Mass effect legendary edition is three games and u load ur save from the end of one to the next so ur choices carry over. There is romance thou but it’s easy to avoid.

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Final Fantasy X, Guardians of the Galaxy, Outer Wilds, Star Wars: Jedi games, Spider-Man Remastered and Miles Morales, Alien Isolation, Hollow Knight.

death stranding, can be boring but once you play it enough it should click. if not could always watch youtube videos. and the sequel is releasing real soon. unless you got digital deluxe edition for early access

RDR2 is probably my favorite story in gaming. I also enjoyed God of War and I'm currently working through Ghost of Tsushima, which is like RDR with samurai.

Horizon zero dawn didn’t grab me at first either. I played like 6-8 hours and just couldn’t get into it. I picked it back up a few years later and I am so glad I did. It’s a phenomenal game with an amazingly good story, gameplay, and so on. DO NOT GIVE UP ON HORIZON. As a fellow story based game player, you would totally be missing out.

Also add Heavy Rain, Beyond Two Souls. I remember I enjoyed playing thesr trio last year back to back.

The revelation about Project Zero Dawn blew my mind. Aloy's normal trails and tribulations were kind of dull, but once they let that cat out of the bag; I was hooked.

I dont see it mentioned much but A Plague Tale: Innocence really surprised me in terms of story and gameplay. Highly recommend!

Mass Effect trilogy. Great time to play with legendary edition just out.

This is the only reason I finished the game, lore was great but this game had the most boring characters ever, Aloy might be the most boring protagonist I've ever played. Side quests were bad too, had to stop doing them and just do the main quests

Persona 5 Royal. I myself not an anime fan but this game captivated me just a few hours in, great for story and gameplay I'd say, very much recommended.

the Batman: Arkham series, thought you won’t get to play Origins unless you have PS Plus.

Yakuza games have some of the tightest writing in gaming. Keeps you on the edge until the end. I'd recommend:

Like a dragon: Yakuza -> Watch Kiryu's story on YT or play Yakuza 0 to 6 (I watched) -> Like a dragon: The man who erased his name -> Like a dragon: Infinite wealth

Based on your list:

The Witcher 3
God of War 2018
Final Fantasy XVI
Final Fantasy 7 Remake + Rebirth
Alan Wake 2
Mass Effect trilogy
Nier Automata
A Plague Tale Innocence + Requiem

First of all, it looks like you have great taste .

I'd just add....

Far Cry 4&5

Tomb Raider Survivor Trilogy

Batman: Arkham Trilogy

A Plague Tale

Jedi: Fallen Order & Survivor

Titanfall 2

Wolfenstein Series

Ghost Recon: Wildlands

Mass Effect Trilogy

Guardians of the Galaxy

Shadow of Mordor & War

I love story games! Some of my favorites you’ve already played.

My suggestions:

•Alan Wake (both of them)

•Control

•Assassins Creed Ezio Trilogy

•Baldurs Gate 3

•Doki Doki Literature Club

•Until Dawn

•Mass Effect trilogy

•Firewatch

•A Plague Tale (both of them)

Yakuza 0. Horizon series. Heavy Rain. Nanairo Reincarnation.

Expeditiom 33 has one of the best stories in all of gaming ❤️

Path of Exile 2

New World

Diablo IV

Expedition 33! so good!

I saw some of the games you listed are not exactly narrative focused (I would never say that about GoT or Spiderman for example) but they still have an interesting story, world, & characters that are complimented by fun gameplay. So here's my suggestions, with varying levels of focus on narrative:

• Fallout New Vegas
• Mass Effect Legendary Edition
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Deus Ex trilogy
• Detroit Become Human
• Horizon Zero Dawn
• Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart
• Uncharted series
• Firewatch
• Elder Scrolls Oblivion remastered
• Silent Hill 2 remake
• Resident Evil 4 remake
• Control
• Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
• Assassin's Creed 2
• Dishonored 1 & 2
• Farcry 3
• Bioshock trilogy
• Halo trilogy
• Doki Doki Literature Club
• Borderlands 2
• Yakuza 0

And also, if you ever get over your dislike of turn-based or top-down games, the storytelling in these games are really great:

• Baldur's Gate 3
• Expedition 33
• Persona 5 Royal
• Disco Elysium
• Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader
• Fire Emblem Three Houses
• Hades

The Last of Us, Firewatch, What Remains of Edith Finch, Oxenfree, God of War (2018), Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

I heard Taltalle games are good - I only played “Batman” - and yeah, it was very cool! In the same style, and also based on comic - “Blacksad: Under the Skin” is pretty nice noir game; if cartoon style graphics aren’t a problem - “Goodbye Volcano High” & “Night in the Woods” are absolutely great, and “Fall of Porcupine” is also good; if its management gameplay is fine by you - “Spiritfarer” has great, but very sad story; “Mafia Definitive Edition” is probably the best mob story, among all videogames (it’s linear, also has separate open-world-sandbox mode); if you haven’t try already- both parts of “The Last of Us” must be mentioned, but that’s well known franchise, and with action & stealth gameplay.

The Invincible

Final Fantasy XVI (16)- you don’t need to play any others to understand it.

Lost in Random

Death Stranding

Ghost of Tsushima

Ratchet and Clank-A Rift Apart

Forgotton Anne

What Remains of Edith Finch

Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture

Journey

Nier Automata

• Control

• SOMA

• Still Wakes the Deep

Guardians of the Galaxy, Life is Strange: True Colors, The Quarry, Scarlet Nexus, Judgment, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Stray, Spider-Man: Miles Morales.

Last of us 2 is a no brainer if you enjoyed the first. I think they're both incredible games. Red Dead 2 as well is a masterclass in single player world building.

Any of the uncharted games, any of the tomb raider games

Yeah the RGG games have some really long finales lol

I was looking forward to this game and finally got to play. Im a chapter or two in. Its really slow and I dont really follow the story. I beat up these tiny imp monsters and one big ghosty dude. and what?

Keep going a bit further? will the story pick up?

Ff16 very story driven

I'm not sure what a story game is, but I recommend In Sound Mind, Darq, and Deathloop.

Horizon games, last of us games, uncharted games, Spider-Man games.

Have you played Life is Strange?

Have you played detroit become human?

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Alan Wake Remastered and Alan Wake 2 (you can slot Control in-between as well but still get a great story regardless)

Ghost of Tsushima

Days Gone

Tomb Raider 2013 and its sequels

Uncharted series

Spider-Man

Guardians of the Galaxy

Final Fantasy VII Remake + Rebirth or Final Fantasy XVI

A Plague Tale

Persona 5 Royal

The Bioshock games

The Mass Effect and Dragon Age series

Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3

Until Dawn, The Dark Pictures games and The Quarry (all but Until Dawn also have 2 player modes if she'd maybe want to get involved with more simple point and click mechanics. Games like The Wolf Among Us and Life is Strange would also be great for this).

Life is Strange. Me and my wife enjoyed it

Detroit Become Human is one of the best story games I've ever played.

Telltale the walkin dead and Wolf among us are are the only game my GF ever liked watxhin me play, and she can even play herself !

Good stories where she can help with choices

The best recommendations I can think of on PS5 are:

Uncharted Series (the best ones are from 2 onwards, the first one is a bit dated)

God Of War series (starting with the 2018 reboot)

Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy is one of the best stories I've ever played

Horizon Zero Dawn (and its sequel, Forbidden West) has a great story and is beautiful to look at.

Skyrim, Horizon Zero Dawn (1&2) the storyline of Destiny or Destiny 2, Red Dead Redemption, God of War (not a whole of of relationship with npc but still a great play) I really enjoyed FarCry Primal

Have you tried Horizon Zero Dawn? It is not from any known franchise, but it is a beautiful world, with a very interesting story. There are lots of npcs to interact with in the open world.

If I am not mistaken, it will be adapted into a series by Netflix

Red Dead Redemption 2 for sure. It’s by far one of the best games I have ever played

Marvel Rivals? It's free.

Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West, and Days Gone. All great PS open world story driven games.