Lovecraft - quite openly so, since he even calls his Extra-Planar god "Chzo", which sounds like Cthulhu - along with the Silent Hill games as well. His use of dream-sequences and ritualistic language are especially chilling. Yahtzee has a good eye for a complex storyline, and an excellent use of traditional horror-story techniques. The game comes in four episodes, which improve with each iteration both in terms of design, story and the complexity of the graphics. I became aware of them after watching Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation videos, then saw a clip of one on Youtube and was infused with nostalgia for the old glory days of the very earliest point-and-clickers, like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (The Graphical Adventure). They are also set in the real world and so are not fantasy-ish as you say, though as horror-based games they often dip into the supernatural. They're amateur games made with an adventure-game tools studio, and have accordingly inferior production values, but they're excellent adventures and completely serious in tone, with disturbingly dark plotlines. And I know for a fact that Moosferatu will agree with me here, because we've discussed this before - You (and everyone else for that matter) should play the Chzo Mythos, by Yahtzee (the Zero Punctuation guy). Hey, wait a moment! I know the very thing, if you're serious about playing such a game. I can't yet give a verdict on whether it's any good, though it certainly fits the description you give. I've just started "The Experiment", which is a little unusual. "Serious" adventures are hard to come by - at least ones that are any good. They have cartoonish graphics and are fairly light-hearted adventures full of "zany" characters and humour, etc. From the examples the OP gives I think by "adventure game" he means in the traditional sense, not games which are better classified as platformers or RPGS like Uncharted or The Witcher.īroken Sword is indeed an excellent game, though unlike Moosferatu I enjoyed Broken Sword 3/4 greatly too - but I would question whether they really count as "mature" in the sense jankren wants.
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