Help me, Adventure Gamers! (looking for sci-fi game)
 

First of all - hi, I'm new here.

I'm a big adventure lover, that's all you need to know for now.

Now here's where I need your help:

I need my sci-fi fix and I need it now.

I'm looking for a great, good, mediocre, even bad adventure game that is set in a cyberpunk/ dark/ gothic future, not la-la land future a la Space Quest that means little to no humour & jokes.

I finished these three *brilliant* sci-fi games: The Longest Journey, The Moment of Silence and Blade Runner and I am dying to play something similiar.

It should have 2D prerendered or 3D graphics - I don't think I'd immerse myself in something looking like old Sierra games.

I'm also not looking for sci-fi Myst clones - it has to have dialogues, NPCs and living, breathing dark world.

Are there any other games you could recommend? Yes, I know about The Longest Journey 2 but the wait is simply KILLING me!

Anything that fits the bill, really. It doesn't need to score A- in the review section as long as it's dark sci-fi!

Thanks for your help :)

Welcome to the forum. :)

It's a bit different than the three you listed, but you might try Voyage.

You could give Beneath a Steel Sky a try. It's quite cyberpunky, although you might have to put up with some bad jokes nonetheless. :)

You can download it for free from the ScummVM site (and play it using their software), so it's a cheap recommendation too!

Hello Borys, and welcome to AGs. :)

The only game that really comes to mind at the moment is Nightlong. I liked the puzzles and general construction of the game, but found the plot and characters boring (but I know others think otherwise). It seems to fit your tastes rather well.

Come to think of it, the Tex Murphy series might possibly suit your tastes too. The Pandora Directive is especially good, though the others are fine too.

Try Hell, Innocent until Caught, Beneath a Steel Sky and as fov already said Voyage.

As soon as I remeber more games that fit your demands I will let you know.

Cheers and welcome!

Omikron

These are older SciFi games:
The Ward
Darkside of the Moon
Journeyman Project Trilogy
Chronomaster (has sarcastic humor)

The Dig
Mission Critical

lol just read the 3d bit, my bad :P

I'd recommend Neuromancer, but it's old.

It (or rather, William Gibson, who wrote the novel it's based on) is pretty much the father of cyberpunk, though.

If you're okay with some platformey aspects, you might enjoy Beyond Good & Evil. It shares a lot with the adventure genre, though.
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/adventure/beyondgoodevil/

How about legacy dark shadows?

Well he did say he didn't mind it being an extremely bad game ;) Still, I wouldn't recommend that game to anyone, well, except when I'm drunk perhaps.

Hmm. I haven't played it myself, but isn't "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" supposed to be a really, really dark SF adventure?

Apparently you can even still order it from Harlan Ellison's official website. (I need to do that myself one of these days.)

Peace & Luv, Liz

Oh, I forgot Ripper. It has some good parts in it where you enter cyberspace.

Dreamweb, Rise of the Dragon, Angel Devoid, The Uncertainty Machine, Orion Conspiracy, BloodNet, B.A.T., The Koshan Conspiracy (B.A.T. 2), The Dead City, Zero Critical, Johnny Mnemonic...

EDIT: Snatcher, although it's for the Sega CD, not PC.

"Circuit's Edge" is one of the last games released under the Infocom label. It's OLD (1990 or thereabouts), so don't expect 3-D graphics (or even very good graphics at all). But it's by George Alec Effinger, author of several excellent cyberpunk novels, and the game itself takes place in the same Arabian cyberpunk world. Very highly recommended if you can overcome the dated technology.

--Josh

If you have Snatcher then you can try running it with a Sega CD emulator, it´s easy to find on the net.:)

I'll third Hideo Kojima's Snatcher.

Hmm having read the brief more, i'd agree with wots been said...

how aboot;

Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller
Nightlong: Union City

Another nice Sci-Fi game is Noctropolis. It's an oldie and you might have some trouble finding it, but I really enjoyed it!

I would also recommend The Dreamweb, Rise of the Dragon, the Tex Murphy Series and maybe even Phantasmagoria 2 :P

I might be tempted to throw REAH into the mix. It might not be cyberpunk, but it is certainly sci-fi with very little, if any humor. I'd go for the DVD version if it can be found. The endless disk swapping in the CD version was a major distraction.

Let me add Dark Side of the Moon to the list

Cyberpunk your thang? Definitely play Neuromancer, then.

Anachronox
 

Hey,

I'm going out on a limb here but if you enjoy Sci Fi games I really think you should check out Anachronox. It's a Tom Hall game that came out several years ago, it's got rpg elements but in my eyes it seriously was one of the best Sci Fi adventure games I'd ever played. Honestly, check it out.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/anachronox/
http://www.planetanachronox.com

Thanks, guys.

I hunted Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy and I like it *very much* so far. Too bad the game is really old and the voices, music are recorded in shitty quality... bah, game is at least good and *exactly* what I was looking for.

BTW anyone knows if there is a sequel to The Moment of Silence being made?

Not presently, there isn't. House of Tales are currently working on Overclocked.

Thanks man, I'm checking those games on review sites and GOD DAMN... I think I played Dreamweb on Amiga, or at least I launched it once... I must obtain it now... MUST...

Well, happy hunting. Most are worth the effort involved in tracking them down.

I know several places where you can get some of them, but... I believe talking about it is generally shunned around here. :P

Im actually also looking for thoose kinds of sci-fi adventure games.
i recently completed Moment Of Silence. Which is now my all-time favorite adventure game. I just loved the story, "Conspiracy, future, story"
(i would LOVE to see a sequel)

Anyways, i also remember playing Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy "back" in the days. Which i also enjoyed alot!

I've been searching for some time now, looking for a scifi adventure with conspiracy / future setting. But i havent seen anything really interesting yet.

If anyone out there, has a hidden gem. Then please fire away ;)

(please, someone make a Moment Of Silence movie!) :D

by the way, im not really into thoose really old games. So if you guys have some suggestions, it would be cool if it was made after year 2000 :D

I want to mention Culpa Innata, a good received sci-fi adventure. Next I'd like to mention the old Scyndicate series which are way up in cyberpunk lane.

Culpa Innata looks pretty good. I'll give that a try!

Thanks ;)

Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy has been mentioned a lot in this thread. I gotta agree that its a great game.

Man, Syndicate brings me back! What an awesome game. One of the first non-adventures I really got into.

Also gotta love the Manhunter games. Not as much cyberpunk as dystopian, but they're excellent games (even though they're pretty obsolete).

Its worth getting a copy with the original box. The game comes with a book, "diary of a madman" which is printed like a hand-scrawled diary and is pretty awesome. Its a cool read and sets the mood of the game brilliantly. There are some notes in the diary which you'll need to complete the game also.

Still, great game. Can't think of many adventure games where your mission is to murder people to satisfy the creepy robed dream men.

There is an old game called Synnergist that might be up your alley, although it's set in 2010, 1996's future. But, it looks very dated unfortunately. Then of course Blade Runner

Culpa Innata rocked. Can't wait for the sequel, the release date just seems to escape further and further... :(

Another recent and good sci-fi adventure was Perry Rhodan.

Nikopol: Secrets of the immortals

Holy thread resurrection, Batman.