Beyond: Two Souls

This game tackles plenty of hard issues including social acceptance, sexual assault, homelessness, and the ethics of war. The outcomes of these scenes are generally fixed, but players often can choose how the main character reacts to what she sees. Violence plays a role in some chapters, but it's not glamorized the way it often is in M-rated games. Violence exists not to shock so much as to help the game tell its complex tale.

Controls mix a standard thumbstick-driven movement and navigation scheme with an unusual quick-time event interface in which players tap buttons according to on-screen cues. It's a bit odd to start but never overwhelming, thanks largely to a generous tolerance for missed cues. In fact, it's quite possible to play through the entire game without failing a single scene, even on the more challenging of its two difficulty levels. 

The central protagonist kisses men and in one scene intends to have sex with a man, though it doesn't happen. She is sometimes seen in only her underwear. Another scene shows a character propositioning fellatio, and yet another has the player's character actively delivering a baby (only side angles with bare thighs are shown).