Video game — PANACHES Culture

Video game 2010

Alan Wake

Alan Wake is a successful writer who has been unable to write for nearly two years. Hoping to escape his creative block and ease the tensions it has caused, he travels with his wife Alice to Bright Falls, a small town in the northwestern United States surrounded by mountains, forests and the waters of Cauldron Lake. The trip takes a disturbing turn when Alice mysteriously disappears. Alan regains consciousness seve…

• Action
• Adventure
• Horror

Video game 2023

Alan Wake II

In Bright Falls, a small town in the northwestern United States, a series of ritualistic murders draws the attention of the FBI. Agent Saga Anderson arrives with her partner Alex Casey to investigate the death of a man found near Cauldron Lake. The case quickly takes an inexplicable turn when she discovers pages from a story describing events that begin to unfold around her. Meanwhile, Alan Wake remains trapped in …

• Action
• Adventure
• Horror

Video game 2015

Batman: Arkham Knight

After the events of Arkham City, Gotham experiences a period of fragile calm. Scarecrow chooses this moment to return and threatens to release his fear toxin on a massive scale. Within hours, the population is evacuated, leaving behind an almost empty city occupied mainly by the police, criminals and those unable to leave. Batman remains in Gotham, but Scarecrow is not working alone. A new enemy known as the Arkham…

• Action
• Adventure
• Drama

Video game 2013

Beyond: Two Souls

Since birth, Jodie Holmes has been connected to an invisible presence called Aiden. Nobody around her can see him, but his interventions are real: he can move certain objects, affect people and protect Jodie when she is in danger. Unable to understand what is happening to their daughter, her family eventually places her in the care of researchers specializing in paranormal phenomena. There she meets Nathan Dawkins,…

• Action
• Adventure
• Drama

Video game 2013

Call of Duty: Ghosts

In the near future, a conflict in the Middle East destroys the region’s oil fields and triggers a global energy crisis. Several South American oil-producing nations unite as the Federation of the Americas, a military dictatorship that rapidly conquers Central America and Mexico. The Federation then hijacks an American orbital weapons platform and uses it to devastate several cities across the southwestern United Sta…

• Action
• Science fiction
• Thriller

Video game 2019

Control

Jesse Faden arrives in New York with a clear objective: find her brother Dylan, who disappeared during their childhood after an inexplicable event in their hometown. Her search leads her to the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Control, a secret government agency responsible for studying and containing phenomena that escape the ordinary laws of reality. Almost immediately after entering the Oldest House, howeve…

• Action
• Adventure
• Horror

Video game 2018

Judgment

Three years after leaving his career as a lawyer, Takayuki Yagami works as a private detective in the streets of Kamurocho. Once considered a promising young defense attorney, he remains haunted by a case in which a man he had successfully defended was later accused of a particularly brutal murder. When a series of killings now targets members of the criminal underworld, Yagami agrees to investigate alongside his fo…

• Action
• Adventure
• Drama

Video game 2015

Ori and the Blind Forest

Ori falls from the Spirit Tree before being taken in by Naru, who raises Ori as her own child. Their life is shattered when a disastrous event causes the forest to wither and leads to Naru’s death. Now alone, Ori sets out to explore the forest and meets Sein, who becomes a guide throughout the journey. Together, they seek to restore the forest by recovering the light of three elements essential to its balance:…

• Action
• Adventure
• Fantasy