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Looking for a video game with a great story

Worth playing for the writing. The plot or characters are why you finish.
  1. Disco Elysium 30 hr
    Already mentioned. Best video-game writing ever.
  2. Red Dead Redemption 2 60 hr
    Slow Western with a real arc.
  3. The Witcher 3 60 hr
    Side quests are better than main.
  4. Mass Effect Trilogy 100 hr
    Three games. Choices carry.
  5. Bioshock 12 hr
    First one. The twist.
  6. Outer Wilds 20 hr
    Already mentioned.
  7. Edith Finch 3 hr
    Already mentioned.
  8. The Last of Us 15 hr
    Original. Pedro Pascal not required.
  9. Spec Ops: The Line 8 hr
    Subverts its genre.
  10. Planescape: Torment 60 hr
    1999 isometric. Holds up if you can stomach old graphics.