Original Article: Ah, mystery. That hard to define, catch all genre for titles that feature plots in which something is strangely off. It all started in the 1990s when nobody had any idea what genre to stick the X-Files TV show into.

Ever since then, every show, movie, book or video game that featured some sort of supernatural element, that was a bit spooky without being outright horror, was classified as just that: Mystery. Also, in the 1990s, there were a ton of adventure games that ended up populating the mystery genre. Those were usually adventure games for older people, for more adult audiences, that deemed themselves too grown up, too mature to deal with the kiddie stuff of the popular, cartoonish adventures. During the heyday of the graphic adventure genre in the early 90s, there was an outright deluge of weird, more mature themed titles, the worst of which heavily featured one of 90s video games worst sins in full motion video (FMV) sequences. So on this list you will find a selection of the best of those old titles, alongside some modern mystery adventures from the last few years. Here we will not deal with of any kind, for those games we have some other lists.

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And now without further ado, let’s descend into mystery. Alan Wake • Developer: Remedy Entertainment • Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios • Platforms: X360, PC • Release: May 18, 2010 A long time in the making, Alan Wake, originally a timed exclusive for the Xbox 360, was developed by Remedy, of Max Payne fame. Alan Wake features the eponymous writer, who has to unravel the dark secrets lurking beneath the surface of Bright Falls, a small town in the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest.

• Developer: Quantic Dream • Publisher: Sony Computer Interactive Entertainment • Platforms: PS3, PS4 • Release: February 23, 2010 Oh what a game this could have been. David Cage’s masterpiece. A long time before the game was anywhere close to going gold, the developers started showcasing their – admittedly astounding – technology. It was supposed to allow for truly emotional performances by the digital actors.

The final product didn’t prove to be too convincing for a lot of people, however the multi-protagonist hunt for the Origami Killer succeeded in finding a lot of fans nonetheless. Even if the game’s story is a bit flat, at least it’s a game that tries some new ways of doing things. And as The Walking Dead proves, it succeeded in starting off a new way of doing adventure games. 7th Guest • Developer: Trilobyte • Publisher: Virgin Interactive Entertainment • Platforms: PC • Release: April 1, 1993 Starting off the big era of CD-ROM games, this creepy adventure game tasks the player with solving an array of twenty one puzzles in a mysterious old mansion, unveiling the secrets the place holds. Revolutionary at the time, 7th Guest featured intricately rendered graphics and real actors in full motion video sequences that told the story of the mansion. Likewise, the game proved to be a big factor in boosting the sale of CD-ROM drives, and kicked off the FMV driven interactive movie adventure game genre of the early 90s.

Phantasmagoria • Developer: Sierra On-Line • Publisher: Sierra On-Line • Platforms: PC, Sega Saturn • Release: August 24, 1995 Delivered on no less than seven CD-ROMs, Phantasmagoria was the embodiment of the mid-90s interactive movie fad. Controversial due to its sexually loaded horror content, the game stirred a lot of discussions about harsher age restrictions when it was released in 1995. Launched with a lot of surrounding hype, Phantasmagoria proved to be a best-seller. Experienced today though, almost twenty years later, it has aged quite badly, the script being rather weak, the acting wooden and the gameplay not very inspired. Nonetheless, the game was one of the biggest success stories of Sierra’s star designer Roberta Williams. Gemini Rue • Developer: Wadjey Eye Games • Publisher: Wadjet Eye Games • Platforms: PC, iOS, Android • Release: February 24, 2011 Heralded by many critics as a return to form of the venerated graphic adventure genre, this noir cyberpunk story should prove a breakthrough success for indie developer Wadjet Eye Games.

Released in 2011, Gemini Rue features a deliberately retro style throughout, from environments to gameplay mechanics. The game tells an expansive science fiction story with a lot of twists and turns, set in the 23rd century. • Developer: Sierra On-Line • Publisher: Sierra On-Line • Platforms: PC • Release: 1995 Another Sierra FMV title, this second entry to the Gabriel Knight series sets the eponymous investigator of the supernatural on the tracks of a werewolf, that is on the prowl in quaint Bavaria. The game delves in Bavarian history and folklore, featuring locations as Neuschwanstein castle along with its plot revolving around a lost opera from German composer Richard Wagner and the famed Bavarian King Ludwig II.