Heavy Rain & Beyond: Two Souls Collection
Heavy Rain & Beyond: Two Souls Collection is an Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival, Single-player, and Multiplayer compilation of two games. It contains two games named Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls with distinctive gameplay. Beyond: Two Souls game lets the player play like a female protagonist Jodie Hordes whose main mission is to explore the surroundings by controlling her from the third-person perspective.
The player can use buttons or a joystick to control the female. The players can switch to an Aiden, who can move through walls, ceilings, and objects and can perform numerous interactions. In a heavy rain game, the player leads an unnamed character to uncover a mysterious killer.
The game includes four playable characters with distinct abilities. In both the game, the player’s decisions matters and can alter the game’s course. The player has to wisely take his decisions through dangerous scenarios to determine the truths.
#1 Shenmue III
Shenmue III is an Adventure, Detective, and Single-player video game developed by Ys Net. Throughout the game, the player finds himself in a female character’s role named Ryo Hazuki, whose main task is to search for his father’s killer. In this open-world game, the player has to explore every corner of the Guilin to examine the clues.
The player can interact with NPCs to get beneficial information and advance the story. The game has a 3D fighting system where the player needs to learn spectacular moves and defeat the coming enemies. In quick time events, the player must make quick decisions at the right time to succeed.
The female character can earn money by completing the quests offered by mini-games. Along with the fighting, the included tasks are gambling, fishing, wood-chopping, and driving. The player has a stamina bar that gradually declines as the player explores more.
#2 Indigo Prophecy
Indigo Prophecy is an Action-Adventure, RPG, and Single-player video game developed by Atari. Throughout the game, the player controls the main protagonist named Lucas blamed for committing a murder. NY police detectives named Carla Valenti and Tyler Miles are pursuing the main character.
While playing the game, the player controls the character from the third-person or first-person perspective. The player can change the story as three endings are there, and the player can unlock every end depending on the decisions. The player needs to manage the protagonist’s mental state by reacting to the screen prompts.
The controls are simple such as the left analog stick is used for movement, whereas the right one lets the player trigger actions like dialogue choices or grabbing objects. It is possible to replay the chapters once completed. The game has core features such as Decision Making, Three Endings, Simple Controls, and Third-person Perspective.
#3 Life is Strange: Before the Storm
Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a Graphic Adventure video game published by Square Enix and developed by Deck Nine. The game serves as the 2nd title in the series of Life is Strange and it is a prequel to the first installment, revolves around the 16-year-old girl named as Chloe Price and her relationship with her schoolmate named as Rachel Amber. It takes place in the stimulating environment, played from a third-person perspective. It offers the similar gameplay to its predecessor and doesn’t support time travel feature anymore. The game introduces a Backtalk feature, enabling the player to call up Chloe to get out of the precarious situation. The player as the protagonist can explore the world from a third-person view, interact with object and environment to complete the missions and score points. As the player progresses through the game, it becomes challenging to play and unlock additional content to enjoy. With enhanced mechanics, graphics, and controls, Life is Strange: Before the Storm is the wonderful game to play.
#4 The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a great Point and Click Adventure game developed and published by The Astronauts. This game was initially developed solely for PC (Microsoft Windows) but later on the company decided to launch a PlayStation 4 compatible version and that is expected to get in to markets in early 2015. The story of the game starts with a mysterious letter from a young boy Ethen Carter to Detective Paul Prospero about some supernatural events, murders and vanishing of Ethan all set to happen in near future. Detective Paul reaches the residence of Ethan and finds out that Ethan has already vanished. Detective Paul starts exploring Red Creek and gets to know about its dark secrets. This entangled storyline game traps Detective Paul in an endless world of puzzles and bizarre events all created by Ethan. He makes him solve some really weird murder cases of his family members and forces detective Paul Prospero to battle with un-natural beings. This amazing adventure game provides with an open world gaming environment, cool graphics and game-play.
#5 Murdered: Soul Suspect
Murdered: Soul Suspect is and adventure game developed by Alright Games and Published by Square Enix. The story of the game kick starts from an American town named Salem. With a third person perspective, the player controls the main character of the game Ronan (formerly and agent) and explores the town walking and running through different places and buildings like churches, apartments, graveyards etc. Ronan is bound to collect different collectibles scattered around the town. Ronan being a ghost gets the advantage to use a lot of ghostly powers and benefits himself along the way and the story continues. The game comes with a lot of amazing and special characters like a ruthless serial killer Bell, Julia the wife of Ronan, Abigail a Puritan era girl, Cassandra Ronan’s mother and Joy the only witness to the murder of Ronan. Ronan is back to finish what he started and wows to kill his killer. Amazing graphics, details and gameplay forces you to stick to your chair and play till you get tired. Packed with all the action and drama, Murdered: Soul Suspect is worth giving a try. You can play this game on PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Xbox 360.
#6 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.