Beyond: Two Souls
Beyond: Two Souls is an interactive movie blockbuster, featuring an intense storyline, where player makes decisions affecting it. This game was created with motion capture technology, and filmed with famous actors – Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page Young Jodie Holmes (Caroline Wolfson) lives with her foster parents in a suburban home. Since birth, Jodie has had a psychic connection with a mysterious entity named Aiden, with whom she can communicate and perform telepathic acts, such as possessing people's minds and manipulating certain objects. After an incident with some neighbourhood kids results in Aiden almost killing one of them, Jodie's foster parents seek help to care for her condition, permanently leaving her under the custody of doctors Nathan Dawkins (Willem Dafoe) and Cole Freeman (Kadeem Hardison) of the United States Department of Paranormal Activity.
Steam User 52
If you love games that are pretty much all story this game is for you. It was like playing a movie.
Steam User 44
Loved it with 13, still loving it with 22.
runs great on the steam deck too
Steam User 31
This game is the most unique in my huge library of Steam (and non-Steam) titles and is definitely a must-play.
It used to be there in my PlayStation wishlist for a few years, then on my Steam wishlist, and then waited in my library at the top of the list of games I wanted to play. Now that I did play it, I'm glad I picked it.
I played in the original sequence (not the chronological order), and boy it is a roller coaster ride! The levels (or episodes, if I may) occur at different points in the timeline of the story, and you're taken back and forth between every single chapter, so you have to merge it all in your mind to get a clear picture of what the character is going through during a particular chapter. The game features several genres in one, some of which include: point-and-click adventure, action, horror, stealth, slight puzzle-solving, driving, and many more.
I played it on Linux on my relatively older hardware and yet was able to run it at 4K with reasonable framerates. Gladly I also used my Steam controller, and the game made me realize all the capabilities my controller had by making me perform those gestures that I do not remember I've ever used in a video game.
During the start of the game when I realized that there are multiple choices, I decided to give it at least one more playthrough, but with the few episodes being very touchy, I doubt I would ever be able to pick it up and go through the emotional adventure again, especially given how many untouched titles I have in my library (at least at the time of this writing). Also, I'm not sure if I'd want to go through those few tearful moments again, as you might call me weak, but I consider myself over-emotional with this kind of content. If I were to play it again, I'd go in chronological order, and make sure I pick the choices I didn't go with during my first playthrough.
This isn't a video game, in fact, an emotional interactive story that you can drive with the decisions your character makes. There are combat scenes that need time-based input, but failing them doesn't deter you from the story much as the game is smart enough to bring you back to the major story no matter how you play it.
I love the attention to detail in the game. One example is how the face of Jodie changes on the menu screen depending on the episode you're playing. This was very noticeable for me as I barely ever have the time to play for more than an hour.
I know this is probably my lengthiest review on Steam, but TLDR; I cannot recommend this game enough.
Steam User 34
hardest boss is the camera movement
Steam User 53
---{ Graphics }--- (Made in 2013)
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long (Multiple endings)
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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Steam User 49
One of the best immersive narrative games in existence.
I played this back on the PS3 and even had the steelbook slipcase.
So many good memories but also can only be played a few times because of all the emotional weight that comes with it.
All the actors play their roles to perfection and the gameplay is simple enough to not be too hard.
Quantic Dream proves they can make film experiences in gaming format every single time.
Get this while it's on sale along with Heavy Rain and Detroit.
Steam User 48
ya know not the greatest, not the worst. but... Willam Dafoe