Video games hold a very powerful place in this innovative era where everything changes and upgrades so quickly. They’re very sophisticated. Some hold history, technological developments over the past years have allowed our games to contain myriad other methods of expression that most of us take for granted.
One person can play a game with visually stunning graphics and gameplay but can only enjoy it if it has the best interactive storyline. There are also top-notch games with graphics worth swooning over but flopped because of crappy storylines.
On the other hand, there are a lot of progressing game which aren’t focused necessarily on the narrative side, but if a person into games enjoys a good storytelling and narrative, you keep moving along.
Here are some narrative games you can enjoy to keep your interest:
1. LIFE IS STRANGE – REMASTERED
This BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange is now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology. The game follows a young female student named Max who set forth back to her previous hometown of Arcadia Bay.
In here, she was accepted to a prestigious school for photography classes. While rekindling her relationship with her old childhood best friend, Chloe—Max discovers she can rewind time. This game is one of the most anticipated game since it was based on exploration and dialogue-heavy approach.
2. HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST
This 2022 role-playing game was developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The player controls Aloy, a hunter in a world populated by dangerous, animalistic machines. In an open world, she explores the mysterious frontier known as the Forbidden West. The game focuses heavily on combat with both aggressive machine animals as well as a variety of human enemies.
Aloy uses a variety of tools and stealth to engage foes, as well as several new varieties of weapons. In here, Players will be forced into venturing the unknown lands of the west coast in search of the source for this plague.
3. DYING LIGHT 2 – STAY HUMAN
Dying Light 2 features a zombie-apocalyptic themed open world. This Techland’s parkour zombie game brings a massive city to life, packed with buildings to scale and monsters who want nothing more than to gnaw on you. Overall, the game will have players interacting with the different factions that run the city while you scavenge for items to craft different gear.
Players will have to make use of the parkour system to maneuver around the city quickly. You will have to interact with the different factions and it depends on your actions if it will cause a rift with one of the groups and completely alter the city.
4. OPEN ROADS
Open Roads is an upcoming mystery-thriller video game developed by Fullbright and published by Annapurna Interactive. The game is scheduled to be released sometime in 2022 for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and PC. Open Roads is a game that will take players on a mysterious adventure. Players follow a sixteen-year-old girl named Tess Devine as she takes off on a journey with her mother, Opal.
After discovering a series of old cryptic notes and letters, they ended up venturing out into a slew of clues promising to hold family secrets and lost treasure. If you want something heavily focused on puzzles and searching clues, this game is for you. It is all about discovery as you wander around the map to find clues and secrets pointing towards your next destination.
5. SEASON
Season is an atmospheric adventure title from the same developers who brought out Darwin Project. In this game, players will be stepping into a female protagonist that’s curious as to why advancements to society have stopped. In here, you’re free to document, photograph, draw, and record life. Through a solitary bicycle journey—form your own memories, your own vision of the world around you.
Your goal is to protect these treasures from being forgotten. In the middle of all these, your quest begins and leads you to discover a new world—the unknown yet familiar. You will be immersed in different societies that will make you discover the mysteries of the world—a surreal version of the mid-twentieth century, where thousands of years have passed without any progress.
