameplay to enjoy. For all those who love playing mystery games, Firewatch would definitely be a great source of entertainment.
#5 The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series: A New Frontier
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series: A New Frontier (also known as The Walking Dead: Season Three) is an Adventure, Episodic and Single-player video game, developed and published by Telltale Games. The game comes with an exciting gameplay based on The Walking Dead comic book series and it serves as the third title in the series of The Walking Dead. The game uses the similar narrative structures to the past seasons, where the player decision in one season will have permanent impact on further story. It takes place in the fictional world like comic, populated by zombies. It offers the similar gameplay to previous titles and offers two playable characters named as Javier and Clementine. During the gameplay, the player controls the character around the environment to examine and interact with various objects and elements to gather and use the items to progress through the story. The player can interact with non-player characters and can get information about the mission to complete. With improved graphics, addictive gameplay, and smooth controls, The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series: A New Frontier is the wonderful game to play.
#6 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.
#7 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.
#8 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.
#9 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.
#10 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.
#11 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.
#12 Overkill’s The Walking Dead
Overkill’s The Walking Dead is a First-person Shooter (FPS), Single-player and Multiplayer video game by Overkill Software and Starbreeze Publishing for Multiple Platforms. The game offers thrilling gameplay based on the comic of the same name and has a strong emphasis on Co-op gameplay. It introduces four playable characters such as Aiden, Maya, Grant, and Heather. Each character has its unique ability, and skill and the player needs to work with other players to complete the set of objectives in co-op game type. The environment of the game takes place in Washington D.C., the post-apocalyptic-themed world, overrun by zombies. The game offers the mix of Stealth, Role-playing, and Survival Horror elements to offers the superb gameplay for hardcore players. After selecting the playable character, the player can navigate the capital after the outbreak, and struggle to find out the reason behind the scene. The player can journey through the districts to find lost neighbourhood like Georgetown for supplies, loot, and survivors. Overkill’s The Walking Dead comes with prominent features such as Survival Gameplay, Detailed Environment, Zombie-apocalypse, and more.