The Wolf Among Us is a fantasy-realism crossover where fable characters live in a grimy 1980s New York, wearing a product known as glamour to mask their true appearance.

Escape into something special with our list of the best story games on PC, from endings that will have you weeping, to heart-racing action titles.

The best story games also let us act out our favourite icons, such as solving crimes as Sherlock Holmes, or saving Gotham as Batman.

Story games are living, breathing narratives, and the best ones let us have our own say in how the plot unravels.

Whether you want some action-packed story loaded with plot twists, or you would prefer to set your own pace.

Unlike other games in the genre Guild Wars 2 ditches traditional fetch quests and opts for a cinematic campaign filled with dynamic events that crop up in the gorgeous open world.

For example, if you take on and fail to kill a group of provoked enemies, its likely theyll make an appearance at another a later date, possibly even more hostile than your last encounter.

As you explore Ediths home, youll learn about her past and her troubled and unsettled life at the now abandoned Finch home as she relays how the family curse took hold of all her family members.

What Remains of Edith Finch is a tragic journey through the eyes of Edith and her need to relive her haunted past to move on and strive for a new future.

The game can be played in a single afternoon, only taking around two hours to complete, so its perfect if youve not got a spare 100 hours.

Her Story mixes grainy full-motion video and its isolated subject to maintain an uneasy tone as you search archived footage of the subject and try to make sense of, well, her story.

One of the best indie games to emerge in recent years, this RPG is packed with surprises as you investigate a murder, forming your character by making dialogue decisions, applying questionable items, and literally rebuilding your psyche from the ground up.

Few games let you pour skill points into your savoir faire or punch a child in the face Disco Elysium does.

Whatever you choose, youll be enamoured by whatever fever dream tangent the story takes you on.

Also armed with grappling gear and a map you can explore a pristine stretch of Wyoming wilderness, unravelling the mysterious and sometimes frightening events that occur in the isolated forest.

It remains one of the most innovative story games to date, a meditative, ambient experience that youll want to play in a single session.

Set among the clouds in a steampunk city full of racists and religious zealots called Columbia, this first-person shooter matches its action-packed gameplay with an equally unrelenting narrative that somehow manages to be intimate and human while also dabbling with string theory.

The story is hauntingly beautiful and the main characters Elizabeth and Booker are a duo whose story captivates until the very end.

The story is told alongside plenty of action, as you clear out waves of enemies, so if you want a laid back story game experience, this might not be for you.

In a scrappy and desperate bid to save your makeshift family from the impending threat of a civilised West where outlaws are suffocated by the tightening grip of law and order RDR2 explores the fine line between survival and morality.

Tracking down the killer is the only way to stop the deaths, as you piece together the story through the eyes of a father trying to find his son, a private investigator, a journalist, and a detective that will stop at nothing to unearth the killers motive.

The player can affect the outcome of the narrative by influencing the story through gameplay mechanics a mixture of quick-time events, puzzles, and dialogue selection.

Seemingly minor interventions can result in different endings, making this a convincing realisation of the butterfly effect in videogame storytelling.

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