


Point-and-click / Puzzle / Adventure / Fantasy / Thriller
Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror is a 2D adventure game played from a third-person perspective. Via a point-and-click interface, the player guides protagonist George Stobbart through the game's world and interacts with the environment by selecting from multiple commands, while Nicole Collard is also a playable character in selected portions of the game. The player controls George's movements and can engage in dialogue with other characters through conversation trees to gain hints of what needs to be done to solve the puzzles or to progress the plot. He also have to collect objects that can be used with either other collectible objects, parts of the scenery or with other people in order to solve puzzles and progress in the game. By right-clicking on an object, the player gets a description and clues. The player character's death is possible if he makes a wrong decision.

Point-and-click / Puzzle / Adventure / Horror / Thriller
Become a young journalist and try to find out what caused a sudden solar eclipse in Transylvania and why people are missing. A hidden-object game with an intense story and beautiful, atmospheric graphics. Unravel the dark mysteries of Transylvania together with Emily Davis, the news reporter. Let yourself be drawn into an incredible sequence of events. Investigate an inexplicable, long-lasting solar eclipse and the equally mysterious disappearance of the scientist researching it. Help Emily find hundreds of ingeniously hidden clues that bring you closer to unraveling the mystery amongst them, a compendium of lore about vampires and Count Dracula. Brace yourself for many hours of intriguing, secret-filled gameplay.

Point-and-click / Adventure / Thriller / Drama
Police Quest: In Pursuit of The Death Angel is an adventure game in which gameplay is centered on interacting with the environment to resolve a series of scenarios. These largely revolve around typical police work, such as securing crime scenes and recovering stolen vehicles, while following proper duty procedures. The original release of the game required the player to type in the desired actions, such as opening doors, pressing buttons, or firing one's gun, while the remake allows the player to use the mouse to select actions from a menu and objects in the environment.

Tantei Jingūji Saburō ~ Mikan no Rupo is a Japanese style adventure game in the detective/mystery genre. It is the 5th game in the Jake Hunter / Tantei Jingūji Saburō series, being released between Toki no Sugiyuku Mama ni... (1990) and Yume no Owari ni (1998). While following the same formula of the previous titles, the game features a "Zapping System", allowing the player to see the story from the perspective of other characters as well as Jingūji. Also featured in this title is car chase and following suspects in the form of 3D mini-games, although these features would rarely be seen again in future releases.

Adventure / Visual Novel / Horror / Thriller
A remake of the first episode of Umineko no Naku Koro ni for console releases.

Point-and-click / Puzzle / Adventure / Fantasy / Thriller
The DS port of Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut offers the same experience as the Wii version. However, the game contains no spoken dialogue but only subtitles due to the platform's size limits.

Adventure / Indie / Visual Novel / Fantasy / Thriller
A mystery romance visual novel about newly married couple Jiwon and Somang who one day meet the devil, "Mephie".

Adventure / Thriller / Mystery
The Witness was the seventh game released by interactive fiction pioneers Infocom. The player character is a detective who has been summoned to the Cabeza Plana, California office of Mr. Linder, a millionaire. Linder fears that his life is in danger... and indeed, as he sits in his office with the player, he is murdered before the player's eyes. The player then must solve the murder.