Set in a stylized late-1970s Hollywood, Confidential Killings – A Detective Game challenges players to unravel a series of grisly murders through careful observation, keyword-driven deduction and narrative reconstruction. Each crime scene functions as its own puzzle, but together they slowly reveal a much larger conspiracy.
Dispatch flips the superhero genre on its head by putting players behind a busted desk instead of in a flashy suit. With great writing, real choices and a lovable cast of reformed villains, it’s one of the most heartfelt and addictive story-based adventures of the year.
Fans of the various Star Trek TV shows should be overjoyed with Star Trek: Resurgence, a Telltale Games-like visual novel that lets players explore the interpersonal conflicts and moral dilemmas that make Star Trek so popular.
Hunter The Reckoning: The Beast of Glenkildove is a new text adventure set in the World of Darkness. But instead of having players become a vampire in the adventure, they are a normal human learning to hunt another kind of nocturnal predator: werewolves.
The world of MoonFire: A Seeker’s Saga is an interesting one where anthropomorphic creatures rule, and players are the last surviving human. It’s an interesting visual novel that also has heavy role-playing elements and skill checks for added spice.
Although it has a cute premise, a unique cat’s eye view of the world and some cheery moments of genuine levity, Copycat is a surprisingly dark tale that touches on some serious topics that are avoided by most titles.
The Casting of Frank Stone follows characters through three timelines, including a group of teens in the 1980s making a horror film. It offers a good narrative adventure but is also somewhat trapped by its association with the Dead by Daylight universe.
Following up on the excellent Coteries of New York and Shadows of New York graphic novels, Vampire: The Masquerade Reckoning of New York gives players one last chance to have a little fun with a familiar group of vampiric characters.
The Operator is an adventure title where players are a newly hired support agent for a government agency who is investigating clues, running facial recognition and connecting the dots to try and link some really complex cases, all from behind the keyboard of a souped-up agency workstation.
A noir detective story set in 2329 in New York City, Nobody Wants to Die focuses on the hunt for a serial killer in a dystopian future where everyone is immortal, but nobody is really happy about it.
