Video games have often been considered a form of art for many reasons, but one important reason is the story it tells! Here are the 25 most compelling video game stories!

Heavy Rain

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Heavy Rain has the player play several different characters, and each has to do with the games antagonist “the origami killer”. It is best classified as a murder mystery game, but it has so much more once you delve in!

Video games have often been considered a form of art for many reasons, but one important reason is the story it tells! Here are the 25 most compelling video game stories!

Uncharted 4

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Uncharted 4 is a story that focuses on Nathan Drake and his brother. It’s a story about trust, and how Nathan can’t keep treasure hunting if he wants to keep his life. It’s engaging through out, and can pull at heart strings every now and again!

Video games have often been considered a form of art for many reasons, but one important reason is the story it tells! Here are the 25 most compelling video game stories!

Wolf Among Us

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The Wolf Among Us is a game about fairytale characters that live in the real world! It’s a dark telling as many of the characters die in brutal ways as they would in their respected tales!

Video games have often been considered a form of art for many reasons, but one important reason is the story it tells! Here are the 25 most compelling video game stories!

Grand Theft Auto V

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GTAV has one of the riskiest stories in recent video game history! It attempts to have three main protagonists, and for the most part it succeeds! The game comes to a choice at the end, in which can really shape the ending!

Video games have often been considered a form of art for many reasons, but one important reason is the story it tells! Here are the 25 most compelling video game stories!

Spec Ops: The Line

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Spec Ops The Line is about the struggle of war, and choices you make during war. It follows a 3 man team through Dubai, and some of the choices these characters make really shape the rest of the game! It tackles heavy subjects, like civilian casualty, and can get pretty heavy…

Video games have often been considered a form of art for many reasons, but one important reason is the story it tells! Here are the 25 most compelling video game stories!

Infamous

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Infamous is a super hero game, where the player gets to choose if they want to be good or evil. These choices start out small, but by the end of the game the players selfish wants could go directly against the choices they’ve made thus far!

Video games have often been considered a form of art for many reasons, but one important reason is the story it tells! Here are the 25 most compelling video game stories!

Resident Evil

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Resident Evil from the outside looks like a typical zombie horror game, but once you delve deeper and find the reason behind the outbreak it gets interesting!

Video games have often been considered a form of art for many reasons, but one important reason is the story it tells! Here are the 25 most compelling video game stories!

Half Life 2

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Half Life 2 had one of the most engaging stories of it’s time! People are still waiting for it to conclude with Half Life 3, but it looks like they may never get that opportunity!

Video games have often been considered a form of art for many reasons, but one important reason is the story it tells! Here are the 25 most compelling video game stories!

Assassin’s Creed 2

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Assassin’s Creed 2 breached new life into the already established unique story from the first game. The game’s protagonist Ezio was way more relatable and charismatic, making the game way more enjoyable!

Video games have often been considered a form of art for many reasons, but one important reason is the story it tells! Here are the 25 most compelling video game stories!

Bioshock

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The first Bioshock took players underwater to a city called Rapture! It was plagued by a disease that drove everyone mad to the point of killing each other. You are carried through the game by a guy named Atlas who helps you help him. There is a huge twist in the game, but I won’t spoil it!

Video games have often been considered a form of art for many reasons, but one important reason is the story it tells! Here are the 25 most compelling video game stories!

Dead Space

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Dead Space tells it’s story through a silent protagonist Isaac Clark. He’s come to a ship to try and find his wife Nicole, but throughout his journey he witnesses less than pleasant things. The story really comes from being able to feel yourself through Isaac, since he doesn’t have much personality!

Video games have often been considered a form of art for many reasons, but one important reason is the story it tells! Here are the 25 most compelling video game stories!

Bioshock Infinite

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Bioshock Infinite took the series to new heights (no pun intended) with the story! It opened a world where literally anything is possible! It can be a bit hard to understand at first, but once you do, you’ll realize the genius behind it!

Video games have often been considered a form of art for many reasons, but one important reason is the story it tells! Here are the 25 most compelling video game stories!

God of War

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God of War has a dark undertone to it’s hack and slash gameplay. The main character Kratos murdered his family when full of rage, caused by the God of War Ares. Now he wants revenge, and he’ll do it the only way he knows how!

Video games have often been considered a form of art for many reasons, but one important reason is the story it tells! Here are the 25 most compelling video game stories!

The Evil Within

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The Evil Within is genius in the way it gets in your head. It is the definition of psychological horror! The game gets so much more fleshed out, but you have to make it through the scary parts first!

Video games have often been considered a form of art for many reasons, but one important reason is the story it tells! Here are the 25 most compelling video game stories!

Ocarina of Time

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The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of time was a lot of gamers first big adventure, it let players wander around the magical world, and explore! It was and still is truly magical!

Video games have often been considered a form of art for many reasons, but one important reason is the story it tells! Here are the 25 most compelling video game stories!

Mafia 2

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If you could have a video game with the story of a Scorsese film, this would be it! The story of a young mobster returning from war, and getting a fresh start with the mafia is a great telling of that world, and time period!

Video games have often been considered a form of art for many reasons, but one important reason is the story it tells! Here are the 25 most compelling video game stories!

Batman Arkham Asylum

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Batman Arkham Asylum is the classic Batman storyline. The Joker caused some trouble and now Batman has to fix it! Along the way players run into series favorites like; Poison Ivy, Bane, and Harley Quinn!

Video games have often been considered a form of art for many reasons, but one important reason is the story it tells! Here are the 25 most compelling video game stories!

Metal Gear Solid

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Metal Gear Solid is a series that has been built on it’s story! It is vast, and has so many characters that for some it’s hard to keep up with. Throughout the games it has deeper messages than can be seen on surface value, so just pay close attention when playing this series!

Video games have often been considered a form of art for many reasons, but one important reason is the story it tells! Here are the 25 most compelling video game stories!

The Last of Us

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The Last of Us is a post apocalyptic game about two survivors, Joel and Ellie. It’s their dynamic that really carry the games story! Joel finds Ellie as a daughter figure (since he lost his to the apocalypse) and vice versa!

Video games have often been considered a form of art for many reasons, but one important reason is the story it tells! Here are the 25 most compelling video game stories!

Uncharted 2

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Uncharted 2 has the most compelling story of the series, and has Nathan taking on a huge treasure, but along the way he learns a lot about the people around him, and who to really trust!

Video games have often been considered a form of art for many reasons, but one important reason is the story it tells! Here are the 25 most compelling video game stories!

Shadow of the Colossus

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The story from this game comes from silence. There’s little to no dialogue and the story pieces itself together through the gameplay, and it does it perfectly! This is a risky move, but if you get it right, it works great for storytelling!

Video games have often been considered a form of art for many reasons, but one important reason is the story it tells! Here are the 25 most compelling video game stories!

The Walking Dead

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The Walking Dead TellTale series is a telling of another group of survivors in the Walking Dead universe. This isn’t your typical zombie game though. You rarely fight zombies, and when you do it’s usually to get it off of one of your friends you’ve come to love over hours of gameplay!

Video games have often been considered a form of art for many reasons, but one important reason is the story it tells! Here are the 25 most compelling video game stories!

The Witcher 3

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The Witcher 3’s story is just as vast as it’s land. Their are so many different side stories along the main one, and they are all perfectly crafted to be engaging the whole time!

Video games have often been considered a form of art for many reasons, but one important reason is the story it tells! Here are the 25 most compelling video game stories!

L.A. Noire

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L.A. Noire follows a cop in the 20’s-30’s timeframe and has him develop into the exact thing he hates most. It’s engaging story comes from the main character, and how he changes throughout the game!

Video games have often been considered a form of art for many reasons, but one important reason is the story it tells! Here are the 25 most compelling video game stories!

Red Dead Redemption

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Red Dead Redemption is a western through and through, but it has a deeper story than most westerns! A man named John Marston is tasked buy the government to take out his old gang! Through this John Marston gets betrayed by the government, and makes for one of the most tragic endings in video game history!