What are the best Horror/Mystery adventure games?

ManicMatt · Sat 27/05/2006 12:35:27

"But I'll give you 'adventure game' really doesn't neatly describe what the games are about at all."

Ah, then we have reached some kind of agreement! I just didn't want anyone buying resident evil or obscure thinking it would be a point and click game. Actually, I don't want anyone buying Obscure fullstop, unless it's as cheap as peanuts.

"a fps game where there's some undead and you have way the hell too few medicits/ammo to make it through all-guns blazing, it's suddenly a 'fps with survival horror undertones'. I mean, ugh!"

In that case I'd call it just a horror FPS.

jetxl · Sat 27/05/2006 12:51:56

Quote from: SergioCornaga on Sat 27/05/2006 09:36:58
Did you finish this game? I actually quite liked it. Well, I wouldn't call it bad. I'll admit it had a horribly slow begining and some dodgy puzzles though...

Black Mirror was the most linear adventure game I've ever played. I think there was a moment that I had a key, used it on a trunk, but I couldn't open it untill I talked to a guy who told me the key belonged on the trunk. The end puzzle and ending were bad. And the voice acting made my ears bleed. Black Mirror is a ok game, but that's because adventure games are of low quality these days.

I see survival horror games as adventure games. Mist clones are seen as adventure games, but there have no items to pick up or people to talk to. Indiana Jones adventure games are seen as adventure games, but from time to time you have to fight. You even have an health bar.
Besides, most survival horror games are japanese. They are bound to be different than conventional Euro-American adventure games.

Polecat · Tue 30/05/2006 04:31:38

Quote from: jet on Fri 26/05/2006 13:20:08
bad ones.
-Shadow of the Comet.

I've actually heard some good things about this one, why list it under bad?

Mehrdad · Tue 30/05/2006 08:08:12

DARKSEED1&2 is horror adventure game

jetxl · Tue 30/05/2006 09:47:48

Quote from: Polecat on Tue 30/05/2006 04:31:38
Quote from: jet on Fri 26/05/2006 13:20:08
bad ones.
-Shadow of the Comet.

I've actually heard some good things about this one, why list it under bad?

Shadow of the Comet has the so called "French touch," which means that the graphics are AMAZING! ...But the gameplay sucks.
I played and finished it, and it has inspired me to make a similar game, but I never want to replay it.

LimpingFish · Tue 30/05/2006 20:58:31

Midnight Nowhere.
http://www.buka.com/cgi-bin/show.pl?id=13

Its pretty bad, but It does qualify as horror/mystery.

As does Post Mortem, the precursor to Still Life...
http://www.adventurecompanygames.com/tac/postmortem/en/index.php3

...although, again, it's not very good. $:-\$

lo_res_man · Tue 30/05/2006 21:08:44

Does Grim Fendango count? I NEVER want to see a flower again!

Myst,in my view counts as an adventure game because there ARE things you can poick up, it is about exploration, there are puzzles, . So its extremly un-liniur? I liked that (except that frikin 'rocket ship puzzle

DEATH TO CYAN!) about it. And it was a story. And that is what makes an adventure game an adventure game IMO, they were once called interactive fiction you know.

BerserkerTails · Tue 30/05/2006 23:11:28

I loved Shadow of the Comet. Also, a few others that are amazing are the Clock Tower series (Especially the first one for SNES) and Haunting Ground (Which is very similar to that series, for PS2).

LimpingFish · Wed 31/05/2006 21:29:44

The Silent Hill games!!!

How did I forget?! :

2,3, and 4 are available for the PC.

Also Shadow Of Memories, a PS2 game ported to to PC, is good. More mystery than horror, tho.

If we're talking non-PC games, then:

Project Zero (Fatal Frame in the US). (PS2+Xbox)
Project Zero 2 (Fatal Frame 2) (PS2+Xbox)
Forbidden Siren (PS2)
Clock Tower 3 (PS2)
Glass Rose (PS2) (An honest to goodness point and click adventure :o)
Eternal Darkness (Gamecube)
Haunting Ground (PS2)

Many more...

Exorph · Wed 31/05/2006 22:19:45

But Shadow of Memories/Destiny is probably the easiest game I've ever played.. I do miss it though. Exchanged it for some other game once I got all the endings.

The Silent Hill games really deserves being mentioned though. The first three games have REALLY good puzzles IMO.. Granted they don't mage sense from a logical standpoint, with people locking things with tarot cards or whatever, but figuring out how to solve them through creepy poetry is really fun.

Only downside is that I always end up turning on the light so I can keep note of the clues.. >_<

ManicMatt · Wed 31/05/2006 23:44:39

Quote from: LimpingFish on Wed 31/05/2006 21:29:44
Also Shadow Of Memories, a PS2 game ported to to PC, is good. More mystery than horror, tho.
Glass Rose (PS2) (An honest to goodness point and click adventure :o)

Ah yes, I loved Shadow of memories. Restrictive game, but really got the mind befuddled.

I heard Glass Rose was rubbish? That you had to highlight the right bit of text in what people have said until they respond, and there is instant unfair deaths. That's what I heard, anyway.

Anyone played Call of cthlulu, if we're going into plain ol' horror games. I hear that's atmospheric. (And due to, I can only imagine, poor sales it's quite cheap now)

Ghormak · Thu 01/06/2006 01:33:12

If you mean the new (well, new-ish) Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, then yes, it is quite nice. I found it a little tedious towards the end, but if you can find it for cheap it's well worth playing.

It's pretty creepy and scary, and it manages to be so without resorting to screaming things jumping out at you.

LimpingFish · Thu 01/06/2006 01:44:10

Yes, I agree. CoC: DCOTE is good, the first half especially. Becomes more of an FPS towards the end, tho.

BerserkerTails · Thu 01/06/2006 08:53:42

I've been on the fence about Call of Cthulu, but I think I'll probably go pick it up next paycheck. I mean, if I can get it for like, 25 bucks or whatever, then I'm not too worried.

Bastos · Sat 10/06/2006 12:04:57

you can always try Veil of Darkness, I loved it....

Ali · Sat 10/06/2006 17:21:33

Well, Black Dahlia isn't always popular, being FMV and all but I think it's excellent. Very atmospheric and with a good balance between detective story and occult horror.

Realms of the Haunting was puzzley enough for me to enjoy it as an adventure rather than a shoot'em-up (which was what we called 'em in them days).

Shadow of the Comet and Post Mortem both have their charms, but also have very frustrating flaws.

Radiant · Sat 10/06/2006 22:32:39

I think somebody already mentioned this, but Slouching Towards Bedlam is awesmoe.

Gord10 · Sun 11/06/2006 09:16:35

I was really freaked out playing "Scratches". It was one of the scariest games I've played.

Nathan23 · Mon 12/06/2006 19:30:01

As far as I know Phantasmagoria I is the best adventure game mystery horror, is like a horror movie, the second part is a disaster.

Also the Gabriel Knight series, especially the GK2, but I never played.

I could say the Shivers series is fine too.
And Lighthouse is a great mystery game.

And For Resident Evil is great I love it, but it doesn't fit in the classic adventure games for me.

cpage · Tue 13/06/2006 05:14:35

Not sure if anyone mentioned it but i suggest Pleurghburg