Games Like Noctropolis

The Beast Within A Gabriel Knight Mystery is a Point-and-Click, Adventure, and Single-player video game developed by Sierra On-Line. It is the sequel to the Gabriel Knights: Sins of the Fathers and takes place one year after the storyline. All through the time, the player plays like a fighter named Gabriel, where the main mission is to fight the dark forces.

Gabriel comes across Ritter Castle in Germany, where his family is currently living. One day, a squad of peasants enters the castle, and the captain tells Gabriel about the terrible death of a little girl. A supernatural wolf has killed the girl and is a big threat to other inhabitants. This investigation brings the player and his companion Grace to a hunter world with dark secrets.

Most of the game is conversation-based, where the player has to interact with the NPCs through texts. The player has to click on the icons placed on the screen to perform relevant operations. Both Gabriel and Grace are available as playable characters either alone or in co-op mode.

9: The Last Resort is an Adventure, Puzzle, and Single-player video game developed by GT Interactive. Throughout the game, the player inherits a hotel named The Last Resort, which keeps the story of a deceased uncle. The hotel has nine muses, and as the player enters the hotel, he has to face all the muses one after another.

The player’s goal is to get rid of each muse by completing the offered puzzles. All the puzzles are music-based and required a musical instrument to complete. Nine chapters, each having an evil muse, are waiting for the player. The gameplay focuses on an organ on which the player has to play musical codes assigned.

On each resort floor, the player discovers a code sheet containing instructions for playing a short musical piece. Every sheet extends the code making it more difficult for the player to interpret. In the final puzzle, the player must be familiar with all the played codes. The game has core features such as Nine Puzzles, Nine Chapters, Difficult Challenges, and A Mansion.

Police Quest Collection: Step Behind the Badge is a compilation of four different games with limitless adventures developed by Sierra On-Line. The included games are Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel, Police Quest 2: The Vengeance, Police Quest 3: The Kindred, and Daryl F. Gates’ Police Quest: Open Season.

Throughout the game, the player serves as a policeman where he has to fight against enemy hordes to protect the city. In the first game, the player begins as a patrol officer has to chase down the infamous Death Angel. In some sections, the player has to drive the car where traffic rules apply to the chaser.

As a promoted officer, the player has to arrest the drug lord named Jesse Bains in the second game. The graphics are better than in the original game, but the gameplay remains the same. The player can move to a place in the scene using the directional keys. The third game offers the player to investigate linear murder cases that are committed by one person, bring that person to light.

Decay – Part 2 is an Adventure, Horror, Puzzle, Interactive, Point-and-Click, and Single-player video game developed by Shining Gate Software. Throughout the game, the player plays as Sam, an addicted guy, who gets stuck in an endless nightmare while kicking off his addiction. It is an addictive game as the player has not to follow the encountering missions.

The game has three chapters where the player has to make progress by completing all the required tasks. The amazing sound and brilliant graphics of the game are the most addictive features. In every chapter, the player faces different riddles and challenges. The game has many achievements where the player must gain all the rewards by getting to advance.

While playing the game, the player views the environment from a first-person perspective. Multiple horror-themed locations are waiting for the player where interaction with the objects is possible. Navigate the locations, find the hidden objects, solve mysterious puzzles, explore every part of the mansion, and exit at any cost to the original world.

Psychic Detective is an Adventure, Interactive, and Single-player video game developed by Colossal Pictures. Throughout the gameplay, the player assumes the role of a protagonist named Kevin Breznahan, who has to interact with the icons placed on the screen. The player has a supernatural ability to examine the picked objects through a psychic manner.

The player has to solve the mysteries and puzzle by making use of this power. There are multiple endings of an individual puzzle, and it all depends upon the choices made by the player. The game has offered many uncovered storylines, and if the player makes no choices or wrong choices, he watches those events unfold by the computer.

The game begins when the player enters the Pozok house and has to remain in his body. While playing the game, the player views the environment from a first-person perspective. Some cut scenes appear at certain points and break the storyline into chapters, but it also based-on Eric’s actions. The core features of the game are First-person Perspective, Multiple Ends, and Cut Scenes.

Gothos is an Adventure, Interactive, and Single-player video game developed by Microforum International. Throughout the game, the player either serves as a male or female vampire where the main mission is to investigate the place. Gothos has many inhabitants where the player comes to meet and interact with them.

Some of the characters are innocent, but most of the NPCs are web-deceit and corrupted, and the player has not to let them make their way to escape. It all depends on the player skills to identify the culprits and complete the mission. While playing the game, the player views the environment from a first-person perspective.

All the puzzles are choices-based, and during conversations, the player has to click the right option to proceed. There are multiple endings, and every outcome depends on the player’s choices and traversing. The game has a compass where the player can judge whether he is going in the right way or needs to alter the road. The core features of the game are Compass, Choice-Based Gameplay, and Multiple Outcomes.

Roberta Williams’ Phantasmagoria is an Adventure, Point-and-Click, and Single-player video game developed by Sierra On-Line. Throughout the game, the player takes on the role of a protagonist named Adrienne Delaney, who gets trapped in a remote mansion filled with supernatural forces. The player can click on certain areas of the screen to control the player’s movements.

The player can also explore specific places and objects. The camera angles, depending on where the player moves the character. The game follows four mouse commands such as look, picking an item, use item, and walk. Using these commands, the player can talk to a selected person or use the items to make progress.

By right-clicking the cursor, the player can cause the character to perform different functions. The cursor turns red when it passes over an area where the player must perform an action. On the left side, there is a red skull button, which indicates the player about hints. The zooming ability makes it possible for the player to draw complete attention.

Bureau 13 is an Adventure, Point-and-Click, and Single-player video game developed by Take-Two Interactive. Throughout the game, the player takes on the role of an unnamed protagonist who has to investigate the paranormal phenomenon. While playing the game, the player views the environment from an isometric angle.

The game has many different characters where the player can play with the desired character. Thief, priest, mech, and vampire are the available characters, and each character has different skills. Each puzzle has multiple ways to solve, and it leads to different endings. In the multiplayer mode, the player can invite a friend to control an individual character and exposes the secrets.

It is a point-and-click adventure where the player can interact with the hidden objects to collect the information. As the game progresses, the puzzles get harder to solve, and the player has to play a level multiple times. The core features of the game are Many Puzzle, Co-op Mode, Multiple Characters, Isometric Angle, Point-and-click, and Addictive Gameplay.

Ripley’s Believe It or Not!: The Riddle of Master Lu is an Adventure, Point-and-Click, and Single-player video game developed by Sanctuary Woods. Throughout the game, the player assumes the role of a protagonist named Robert, who gets pursued by two men in Egypt. The player travels in several parts of the world, where he encounters a common feature called the posh express office.

The posh express office allows Ripley to exchange mail with other characters of the game. Each location also hides a bonus quest that a player has to collect by making progress. The player can find out which locations are important to make sure of the progression. In some cases, the player finds artifacts that can be mailed to New York.

The other characters include Mei Chan, Kuang, Baron, and many others. In the beginning, Mei Chan accompanies the character to the Hall of Classics, where both try to arrange travel plans to Mount Li. The game has core features such as NPC Characters, Posh Express Office, and Multiple Locations.

Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh is an Adventure, Point-and-Click, and Single-player video game developed by Sierra On-Line. Throughout the game, the player controls Curtis Craig, who works at a pharmaceutical company and sees gore or receives odd e-mails like offering him a job as a murderer in hell.

The player’s mental satisfaction level is completely disturbed, and he has a regular visit to a therapist. Soon the player discovers that his father was working on a project at Wyntech, the same company where he is currently working. The game has multiple locations where the player interacts with different people. While inspecting the game world, the player views the environment from the third-person perspective.

Every puzzle offers secret information for the player to link the chains. As the player moves the cursor over an object or area, it will highlight, and clicking it will play a live clip. An inventory exists at the bottom of the screen the player can interact with these items.

Riana Rouge is an Adventure, Sci-fi, and Single-player video game developed by Black Dragon Publishing. Throughout the game, the player controls a female protagonist named Riana Rouge, whose boss has fired her as a secretary. The player has not to say good-bye, so she has offered the boss to work as a sexual model for the company.

The player soon discovers herself in a magical dimension where she has to travel through three different worlds and find three jewels needed to defeat a mysterious dictator. As the player makes progress, the player also discovers live actors and different backgrounds. The game has to solve mysteries, and behind every mystery, there is conversation-based progression.

The player has to prompt to every puzzle through emotionally charged responses utilizing a device called Emotivator. This device has different colors on every expression. If the player has prompted a wrong emotion, it leads to Riana’s death and the game’s end. Yellow is for fear, green for deception, blue for surrender, and purple indicates seduction emotions.

Hell is an Adventure, Point-and-Click, and Single-player video game developed by Take-Two Interactive. The game takes the player to the future where the United States is in the control of a fascist theocracy that can send the criminals and sinners to hell and bring them back. While inspecting the game world, the player views the environment from the third-person perspective.

Gideon Eshanti and Rachel Braque are the two loyal agents of a law enforcement agency. The player can play either with Gideon Eshanti or Rachel Braque and lead the character through the puzzling story. The character does not matter as it has no effect on the puzzles but can alter the game’s end.

The player must acquire supporting party members throughout the game, where everyone comes with a separate small inventory of items. If the player replaces a party member with a new one, the replaced party member will take all his items with him. Each time, the player has to recruit party members by visiting the spot in the game’s menu.