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Sorry, if this thread’s been done, but I’m new.

I’m looking for adventure games. Feeling nostalgic. I don’t care for for “funny” adventures games. I like my adventures games dark, gritty and noir-ish

Some of my favourites are

Beneath a Steel Sky
Blade Runner
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

I usually like the noir/hard boiled detective style.

I don’t care for Tex Murphy since it’s a parody of hard boild detective genre. I like hard boiled / film noir adventures like I like my whiskey. Straight, no ice

I know you mentioned the fact that you don’t like ‘funny’ adventure games, but Discworld Noir certainly fits the hard boiled description, in spite of its fantasy setting.

yeah, It’s kinda old. I played years ago

I don’t hate funny games though. I loved the Larry and Space Quests series.

I’m looking more for 21st century games (don’t have to be, but in the nineties I played a tone of adventure games)

I remember playing a game with a friend around 2006. It started with your guy in a street, it was raining, you had a trenchcoat and you were some kind of ex-cop or PI.

And you had to find missing kids. Can’t remember that game for the love of God.

I’m also looking forward to Grim Fandango HD. Even though it’s also a funny game. But I never played it and people say it’s very great.

Also never played any of the Indiana Jones adventures. Still worth playing or have they aged to much?

(sorry for bad English, I’m Dutch)

Thanks

Bedankt

Nuja, ouder dan Larry of Space Quest kan het allicht niet zijn

Humor isn’t a complete turn-off but I was let down by Tex Murphy. Sci-fi Noir Detective Adventure game. But for my taste it was was too silly. More like a parody of the genre. Which is fine, and lots of people love it.

Just like I like Space Quest, which is a sci-fi parody. But I was expectiong Tex Murphy more Blade Runner :o

Which also had some humor, although dark humor.

And Beneath a Steel Sky even more so. Still one of my favorite games. The blend of noir and cyberpunk really does it for me.

There’s just something about playing a guy down on his luck wearing a trenchcoat and sporting a fedora investigating some crime.

I also like sci-fi. One of the first adventures I played were those old Star Trek ones. Judgement Rites, 25th Anniversery

You’ll like Gemini Rue (2011) which won many plaudits around here. Faust: The Seven Games of the Soul (2000) is closer to IHNMAIMS and also good. Have you tried Anachronox (2001)? It has some turn-based fighting but if you liked Blade Runner you should be fine - excellent dark/noir sci-fi story and characters (and most importantly, trenchcoats!). Another I haven’t played is Martian Gothic: Unification (2000) but I’ve heard it’s quite decent. If you don’t mind a touch of horror there’s also Last Half of Darkness: Society of the Serpent Moon (2011), which has a great noir atmosphere and was one of my favourites from that year.

I’m assuming you’ve played the Gabriel Knight series, right?  If not, definitely check out at least GK1 and 2.  Enjoying 3 requires a willful disregard of the terrible 3D graphics and awkward controls, so it can be hard to get into.

For contemporary adventures with a detective atmosphere, definitely try out the Blackwell series by Wadjet Eye.  It’s done in a classic 90s pixel art style, but the story is very solid, and builds upon itself nicely from game to game.  They’re all great, and the series gets better with each iteration.  I think there are 5 in all.

If you don’t mind a dit of….darker tones (Horror noir - Lovecraft) or 1st person, Darkness Within: in pursuit of Loath Nolder is also a nice option.

Still Life - I’m surprised no one mentioned it.