Chronicles of Mystery: The Scorpio Ritual
Chronicles of Mystery: The Scorpio Ritual is an Adventure, Third-person Perspective, and Single-player video game with an emphasis on Puzzle elements developed and published by City Interactive. The game starts with the female protagonist named as Sylvie Leroux, who is writing an article and watching the version of Knights Templar. Then, the strange person on the phone informs her that her beloved uncle has been abducted, who is an archaeologist. After receiving the news, the protagonist embarks on an adventure to locate her missing uncle. To complete the goal, she travels to the site of her uncle in Gozo, where she believes find her uncle. The game takes place in the 3D landscapes, and the player controls the movement of the character using the point-and-click interface. During the gameplay, the player interacts with objects and environment on the screen by dragging or clicking them, and Non-player Characters. The player feels difficulty to solve the puzzle and he can use the hint system. In the game, the player navigates the real-life locations including Istanbul, Gozo, Malta, and more. With addictive gameplay, superb graphics, and stunning visuals, Chronicles of Mystery: The Scorpio Ritual is the best game to play.
#1 The Wolf Among Us
The Wolf Among Us is an Interactive Drama, Episodic and Graphic Adventure video game developed by “Telltale Game”. The story of the game is based on “Bill Willingham” Comic Book Series named as “Fables”. The game takes you back to the past in the year 1986 and fits you right into the character of “Bigby Wolf” a law enforcing officer. “The Wolf Among Us” starts off with you as the protagonist saving a fable girl from the attack of a woodsman. You take her to your place where she heals her wounds and leaves saying that “You are not as bad as People think you are”. Chapter ends and in next chapter someone gives you the news of the fable girl’s head resting at a Woodsman doorstep. Sherrif “Ichabod Crane” orders you to investigate and solve the case and take “Snow White” with you as your assistant. “The Wolf Among Us” is a super thrilling and exciting case solving and detective video game that lets you solve murder cases by investigating and collecting the clues/evidences and by interacting with objects and NPCs. The game has a twisted and strange story that literally makes you dive deep into imagination and curiosity. Wolf Among Us offers a brilliant Episodic, Interactive and Story Driven gameplay and beautiful visuals to enjoy.
#2 The Detail
The Detail is an amazing Graphic-Adventure and Interactive Drama video game by Rival Games Ltd. The game allows you to be Detective Reginald “Reggie” Moore, who becomes frustrated with the defective Justice System and plans to take it down with all the responsible. Crime scene investigations, clue and object finding, capturing the accused and investigating them are the most prominent features of this brilliant game. The game takes place on the fictional location of a Modern American City and it allows you to control the main character Reggie, start from a murder case that took place because of a long lasting gang war, make toughest choices that will directly affect your life as a detective. You must solve the case and at the same time protect your family from the gang members and keep on pacing through the story. The Detail offers a gameplay that is a mixture of Interactive Comics and other story-based elements. The game offers a gameplay and mechanics inspired by the popular The Wolf Among Us and The Walking Dead by telltale games and features realistic crime based drama and visuals. The story of the game is more similar to the HBO hit T.V Series “The Wire” and is quite interesting to get involved in. With all the Drama, and Suspense, The Detail is one amazing video game to play and enjoy.
#3 Tales from the Borderlands
Tales from the Borderlands based on the original Borderlands is an Episodic, Interactive Drama and Graphic Action-Adventure video game developed by Telltale Games. Set in the Borderlands universe, this point and click graphic adventure video game lets you be anyone of the two main protagonists Rhys and Fiona, Explore the game world, interact with game objects, engage yourself into conversations with NPCs and make choices that will eventually effect the story and will set the course of events. Tales from the Borderlands provides with some gun-play elements too and features the same mechanics that were previously used with Borderlands and provides with procedurally generated guns and ammunition. Tales from the Borderlands have some more episodes yet to come out and will definitely amaze you with what it has to offer. For a great Adventure and interactive Drama experience, you should totally play this game.
#4 Creatures Such As We
Creatures Such As We, created by Lynenea Glasser is a text based Interactive Adventure and fiction based video game. The game features a customizable protagonist who provides his/her services on the moon as a tour guide. The game lets you set up yourself into the character of the protagonist, interact with objects and NPCs by a text based game-play and allows you to explore and find your suitable date among other AI players. “Creatures Such As We” allows you to engage yourself in an elegant and sophisticated game-play in which you can interact with NPCs (Non Player Characters) emotionally and figuratively and change the course of the story metaphorically. As the game lets you change the course of the story by the actions you perform, Creatures Such As We provides with different game endings too. With an award of Best Interactive Game of the Year, Creatures Such As We is an amazingly engaging and quite addictive video game to play. Do try it out.
#5 The Walking Dead: Season Two
The Walking Dead: Season Two, based on the Comic Book named The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman is an Episodic, Graphic Point-and-Click Action-Adventure and Interactive Drama video game. The game follows the story-line of the first season and continues from where it was ended previously. You can set yourself up into the character of Clementine (Previously the companion of Protagonist) and get into the play by exploring the world around you, interacting with the objects, engage yourself in the conversations with AI and NPCs, and by reacting to the replies given by the NPCs and change the course of events and endings of the game. Season Two of the game provides with a 400 Days game play in an apocalyptic world filled with Zombies and allows you to amaze yourself with a super thrilling and survival based game-play. The Walking Dead: Season Two is no doubt a great Graphic-Adventure and Interactive Drama video game to play and enjoy. You must play it.
#6 The Longest Journey
The Longest Journey offers a great Point-and-Click, Action-Adventure, Exploration and Puzzle experience for all the lovers of these specific genres. With amazing new characters, brilliant setting and an immersive game-play, The Longest Journey lets you be part of a multi-layered and a great story that will definitely leave you spellbound for quite some time. The game is set in the two parallel universes named as Stark and Arcadia and it allows you to be the protagonist April Ryan, a student living in Stark City who has the magical ability to move between the two universes. You as the protagonist will have to move to the Arcadia Universe where she meets with the White Dragon who tells her about the coming adventure. Soon after meeting the White Dragon, April gets attacked and suddenly shifts back to the main Stark universe. In order to find out the source of attack and who is behind it, you’ll have to move to a number of locations, interact with objects and NPCs, collect the clues and solve some challenging puzzles and finally reach to source and conclude the story. With a number of great characters, a marvelous setting, immersive game-play and stat of the art visuals, The Longest Journey is a fun game to play.
#7 Gemini Rue
Gemini Rue is a Graphic-Adventure, Interactive Drama and Cyberpunk video game developed by Wadjet Eye Games. The story of the game bases on point-and-Click Puzzles and investigations and lets you explore the game world, interact with NPCs, collect clues and objects and engage in quite exciting Gun-play. The game takes place in the Gemini Star System in 23rd century and allows you to get into the character of Azriel Odin a gangster turned Law Enforcer. You must ride in your ship and travel to Barracus in search of your brother Daniel kidnapped by Boryokudan a terrorist organization. You must also collect the clues and objects pointing in the direction of your brother’s current location. You will be required to get information from the NPCs and solve some puzzles in order to find answers to the questions you have. As Matthius Howard will be your companion throughout your journeys, you can get help from him on specific points in the game by exchanging your place with him. You must eliminate the Syndicate too and save the whole universe along with your brother. Gemini Rue is a great Graphic-Adventure and interactive Drama based video game to play and enjoy. You should totally give it a try.
#8 Jurassic Park: The Game
Jurassic Park: The Game, presented by Telltale Games is an Episodic, Interactive Drama and Graphic Action-Adventure video game based on the Jurassic Park Movie Franchise. The game takes place in the time between the first and the second Jurassic park movies. The game is heavily influenced by the Mechanics used in the Blockbuster Heavy Rain by Quantic Dreams and lets you investigate different matters by exploring the game world, collecting the clues and evidences, Interacting with the AIs (Artificial Intelligence) and NPCs and by solving different complex puzzles. The game has four Episodes named as The Intruder, The Cavalry, The Depths and The Survivors and lets you follow the story-line strictly and act accordingly. With swiftly changing environments, amazing graphics, story-line, and a great Action-Adventure, Interactive Drama and thrill filled game-play, Jurassic Park: The Game is a super exciting and a brilliant game to play and enjoy.
#9 The Blackwell Convergence
The Blackwell Convergence is the third game in the Blackwell series and is developed by Wadjet Eye Games. This Graphic Action-Adventure and Interactive Drama video game features the character of Rosangela Blackwell a spiritual medium, and her spirit guide Joey Malone who basically provides with a connection between the ghosts and the living. Rosangela starts living in solitary after the death of her aunt Lauren Blackwell and gets asked by some unknown source to write a story on a Collage Dorm Suicide. She accepts and starts writing when suddenly Joey Malone’s ghost appears and tells Rosa that she is a Medium just like her aunt Lauren and asks her to solve a case of a little girl whose ghost in haunting a Dog Park and is being quite a problem for the people. You as the protagonist Rosa will have to visit the Park and gather clues and objects that can help you with your investigation. Meanwhile Joey will provide you with a connection to her ghost and will gather the clues and objects from the world of ghosts. It would be an unfair to not call The Blackwell Convergence a masterpiece for all the great things it offers. The story is superb, game-play totally is presented in a Film-Noir style and the graphics are a wonder. Play it and you’ll definitely enjoy this fantastic game.
#10 Broken Age
Broken Age, an epic Point-and-Click Adventure game is developed and published by Double Fine Productions. The story of the game revolves around the life events of two teenagers named Vella Tartine and Shay Volta. Vella’s life hangs in between life and death as she is to be sacrificed to protect her village from a giant monster Mog Chothra and Shay is an astronaut on a ship fully controlled by a computer who thinks of herself as an over protective and overconfident mother of Shay. Vella lives in a world where people believe that sacrifices can save them from Mog Chothra, but vella is not ready to die. She escapes the beasts attack and runs away. She finds a temple that is actually Shay Volta’s Ship. She wakes Shay up from stasis and with the help of Shay they make a weapon and when “Mog Chothra” re appears Vella kills the creature. The storyline of the game and graphics along with gaming environment are astounding.
#11 The Journey Down: Chapter One
The Journey Down: Chapter One takes you to an amazingly enigmatic underland setting and allows you to set yourself up into the character of Bwana who accompanies her companion named as Kito in order to search for a lost Journal. As the protagonist, you’ll have to go through challenging puzzles, obstacles and an unfriendly environment in order to find out Bwana’s long lost father, Captain Kaonandodo. With amazing point-and-click aesthetics, The Journey Down: Chapter One immerses you into an amazing journey and adventure in which you’ll have to follow a twisted plot and witness amazingly breathtaking moments. With a superb game setting, great visuals and sounds and an addictive game-play, The Journey Down: Chapter One is one of the best Episodic and Interactive, Puzzle-platform, games to play and enjoy.
#12 Nancy Drew
Nancy Drew is a Series of games that offers various Action-Adventure and Point-and-Click exploits of the character of Nancy Drew. The series features over a dozen games and is one of the longest running series of mysteries that tends to provide you with quality entertainment and immerses you deeply with the brilliant stories. Available on various gaming platforms such as PC, Mac, Linux, Nintendo and Smart phones, Nancy Drew offers Interactive and Visual Novel style aesthetics and allows you to solve puzzles, talk to NPCs, Collect items, and solve crimes and Mysteries. Being a fantastic video game series, Nancy Drew offers some of the most amazing Video games in the series and some of them are big hits such as Nancy Drew Adventures, Nancy Drew Dossier and Nancy Drew Mobile Mysteries etc. Throughout the series Nancy Drew offers a number of different environments, stories, characters and various gameplay experiences etc. With all the fantastic story-driven gameplays, Nancy Drew lets you enjoy both exploration and Detective aesthetics and that is what makes the whole series a marvelous creation of all time.
#13 Simon the Sorcerer
Simon the Sorcerer is an Adventure, Point and Click and Single-player video game created and published by Adventure Soft. The game offers an exciting story revolves around a teenager named Simon and his dog named Chippy who discovered a spellbook named Ye Olde Spellbooke. The protagonist throws the magic book onto the floor then suddenly a portal open and his dog goes through the portal in another world. The player can take on the role of the teenager and his main task is to goes through portal behind his dog, explore another world, and search his dog and find a way to escape. The game takes place in the stunning world populated with wizard named Calypso. After exploring the protagonist comes to known that he was brought to the world to rescue it from evil known as Sordid. Navigate environment, complete objectives, fight against evils, and take down them using spell. With HD graphics, beautiful story, and brilliant gameplay, Simon the Sorcerer is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#14 Leisure Suit Larry
Leisure Suit Larry is a Point and Click, and Single-player video game series with Adventure elements developed and published by Sierra Entertainment. The story of the game follows the middle-aged man who lives in the basement of his mother house as he attempts to attract the attention of the women. There are a variety of levels, in which you must guide the protagonist to find his girlfriend otherwise he will commit suicide, causing game end. The series takes place in different locations such as beaches, casinos, hotels, restores and ships. As the story proceed, the game unlocks other features and content to play for more fun. There are a variety of games in the series such as Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love, Leisure Suit Larry III: Passionate, etc. Leisure Suit Larry offers prominent features such as a variety of Scenarios, a set of Levels, smooth and exciting Gameplay, attractive Sounds, Interesting Protagonist and more. Leisure Suit Larry is the best Point and Click game with Adventure element as compared to other games of same genres.
#15 Corpse Party: Blood Drive
Corpse Party: Blood Drive is an Adventure, Role-playing, and Single-player video game developed 5pg., Team GrisGris. It is an exciting title in the series of Corpse Party and offers an enjoyable gameplay, features and improved mechanics. It has two different modes such as Search and Conversation. The player must select his character to get into the world where he or she must explore the environment to fulfill the requirements of each level and progress through the game. The player can interact with non-player characters, get information about the task and can find the hidden objects to complete the goal while scoring the highest points to become the master. Search mode comprises Battery consumption panel, Character Switching, Screen Tap, Menu Panel, Flashlight and more. The Conversation mode contains Screen tap, Swipe up, Swipe down, and Swipe left. The game becomes tough to play, as the player advanced. Corpse Party: Blood Drive offers core features such as Level Difficulties, 2 Modes, multiple Challenging Levels, Exploration and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#16 The Journey Down: Chapter Two
The Journey Down: Chapter Two is an Adventure, Point-and-Click, Episodic Puzzle, and Single-player video game developed and published by SkyGoblin for multiple platforms. The game takes the player in the stunning world where the player assumes the role of the protagonist, whose father has been lost. The ultimate task of the player is to explore the exciting world, interact with non-player characters while navigating the environment to solve the complex puzzles. With Lina and Kito, the player must attempt to find out mysterious Underland, and unearth the dark conspiracy. In 2nd Chapter, the storyline of the game thickens as the heroes plunge down into the strange mist below the edge in the treacherous and foggy town. There are a series of levels based on handpainted environments. The game rewards the player with points which the player uses to unlock further content. The Journey Down: Chapter Two includes prominent features such as Twisted Tale, Tons of Hand-painted Environments, Original Jazzy Soundtrack, Animations, and more. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and detailed environment, The Journey Down: Chapter Two is the best game to play.