Myst
Myst is a graphic adventure puzzle video game published by Cyan Worlds. It takes the players to the gameplay containing colorful scenery and puzzle elements. The game allows the player to be a stranger who uses a magical and special book to travel to the island, where he solves enigmas and travels to loads of other worlds known as “The Ages.” The player travels to the new worlds, searching for clues that help him proceed to the advanced levels.
As the game progresses, the player finds out about the backstory of all the characters in the game. It offers multiple endings of the game all based upon the actions that the player character performs. The game offers an adult-centered and entirely non-linear story, realistic characters and appearances, twisted gameplay with an ethical dilemma. It gives you the First-person perspective, beautiful visuals, plenty of room for both the character and gameplay, great stories, and exploration.
#1 Forever Lost
Forever Lost is an awesome 3D Puzzle video game for all the Hardcore Puzzle gaming enthusiasts. The game is actually a series of hard and challenging puzzles set in different game episodes. With a bit creepy abandoned hospital setting, the game allows you to be the player character who wakes up confused about his whereabouts and starts wandering in the facility in order to find the clues by solving some complex puzzles and eventually escape the place. Forever Lost lets you explore the facility, interact with objects, find clues, solve challenging puzzles in a chilling environment, fill up your inventory for the coming puzzles and move forward in order to get out. With a creepy setting, amazingly haunted visuals, a well-written and described story-line and a wonderfully immersive game-play, Forever Lost is a fun game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.
#2 Lost Echo
Lost Echo is an Adventure, Point-and-Click, and Single-player video game published and developed by KickBlack Studios for mobile platforms. It comes with an interesting story, in which a young girl with the name Chloe has mysteriously vanished in the near future. Her boyfriend named as Gregory embarks on an epic journey to investigate the case to find her girlfriend, but no one seems to remember her. As the story advances, the protagonist discovers that she has been removed from his life even the pictures of her are missing, and there is no trace of Chloe exist. The player acts as the boyfriend (Gregory) of Chloe must struggle to uncover what happened to her girlfriend by teaming up with fellows and NPCs and delving into the fantasy and surreal journey. The player explores the land from a third-person perspective, interact with non-player characters, collect items and clues, and use these to solve the puzzles. Lost Echo includes prominent features such as Detailed Graphics, Engrossing Mystery, Point-and-Click genre, Two Modes, Built-in hint System, and more. Lost Echo is the wonderful game to play for those who love Point-and-Click video games.
#3 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.
#4 The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series: A New Frontier
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series: A New Frontier (also known as The Walking Dead: Season Three) is an Adventure, Episodic and Single-player video game, developed and published by Telltale Games. The game comes with an exciting gameplay based on The Walking Dead comic book series and it serves as the third title in the series of The Walking Dead. The game uses the similar narrative structures to the past seasons, where the player decision in one season will have permanent impact on further story. It takes place in the fictional world like comic, populated by zombies. It offers the similar gameplay to previous titles and offers two playable characters named as Javier and Clementine. During the gameplay, the player controls the character around the environment to examine and interact with various objects and elements to gather and use the items to progress through the story. The player can interact with non-player characters and can get information about the mission to complete. With improved graphics, addictive gameplay, and smooth controls, The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series: A New Frontier is the wonderful game to play.
#5 Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse: Episode 2
Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse: Episode 2 is an Adventure and Single-player video game created and published by Revolution Software Limited for PlayStation Vista. The 2nd episode comes with the deadly conspiracy and the conclusion to the thrilling and classic adventure. The player assumes the role of the protagonist, an intrepid American George Stobart and the journalist named Nico Collard, the player discovers himself on the trail of the stolen valuable painting and the murderous conspiracy. The game is played from a third-person perspective, and the player uses the point-and-click interface to control the character. There are many challenging levels, and each level comes with a set of tasks that the player has to complete at any cost to advance through the story. The game rewards the player for each completed level and unlocks further to play. In each level, the player needs to find clues, gather items, and use them to solve tricky puzzles to solve the case or mystery.
#6 Riven
Riven is a Graphic Adventure and Single-player video game brought to you by Cyan and Red Orb Entertainment. The game is set in the 3D environment where the player controls the protagonist and embarks on a journey to explore the world from a first-person view. However, the storyline starts immediately after the events of Myst video game, in which after having been saved from the struggles of his son, the main NPC named Atrus enlists the help the player character to free his beloved wife from the custody of hungry father named Gehn. Unlike Myst video game, which took the player in several worlds that are connected by special books, Riven is set entirely on the Age of Riven, a world gradually falling apart due to the destructive rule of Gehn. The game introduces the point-and-click interface, and the player must use to control the character from a first-person view. During the gameplay, the player navigates the environment through a massive series of randomly generated stills using the clicks of the mouse for movements or to manipulate objects. To explore the land, the player just needs to click in the direction he wants to turn or walk.
#7 Puzzle House: Mystery Rising
Puzzle House: Mystery Rising is a wonderful 3D Puzzle video game by Puga Puma. The game offers amazingly difficult and extremely challenging puzzles and allows you to enjoy an amazing gaming experience. The game kicks off with you standing on your front porch when a drone smashes into the wall right next to you. Your task is to simply disassemble it, rebuild it with the repaired parts, integrate it with a tab and explore the world of alien technology, solve amazingly challenging puzzles with the help of tab and enjoy. Puzzle House: Mystery Rising provides with a mix-up of Myst and The Room like gaming aesthetics and allows you to focus on your surroundings, objects and all the puzzles connected with them. With amazing amount of challenging puzzles, best ever visuals for a 3D puzzle game, amazing game-play and a lot of other great things, Puzzle House: Mystery Rising is a a fun game to play and enjoy.
#8 Amerzone: The Explorer’s Legacy
Amerzone: The Explorer’s Legacy takes you to amazing First-person Point-and-Click Adventures of a journalist and explorer who struggles to save a mysterious species of a Bird. The game offers a resembling game-play and story to Syberia and allows you to embark on a journey in the drawbacks of the year 1990. As the stories told by a renowned explorer named Alexander Valemboise about giant white birds started to fade away, you as the young journalist took the challenge of investigating the matter and embarked on the journey. Following the story-line, you’ll have to go through the harsh and unforgiving environment of Amerzone and find out the clues about the stories told by Alexander Valemboise, get back with the relevant and strong proof of his stories being true and help him regain his dignity. Amerzone: The Explorer’s Legacy offers a wonderful gaming atmosphere and allows you to enjoy an amazing and quite fascinating Adventure experience. With marvelous game setting, great visual details, well-written story and an engaging game-play, Amerzone: The Explorer’s Legacy is one of the best Action-Adventure and Point and Click puzzle video game to enjoy .
#9 Mystery of Time and Space
Mystery of Time and Space is a wonderfully challenging Adventure-based Puzzle video game by Albartus Games. With a series of Room Escaping puzzles, Hidden Object finding games and 20 levels of pure awesomeness, Mystery of Time and Space lets you enjoy a totally unique and immersive gaming experience. The game kicks off with you waking up in a locked room with no memory of what actually happened that left you lying here unconscious. Your task in the game is to simple get up, start exploring the world around you, interact with objects and collect the valuable and plan your escape by assembling different objects or by simply combining them in order to solve different puzzles and eventually escape to the next level of the game. Mystery of Time and Space offers varying difficulty levels, thrillingly engaging and immersive game-play along with beautifully created visuals, well-written story-line and a lot of other cool things.
#10 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.
#11 Sanitarium
Sanitarium is an Adventure, Horror, Point and Click, and Single-player video game created and published by DotEmu. The game is set in a creepy Universe and revolves around an exciting story. According to the story, after a horrible car accident, you found yourself in a strange asylum and your head wrapped in bandages. After awaken you’ll face many challenging questions such as Who am I? What am I doing here? And how do I escape? The game has a set of challenging levels filled with complex puzzles. Your main objective is to solve the puzzles to get hints and find a way out. It embarks you on a captivating adventure where you can immerse yourself in Point and Click experience. The game becomes more challenging as you explore it. Sanitarium offers addictive features such as Auto Save System, Achievements, Dynamic Hint System, and more. Try it out and you’ll enjoy it.
#12 Secret Files: Tunguska
Secret Files: Tunguska is an Adventure, Point-and-Click, and Single-player video game created by Fusionshpere Systems and published by Deep Silver. The game offers a thrilling story, revolving around the female protagonist named as Nina, who is torn from her daily routine when she comes to know that her beloved father has vanished without a trace. Nina embarks on the adventure to search for clues related to her father’s disappearance. During the game, the protagonist team up Max Gruber, a young colleague of her father. The player takes on the role of the female protagonist and must work together with the young colleague to solve the mystery of the father. The player explores the land from a third-person perspective, interact with the environment using point-and-click interface, find clues, and struggle to solve the complicated mystery. There are over eighty detailed and atmospheric backgrounds, and the game comes with twenty-five rendered 3D characters to communicate. With prominent features, engaging gameplay, and cool graphics, Secret Files: Tunguska is the best game to play and enjoy.
#13 Framed
Framed (styled as FRAMED) is a Puzzle, and Single-player video game for Android and iOS by Loveshack. It offers a brilliant gameplay that you have never experienced before. In the game, you have to re-arrange the panels of the comic book to modify the outcome of the story. You controls the character as you progress your way around dark alleys and buildings to avoid the deadly obstacles and the authorities. The primary objective is to re-arrange the panels to set the perfect escape for your character. You can move the frames around the screen and assist the character to sneak and avoid the police. The game brings new mechanics and fiendish puzzles and introduces a variety of levels each with different mind-bending puzzle to solve. Framed includes core features such as Original Soundtracks, a new Type of Gameplay, a variety of Levels with increasing Difficulty, and more.
#14 The Frostrune
The Frostrune is an Adventure, Point-and-Click, and First-person Perspective video game developed by Grimnir Media and published by Snow Cannon Games for multiple platforms. The game casts the player as the protagonist who must unravel the mystery heavily inspired by Legend and Viking Myth, based on ancient environments and Norse culture. According to the plot, the player discovers himself shipwrecked on a tropical island after a strong storm. As the story advances, the player comes to known after discovering an abandoned settlement, showing signs that its inhabitants left in a panic. The dark forest is filled with valuable ancient stones, burial mounds, and the dark villages. There are a variety of hidden relics and other secrets in the forest to uncover that will bring the player closer to solving the challenging mysteries of the island. The game comes with Rich Storyline, Hand-painted Art, Challenging Puzzles, Exploration, and more. With cool gameplay, stunning graphics, and dynamic sound effects, The Frostrune is the best game to play and enjoy.
#15 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.
#16 Broken Sword
Broken Sword is an Adventure game series with strong Point and Click elements. The first game in the series was released in 1996 named Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars. The story of series revolves around the protagonists named Nicole Collard, an American Patent Lawyer, a Freelance Journalist and George Stobbart. In the story, Gorge Stobbart is the victim and witness on a café named La Chandelle Verte. After an investigation, the secrets comes out the name of the serial killer who steals a briefcase and set off a bomb inside the case. The series includes various scenarios and lets you get into the role of the protagonist and explore the crime scenes. Interrogate the criminal, find clues, analyze suspects, and catch the man who is guilty. In the series, each entry has a set of unique cases, crimes, and scenes. The series contains a lot of games such as Broken Sword: The Shadow of Templars, Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror, Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon, Broken Sword: The Angel Death, and Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse.
#17 realMyst
realMyst is an Adventure, Puzzle, Point-and-Click and Single-player video game developed and published by Cyan Worlds. The game invites the player to navigate the massive deserted island, where the player unearths the terrific storyline involving a set of books that reveal the alternate planes of reality. The player must explore the environment from a first-person perspective, use his wits to find hidden clues in the 3D environments. During the gameplay, the player will discover video clips, text, and other items to solve the tricky puzzles. It brings an exciting gameplay that the player has never experienced before. There are a variety of levels and each level offers a set of objectives that the player must complete to progress through the story. As the game progresses, it becomes tough to master and additional content will be unlocked. realMyst includes core features such as Dynamic Environments, Haunting Music, Advanced Navigation, Hint System, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#18 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.
#19 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.
#20 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.
#21 Syberia 2
Syberia 2 is an Adventure, Exploration and Single-player video game by Microids. It is the second installment in the series of Syberia. The game combines the elements of puzzles, third-person perspective, and adventure. In this entry, the game introduces more realistic characters and the environment. It takes place in stunning environments consists of jungles, snow-covered, mountains, and towns. Explore the game world, solve different puzzles and level-up. The story revolves around the protagonist of the first game named Kate Walker who is an American lawyer and her efforts to find a way out. The protagonist has stuck into a remote dessert called Syberia in Russia, where her main goal is to explore the environment to survive as long as she can. It has a variety of levels and each with its unique gameplay, challenges and more. It offers exciting features, modes, and story. With detailed graphics, mouse-driven gameplay, and brilliant mechanics, Syberia 2 is the best game to play and enjoy.
#22 Avenue Flo
Avenue Flo is an Adventure, Puzzle and Single-player video game developed and published by Glu for Android and iOS. The game takes place in the fantasy world and puts you in the role of the spunky heroine from Diner Dash. Your ultimate task is to navigate the world and save the massive wedding in the history of Diner Town. During gameplay, you have to encounter lots of exciting characters, meet neighbors, complete challenging puzzles and gather missing items to progress through the game. Explore for lost pets and struggle to save the wedding. There are up to forty scenes with twenty puzzles and mini-games. Interact with NPCs and accomplish a set of objectives to score the highest points. As the game progress, it becomes challenging. Avenue Flo offers core features such as up to Forty Scenes, Solve over Twenty Puzzles, Engaging Story, and more. With smooth gameplay, touch controls, and attractive sounds, Avenue Flo is the best game to play and enjoy.
#23 Syberia
Syberia is a 2002’s Hit Single-player Point-and-Click Action and Adventure, Third-person video game by Microids. The game follows the story of Kate Walker, game Protagonist and a skilled Lawyer who tries to wrap up a deal for her client in Europe and Russia, but soon after reaching her destination, she is forced to run for her life. With amazing and realistic visual novel style, wonderful environments, brilliant characters and immersive game-play, Syberia allows you to experience the true hardships a Lawyer can go through and in her case, as the story-line suggests, you get a really good lesson out of that. Running for her life, Kate goes through a number of hardest phases of her life including the time when she receives calls on her Cell Phone from unknown numbers and a worsening relationship with her fiancé. According to the story of the game, Kate reaches to French Village named as Valadilene, where she attends the funeral of Toy Factory owner, an old lady named Anna Voralberg. After a visit to the local notary, Kate gets to know about the Old lady’s brother Hans, living in the North-East of Europe but his whereabouts are unknown. In order to transfer the ownership, Kate must find him and when she starts off her journey to find Hans, the story takes a massive turn that actually writes the fate of Kate. A drama begins that topples her life upside down. Now in order to go with the story and enjoy the game, you must get into the character of Kate and start exploring. Syberia offers a fantastic thrill filled Drama and an equally exciting game-play that makes this game one of the most amazing additions to this specific genre. If you are a fan of Action-Adventure gaming, you must play this game and raise the curtains off of the mysterious theme of the game. With all the amazing things combined, Syberia offers a unique story, a totally challenging and quite exciting game-play and beautiful 3D visuals for you to enjoy.
#24 Machinarium
Machinarium is a wonderful Point and Click Puzzle and Graphic Adventure video game by Amanita Design. The basic objective of the game is to solve a series of challenging puzzles and brain teasers by the use of your intuition and puzzle solving skills. Machinarium offers a Unique Story, a challenging game-play along with best visuals. According to the storyline, your task in the game is to solve a number of challenging puzzles, go through a series of obstacles, use your wit and Point and Click skills to get out of difficult situations and enjoy immersing yourself into a gameplay in which every thing is linked by an Overworld. Machinarium offers a dialogue based gameplay and allows you to interact with the written statements in order to perform the tasks and keep on playing until you are finished with all of the exciting game levels. With an amazing two-tier hint system, walkthroughs, loads of mini games, beautiful visuals, a truly very well written storyline and exciting gameplay, Machinarium is a fun Point and Click Puzzle-platform video game to play and enjoy.
#25 The Witness
The Witness is an Adventure, Puzzle, First-person Perspective and Single-player Exploration video game created and published by Thekla, Inc. The game offers a beautiful world where it takes place and has an exciting gameplay based on Exploration of the Open-Ended world like Myst. The tropical Island full of human-made and natural structures and the player must navigate the landscapes, interact with the environment and solve a variety of mind-bending puzzles based on interaction with complex mazes hidden within the specific areas. In the start, the player has to find the clues to complete each puzzle and recording spread around the globe. The player takes on the unnamed protagonist, who explores an island with various natural formations and numerous structures. The island is split into different sections, and each offers its unique challenges, a set of puzzles and more. During exploration, the player can experience the most beautiful world that he has never seen before. There are dozens of locations to manipulate with more than five-hundred puzzles to accomplish or solve. Each puzzle brings a new idea and challenge. With addictive features, superb mechanics, and wonderful graphics, The Witness is the best game to enjoy.