This game is nothing more than interactive drama action-adventure video games for PlayStation 4, 3 and PC. This is also developed by Quantic Dream and published by Sony Computer Entertainment released in Oct 2013.
#1. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
It is like an adventurous genre game but blending the horror along. The open world is the main advantage of accessing the game where the player can roam around freely in the huge world while completing the missions. Your role is an investigator named Paul Prospero who finds out paranormal.
Gameplay brings you the vast world where a lot of exploration and mystery solving take place.
Here you make use of your paranormal finding abilities to sense the horror and catch the happening. It takes place in the town of Red Creek Valley from where you received a letter but finds no one, and that’s where the detection begins.
Platform: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
#2. Tales From The Borderlands
The game world sets you in the world of Pandora where exploration takes place to dissolve the death of Handsome Jack. Here you get two characters as Rhys and Fiona where Rhys is an employee finding growth and Fiona being an artist works on Pandora.
The gameplay brings the point and clicks adventure. The game has a deep world to explore with a vast amount of content, so both exploration and decision making take place. Here decisions made by you take effect on the future events and change the elements accordingly.
Platform: Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, OS X, PlayStation 3/4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
#3. The Wolf Among Us
The next one that stays fantastic and one of the Beyond Two Souls like games. The game world is set in 1986 where myths and legends take a major place. It is about the characters who hide their identity of being a wolf and stay among the humans.
Gameplay features a third-person perspective whereas being a wolf player your mission is to investigate a woman’s murder. The game happens in the 3D environment where objects are interactive, and you get chance to examine certain things to collect the clues of murder.
There are NPCs too that enlighten your path by giving you the quests on time.
Platform: Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, OS X, PlayStation 3/4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
#4. The Walking Dead
The game mainly promotes the adventure and decisions making. Here you access the zombies’ world being Lee Everett who also helps a girl named Clementine. The main motive is to kill all the zombies by destroying their heads.
Gameplay goes forward with killing out those slow and filthy bodies and justifying the genre. You will find other survivors too that will join you along the way until they meet their end.
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, OS X, PlayStation 3/4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Android, iOS
#5. Until Dawn
The characters here seem more realistic than any other gameplay. The game adds up two elements horror and adventure where survival is the key to continue exploring and finding secrets. The story takes you to a mountain with your other friends also, and soon you’ll realize that you are not alone here. At this point, fear surrounds you all, and you just want to go home safe in any way. Horror gets its place, and all of you go through several bad and good decisions. You need to escape that remote place, so this way the game remains fantastic and one of the games similar to Beyond Two Souls.
Platform: PlayStation 4
#6. Heavy Rain
Another one is the Heavy Rain that comes on the list of Beyond Two Souls alternatives. The game is based on the Film Noir, and in the game, you find four main characters as you go forward in the gameplay. Each of them has a different story, and the voice makes the character familiar.
Here you interact with the NPCs that guide your path giving you the quests.
Your main motive is to find out the serial killer who uses the heavy rainfall to take the victims far away. Gameplay allows quick time events and decision making and each decision affect the elements of the story that you see later.
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3
#7. Alan Wake
Another one among the Beyond Two Souls alternatives. In the game, you are a novelist Alan Wake who travels to a town of Bright Falls to get his writing back on the path. The game goes on in several episodes, and by the time you also start uncovering the elements of your wife’s missing.
Gameplay mixes up the exploration and psychological elements to give you the horror-themed adventure. The dark time feels the horrible one as you also try to find the darkness that consumes humans and other things. Here your flashlight plays a vital role as it removes the darkness and brings the light.
Platforms: Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows
#8. Fahrenheit Indigo Prophecy
The game brings you to the New York City where a series of murders take place. You as Lucas who is a victim himself decide to reveal the truth behind these murders, and from here the gameplay begins.
Gameplay allows controlling player’s movement and actions to search the reason behind the murders. Playing via app makes actions using the certain touches on the screen, and via consoles, buttons or the stick do the job.
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Android, Xbox, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, iOS, Linux, Mac
#9. Life Is Strange
The game revolves around an 18-year old that has the power to rewind the time that means visiting the passes time again. Here you are named Max who is on the mission to stop the storm on the orbit by traveling back to the time and make required environmental changes.
The gameplay focuses on the butterfly system where your actions decide the consequences. It takes the third person view, and the player can locate himself in various locations, meet various NPCs and take actions while interacting with the objects. So it’s like getting the quests and solving the puzzles that are based on changing the environment.
Platform: Android, iOS, Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X, PlayStation 3/4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
#10. The Last of Us
The game follows the story of Joel, and a young girl Ellie, both of them make their way across the post-apocalyptic world where the infection has taken place. The game world seems to have the infected areas controlled by the government and some others by bandits, humans, and other infected people.
Here Joel is the main character in the third person perspective whereas Ellie is an AI. The combat system allows Joel to rely on melee weapons and several numbers of guns too. Here the cover system helps the player to cover himself during the firefights and continue the game.
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3
#11. Deadly Premonition
The game mixes up several factors like horror, open world, comedy, and others. The game world is a series of several confusing things that seem strange with twisted dialogue, but that’s a good thing to keep up the excitement to explore more. You are an investigator named Francis York Morgan who researched the murders happening in the town and get to the conclusion.
Gameplay makes you exploring the giant world that looks impressive and allows you free access to the environments. Here you find characters to talk to and even achieve side missions. This way player gets the mystery off and goes closer to the truth.
Platform: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows
#12. Murdered: Soul Suspect
In the Murdered: Soul Suspect, you are on the mission of solving your own murder. It also brings you a ghost experience where you get to know how you murdered. Here the clues are scattered all around that you find and collect one by one and get on the journey ahead. The place is Salem, Massachusetts where you got in the hands of a serial killer. Now you are the detective Ronan O’Connor who is a ghost and tries to solve his own murder mystery. Also, there are some restrictions even if you are a ghost, but it’s still unique gameplay and always exciting.
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows
Conclusion:
Many Users has given the positive review to this game and review site Metacritic give 7.9 out 10 stars.
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