Best PS4 Visual Novels to Download & Play Right Now
Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
Zero Escape: The Nonary Games is a remastered collection of the first two visual novel/puzzle titles in the Zero Escape trilogy. These games include 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward. If you missed out on either game when they first made their rounds, it’s absolutely a good idea to pick up this remastered collection for some of the best experiences you’ll have with visual novels and puzzle-solving on the console, and for a pretty low price at that.
Originally, the games were released on handheld consoles respectively, but they struck a chord with players enough that a sequel was planned for a US release later in October of this year. The cult hit 999 follows Junpei, a college student who comes home to find his window open and a mysterious figure wearing a gas mask reflected in his now-closed window.
He passes out and upon waking can remember only that he was “chosen” to play something known only as the Nonary Game, which ends up quickly conjuring Saw and other familiar horror films, as the Nonary Game finds a group of eight other individuals kidnapped and forced to participate in a mysterious game — if they don’t play ball, the bombs inside their bodies will detonate.
The sequel Virtue’s Last Reward follows player character Sigma as well as eight others who have been kidnapped by the enigmatic Zero as they’re faced to take place once again in the Nonary Game from the previous title. Zero forces the players to “ally” or “betray” others, participating in chilling “games” and earning points in order to escape. The fully-voiced dialogue and upgrades to the original games in this remaster make both titles even more chilling, and some of the best on PlayStation 4.
