38 Games Like Beyond Two Souls for PC (Win) Death is a subject few games can avoid. It is often tied so closely to failure and victory that you will rarely find a series which has not worked it into its narrative in some way.

My wife’s usual after-work routine is to come home, get changed, and unwind with a DVR-ed episode of Scandal, New Girl or The Vampire Diaries. Yesterday, she came home, turned on my PlayStation 3, and proceeded to play Beyond: Two Souls for the next four and a half hours.

My wife is not a gamer. Despite the fact that she’d say otherwise, the last she played with any regularity were the original Doom and Crash Bandicoot back when she was in grade school. So while spousal gaming might be normal in some marriages, it isn’t in mine, and it’s truly amazing how Beyond: Two Souls has managed to capture my wife’s interest. The game is divisive, that much is clear. It’s rare to see a game get both nines and perfect tens, and also fours, fives and sixes from major outlets.

I’m sure you’ve already the full range for yourself. I personally gave it a nine in, though I can’t really judge those who scored it lower. The chief complaints about the game are about how its interactivity is mostly passive, choices don’t feel like they have consequence, and you can never really lose.

All of these are correct statements, though I’m not necessarily sure they all need to be viewed as inherent negatives. In fact, I think we need more games like this. Not only because my non-gaming wife is now obsessed with Beyond: Two Souls, it’s that the last time this sort of thing happened with her, it was with Heavy Rain.

“What’s that?” she asked as I played Heavy Rain on my newly purchased PS3, bought five years after release once I decided I didn’t need to be an Xbox loyalist, and I wanted to experience all the titles I’d missed out on to date. “It’s called Heavy Rain,” I said. “It’s kind of like playing a mystery movie,” was the best way I could described it. “They look so real,” she said, used to only the graphics of Crash Bandicoot, for the most part. Then, after being hypnotized by the next two chapters, I heard something that truly stunned me. “Can I play?” The point I’m making here is not about women wanting playing video games, it’s about my wife wanting to play video games, as a person who would normally never go out of their way to partake in the past time. It’s simply not her thing.

But there’s something about the unique format of these David Cage movie/book/story games that appeals to her, and she can’t get enough of them. She likes the fact that interactions are pretty passive in the game. More often than not, she’s left the room when I’ve been blowing up half of Columbia in BioShock Infinite, slaughtering soldiers in Call of Duty or curb stomping bandits in The Last of Us. Something that’s not quite as horrifically violent or intense appeals to her. The same goes for its difficulty. I have tried to teach her various games over the years, but she’s quickly frustrated by repeated death, far more used to forms of entertainment that require nothing of her to keep moving forward, like TV and movies.

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There is no “failure.” The quick time events are pretty easy, even for non-gamers, but even if they’re missed, the game simply moves in a new direction. Yes, sometimes this results in death (more so in Heavy Rain than in Beyond), but even that is woven into the story. The game isn’t going to force her to replay the same segment over and over until she gets it right. I think what people who hate this type of game fail to realize is that it has the potential to capture a market far outside those who usually play games.

While I respect the idea that a “core” gamer doesn’t want to play a game that barely requires any interaction, I think it’s wrongheaded to say there’s no place for Cage and his philosophy of what games can be in the industry. I know I’m using my wife as an example here, and it’s hardly a scientific study, but I think she’s representative of a larger sample of the population who could appreciate games like Heavy Rain and Beyond as interesting new ways to tell stories.