Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey is an Adventure, Third-person Perspective and Single-player video game developed by Funcom and published by Empire Interactive. The game serves as the sequel to 1999’s The Longest Journey, developed by Funcom and takes place ten years after the first game’s events. The story of the game revolves around three different characters such as April Ryan, Zoe Castillo, and Kian Alvane, who live in two different parallel lands named as Magical Arcadia and Stark. The player has assumed the role of the protagonist named as April in the first game, while the game features two new characters. The core storyline centers on Zoe, the resident of Stark, who must manipulate the world to find out the reason of her boyfriend’s disappearance. During the gameplay, the female protagonist battles the brutal enemies while Azadi and Kian are sent to assist her. The player manipulates the world from a third-person perspective, fight enemies, interact with non-player characters, gather and combine items to solve puzzles while scoring the highest points. With the exciting story, superb mechanics and wonderful gameplay, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey is the best game to play.
#1 Dreamfall Chapters
Dreamfall Chapters is an Adventure, Third-person Exploration and Single-player video game created by Red Thread Games and published by Deep Silver. The game offers episodic gameplay with an emphasis on exploration, character interaction and puzzle solving. It is the direct sequel to The Longest Journey and takes place in two parallel Universe such as Arcadia and Stark. The story revolves around the female protagonist who has uncovered a massive criminal conspiracy, aiming to enslave both Arcadia and Stark by snatching their dreams. The protagonist was betrayed and left in a coma at the end of the previous installment and has found a purpose to live her life again in Chapters. The game offers 3D environments and lets the player assumes the role of the female protagonist who must navigate the environment from a third-person perspective, interact with NPCs, find clues and solve the mysteries to progress through the game. As the match advanced, other challenging episodes will be unlocked to play. Dreamfall Chapters offers core features such as Emotional Storyline, Sequel to Adventure Game, Explore Detailed and Beautiful Gameplay, etc. With stunning mechanics, addictive gameplay, and smooth controls, Dreamfall Chapters is the best game to play and enjoy.
#2 The Detail
The Detail is an amazing Graphic-Adventure and Interactive Drama video game by Rival Games Ltd. The game allows you to be Detective Reginald “Reggie” Moore, who becomes frustrated with the defective Justice System and plans to take it down with all the responsible. Crime scene investigations, clue and object finding, capturing the accused and investigating them are the most prominent features of this brilliant game. The game takes place on the fictional location of a Modern American City and it allows you to control the main character Reggie, start from a murder case that took place because of a long lasting gang war, make toughest choices that will directly affect your life as a detective. You must solve the case and at the same time protect your family from the gang members and keep on pacing through the story. The Detail offers a gameplay that is a mixture of Interactive Comics and other story-based elements. The game offers a gameplay and mechanics inspired by the popular The Wolf Among Us and The Walking Dead by telltale games and features realistic crime based drama and visuals. The story of the game is more similar to the HBO hit T.V Series “The Wire” and is quite interesting to get involved in. With all the Drama, and Suspense, The Detail is one amazing video game to play and enjoy.
#3 Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure is one of the best games of Adventure, Film Noir and Interactive drama genre. The game is developed by Big Finish Games and takes you to a Quasi Dystopian setting of Post-World War III Era in the year 2050. You get to play as the protagonist Tex Murphy, an honest and good nature private investigator who loves to smoke cigarettes, drink a lot of bourbon” and get into trouble a lot. The story of the game kicks off with Tex’s disoriented awakening at his office in Ritz Hotel with a lot of markings and strange writings all over his body but no memory of his past. He remembers after a huge amount of struggle that Chelsea, His friend is missing since the brutal attack and is presumed dead. He sets out to investigate about what really happened to him, where is he now and to regain his lost memories. In his quest, Tex opens up a Pandora box of countless murders, double crosses and lost inventions of Nikola Tesla. You as the protagonist will have to investigate all the cases by solving various puzzles, interrogate the suspects, collect clues and evidence and find the lost and hidden inventions of Tesla. Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure is a great Action-Adventure, Film Noir and an intriguing video game to play and enjoy. This wonderful game offers amazingly ultra-realistic graphics, First person 3D environment, Cyberpunk theme, multiple and Unique game endings, great stories and a lot of other exciting things. Do try it out, Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure is a fun game to play and enjoy.
#4 Kentucky Route Zero
Kentucky Route Zero is an Episodic Point-and-Click Action-Adventure video game developed and published by Cardboard Computer. This indie game is available to play on PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac OS and Linux. The narrative of the game whirls around the life of a truck driver and his dog. The driver along with his dog, accepts to travel to Kentucky to deliver the antique goods and on his way to Kentucky he slips off the road and gets lost. He interacts with strangers and with so many different things to find his way back to Kentucky and reaches to Equus Oils a pitch black gas station. At Equus Oils the real adventure of his life begins. Game features astonishingly amazing game-play, superb graphics and environment. One thing that is quite different about this game is the absence of verbal dialogue. Instead of a verbal dialogue the game uses text-based dialogue to interact with people and things. This epic game is worth trying. Do give it a go and enjoy all the fun.
#5 The Blackwell Convergence
The Blackwell Convergence is the third game in the Blackwell series and is developed by Wadjet Eye Games. This Graphic Action-Adventure and Interactive Drama video game features the character of Rosangela Blackwell a spiritual medium, and her spirit guide Joey Malone who basically provides with a connection between the ghosts and the living. Rosangela starts living in solitary after the death of her aunt Lauren Blackwell and gets asked by some unknown source to write a story on a Collage Dorm Suicide. She accepts and starts writing when suddenly Joey Malone’s ghost appears and tells Rosa that she is a Medium just like her aunt Lauren and asks her to solve a case of a little girl whose ghost in haunting a Dog Park and is being quite a problem for the people. You as the protagonist Rosa will have to visit the Park and gather clues and objects that can help you with your investigation. Meanwhile Joey will provide you with a connection to her ghost and will gather the clues and objects from the world of ghosts. It would be an unfair to not call The Blackwell Convergence a masterpiece for all the great things it offers. The story is superb, game-play totally is presented in a Film-Noir style and the graphics are a wonder. Play it and you’ll definitely enjoy this fantastic game.
#6 Atlantis: The Lost Tales
Atlantis: The Lost Tales takes you to an amazingly addictive Fantasy-based Action-Adventure and Point and Click experience and leaves you right in the middle of the lost City of Atlantis. The game allows you to be the unnamed protagonist who works as the Special protective guard of the Queen of Atlantis and upon the sudden disappearance of the queen, takes the responsibility to uncover the mysteries and finally find the Queen. As you start off your journey, you’ll find the clues about Queen’s Guards leader’s involvement in Queen’s disappearance and after knowing about that, you’ll have to act quickly because the Guards leader Creon intends to conquer the world with the help of an ancient Power and a new weapon. You must stop Creon from doing that by jumping to different in world and out world locations, finding the clues and objects and by finding the light equal to the power of the weapon that Creon has. After you have acquired the Power, go hunt down Creon and all his minions, free the queen and conclude the game. Atlantis: The Lost Tales is a one amazing game that offers a brilliant story and a wonderfully immersive game-play along with great visuals.
#7 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.
#8 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.
#9 Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded
Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded combines the elements of Adventure, Point and Click, Action and Single-player developed by nFusion Interactive and published by Replay Games. The game takes place in the 1980s and offers a series of the complex puzzle you must complete at any cost. According to the story, the protagonist named Larry Laffer who is a 40-year-old software seller have bored to his unexciting life and took a tour of Los Wages and maybe meet with her true love. Interact with a variety of objects and items, find clues and solve puzzles by licking, talking, picking up a variety of objects. It has five different buildings such as a mini-mart, a multi-floor, a love chapel and a disco club. Explore different locations and uncover the mysteries of the world. Different Buildings, Mind-blowing Puzzles, Exciting Characters, Point and Click gameplay, Stunning visuals, etc. are the prominent features of the game. Try it out.
#10 Orwell
Orwell is a series of video games created by Osmotic for multiple platforms. It mixes the Adventure, Dystopian, Atmospheric, Interactive Fiction, and Episodic elements and takes place in the country known as the Nation. The player takes on the role of the protagonist, a state operative who must monitor surveillance sources to locate the national security threats. Keep an Eye on You serves as the first title in this episodic video game series. According to the plot, the country where the game is set, it controlled by the government known as The Party. As the storyline advances, the party passes the Safety Bill, expanding the ability of the government to spy on its inhabitants in the name of national security. The game enables the investigations into people’s private communication of interest, but it doesn’t enable anyone player full access. The operations of Orwell is turning by two teams such as Investigators and Advisors. Investigators are those people who are working for the government outside of the Nation and search through the communication of selected people and unlock interest and items while Advisors are those people who work inside of the Nation, using the data chunks to determine the action’s course and more. Orwell is the wonderful game to play.