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.
#1 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.
#2 Master Reboot
Master Reboot is hauntingly amazing, First-person Puzzle-platform, Exploration and Interactive video game that offers a way in which you can preserve your memories to Soul Cloud and enjoy making your soul immortal. The game is set in Soul Cloud world where death is not final and after the death your memories live on with your soul that is uploaded to Soul Cloud. The exploration and puzzle-platforming elements make this game more engaging as you traverse through the world and try solving the puzzles on floating islands, towns, skyscrapers etc. and every location is a storage for the memories of different people. This mind-boggling and psych based video game is one of the best that offers an intriguing story-line, wonderful adventures, amazing environments and an engaging game-play that will immerse you deep into the world of Soul Cloud. Do give it a try, it’ll definitely be a great source of entertainment for you.
#3 The Talos Principle
The Talos Principle is a marvelous Action-Adventure and a First-person perspective Puzzle-Platform video game by Devolver Digital. The game puts you into the character of a Robot with Human Conscience and allows you to go through 120 challenging and immersive puzzles all set up into different environments. Exploding Drones, Wall mounted Guns along with all other hurdles and the objective to find out all the Sigils are the key elements of this wonderful game. You must stay alive in order to complete the game objectives and find out the truth about your existence, purpose etc. and determine your nest course of actions. Exploration about the humans and technologies, civilizations passed before you and finding the clues is what makes this game more unique and addictive. With wonderful storyline, cool visuals and a super engaging game-play, The Talos Principle is a wonderful game to play and enjoy..
#4 Journey
Journey is an amazingly Addictive Action-Adventure and Indie Art and Exploration video game that offers both Single and Multiplayer Support. Developed by the “ThatGameCompany”, the game is set in a huge Desert and lets you be a Robed Figure who is destined to go through a distant mountain range, explore the world and interact with other online players, communicate via musical chimes and assist each other in different game tasks. In order to find the secrets about a lost civilization, and to calm your curious nature, you get tasked with solving some puzzles and exploring the world. The Online multiplayer mode allows you to discover other online players, communicate via text and speech and chimes, assist each other in solving a number of puzzles, and keep o progressing through the game levels. With truly remarkable environments, scenarios, beautiful background music, visuals and an amazingly addictive, and immersive gameplay, Journey will definitely leave you spellbound. Do try it out and enjoy one of its kind, Art, Exploration and Adventure experience.
#5 Portal
Portal, developed by Valve Corporation is a First person, Physics-based Puzzle-Platform video game. The game features the protagonist named Chell who solves puzzles by teleporting and getting help from the objects by using the special The Apurture Science Handheld Portal device. The device opens up two spatial portal on two different planes and the protagonist travels through these two portals and solves the puzzles, interacts with a number of items and crafts different things. The player character gets challenged by AI (Artificial Intelligence) who goes by the name of GlaDOS. Each time the player solves a puzzle, he gets a Cake as the reward that can be used to buy power-ups and upgrades. With it’s amazingly addictive and immersive nature, Portal offers beautiful visuals and sounds, an objective-based story and puzzles and a challenging game-play to enjoy.
#6 Quantum Conundrum
Quantum Conundrum is a challenging First-person, Physics-based Puzzle-platform video game developed by Airtight Games and published by Square Enix for PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game features the protagonist as a boy who walks, runs, jumps and interacts with different objects to solve various physics based puzzles to make his way to the next level of the game. After manipulating the objects of the rooms, and solving enough puzzles, the protagonist reaches to the a door that leads to the finish line of the level and lets the player engage in the next puzzle. With all the wonderful scenarios and very good graphics, Quantum Conundrum is an interesting game to play and enjoy. You must try it out.
#7 ICO
ICO is an Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platform, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Team Ico and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The game offers fantastic story, in which a boy was born with horns the people of the area considered the boy was a bad omen. They all left the boy in the fierce forest. During his exploration, the boy encountered a girl named Yorda who is the daughter of the Queen of the Castle. The Queens wants to use the body of her daughter to extend her life. The game lets you get into the role of the protagonist a boy with horns and the goal is to find a way to escape from the castle with Yorda, defend her with enemies, and solve complex puzzles throughout levels. Explore the game world, interact with NPCs, navigate obstacles, and help Yorda across hurdles. The game is played from the third-person perspective. Your character can run, jump, pull and push objects, and can perform the various actions to solve puzzles. Earn experience points by defeating enemies and use to unlock new content. With detailed environment, addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant controls, ICO is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#8 Q.U.B.E. Director’s Cut
Q.U.B.E. Director’s Cut is an Action-Adventure, Science-fiction, First-person Perspective, and Single-player video game with an emphasis on VR and Strategy elements developed and published by Toxic Games for multiple platforms. The game comes with a puzzle-based gameplay where the player use the high-tech gloves to explore the cubes in the detailed environment. During the gameplay, the player has to solve a variety of conundrums, ranging from physics-based challenges to platform-based trials. The Single-player campaign comes with all new narrative and the game offers ten challenging levels in New Time Trail mode. The player manipulates the environment from a first-person viewpoint, solve environmental puzzles to score points and unlock achievements. The player will experience the original music and can compete against other players on the leaderboards. As the game proceeds, it becomes difficult to play. Q.U.B.E. Director’s Cut includes prominent features such as Single-player Campaign, Time-Trial Mode, Achievements, and more. Check it out, and have fun.