Walking Dead: Road to Survival
Walking Dead: Road to Survival is a Role-playing, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed by IUGO Mobile Entertainment and published by Scopely. The game offers the exciting gameplay based on the series of the comic book The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman. In the game, you have to establish a team of survivors and make your battle strategies to command them into the brutal battle in a compelling story, fraught with danger, and crime. You have to battle for survival against humans alike, and walkers, using your tactics and strategy to attack enemies in the turn-based system and experience the Role-playing progression to select your path. During gameplay, you can create your town to fend off walkers by spreading chaos. The goal is to build your community base and expand into the wasteland. Use your strategy to raid enemy faction for loot and resources and earn points for further content. Walking Dead: Road to Survival includes prominent features such as Alliance Factions, PvP Arena, Build your Base, Battle in Iconic Locations, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.
#1 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.
#2 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.
#3 Nancy Drew
Nancy Drew is a Series of games that offers various Action-Adventure and Point-and-Click exploits of the character of Nancy Drew. The series features over a dozen games and is one of the longest running series of mysteries that tends to provide you with quality entertainment and immerses you deeply with the brilliant stories. Available on various gaming platforms such as PC, Mac, Linux, Nintendo and Smart phones, Nancy Drew offers Interactive and Visual Novel style aesthetics and allows you to solve puzzles, talk to NPCs, Collect items, and solve crimes and Mysteries. Being a fantastic video game series, Nancy Drew offers some of the most amazing Video games in the series and some of them are big hits such as Nancy Drew Adventures, Nancy Drew Dossier and Nancy Drew Mobile Mysteries etc. Throughout the series Nancy Drew offers a number of different environments, stories, characters and various gameplay experiences etc. With all the fantastic story-driven gameplays, Nancy Drew lets you enjoy both exploration and Detective aesthetics and that is what makes the whole series a marvelous creation of all time.
#4 Creatures Such As We
Creatures Such As We, created by Lynenea Glasser is a text based Interactive Adventure and fiction based video game. The game features a customizable protagonist who provides his/her services on the moon as a tour guide. The game lets you set up yourself into the character of the protagonist, interact with objects and NPCs by a text based game-play and allows you to explore and find your suitable date among other AI players. “Creatures Such As We” allows you to engage yourself in an elegant and sophisticated game-play in which you can interact with NPCs (Non Player Characters) emotionally and figuratively and change the course of the story metaphorically. As the game lets you change the course of the story by the actions you perform, Creatures Such As We provides with different game endings too. With an award of Best Interactive Game of the Year, Creatures Such As We is an amazingly engaging and quite addictive video game to play. Do try it out.
#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 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.
#7 Primordia
Primordia is a Point and Click, Action-Adventure, Interactive Drama and an Episodic video game developed by Wormwood Studios. The game is set in a Post-Apocalyptic era, features a Robot named Horatio Nullbuilt as the main protagonist of the game and lets you get into the role to play the game. Horatio loves to know more about the humanity and keeps on reading The Book of Man until another unknown robot attacks Horatio’s UNNIIC airship, steals the only power source and vanishes without a trace. Horatio contacts his droid companion Crispin and starts off to his journey to investigate about that unknown robot and his whereabouts to make him pay for what he did. Horatio wants to recover their only power source too. During the search, you must also solve unique and quite twisted puzzles that will help you being a few more steps closer to your target. You must interact with objects by the use of Point and Click interface and collect the clues. Primordia is an awesomely built video game to play and enjoy. Do try it out for a best ever gaming experience of this specific genre.
#8 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.
#9 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.
#10 The Blackwell Epiphany
The Blackwell Epiphany developed by Wadjet Eye Games offers a wonderful blend Action-Adventure and Interactive Drama elements. The game is about a strange force that if catches onto someone, tears him/her apart and the person vanishes into the thin air without a trace. Because of being a paranormal entity, the strange force remains hidden from the eyes of local police and that’s when you get into the play as the protagonist Rosa Blackwell along with your spiritual companion Joey Mallone. The responsibility to solve this strange case of a strange, malevolent and Powerful entity now rests on your shoulders. You must start getting the clues and task Joey to do the same by using his supernatural powers. The Blackwell Epiphany is an amazing and quite engaging video game to play and enjoy. Some really great features of the game are Two main switchable game characters (Rosa & Joey), fully voiced over, A well written story, state of the art graphics etc.
#11 Kentucky Route Zero
Kentucky Route Zero is an Episodic Point-and-Click Action-Adventure video game developed and published by Cardboard Computer. This indie game is available to play on PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac OS and Linux. The narrative of the game whirls around the life of a truck driver and his dog. The driver along with his dog, accepts to travel to Kentucky to deliver the antique goods and on his way to Kentucky he slips off the road and gets lost. He interacts with strangers and with so many different things to find his way back to Kentucky and reaches to Equus Oils a pitch black gas station. At Equus Oils the real adventure of his life begins. Game features astonishingly amazing game-play, superb graphics and environment. One thing that is quite different about this game is the absence of verbal dialogue. Instead of a verbal dialogue the game uses text-based dialogue to interact with people and things. This epic game is worth trying. Do give it a go and enjoy all the fun.
#12 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.
#13 Resonance
Resonance, Developed by XII Games is an Action-Adventure and Interactive Drama video game. The game is about the death of a Physicist in a lab accident and the pursuit for his hidden Legacy (Resonance Tech) between the people of a specific group. Resonance lets you control four main characters of the game and allows you to switch between them according to the scenario. You as the detective have to find out a deadly Technology named Resonance in order to save the humanity. Resonance is the technology that professor Morales working on when the accident happened. The tech is now stolen by some dangerous terrorist organization and you have to find it before its to late. In order to find out Resonance you will have to go to lab to collect clues and object that can help you with your investigation. Resonance is a super thriller Action-Adventure and Interactive Drama video game presented in a cinematic and Film Noir style. You’ll be provided with a best story and amazing graphic details in this game. Try out this masterpiece and you’ll definitely be a fan.
#14 The Blackwell Convergence
The Blackwell Convergence is the third game in the Blackwell series and is developed by Wadjet Eye Games. This Graphic Action-Adventure and Interactive Drama video game features the character of Rosangela Blackwell a spiritual medium, and her spirit guide Joey Malone who basically provides with a connection between the ghosts and the living. Rosangela starts living in solitary after the death of her aunt Lauren Blackwell and gets asked by some unknown source to write a story on a Collage Dorm Suicide. She accepts and starts writing when suddenly Joey Malone’s ghost appears and tells Rosa that she is a Medium just like her aunt Lauren and asks her to solve a case of a little girl whose ghost in haunting a Dog Park and is being quite a problem for the people. You as the protagonist Rosa will have to visit the Park and gather clues and objects that can help you with your investigation. Meanwhile Joey will provide you with a connection to her ghost and will gather the clues and objects from the world of ghosts. It would be an unfair to not call The Blackwell Convergence a masterpiece for all the great things it offers. The story is superb, game-play totally is presented in a Film-Noir style and the graphics are a wonder. Play it and you’ll definitely enjoy this fantastic game.
#15 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.
#16 The Moment of Silence
The Moment of Silence is one of the best Third-person Point and Click Action-Adventure video games that offers loads Investigative aesthetics and allows you to be Peter Wright who loses his wife and son in a terrorist attack and because of that he is not in a good shape. One day a neighbor of his gets arrested by S.W.A.T and after talking to his wife, Peter gets to know that the neighbor was a freelance journalist who was in deep connections to the terrorist organizations. Your task is to simply have this opportunity and go find out the truth about who killed your wife and son. The Moment of Silence offers kind of twisted story and game-play and allows you to enjoy an amazing old-school type Point-and-Click aesthetics, guide Peter to wherever you want and perform different actions that will eventually take you to further parts of the story. With long adventures, amazing dialogues with NPCs, brilliant voice overs and fairly realistic visuals and game-play, The Moment of Silence is marvelous piece of gaming.
#17 Atlantis: The Lost Tales
Atlantis: The Lost Tales takes you to an amazingly addictive Fantasy-based Action-Adventure and Point and Click experience and leaves you right in the middle of the lost City of Atlantis. The game allows you to be the unnamed protagonist who works as the Special protective guard of the Queen of Atlantis and upon the sudden disappearance of the queen, takes the responsibility to uncover the mysteries and finally find the Queen. As you start off your journey, you’ll find the clues about Queen’s Guards leader’s involvement in Queen’s disappearance and after knowing about that, you’ll have to act quickly because the Guards leader Creon intends to conquer the world with the help of an ancient Power and a new weapon. You must stop Creon from doing that by jumping to different in world and out world locations, finding the clues and objects and by finding the light equal to the power of the weapon that Creon has. After you have acquired the Power, go hunt down Creon and all his minions, free the queen and conclude the game. Atlantis: The Lost Tales is a one amazing game that offers a brilliant story and a wonderfully immersive game-play along with great visuals.
#18 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.
#19 Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey
Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey is an episodic Puzzle Point and Click and Adventure video game. This 3D game surrounds the interacting characters, game world exploration and a lot of puzzles to solve. Developed and published by Red Thread Games, this is the most favorite and highest ranking game in the whole series. The futuristic story of the game is set in 2220 and represents two parallel universes named Stark and Arcedia. The protagonist of the game Zoe Castillo breaks the news that the Dreams of the residents of both universes are being stolen by the conspirators and she sets out to ruin their intentions. Betrayed badly and left for dead previously in Dreamfall, Zoe thinks this is the chance to find the purpose of her life. The game features a non-open world environment but several freely roaming levels like Europolis and Marcuria and repays the players with power-ups on collecting every secret and clearing the level. Graphically rich gaming environment and game-play with a third person perspective enhances the charm of playing this awesomely amazing and addicting game to play.
#20 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.
#21 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.
#22 Emerald City Confidential
Emerald City Confidential is a Mouse-Driven Action Adventure and Interactive Drama video game developed by Wadjet Eye Games. The game is set in the magical land of OZ in the year 1940, lets you solve different cases as a private investigator and allows you to solve various puzzles in order to collect clues and evidence. The story of the game revolves around the main protagonist Petra who works as a private investigator. Petra gets reached out by an eccentric woman named Gee Gale whose Fiancé goes missing and she hires Petra to investigate about that. Petra agrees and starts looking into the details, starts collecting the clues that lead her to the Underworld of Emerald City where she meets NPCs (Non Player Characters), learns a lot of Magical Spells and uncovers the truth about the dark secrets that has haunted Petra all her life. This graphical and film noir marvel is an amazingly addictive and quite engaging detective video game that makes you feel real about the details and provides with a real life like experience. The immersive nature of the game and player position bookmark feature makes this game more interesting and makes it so hard to stop playing it. Do try it out if you are in to Interactive Drama and Detective type games, you’ll simply love it.
#23 Edna and Harvey: The Breakout
Edna and Harvey: The Breakout, is a graphic Action-Adventure and Interactive Drama game developed by Daedalic Entertainment. The game features the protagonist as a young woman named Edna who gets stuck in a mental hospital with her toy rabbit Harvey and she wants to get out of the facility. You as the protagonist will have to solve a number of point-and-click puzzles in order to gather clues and objects. The gathered objects and clues are the only things that can help you escape so you better be good at puzzle solving or else you’ll keep stranded inside the hospital. The puzzles in the game are all based up on the results you get by solving the previous puzzles. If you solve a puzzle with perfect combinations you’ll advance in the game but if you are failed to solve the puzzles, you’ll lose the game. Edna and Harvey: The Breakout has a great story, great graphics and a super addictive Film-Noir game-play. Do give it a try, you’ll definitely love it.
#24 Puzzle Bots
Puzzle Bots, created by Ivy Games is a Graphic Adventure and Interactive Drama video game. The game is set in Dr. Hugo’s factory and lets you get into the protagonist’s character, solve different complex puzzles with the help of Robots and find a way to open up a Mystery Box that holds a lot of interesting things. All the robots have some specific skills and you are allowed to choose anyone of them while solving the complex puzzles and obstacles. Zander, an inventor of the factory brings the mystery box and seeks your help in opening that, so you must use your abilities and skills to gather clues by solving the puzzles and open the box. Puzzle Bots is a super cool game to play and it will definitely provide you with tons of entertainment. With a great story, addictive gameplay and Film-Noir representation this game will surely make you a fan of all the characters. Do try it out.
#25 Corpse party
Corpse Party is a Third-Person, Top Down Action-Adventure Horror-Survival and Mystery-based RPG video game that lets you explore haunted school grounds to collect objects and escape the premises. In order to complete the game objectives you must explore the school and interact with environment, objects, NPCs to get the info and avoid the gory enemies to save yourself. The game’s story is divided into five main chapters and each and every chapter offers a different world, unique characters and unique game endings. The main targets in the game are the ghostly creatures that you’ll encounter throughout the game and each and every time you avoid a touch or you are able to kill one, Corpse Party lets you have HP (Hit Points) that you can use to keep track of your health, weapons and stuff. Furthermore, as you progress through the game, you’ll unlock More Chapters, new endings and loads of other new things to discover. With all the Drama, beautiful visuals and an epic gameplay experience, Corpse Party is a fun game to play and enjoy.
#26 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.
#27 Mad Father
Mad Father is a Free-to-Play Horror-Survival and Interactive Puzzle-RPG video game by Miscreant’s Room. The game takes the players to North Germany where it allows the players to get into the character of an Eleven years old girl named as Aya Drevis. Aya lives with her parents named as Alfred and Monika Drevis, and a maid Maria. Because of being a shy girl, Aya stays at home most of the time and looks after her ill mother. Aya’s father is a scientist and works on a secret experiment in her house basement, and Maria helps him. Aya gets curious about his father’s doings and in a year her mother passes away, and one night the unbelievable happens. Aya wakes up at the sounds of Test subjects of his father’s experiment, and she runs away to her room frightened badly. One of the Test Subjects, the Salesman Ogre offers Aya a chance to find out the truth about her father’s lab, but on a condition. Aya must solve a series of Puzzles to know the truth. The players are directed to control the character of Aya, help her get out of her room and descend to the lab, solve a number of challenging puzzles and finally know the truth. Mad Father provides with a very unusual and twisted story along with gameplay that keeps on throwing the most unbelievably strange things at you. With a fantastic combination of RPG, Puzzle, and Horror and Survival elements, Mad Father is one of the best games to play. For all those who love playing games with a similar type of elements, Mad Father would be a great source of entertainment. Do try it out.
#28 The Witch’s House
The Witch’s House is and Interactive Puzzle, Horror-Survival and RPG video game by a Japanese developer and publisher named as Fummy. The game focuses on the character of a young girl named as Viola, who wakes up in the middle of an unknown and dark Forest. She wants to get out of the forest but soon finds out that the only way out of the forest is blocked by the Roses. The other easiest way out of the forest is through an old haunted house that belongs to a Witch named as Ellen. Viola gets in the house and the story takes another turn. As the house belongs to a Witch, it has its own abilities such as shape-shifting and changing the map, etc. Viola starts exploring the house and finds out Ellen’s Diary that tells her about her past. To escape the house and eventually the forest, Viola starts off her journey and as she opens up the doors, she faces countless challenging puzzles. The players are tasked to control the character of Viola, get into the house, solve all the challenging puzzles and find a way out of the house. The Witch’s House offers two endings for the game such as The Good Ending and The True Ending. Both of the endings depend upon the actions that the players perform while playing the game. With an amazingly addictive and horror filled gameplay, beautifully portrayed visuals and the survival element, The Witch’s House is a one of the great RPG Puzzle video games to play and enjoy.
#29 IB
IB is an Action and Adventure based RPG and Interactive Puzzle video game by a Japanese developer and an artist named as Kouri. In the game, the players are able to control the character of a nine year old girl named as IB who goes on to visit a local Museum with her parents. With her parents’ permission, IB starts to wander off and stops at a picture that seems bizarre to her. Suddenly, in the result of a blackout, the museum gets emptied and IB gets left alone. All the doors get shut and there is no way of getting out of the museum. After the blackout, IB finds paint splatters on the ground that lead her to another painting of an Alien world and she enters into that painting. The inside world of the painting is so different of IB’s world and in there, she finds two more characters. The two characters are of Garry’s and Marry. Garry is a soft spoken and protective boy and Mary is of eccentric and mischievous nature. The players are allowed to control all three of the characters and help them solve a series of challenging puzzles. The puzzles are made of huge monstrous paintings, various types of animated sculptures and it the players’ ultimate task to solve them or else IB will always be locked inside that Alien world painting. With a remarkable backstory, beautiful visuals and a compelling gameplay, IB is a great addictive Puzzle RPG video game to play and enjoy.
#30 Yume Nikki
Yume Nikki is a Single-player Action, Adventure and RPG video game by Kikiyama, a developer from Japanese origins. The story of the game revolves around a Socially Isolated character of a girl named as Madotsuki. Madotsuki travels through her horror filled dreams where she encounters all kinds surreal and bizarre creatures such as a disembodied character of a head named as Uboa, a girl with five arms and loads of other creatures. The players are tasked to control the character of Madotsuki, travel through the dream world based on the map of Madotsuki’s real world room, reach down to the twelve door nexus (each door leads to a different world with different characters and objects such as Neon Maze, Forest, a world filled with Numerical symbols and objects, a world filled with body parts, etc.), get into the world and solve various types of challenging puzzles. After all the puzzles in all of the worlds are completed, a massive world unlocks for the players to explore and enjoy the game to full extent. The players must collect all the twenty four objects (Effects) from all of the dream worlds, interact with objects and keep on going on and on. If the game seems so bizarre and the horror takes over, players can always wake Madotsuki and save the game. NPCs in the game are all the enemies and they can be killed with the Knife Effect, but if the players are not able to kill the NPCs, the teleport the players to any of the unescapable areas of the game world. Being locked inside an inescapable area wakes Madotsuki and the players gets forced back to the Nexus. With a variety of different elements, Horror filled gameplay, dreamy and surreal visuals, and the background sounds, and a remarkable story, Yume Nikki is a brilliant Adventure and RPG video game to play and enjoy.
#31 ICY
ICY is a great narrative driven post-apocalyptic, Indie, RPG and Text-based video game by Inner Void. The game is set in a brilliant icy and frozen world with amazingly enhanced graphics to enjoy. You can explore the game world by creating your own character with complete skills and abilities. You have to survive in the frozen world by having bow and arrow fight along with the melee combat and shooting with multiple weapons. The game is based on your survival and the survival of your followers while exploring the frozen icy age of the game world in an amazing work of snow falling. You will lead the group of survivors, hunting food to survive in the ice age. You can customize your character with 10 skills and abilities to make it stronger. ICY is an outstanding game for having fun in frozen world.
#32 Haunted Memories
Haunted Memories is an Episodic, Action-Adventure, Shooter and Horror-Survival video game. The game kicks off with an amnesiac man waking up in the woods nearing a power station. You are allowed to set yourself up into the character of that amnesiac man, explore the world around you, collect items and weapons, fight and kill the enemies. Your worst fear is that you are continuously being hunted by Mark Slender a giant paranormal entity with no face, black suit and lots of tentacles. You must find out the map, explore the surroundings and find out the way out of the woods before that Slender creature captures you. Haunted Memories is an episodic video game that allows you to experience the game in different environments, settings and with different objectives. With a mystic nature, a lot of enemies to fight with, six different episodes, an amazingly horror and creepy game-play, this game is quite fun to play and enjoy. Play it out and you’ll love every bit of this brilliant game.
#33 The Journey Down: Chapter One
The Journey Down: Chapter One takes you to an amazingly enigmatic underland setting and allows you to set yourself up into the character of Bwana who accompanies her companion named as Kito in order to search for a lost Journal. As the protagonist, you’ll have to go through challenging puzzles, obstacles and an unfriendly environment in order to find out Bwana’s long lost father, Captain Kaonandodo. With amazing point-and-click aesthetics, The Journey Down: Chapter One immerses you into an amazing journey and adventure in which you’ll have to follow a twisted plot and witness amazingly breathtaking moments. With a superb game setting, great visuals and sounds and an addictive game-play, The Journey Down: Chapter One is one of the best Episodic and Interactive, Puzzle-platform, games to play and enjoy.
#34 Grim Fandango
Grim Fandango is a Graphics Adventure, Puzzle and Single-player video game created and published by LucasArts. The game lets you control a character named Manuel and takes place in the fictional world called Land of Dead, in which you must complete challenging puzzles. Interact with Non-player Characters, find clues, gather and use objects to solve mysteries to progress in the game. It lets you a chance to become a detective and show your skills. Solve cases, earn points and uncover the secrets of the land of dead. The game offers detailed environments and lets you explore it, find objects and get clues. Grim Fandango includes core features such as Exciting Characters, a set of Puzzles, Stunning Visuals, brilliant mechanics, point and clicks gameplay, etc. Grim Fandango is the best game to play and enjoy.
#35 Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded
Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded combines the elements of Adventure, Point and Click, Action and Single-player developed by nFusion Interactive and published by Replay Games. The game takes place in the 1980s and offers a series of the complex puzzle you must complete at any cost. According to the story, the protagonist named Larry Laffer who is a 40-year-old software seller have bored to his unexciting life and took a tour of Los Wages and maybe meet with her true love. Interact with a variety of objects and items, find clues and solve puzzles by licking, talking, picking up a variety of objects. It has five different buildings such as a mini-mart, a multi-floor, a love chapel and a disco club. Explore different locations and uncover the mysteries of the world. Different Buildings, Mind-blowing Puzzles, Exciting Characters, Point and Click gameplay, Stunning visuals, etc. are the prominent features of the game. Try it out.
#36 Façade
Façade is an Interactive Drama and Fiction video game by PlayABL. The game revolves around the characters of Grace and Trip and allows the players to be their Long term Friend. The players can select any gender they want and act accordingly to the story. According to the storyline, the player character gets invited to an Evening get together at Grace and Trip’s place. Everything seems going smooth until it all gets rough and ugly and the player’s character gets involved into a sudden conflict in the marriage of Grace and Trip. As accusations start to fly, everybody takes sides and the conflict gets more destructive and the player character gets shoulders deep into it. Now the course changes as the player character makes decisions and it all relies on the player character to either resolve the issue or make it worse. With a One-Act gameplay style, beautifully created visuals, a great story and all the deep drama, Façade is one of the most twisted and groovy story to enjoy. Characters other than the player’s, are all controlled by the Computer AI (Artificial Intelligence) and they act as they are programmed to, but the player character is given choice that he/she can select and change the course of events that take place in the game. With a very interesting and easy to understand narrative, Façade would definitely let the players enjoy this game. Do give it a try for an awesome Interactive Fiction and Drama type video game experience.
#37 Papers, Please
Papers, Please or also known as Papers, Please: A Dystopian Document Thriller is a Puzzle video game by an Indie video game developer named as 3909. The game focuses on the Emotional Life of a character who works as an Immigration Officer. Set in the Dystopian country of Arstotzka, the protagonist goes through the Emotional toll every day while deciding about who to let in the country and whom to stop. The ultimate task of the player is to check the documents of people by using various tools and stop the Criminals, Smugglers, and Terrorists from entering the country. When certain discrepancies are discovered in the documents, the players investigates the individuals and tries to collect data about the ones with faulty or suspicious documents. The further investigation includes Full-body Scan, Fingerprint verification, demanding more information, and the decision of denying the entrance, etc. The full day shift of the player doing all the things goes on in real-time and the players does all every day in the game. At the end of every day, players get rewarded with money based on his performance (Less Penalties, Bribes Collected, Items Confiscated, etc.). The players are allowed to use the earned money on daily life expenses such as paying the rent, buying food, and other necessities. The game kind of looks like a Life-Simulation but it is a bit different from that. With a remarkably addictive and involving gameplay, cool 3D visuals and all the amazing benefits of working as an Immigration Officer, Papers, Please offers a brilliant Puzzle and Interactive experience to enjoy.
#38 Lucius
Lucius is an Adventure, Horror-Survival, Third-person Perspective, and Single-player video game by Shiver Games. The game takes place in the stunning world and lets you assume the role of the villain protagonist named Lucius. He was born on 6th June as a normal boy, but everything completely changed on the protagonist’s 6th birthday. He is equipped with devil powers. The game is set in the fictional manor and the Devil tasks the Lucius to kill all the members of the manor. It embarks you on a bloody adventure where you have to kill your household. The more people your kills, the more powerful you will become. Lucius is played from a third-person view. It has a set of levels and each with similar tasks to kill people. Explore the game world, interact with NPCs, accomplish your tasks, and gain experience and power. Lucius offers core features such as 3D Horror Adventure, Open World, Breathtaking Atmosphere, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#39 Ghost Master
Ghost Master combines the elements of Strategy, Puzzle, Tactical and Simulation developed by Stick Puppies and published by Strategy First. The game supports single-player mode and casts the player in the role of an enemy, who is a Ghost Master. It takes place in the stunning environment and offers certain task to complete specific duties. The goals of the player comprise hauntings, renegade ghosts, avenge death and more. There are fourteen different levels to play and enjoy and each with different challenges, tasks, and objectives. The ultimate goal is to frighten the humans and force them to leave the area. The game offers the similar gameplay like Real-time Strategy game and lets the player at the start to select the ghost from which he wants to play. Each ghost has one or two objects. Ghost Master includes exciting features such as Fifteen Unique Adventures, 3D Environment, Special Effects, different Locations and more. Try it out, and it’ll entertain you.
#40 Anna
Anna is a Puzzle, Psychological Horror, and Single-player video game created by Dreampainters Software and published by Kalypso Media. One day the protagonist woke up and find himself in a haunted called Sawmill situated in the North of Italy. The game casts you in the role of the protagonist, and your main task is to explore the horrific world, find clues and solve a series of complex puzzles to find a way out. The game world filled with spirits, ghosts, and other deadly creatures and can raise your heartbeat. Explore the game world, unearth its secrets, interact with objects and NPCs and progress through the game to unlock further content. It features multiple ends depends on your decisions during the gameplay. Other unveil environment unlocks as you fulfill the game’s requirements. Anna offers core features such as a Hunting Tale, Physics-based Environment, Eight Endings, New Environments, Puzzles, Heart pumping Sounds, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#41 Black Mirror III: Final Fear
Black Mirror III: Final Fear is a Point and Click, Third-person Perspective, Horror, Adventure and Single-player video game created by Cranberry Production and published by THQ Nordic. The game takes place in the fictional world, and the plot centers on the protagonist named as Darren Michaels. According to the story, the protagonist was a store clerk in a New England town. A brutal murder occurred in the city and all evidence points to Darren, and the police have arrested the protagonist as their suspect. After several weeks, the protagonist released on bail unexplainably. After that, the protagonist threatened by nightmares and seeing the people who were killed by someone. The game puts you in the character of the protagonist and lets you navigate the world, investigate the place where the crime occurred, find clues, solve complex puzzles and capture the murderer. You can manipulate the world from a third-person perspective and can interact with objects and NPCs to progress through the case. Black Mirror III: Final Fear offers prominent features such as Two Playable Characters, Dark Forces, a variety of Episodes to Explore, Fictional Areas, complicated Cases to Solve and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#42 Hello Neighbor
Hello Neighbor is an Action, Stealth, Horror-Survival, and Single-player video game developed by Dynamic Pixels and published by tinyBuild Games. The game takes place in the fictional land and introduces a variety of levels. The player assumes the role of the protagonist and his primary objective is to sneak into the basement of his neighbor’s home to unearth the terrible mystery. Each neighbor has its unique behavior, depending on the past action of the player. According to the story, the protagonist finds himself moving into a new home across the street of strange neighbors, who seems to be keeping a mystery in their home’s basement. The ultimate task of the player is to get into the home, collect objects needed to access and unlock the basement of the home. During the exploration, the player needs to move carefully without making any noise, otherwise the neighbor will chase and catch him. There are four inventory spaces available, same kind of items can’t be placed together in the same space. With superb gameplay, immersive soundtracks, high detailed graphics and smooth controls, Hello Neighbor is the best game to play and enjoy.
#43 Black Mirror
Black Mirror is an Adventure, Point and Click, Horror and Single-player video game created by Future Games and published by The Adventure Company. It takes place in more than 150 thrilling locations and introduces five-hour of spoken dialogue gameplay. The story revolves around the Black Mirror, the ancient mansion of the Gordon family lived in England in 1980s. The player named Samuel Gordon is forced to return the mansion after his grandfather’s death after 12 years. After arriving the Black Mirror, the protagonist starts investigation to uncover the mystery of the death of his grandfather. The game contains six different chapters such as Return of the Future, Back to the Light, Hidden Legacy, Forgotten Bound, and more. Each chapter has a set of puzzles to complete and offers unique gameplay compared to others. During the gameplay, the player navigates the world from a third-person perspective and control the character using point and click interface. Black Mirror offers prominent features such as interesting Storyline, Six intense Chapters, Third-person Adventure, different Atmospheric Effects (Storms, Fog, Rain, etc.), Realistic Animations and more.
#44 Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey is an Adventure, Third-person Perspective and Single-player video game developed by Funcom and published by Empire Interactive. The game serves as the sequel to 1999’s The Longest Journey, developed by Funcom and takes place ten years after the first game’s events. The story of the game revolves around three different characters such as April Ryan, Zoe Castillo, and Kian Alvane, who live in two different parallel lands named as Magical Arcadia and Stark. The player has assumed the role of the protagonist named as April in the first game, while the game features two new characters. The core storyline centers on Zoe, the resident of Stark, who must manipulate the world to find out the reason of her boyfriend’s disappearance. During the gameplay, the female protagonist battles the brutal enemies while Azadi and Kian are sent to assist her. The player manipulates the world from a third-person perspective, fight enemies, interact with non-player characters, gather and combine items to solve puzzles while scoring the highest points. With the exciting story, superb mechanics and wonderful gameplay, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey is the best game to play.
#45 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.
#46 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.
#47 Beholder
Beholder is an Adventure, Strategy and Single-player video game developed by Warm Lamp Games and published by Alawar Entertainment. The game offers a thrilling gameplay inspired by Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Ray Bradbury. In the game, the player controls the protagonist named as Carl, who is a government installed landlord in the state of totalitarian. The government hires the player to spy on the tenants, and his ultimate task is to chase the tenants and efforts to record their conversation. There are a series of levels, and the player manipulates the landscape from a side-scroll perspective. The player needs to reports anyone of violating the laws and fulfill the objectives to earn points. In the game, the player has an option to follow the instruction of the government or team up with those people who are suffering from the oppressive directives. With excellent mechanics, wonderful gameplay, and exciting graphics, Beholder is the best game to play.
#48 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.
#49 The Count Lucanor
The Count Lucanor is an Adventure, Pixel Graphics, 2D Role-playing, Horror and Single-player video game developed by Baroque Decay for Cross-platform. The game takes place in the fantasy world and puts you in the role of the protagonist named as Hans and lets you experience a unique adventure full of surprises and challenges. You can explore the stunning land where every decision counts and a single clue is a piece to complete the puzzle and find the treasure. Your ultimate task is to solve the puzzles to unearth the secrets of the castle, encounter various characters, and go deep into the dungeon to find more. The game offers the retro-style gameplay inspired by the classic games like Yume Nikki, The Legend of Zelda, Dark Soul, and more. It offers fairytale world and introduces important choices, multiple ways to solve mind-bending puzzles, alternative endings, and more. The Count Lucanor includes brilliant gameplay, superb mechanics, and smooth controls, The Count Lucanor is the best game to play.
#50 Last Day of June
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.