Echo Night is an immersive first-person thriller, its emotion-driven story doesn't need over-the-top violence to thrill.
Sent to investigate your missing father's house, you discover items that send you on an adventure into what is literally a ghost ship. Though the game has plenty of horrific and suspenseful sequences, most of the ghosts have stories to tell of the hardships of their past, in which you must help them in one way or another, hopefully collecting Astral Orbs (their spiritual auras) to unlock the best of four endings.
Story-wise, there are very few games that can truly compete with the dramatic plot that sends you through many areas on-and-off-ship, while still technically on ship, and not on the ship at the same time (after all, you're technically at your father's house) and the mystery that (for those still trying to understand this very paragraph) surrounds the game.
Entertaining puzzle-based gameplay, depressing dramatic stories, frightening demons (each with their own cutscene-based story to discover concerning how they died in the first place) make up Echo Night.
I highly recommend this game to those who would enjoy an excellent storyline, who want a game that truly brings you into the story and never fails to intrigue,
to those who enjoy the adventure itself without the requirement of a Heston influence- there is such a thing as a good game that doesn't involve shooting or violently beating someone.
Firearms are merely a creative crutch for other games, and I firmly believe having to defeat the demons in a unique way is more entertaining, that true horror means you aren't constantly equipped with military-issue weapons that just happen to be lying on the ground, but are unarmed and using your intelligence.
If you're looking for a Horror Shoot-Em-Up, buy Resident Evil, House of the Dead, The Suffering, they're good games and the list goes on and on.
But if you want a game that doesn't market itself using the impressionably violent minds of youth, Echo Night's your game.
Blessed Be