A classic of the genre, mixing fascinating real-world history with a taut conspiracy thriller. Then a guy dressed as a clown blows it up, inspiring him to play detective and get his revenge.
American tourist George Stobbart is on vacation in France, sipping coffee outside a Parisian cafe. This is arguably the best interactive fiction game ever made, with sublime, evocative writing that brings its alternate history setting to life, underpinned by compelling systems that make achieving the titular feat genuinely challenging.īroken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (Image credit: Revolution Software)īroken Sword is a game that knows every great mystery needs a killer premise to hook you in.
In this loose adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, Phileas Fogg and his loyal valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days. As you explore Amn and its capital city, Athkatla, you encounter all manner of bizarre characters and get tangled up in deep, complex quests with surprising outcomes and consequences that can permanently affect your party. This sprawling high fantasy RPG is absolutely heaving with interesting stories, taking full advantage of its Dungeons & Dragons setting.
It's a decision deeply woven into the game's narrative, and underneath all the puns and puzzles is a story that carries out the natural consequences of your actions with emotional and horrific results. Solo developer Toby Fox gave players a simple choice in Undertale-kill or show mercy-and with that simple choice, turned one of the RPG's biggest tropes on its head. Read more Great moments in PC gaming: The suicide mission in Mass Effect 2 This is BioWare's greatest sci-fi yarn, with a cast of eccentric, memorable, and likeable characters-all of whom can die horribly if you make the wrong decisions. Read more The voice acting in Disco Elysium: The Final Cut makes the best RPG on PC even betterĪs a fleet of civilisation-devouring aliens heads for the Milky Way, Commander Shephard embarks on a mission to round up a motley crew of scientists, mercenaries, and bounty hunters to fight them. There's a murder to solve, but numerous ways to do it, and how you interact with the world (and the people in it) can steer the case down many winding paths. Through dialogue and decisions, you can shape every facet of your character's personality-which in turn determines what kind of detective he'll be. This astonishingly deep RPG is a role-playing game in the truest sense.
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