Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion
Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion is an Adventure and Single-player video game developed by Her Interactive and published by DreamCatcher for Microsoft Windows in 2000. The game is the perfect blend of Point-and-Click and Adventure elements, serving as the third title in the series of Nancy Drew video games. In the game, the player assumes the first-person perspective of the fictional amateur sleuth character named Nancy Drew with an aim to solve the challenging mysteries through finding clues, interrogating the suspects, solving complex puzzles, and more. The game has two modes such as Senior and Junior Detective modes, and each offers a unique set of puzzles and hints with increasing level difficulty. The story of the game is loosely based on the book of the name, The Message in the Haunted Mansion. According to the storyline, the character is helping Rose Green, the friend of the protagonist’s housekeeper, with some renovation work in the old mansion situated in San Francisco. There are several levels that the player needs to complete at any cost while playing the game to advance.
#1 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.
#2 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 .
#3 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.
#4 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.
#5 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.
#6 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.
#7 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.
#8 Nancy Drew: The Secret of Shadow Ranch
Nancy Drew: The Secret of Shadow Ranch is an Adventure, Point-and-Click, and Single-player video game developed by Her Interactive and published by DreamCatcher for Microsoft Windows. The title is the 10th spectacular game in the series of Nancy Drew and comes with better graphics, mechanics and controls. The player takes on the protagonist’s role, an amateur sleuth named Nancy Drew and must embark on an adventure to solve the complex mystery through interrogation of solving puzzles, suspects, and discovering clues. The game contains two level of gameplay such as Senior and Junior Detective modes, and each mode comes with a different difficulty level of puzzles and hints. According to the plot, the female protagonist is invited to Shadow Ranch in fictional Arizona for the vocation. On the first of vocation, she finds out that the owners of the ranch named as Bet and Ed Rawley, are gone. Nancy Drew, Dave Gregory, Tex Britten, Shorty Thurmond, Mary Yazzie, etc. are prominent characters in the game.
#9 Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors is an Action-Adventure, Graphics and Visual novel video game. The game is about the main character Junpei who along with eight other individuals is abducted and is locked up aboard a sinking Cruise Liner. All of them are forced to play a game named as Nonary Game, which involves Exploration of the whole ship and solving some twisted and challenging puzzles. With six different game endings all based up on your actions and decisions, episodic story, and a challenging game-play, 999 is one of the best Adventure-based Visual Novel video game to play and enjoy.