Surviving High School
Surviving High School is a 2005’s Top trending Episodic Interactive Fiction and Visual Novel video game distributed worldwide by EA Mobile. The game offers new episodes every week and lets the players enjoy a gameplay similar to its Sister game Cause of Death (Closed in 2014). Surviving High School offers characters from another Sister Game, High School Story by Pixelberry Studios. Surviving High School offers a Choice-based gameplay and allows the players to choose their own Adventures and Interactive Fiction. The game is set in a School named as Centerscore High where it features very typical and recognizable Student characters. The players are allowed to control several unique student characters, and they are given the option to choose two or three decisions that may or may not affect the outcome of the each original story. Surviving High School offers an episodic gameplay, and the episodes are grouped into Volume Sets. Each Volume Set contains eight mini-episodes. According to the storyline, the game allows the players to control the character of Autumn Brooks, a Student of Centerscore High. Autumn gets bullied, faces all the bullies with the choices she can make and finally gets transferred to High School Story (Sister game), where she accompanies other characters such as Owen, Wes, and Kami. With an entirely unique concept, Bullying and Anti-bullying themes, loads of cool characters, beautifully created visuals and an impressively addictive gameplay, Surviving High School is a fun Interactive Fiction and Visual Novel video game to play and enjoy.
#1 The City of Lost Children
The City of Lost Children is an Adventure, Interactive Drama, Puzzle and Single-player video game created and published by Psygnosis Limited. The game takes place in the dark sci-fi environment where you takes on the role of the protagonist named as Miette, a fictional character from the movie of the same name. It offers a stunning story, in which you travel across the streets to commit small robberies for the Siamese twins who are your schoolmistresses. As the story advances, a huge plot emerges and a mysterious men known as Cyclopses are abducted children to steal their sweet dreams. You must explore the world from a third-person perspective, interact with NPCs, and must struggle to determine what is happening. The gameplay is divided into multiple chapters and each chapter offers a set of objectives that you have to accomplish at any cost to uncover the secrets. With immersive storyline, Graphic Adventure Gameplay, and smooth controls, The City of Lost Children is the best game to play.
#2 Fate/Stay Night
Fate/Stay Night is a Japanese Visual Novel, Adventure, and Single-player Fighting video game developed and published by Type-Moon for PlayStation. The game needs the little interaction from the player as the most of the time is spent on reading the text and narratives, representing either the protagonist’s inner thoughts or the dialogue between the characters. In the game, often the player will come to the specific point where he is given a chance to select from many options displayed on the screen. The time during the decision is variable, and the gameplay pauses while the player is making the decisions that shape the story’s outcome. The game introduces three primary storylines that the player will experience during the gameplay, one for each of the heroines in the plot. The player can interact with NPCs, make choices, and advance through the story to complete the game. With addictive storyline, brilliant gameplay, and a beautiful cast of characters, Fate/Stay Night is the wonderful game compared to other Visual Novel games.
#3 Umineko When They Cry
Umineko When They Cry is a Japanese, Mystery, Visual Novel and Adventure video game developed and published by 07th Expansion for multiple platforms. It is the first title in the series, offering addictive gameplay, in which the player acts as the detective with a chance to show off his skills. The story revolves around a team of 18 people on the secluded island for the time of two days, and the strange mystery of slaughters befalls most of the characters. The main job is to discern whether the murder is of other supernatural source or human. The game can be described as the sound novel, which is similar to Visual Novel, though the gameplay needs no player interaction as the game is made up of entirely text dialogues. The player can explore the tips mode via the internal menu of the game, which offers save and load functions. Tips mode enables the player to read the information on the characters and the storyline that may be useful in solving the challenging mystery. Try it out.