The Isle Tide Hotel is an interactive movie that plays out like a detective story where players must solve a mystery through gathering clues and speaking to guests. The setting for the adventure is an elaborate and strange luxury hotel where nothing is quite what is seems.
Set in the future on a lonely Martian outpost, players in Fort Solis respond to a distress call and investigate a thriller of a mystery with implications for all of humanity. With its incredible graphics and top voice acting setting the mood, Fort Solis makes for amazing sci-fi horror.
Dynopunk is quite the mix of different concepts and genres. It’s basically a story-based title with management tasks mixed in. And it’s set in a totally cyberpunk world, but one filled with dinosaurs.
Killer Frequency is an incredibly unique horror puzzle adventure. It uses a first-person interface, but instead of pelting players with jump scares or waves of monsters, it challenges them to try and save desperate people who call into a late-night radio show looking to escape a deadly serial killer stalking a small town.
Storyteller is an award-winning puzzle adventure title that has players building many different stories using pieces that represent backgrounds, characters and plot points. It offers interesting puzzle-solving gameplay that should appeal to anyone who enjoys a good tale and puzzle adventures.
This week, Modern Gamer columnist Marie Brownhill is investigating the strange and horrific happenings in the complete edition of Perseverance, a visual novel told through the eyes of multiple characters trying to survive the pending zombie apocalypse.
Modern Gamer- Twice Reborn: A Vampire Visual Novel
This week Modern Gamer columnist Marie Brownhill covers a title that lets players follow the story of a newly created creature of the night in Twice Reborn: A Vampire Visual Novel. Twice Reborn includes adult themes and tough choices, and it might be perfect for fans of the vampire genre or anyone who enjoys well-written visual novels.
This week Modern Gamer Marie Brownhill enjoys the latest visual novel from Wales Interactive, Mia and the Dragon Princess. It’s an action-packed story that stars some of the top names in fantasy adventure.
Eschewing the normal linear nature of full-motion-video games, Murderous Muses instead offers up a randomized world where players can put their investigative and puzzle-cracking skills to the test to solve a different murder mystery every time.
Keeping the narrative side of the Borderlands series alive, New Tales From The Borderlands features all of the irreverent humor from the original title, but is packed with all new characters, exciting storylines and a few nice extras.