Narrative game Virginia has been marketed to the world as an homage to eccentric TV shows since the 1990s, but I think the time has come to dispense with this media-friendly merchantry.
While the game certainly draws narrative inspiration from The X-Files and Twin Peaks, state variable's developer subversions of video game standards are much more interesting. Over the course of its two-hour runtime, Virginia manages to tell a deeply engaging story about friendship, loyalty, betrayal, and identity, without using a single word of dialogue. This is an act of creative courage, as well as an exceptional achievement in storytelling.
The silence of the characters creates a world of intuition, subtlety and meaning far beyond the rote exposition of most video games. Each scene is a mini-adventure in visual understanding.
Minimum requirements:
OS: Windows 7 and higher, 32-bit or 64 bit
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 940 or Intel Pentium G4400
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Radeon R7 250 or GeForce GTX 650, 1GB VRAM
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 5 GB available space