5 PC games that will enrich your inner world is not worse than the literature

Dear Esther

platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Windows, Linux, macOS.

With Dear Esther began the history of the genre simulator walk. The Chinese Room creation is difficult to assess using traditional criteria of video games. Moreover, all of it is difficult to say anything concrete. The question here is everything: from the personality of the protagonist (if there any), and ending with the infinitely beautiful island entity in which the action unfolds. Yes and turns it? Whether it is real or everything that happens in front of us a brilliant multi-layered illusion? Figment of the imagination, the result of the tactile-visual synesthesia, inexplicable fiction?

The two-hour experience of wandering in the dark under the musical accompaniment and expertly voiced literary text leave feeling enthusiastic and ends strongest catharsis, which is able to give a true art.

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

platforms: PlayStation 4, Windows, Linux, macOS.

A Machine for Pigs - a rare example of the victory of art over commerce. The gaming community is expected to continue the successful horror Amnesia, got incredibly strong and deep literary work, submitted to the wrapper of computer graphics.

The player is almost nothing has to do, added interactivity rather for show. Essentially, the developers have created The Chinese Room next Dear Esther, only with a more specific and informative narrative.

Multifaceted narrative, subtle metaphors and complex social and philosophical problems do A Machine for Pigs game is not for everyone. But refined literary foodie finds than guests in the presence of an interesting text, strong images of the characters, a portrait of the era and a unique style.

Soma

platforms: PlayStation 4, Windows, Linux, macOS.

Soma - philosophical sci-fi drama. Isaac Asimov, Stanislav Lem, and a dozen other science fiction in one bottle. The focus of philosophical thought of artificial and natural intelligence.

What is our "I"? What are the realities of the world are the criteria? What will happen after death? All these questions can not be called original, but to meet them in the middle of the game story is not often succeed. The abundance of text notes, audio recordings, visual components provide a powerful gaming world artistic backgrounds, so that philosophical problems hurt the player does not abstract level.

To the Moon

platforms: Windows, Linux, macOS.

All will die someday. But, unfortunately, not everyone get the chance to do it with a sense of complete satisfaction of a life lived. Heroes To the Moon engaged in unusual business: re-write memory of the people are on your deathbed, so that they could pass away with peace of appeasement.

Participate in one work step to be a player. Get into the memory of the dying Johnny examine his biography and perform the last customer's desire - to "send" it to the moon. It tells the story so vividly and movingly that hold back the tears to the final credits will be possible unless your keyboard. To the Moon will forever remain in your memory as one of the most exciting and adventurous kind.

The Stanley Parable

platforms: Windows, Linux, macOS.

If you are reading a novel and suddenly in the middle find that half of the pages of the book is taken out, you probably upset, believing that, and so do not know what the story ended. Your reading project destroyed? You would think that the book does not correspond to the normal pattern, and you suffered a setback? "Certainly not", - tells you The Stanley Parable. Just you read another novel in its own way - the novel, in which half of the pages there.

Lack of information - this is the same information. This version is no worse and no better than the so-called full. There are no absolute criteria is not, the product is created at the time of your reading.

The Stanley Parable - this postmodern discourse on the relationship between the narrator, the story and the listener. In this game you can play whatever you like: trying to follow the canonical story, fighting with him, going around it, breaking the game and looking for bugs. All variants calculated and equal - and this fact undermines the mind better any modern philosophical books.