Virginia
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.
#1 Psychonauts
Psychonauts is another super addictive Action-Adventure, Interactive-Drama and Puzzle-platform video game. The game revolves around the character of a young Psych named Razputin who starts up his journey of becoming a Psychonaut. In order to achieve the goals, you’ll have to help Razputin break into the Psychonaut’s training center, make a place for yourself there, defeat the enigmatic villain who have kidnapped your fellow campers. It is now your duty to free your fellow campers by the use of your special abilities and psychic powers. You must focus on telekinesis, levitation and project yourself into the minds of the enemies, fight them off, sabotage their facilities and eventually free your friends. Psychonauts offers an amazingly twisted game-play, a great story to follow along with amazing visuals and a lot of other great things.
#2 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.
#3 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.
#4 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.
#5 Life is Strange: Episode 1
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.