Any other games like The Council?

[Heuristicus]

I really enjoyed it. I've never played any other game that focused so much on what's going on with so few people in one place. I highly doubt there is anything else out there like this.

[FordGT90Concept]

Consortium, it's Sci-Fi though.

[steph_cor]

The Sexy Brutale by TequilaWorks. It has a groundhog day theme; the same day repeats itself over and over while you uncover the mysteries of the mansion and save the other guests from being murdered by the masked staff.

[MG1337]

Dreamfall chapters

[Err0r Flynnn]

None of these are quite the single location Agatha Christie-esque murder mystery party like the game in question, but I highly recommend:

Games by Quantic Dream like Detroit: Become Human and Beyond: Two Souls
Telltale games like The Wolf Among Us and The Walking Dead

Also I get some Guybrush Threepwood-vibes from the main character so Monkey Island ..aaand actually Day of the Tentacle and Thimbleweed park all take place in a closed location

[Blackgum]

Life is strange

[Blackgum]

Blacksad

[Blackgum]

Wolf Among Us, L.A. Noire

[Aydrian]

I have a similar question. Are there any other games that play like this? Where you level up certain skills in order to notice clues in the environment or pick up things in dialogue?

[v00d00m4n]

Originally posted by Wulcy:

I really enjoyed it. I've never played any other game that focused so much on what's going on with so few people in one place. I highly doubt there is anything else out there like this.

Recent Call of Chtulhu while may look like typical 1st person game is in fact very much like this game at core, you talk and do detective stuff a lot, has same stupid progression system that locks your abilities. rarey you have to play stealth and do some other stuff but mostly its like this game.

Vampyr is also quite similar at core, yes it has slasher mechanics atached but most of time you talk to characters, playing detective... and this game also has same progression system.

All of these games also have similar setting - 18-19 century feel and look, some mystic stuff related to accult freemasonry\illuminati secret societies.

Funny thing that all of these games has same publisher which pushing same narrative and gameplay elements to all games they release, which is why they share a lot of similar things and feel like they made in one consisten style.

I think it would be safe to say that most of games by same publisher in recent year or two would be somewhat similar. Look at some gameplay on youtube and judge for yourself.

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Originally posted by Aydrian:

I have a similar question. Are there any other games that play like this? Where you level up certain skills in order to notice clues in the environment or pick up things in dialogue?

Disco Elysium

[Justyn]

Every Telltale Games video game ever created.

[poeya]

Detroit:Become Human

[Arvid84]

The Invisible Hours has a similar feeling.

[Dura_Ace]

Life is Strange, the first one - the original - was a very pleasant surprise.

Dialog choices only. Not paths like in this.

[Space is the Place]

For investigation games with several paths I can think of Blacksad and Sherlock Holmes Crimes and Punishment. Blacksad is pretty underrated but it has a lot of freedom for a story driven investigation game. Sherlock Holmes Crimes and Punishment does also has several fail endings and a final choice for the several conclusions you can get per case. Both are highly advice for anyone who enjoyed The Council, although they are more pure investigation games and feature no RPG elements.

For and adventure game on the same enclouser place I can only think of The Last Express, it all happens on a train, although it´s and old school adventure game, so it´s quite hardcore even for experience adventure players.

For a story driven adventure game like many have mentioned you have Telltale games, Walking Dead 1 and 2, Tales of Borderlands and Wolf Among Us are the best, the rest are pretty trash, specially the Game of Thrones one. Life is Strange I guess also, although quite frankly I found Life is Story and characters pretty cringe, although many people loved it.

The Council is quite unique to be honest on how it blends adventuring, RPG, investigation and dialogue focus games features all together. I don´t really think there´s any other game that is 100% like this one. I really wish more people would pay attention to Focus Interactive, for a "mid tier" developer they have some pretty interesting games like this or the Styx series which is frankly the only modern true stealth game.