Games similar to Brothers a Tale of Two Sons

My girlfriend, wo has never been an active gamer except for playing some GTA 3 when that was new, recently finished Brothers ATOTS and loved it.

She wants more but I find it really hard to come up with anything. Maybe you guys have any suggestions? Afaik no one really made anything similar to it afterwards.

It's not the controls that made her love the game so much but atmosphere and the story I reckon. I played through Uncharted 4 with her watching me play. She was very interested in the dynamic between the Drake brothers there. The game is too hard to control for her though, she gets really confused by the camera stick. We will most likely play the two recent Tomb Raider games but these will be games where she's watching and not playing herself.

Games that she also played and mostly didn't like: Gone Home (too boring), Papo & Yo (too strange), Oxenfree (too much talking), Journey (not appealing enough). Gone Home is the only game of these that she actually finished. She doesn't really like any form of science fiction except if it's just a very soft very near future vibe. She likes platformers

Games that I think she might like: Life is Strange, Firewatch, Valiant Hearts, The Stanley Parable, Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna), Silence, Seasons after Fall None of these really come close to Brothers but are just "friendly" games with not much skill required and are pretty immersive I suppose.

So do you have any further suggestions for that particular niche? I'm glad to hear of any games you can think of that seem to fit.

Thanks a lot!

TL;DR: Games similar to Brothers ATOTS are what I'm looking for. Story, immersion and characters seem to be the important factors.

Posted Aug 17, 2017, 8:14 PM UTC

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