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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.

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..

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.

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.

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.

Beyond Eyes is a fantastic, Adventure and Single-player video game revolves around a ten-year-old girl named as Rae. The game offers a brilliant gameplay developed by Tiger and Squid and published by Team17 for multiple platforms. According to the story, a ten-year-old girl has lost her sight after a horrible accident. The story is about a girl, who is interacting with the world around her and touches several objects. In the beginning, the world appears to be all while, but as the protagonist touches the individual objects, they are highlighted. The sound is the most important component in the game, offers an idea to the player about the location of the objects. There are several challenges available such as cross the road by hearing the sound of the cars and more. The game becomes challenging, as the player advances through the game. As the protagonist, the player must interact with the world, find her missing cat, and face the fears and ventures out into the challenging world. Beyond Eyes offers prominent features such as exciting Story, an epic Journey. Unlockable Achievements, and more. Try it out.

Life is Strange: Episode 1 is an immersive, Adventure, Episodic and Single-player Exploration video game that enables you to rewind effect and time the past, future, and present. The game brings an exciting gameplay for Life is Strange lovers and offers an addictive story follows the protagonist named as Max Caulfield, who is a photographic senior and finds that she is capable of reversing time while rescuing her beloved friend. After progressing the game, the protagonist finds herself investigating the strange disappearance of the student named as Rachel Amber in Arcadia Bay. You assume the role of the protagonist, who can manipulate the world from a third-person perspective and struggle to uncover the dark secrets of the strange world. The ultimate task for you to learn as soon as possible to change the time to fend off the devastation in future. It comprises multiple levels, and the player needs to accomplish each one to progress through the game and earn enough experience points. Life is Strange: Episode 1 includes core features such as Adventure Gameplay, Multiple Endings, Hand-Painted Visuals, Indie Soundtracks, and more. Try it out.

The Last Guardian is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Exploration, Open World and Single-player video game created by SIE Japan Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The story revolves around a boy, the protagonist, who befriends with a massive half-bird-half-mammal creature named as Trico. The game mixes the third-person, puzzle, and action-adventure elements like its predecessors Shadow of the Colossus and Ico. During the gameplay, the player assumes the role of the unnamed protagonist with a task to cooperate with Trico to solve complex puzzles and explore the massive areas. The player can carry different objects, climb on structures, run and jump his way through a variety of levels to fulfill the objectives. The size of Trico enables the player to reach the areas that the boy can’t reach alone, and can battle guards who are trying to capture the protagonist. There are certain obstacles like gates and glass eyes are available which prevent Trico from progresses, and the must be eliminated or removed by the player. With well-written story, detailed graphics, and prominent features, The Last Guardian is a fascinating video game to play and enjoy.

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.

Semispheres is a Single-player, Puzzle and Strategy video game developed and published by Vivid Helix for multiple platforms. The game focuses on meditative parallel puzzle gameplay and places dual realities to bring a unique single-player and split-screen mechanic. There are various levels, and each level offers a mind-bending puzzle to solve. To complete each level, you must work on both sides together to unearth the mystery by accomplishing puzzles in the entrancing ambience. During the gameplay, you can use portals and special abilities to avoid or overcome sentries and can execute your plan, uniting the parallel worlds and more. It has over fifty levels and each offering stealth-inspired gameplay, including unique abilities like portals, noise-maker, side-swapping, and more. The game features ambient soundtracks by The Stanley Parable and Out There. Semispheres includes core features such as 50 Levels, Stealth-inspired Gameplay, Smooth Controls, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Last Day of June developed by Ovosonico and published by 505 Games is an Adventure, Puzzle and Single-player video game available to play on PlayStation and Microsoft Windows. The game offers a thrilling gameplay and story revolve around the couple called June and Carl, who suffer a tragedy when a car accident takes the life of June and leaves Carl in a wheelchair. During the gameplay, the player controls the protagonist named as Carl, who navigates the memories of his life with June and struggle to solve the mind-bending puzzles to change the events’ sequence that led up to the death of June. The game takes place in the beautiful world and introduces a story about love and loss. It has multiple levels, and each level needs a completion of certain puzzles to progress through the story. Last Day of June includes core features such as a Heart-driven Quest, Poetry in Motion, Empathy through Experience, Fate-altering Puzzles, Interactive Storyline, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Psychonauts 2 is a Platform and Single-player video game developed by Double Fine Productions and published by Starbreeze Studios. The game serves as the sequel to Psychonauts and offers the improved gameplay, graphics and mechanics. It brings the similar gameplay to its predecessor. It lets the player takes on the role of the protagonist named as Raz, who is a newly graduated Psychonaut with psychic abilities. During the epic adventure, the player helped by two other players such as Milla Vodello and Sasha Nein in saving the head Psychonaut named as Truman Zanotto. According to the story, upon returning to Psychonaut Headquarters, the team discover something went wrong, the organization is not all that is seemed. After that, the team finds Zanotto absence and then start the investigation to uncover the secrets. During the gameplay, the player can use Psi-Powers like Levitation, Pyrokinesis, and Telekinesis, and can explore the mental worlds of NPCs. There are a series of challenging missions and the player has to accomplish each one to advance through the game to become the master. Psychonauts 2 is an incredible game with cool features to play and enjoy.

Blues and Bullets is an Episodic, Action-Adventure and Single-player video game created and published by A Crowd of Monsters. The game offers an exciting gameplay and it offers a well-written story, revolving around the protagonist named as Eliot Ness, an agent who jailed the gangster with name AI Capone. As the story proceed, the retired agent (the protagonist), who runs a diner known as Blues and Bullets. During the gameplay, someone informs the protagonist that the gangster AI Capone needs the help to search for his abducted granddaughter. Now, the player must explore the environment from a third-person perspective, where he has to find clues about the disappearance of the missing girl, interact with non-player characters, and progress through the game. The game also comes with a shooting sections and the clues will be matched to witnesses. As the game advances, it becomes challenging to play. Blues and Bullets offers prominent features such as Multiple Chapters, Find Clues, and more.

Rime is an Adventure, Third-person exploration, and Single-player video game Tequila Works and published by Grey Box. The storyline revolves around the boy, who is reaching at and finding a mysterious Island after witnessing his father fall from the boat during a strong storm. During the gameplay, the player needs to control the boy in accomplishing environmental puzzles divided into five massive levels based on the five grief’s stages. The game is played with a third-person viewpoint as the player guides a young boy that has washed ashore on an Island. The player can jump, climb, run, push or pull objects, and carry various objects around the landscapes of the Island. During the gameplay, the player can sing or shout, which can trigger specific events tied to nearby statues. The player can uncover mysterious islands at his pace where he can interact with wildlife, finding for hidden items, and more. Rime offers core features such as Exploration, Puzzle-solving Gameplay, Ancient Ruins, Uncover Dozens of Secrets, and more.

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.

Virginia is a First-person Perspective, Mystery Adventure, and Single-player video game developed by Variable State and published by 505 Games. The plot revolves around the graduated FBI special agent named as Anne Tarver and her struggle to investigate her first case, in which the player must effort to find out the reason behind the disappearance of the boy in rural Virginia. The game takes place in fictional Virginia in the historical year 1992. The player takes on the role of the female protagonist, and he/she is assigned a partner named as Mario Halperin. Most of the gameplay, involves the player in the company of NPC Halperin, traversing between fictional locations, interacting with non-player characters and with objects. According to the storyline, the player investigates the case of the young boy while facing lots of challenges along his/her journey. Virginia includes prominent features such as a Small Town, Cinematic Editing, Stirring Soundtrack, Detective Noir Story, and more. Check it out, and have fun.

ChromaGun is a Puzzle-based, First-person Shooter, and Single-player video game about colors, developed and published by Pixel Maniacs. The game takes place in the fascinating world where the player uses the ChromaGun, a paint-shooting weapon, with floating spherical robots and colourize walls, known as Worker Droid. The ultimate objective of the player is to solve the complex puzzles by rearranging worker Droids, guiding them to the door, changing their color, electrified and switches tiles. During the gameplay, the player can shoot paint in the primary colors such as yellow, red, and blue using the ChromaGu. The player can mix the colors on walls to build the secondary colors like purple, green, and orange. The game comprises many short puzzle levels to accomplish, a little mistake can render the puzzle as unsolvable and the game forcing the player to restart the level to complete. There are more than twenty-six levels, and each level has only one solution. The player manipulates the world from a first-person viewpoint and can complete levels to become the master. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and stunning visuals, ChromaGun is the wonderful game to play.

Statik is a Virtual Reality (VR), Puzzle-based and Single-player 3D video game developed and published by Tarsier Studios for PlayStation 4. The game is about solving tricky puzzles in a strange environment that you have never seen before. During the gameplay, you have to join Dr Ingen and his helper named as Edith on an epic journey to unearth the complexities of the human brain. There are numerous levels, and each level has its unique difficulty and the puzzles to solve. You will discover a unique, hand-mounted puzzle each day as you play. You have to unleash your skills, use your wits, eyes and ears to solve the challenging each mystery. As the game advances, the gameplay becomes complicated to master. Statik offers prominent features such as a variety of Levels, 3D Environments, Complex Puzzles, Original Soundtracks, and more. With engaging gameplay, brilliant mechanics, and superb graphics, Statik is the wonderful game to play.

Manual Samuel is an Adventure, Side-scroll, Single-player and Multiplayer awesome video game developed by Perfectly Paranormal and published by Curve Digital. The game offers a brilliant plot, revolving around the protagonist named as Sam, the son of the wealthiest CEO, who is hit by the truck while chasing his beloved girlfriend. As the story advances, the protagonist discovers himself in the hell after the accident, where the protagonist must deal with a skateboard-loving Death to come back to his life under few conditions. The player assumes the role of the protagonist (Sam) and according to the deal, the player can survive twenty-four hours performing all the actions of his body manually. It offers the 2D animated adventure gameplay where the player controls the bodily function of Sam. During the gameplay, the player can interact with non-player characters, explore the environment and can interact with objects to fulfill the tasks. Manual Samuel includes prominent features such as Hilarious Story, Hand-Drawn 2D Art-style, Brutal-time Attack Mode, Play Solo, 600 Lines of Dialogue, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.

Jazzpunk: Director’s Cut is an Adventure, Surreal, Action, and Single-player Exploration video game created and published by Necrophone Games for Multiple Platforms. The game is set in the cyberpunk-themed world and it bring the comedy adventure revolve around an alternate reality cold war world threatened with cybercrime, corporate espionage, and more. The gameplay is heavily inspired by spoof comedy movies and cartoons, with the focus on exotic locations, weird gadgets, and open world navigation. The game lets the player steps into the shoes of the protagonist and explore the world from a first-person perspective with an aim to complete a set of missions to advance. During the exploration, the player uses different types of tools, weapons, and equipment to solve the tasks. Several scenes will unlock as the player advances and complete the certain objectives. Jazzpunk: Director’s Cut includes prominent features such as Original Soundtracks, Multiple Jokes, 3D Environment, Homemade Electronic Instruments, and more.

LOST EMBER is an Adventure, RPG, and Single-player video game developed by Mooneye Studios for multiple platforms. Throughout the gameplay, the player takes on the role of a wolf and experience different stories of humanity. The player can explore land, sea, and air by controlling the character from the third-person perspective.

The game comes up with different locations such as wild jungles, barreled deserts, canyon valleys, and temples. While setting on the journey, the player has a companion who relates to an old Inrahsi culture. A deep relationship of friendship and trust will form between the wolf and companion as they explore the adventure altogether.

The game allows the player to possess any other animal species, which gives the player excellent mobility and abilities. The animals included in the game are buffalos, fish, parrots, eagles, moles, mountain goats, capybaras, and much more. The significant features of the game are Different Animals, Companion, Locations, and Simulation.

Outer Wilds is an Action-Adventure, Open-world, Space, Sci-fi, and Single-player video game where the player can play from a first-person perspective, offered by Mobius Digital for multiple platforms. During the gameplay, the player takes on the role of an astronaut, and his main purpose is to explore the mysteries of the solar system.

The player sets a camp on the planet of the solar system, and the game runs only for twenty-two minutes, where the sun goes supernova after the limited time, and the solar system splits into pieces. After the end of the game, the player starts the journey from the same point where he left with the altered environment of the galaxy, for example, the two planets circling so near to each other that sand from one planet channels over to the cover of the other planet, but later in the 22 minutes time frame changes that make the surface of one unavailable for the second.

Within 22 minutes of gameplay, the player needs to find out how astronauts come on the immerse universe, why the sun will going to distort, the mysteries of the alien race that wants to rule the world and several secrets that will help the player to proceed further. The player contains oxygen meter and health, and the player will die if both of these runs out. The game has core features, such as Different Mysteries, First-person Perspective, Health and Oxygen Meters, Twenty-two Minutes Gameplay, Space Exploration, and Real-time Strategy.

Q.U.B.E: Director’s Cut is an Action-Adventure, Puzzle, and Single-player video game developed by Toxic Games for multiple platforms. Throughout the course, the player has to control the avatar to reach an exit through a series of levels. The character has special gloves that will help the player to reach the exit by performing several functions on specific blocks.

The player finds himself in an ancient temple with a pair of gloves. These gloves allow him to interact with specific blocks in the walls, floors, and ceilings of the rooms. Different blocks have particular functionalities such as purple blocks that can rotate sections of walls, green blocks provide a sphere or cube, and yellow blocks permit to make stair-like structures.

New puzzles get to unlock as the player progresses, for example, the bulk of the chambers get dark except some colored-blocks, and the player has to remember the location of other blocks.