L.A. Noire: The Complete Edition

Why recommended

• Features a deep, branching narrative driven by player choices and detective work, where gathering clues and making deductions are central to progressing the story.
• Criteria — Singleplayer experience focused on a gripping narrative and character development, with moments of intense action and quick-time events that demand player precision.
• The game presents morally ambiguous situations and difficult choices that can lead to different outcomes, creating a challenging emotional and narrative experience similar to the tough decisions faced in L.A. Noire.

Why recommended

• Demands keen observation and deductive reasoning to piece together events and identify characters, much like the detailed interrogations and crime scene analysis in L.A. Noire.
• Criteria — Singleplayer experience that offers a unique and challenging puzzle-like narrative, requiring players to actively engage their intellect to solve the mystery.
• The entire game is a challenging, intricate puzzle where every discovered detail contributes to solving the overarching mystery, providing a similar intellectual challenge to L.A. Noire's case-solving.

Why recommended

• Features an incredibly deep and complex investigation system where dialogue choices, internal thoughts, and skill checks drive the detective work, echoing L.A. Noire's focus on interrogation and evidence.
• Criteria — Singleplayer experience with a strong narrative focus and challenging choices, where the 'action' is primarily intellectual and conversational, requiring careful thought and deduction.
• The game is challenging in its narrative complexity and the moral dilemmas it presents, forcing players to confront difficult truths and piece together a fractured reality, providing a different kind of 'difficulty' than combat but equally demanding.