Recommend A Game...?

[Kyriakos]

I only have played Sanitarium, but i am bored of it although i didnt complete it (it has some action sequences which i dislike).

I saw some screens of Sherlock Holmes: the Awakened (a sherlock holmes against Cthulhu game). Well the premise sounds a bit strange and mixed-up, but im not sure if it is good or not.

Got any other horror adventure games to suggest for the pc?

 

[Kyriakos]

No ideas?

 

[Maniacal]

Not if you're so impatient

Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth is really the best horror game within the last decade or so. Possibly the only one. Most of the others (like Alone in the Dark) are just awful.

 

[LightSpectra]

The Seventh Guest, but that might be a little too dated for your tastes.

 

[JtheJackal]

I was going to suggest Sanitarium, which is maybe the best I've played, so very good, but you can try to be able to play the original Alone in the Dark which is a classic, but its also old.

 

[Kyriakos]

I am particularly interested in fantasy settings, medieval, dark.

For example one of my favourite adventure games was Lure of the Temptress, for the old Amiga

But i am interested in anything that is gloomy, has themes of horror, or is just intelligent but not cartoony/funny.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Have you tried Beneath a Steel Sky? It's from the creator of Lure of the Temptress, but it's set in the future. Near the ending it does become more horror like.

There's also The Dig, which is set in a distant barren alien landscape.

 

[Kyriakos]

Thank you for the suggestion CH

Yes, i have played BASS, and liked it a lot.

I will have a look at The Dig.

 

[cardgame]

Minecraft

Of course, it's somewhat open-ended.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

There is one adventure game, but it plays differently. called Fahrenheit. The game is presented like it was actually a film, a horror thriller I guess would be best to describe it, and is set during modern day New York. At the beginning of the main character is possessed or in a trance and murders someone in a public toilet by stabbing them several times in the heart, then he wakes and has no memory of the murder. The game is played with a PlayStation style controller, using only the two analogue sticks, but there is an option to use a mouse and keyboard.

 

[carmen510]

I heard that Call of Cthulu was good. Also, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is an excellent gloomy and horrific game, even though it may bugged at some sections.

 

[Kyriakos]

I am interested in good, and rather melagholic, or at least moderately gloomy adventure games (not utterly miserable either ).
For example i loved the Revolution adventures: Lure of the temptress, beneath a steel sky and most of all Broken Sword: The shadow of the templars.

I also liked Delphine's Cruise for a corpse.

Now these are all old games, i am not very familiar with the new adventures.

Also i would like to ask (again) if anyone knows if the game Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened is any good. The premise seems a bit too pop-culture friendly (Holmes vs Cthulhu...) so i tend to be suspicious of it


Link to video.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Have you tried Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers?

 

[Dachs]

Also i would like to ask (again) if anyone knows if the game Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened is any good. The premise seems a bit too pop-culture friendly (Holmes vs Cthulhu...) so i tend to be suspicious of it

awwwww yeeeeeee

 

[Maniacal]

Are you looking for point and click adventures specifically or also 3rd/1st person ones that involve puzzles and moving around or are you interested in any that also have combat?

Monkey Island 1 % 2 both have their new edition out (for a while now) and are a lot of fun (I must say the new look is an improvement, I still switch back and forth but can't stick with the original graphics).

awwwww yeeeeeee

I hate you so much for linking to a pdf file. Damn does adobe acrobat reader suck.

 

[Dachs]

You can't view pdfs in your web browser?

 

[Maniacal]

I can but it loads up Adobe Acrobat Reader every time which is slow and likes to lock up my webbrowser until its finished.

EDIT: In Opera. Thankfully Foxit has a plug in for Firefox and Google Chrome has its own viewer.

 

[Dachs]

hahahaha opera

 

[Kyriakos]

Have you tried Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers?

Yes, although i got stuck in the final action scene (i hate action scenes in adventures and gave up on Sanitarium due to them as well).

So i would like a point n click adventure, if possible without such parts Btw Broken sword has a few as well, but i could live with them, and didnt like them either.

 

[carmen510]

Well, have you tried any of the old games by LucasArts? (Monkey Island series, Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, etc.)

I could recommend I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, although its relatively easy and is pretty dark.