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Video games developed in France

  • AGEOD's American Civil WarIn AGEOD's American Civil War, you run both the army and the government. You can lead either side.
  • Life Is Strange (video game)Life Is Strange opens in October 2013, as an 18-year-old photography student named Max Caulfield returns to Arcadia Bay, Oregon, to attend Blackwell Academy. During class she has a vivid vision of a tornado destroying a lighthouse and…
  • Beyond: Two SoulsBeyond: Two Souls, a 2013 video game from the studio Quantic Dream, was built on a script of around 2,000 pages. A typical screenplay runs between 95 and 125 pages, with each page worth roughly a minute of screen time. Elliot Page, who…
  • North & South (video game)North & South turned the American Civil War into a game based on a Belgian comic. Infogrames released it in 1989.
  • DishonoredDishonored, a 2012 action-adventure game from Arkane Studios, begins with a murder its hero cannot prevent. Corvo Attano is bodyguard to the Empress of the Isles. Assassins restrain him by magic and kill her. Corvo is framed for the crime…
  • Stray (video game)Stray begins with four stray cats padding through the ruins of an abandoned facility. Then one of them loses its footing and drops into a chasm. When it lands, it is alone, cut off from the group, in an underground city where nobody seems…
  • Assassin's Creed ValhallaAssassin's Creed Valhalla nearly had a female-only Viking hero. Senior Ubisoft executives disagreed with the team.
  • Heavy RainHeavy Rain, the 2010 video game from the studio Quantic Dream, grew out of a scare in a shopping mall. Its writer and director, David Cage, briefly lost track of his son there. The episode made him ask himself "what it means to love your…
  • Assassin's Creed MirageAssassin's Creed Mirage, released in 2023, started life as an expansion pack for Assassin's Creed Valhalla. Plans changed, and it grew into a standalone game. It is the thirteenth major installment in its series, yet it is deliberately…
  • Detroit: Become HumanDetroit: Become Human, an adventure game from the studio Quantic Dream, had sold 15 million units by January 2026. That makes it the best-selling game the studio has ever made. Sony Interactive Entertainment published it in 2018. Its…

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