The Last Night
The Last Night is a Platform and Single-player video game developed by Odd Tales and published by Raw Fury. The game introduces 2.5D cinematic platform gameplay, where the player takes on the protagonist’s role, named Charlie, who is living in a lower-class existence among the rest of the society. According to the plot, computers and machinery have almost taken over the menial work in the world where the game takes place. In the game, the player needs to explore the city from an isometric viewpoint, interact freely with non-player characters, get involved in gunfights, and use stealth elements to eliminate the targets. The game reveals some facts about the human era that was known as the era of survival, then it became famous as the era of work, and now the people knew this era as Leisure. Heavy machinery has surpassed human labor not only in strength, but in intellect, precision, and creativity. Now, the fight for survival doesn’t mean water and food, but the purpose of living. The Last Night includes fantastic features such as Revolutionary Graphics, Breathtaking Post-Cyberpunk World, Stealth Gameplay, Real-time Action Dialogues, Personal Narrative, and more.
#1 Gemini Rue
Gemini Rue is a Graphic-Adventure, Interactive Drama and Cyberpunk video game developed by Wadjet Eye Games. The story of the game bases on point-and-Click Puzzles and investigations and lets you explore the game world, interact with NPCs, collect clues and objects and engage in quite exciting Gun-play. The game takes place in the Gemini Star System in 23rd century and allows you to get into the character of Azriel Odin a gangster turned Law Enforcer. You must ride in your ship and travel to Barracus in search of your brother Daniel kidnapped by Boryokudan a terrorist organization. You must also collect the clues and objects pointing in the direction of your brother’s current location. You will be required to get information from the NPCs and solve some puzzles in order to find answers to the questions you have. As Matthius Howard will be your companion throughout your journeys, you can get help from him on specific points in the game by exchanging your place with him. You must eliminate the Syndicate too and save the whole universe along with your brother. Gemini Rue is a great Graphic-Adventure and interactive Drama based video game to play and enjoy. You should totally give it a try.
#2 The Wolf Among Us
The Wolf Among Us is an Interactive Drama, Episodic and Graphic Adventure video game developed by “Telltale Game”. The story of the game is based on “Bill Willingham” Comic Book Series named as “Fables”. The game takes you back to the past in the year 1986 and fits you right into the character of “Bigby Wolf” a law enforcing officer. “The Wolf Among Us” starts off with you as the protagonist saving a fable girl from the attack of a woodsman. You take her to your place where she heals her wounds and leaves saying that “You are not as bad as People think you are”. Chapter ends and in next chapter someone gives you the news of the fable girl’s head resting at a Woodsman doorstep. Sherrif “Ichabod Crane” orders you to investigate and solve the case and take “Snow White” with you as your assistant. “The Wolf Among Us” is a super thrilling and exciting case solving and detective video game that lets you solve murder cases by investigating and collecting the clues/evidences and by interacting with objects and NPCs. The game has a twisted and strange story that literally makes you dive deep into imagination and curiosity. Wolf Among Us offers a brilliant Episodic, Interactive and Story Driven gameplay and beautiful visuals to enjoy.
#3 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.
#4 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.
#5 Grim Fandango Remastered
Grim Fandango Remastered is an Graphic-Adventure, Interactive Drama, and Episodic video game by Double Fine Productions. The story follows Mexican Folklores and fits you into the character of the protagonist Manny Calavera who works for the Department of Dead (DOD) and struggles to wipe off his wrong doings so that he can get the final reward. He stars in the game as Reaper who frees other people’s souls from the adversities and inspects about what kind of underworld travel packages are they awarded. Manny’s business unexpectedly starts crashing and he gets the instructions of giving someone a first-class package if he wants his business running. He declines the order and his business crashes badly, and he gets out in the open to investigate about the causes and possible motives behind all of what happened to him recently. You must help yourself in assembling up a crew of a beautiful woman (unnamed) and some trustworthy friends and start your investigation. Grim Fandango Remastered is a kind of twisted video game because of its unique story and characters.
#6 The Walking Dead: Season Two
The Walking Dead: Season Two, based on the Comic Book named The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman is an Episodic, Graphic Point-and-Click Action-Adventure and Interactive Drama video game. The game follows the story-line of the first season and continues from where it was ended previously. You can set yourself up into the character of Clementine (Previously the companion of Protagonist) and get into the play by exploring the world around you, interacting with the objects, engage yourself in the conversations with AI and NPCs, and by reacting to the replies given by the NPCs and change the course of events and endings of the game. Season Two of the game provides with a 400 Days game play in an apocalyptic world filled with Zombies and allows you to amaze yourself with a super thrilling and survival based game-play. The Walking Dead: Season Two is no doubt a great Graphic-Adventure and Interactive Drama video game to play and enjoy. You must play it.
#7 Jurassic Park: The Game
Jurassic Park: The Game, presented by Telltale Games is an Episodic, Interactive Drama and Graphic Action-Adventure video game based on the Jurassic Park Movie Franchise. The game takes place in the time between the first and the second Jurassic park movies. The game is heavily influenced by the Mechanics used in the Blockbuster Heavy Rain by Quantic Dreams and lets you investigate different matters by exploring the game world, collecting the clues and evidences, Interacting with the AIs (Artificial Intelligence) and NPCs and by solving different complex puzzles. The game has four Episodes named as The Intruder, The Cavalry, The Depths and The Survivors and lets you follow the story-line strictly and act accordingly. With swiftly changing environments, amazing graphics, story-line, and a great Action-Adventure, Interactive Drama and thrill filled game-play, Jurassic Park: The Game is a super exciting and a brilliant game to play and enjoy.
#8 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.
#9 The Last Express: Gold Edition
The Last Express: Gold Edition, developed by DotEmu is a fascinatingly addictive and quite engaging Action-Adventure, Thriller and Interactive Drama video game. The game is set in the year 1914 and takes you to the mysterious adventures of Orient Express. Being one of the best Adventure game of all time, The Last Express: Gold Edition won a lot of awards and is globally appreciated. The game tells the story of Robert Cath who on the eve of World War I starts off his journey from Paris to Constantinople. Robert Cath is an American Doctor with a mysterious past and tries to get rid of the law enforcing authorities chasing him wherever he goes. He gets on the train and receives an urgent telegram from his lifelong friend (Unnamed) and falls into the turmoil of conspiracy, romance and murder. You as the protagonist will star in the game and by following the storyline you’ll be able to solve different puzzles that will eventually help you get out of this bizarre situation. The Last Express: Gold Edition is an amazingly addictive video game and it will amalgamate your brain deep into the game-play for sure. For a great Mystery and thrill filled Adventure and Drama gaming experience, try this game and you’ll be stunned by what this twisted game has to offer.
#10 The Longest Journey
The Longest Journey offers a great Point-and-Click, Action-Adventure, Exploration and Puzzle experience for all the lovers of these specific genres. With amazing new characters, brilliant setting and an immersive game-play, The Longest Journey lets you be part of a multi-layered and a great story that will definitely leave you spellbound for quite some time. The game is set in the two parallel universes named as Stark and Arcadia and it allows you to be the protagonist April Ryan, a student living in Stark City who has the magical ability to move between the two universes. You as the protagonist will have to move to the Arcadia Universe where she meets with the White Dragon who tells her about the coming adventure. Soon after meeting the White Dragon, April gets attacked and suddenly shifts back to the main Stark universe. In order to find out the source of attack and who is behind it, you’ll have to move to a number of locations, interact with objects and NPCs, collect the clues and solve some challenging puzzles and finally reach to source and conclude the story. With a number of great characters, a marvelous setting, immersive game-play and stat of the art visuals, The Longest Journey is a fun game to play.
#11 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.