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I think mature and realistic are a bit hard to define exactly, so there’s much room for interpretation. I mean, many would say that Gabriel Knight games fall into that category, but games being about werewolves and stuff… uhm… yeah, not too realistic, and not necessarily mature either. Regardless of that, yes, there are such games being made all the time.

One that comes to mind is The Mystery of Oak Island.

http://www.oakisland-game.com

The only one i can think of is Blacksad, if you don’t mind that all the characters are animals.

Goetia was really good, and about as realistic as Black Mirror (if not more so).
Pillars of the Earth was also good, and realistic.
Unavowed and Detention also fit your criteria.

And frankly, these are all much more interesting games than the relatively mundane Black Mirror and Secret Files series - which I agree have become almost extinct.

I think Moonbird would have to help us out in relation to futuristic games. The examples she gave are all modern-day which tells me she is probably not interested.

I think this brand of realistic game we are talking about has always been rare. It’s not like they suddenly disappeared.

cyfoyjvx - 06 December 2018 04:54 PM

I think this brand of realistic game we are talking about has always been rare. It’s not like they suddenly disappeared.

Yeah, I think it’s almost impossible to come up with meaningful answers to OP’s question. There are so many qualifiers to exclude most games:

- realistic
- mature
- third person
- controlled by mouse
- no “silly-looking, stylized art games or brain-puzzlers”

and what some you who listed already released games missed:

- upcoming.

Especially the last part is challenging, because we have to rely on some press releases, Kickstarter pages, and other such to evaluate whether a particular game fits the description or not.

Some crime solving and mystery games probably are what the OP is looking for, but apart from The Mystery of Oak Island, none of the other upcoming games that I’m aware of (and there surely are game projects that I have never heard of) fits the description here.

GateKeeper - 06 December 2018 05:21 PM

and what some you who listed already released games missed:

- upcoming.

That part confused me to be honest.

The OP has not played games for several years, so why must they be upcoming? If they assumed that no suitable games have been released in the past few years, at least allow us to correct them.

Is goetia third person?
It does not look like that from the screenshots.

walas74 - 06 December 2018 06:22 PM

Oscar - 06 December 2018 05:27 PM

GateKeeper - 06 December 2018 05:21 PM

and what some you who listed already released games missed:

- upcoming.

That part confused me to be honest.

The OP has not played games for several years, so why must they be upcoming? If they assumed that no suitable games have been released in the past few years, at least allow us to correct them.

I think his/her concern was if that kind of games are dead, that’s why he/she asked about upcoming games, wasn’t asking about recommendations of that kind of games for playing.

I’m not sure I see a difference. There may have been a bunch of suitable games released in the past few years he/she hasn’t heard about. If the genre is “not completely dead”, which is the question being asked, it shouldn’t matter if it’s “not completely dead” in the near future or the recent past.

That’s why I have a feeling this is more about a complaint that games are not catering to the OP’s tastes, and that asking about already released games would prove him/her wrong. So it wasn’t asked.