Mystery Games recommendations?

[Mangoose]

Hey, what are some good mystery games? As in, less visual puzzles and similar "gamey" elements, or even short riddles, and more or mostly having to intuitively figure out an answer based on a series of clues. I have figuratively no experience with adventure games, but instead got this desire from playing that shitty Secret World beta, which still had these cool "Investigation" missions where I'd get a clue in the form of a picture or a poem, and have to research online to figure out the answer. Basically the more cryptic the game is, the better.

 

[SCO]

floor 13

edit: missed keyword "online"

 

[Mangoose]

Nah not requiring online/outside research, because I'm assuming that's extra rare.

 

[Kz3r0]

I can think only of this, not very complicated by the way:

In Memoriam (known as Missing: Since January in the US) is an adventure video game for Windows and Macintosh. It uses alternate reality-style gameplay, in which the player receives e-mails from other in-game characters, including the game's main antagonist. The player needs to find information and clues to the games' puzzles on the Internet, both from real websites, and from specially-created websites that have been mixed in with other "real-world" domains.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Memoriam_(video_game)

 

[Jaesun]

The Myst Series (just ignore the fucking shit IV).

 

[Redlands]

You should try the Laura Bow games; particularly the first one. You have to be mindful and quite often pay attention to small details to get a good score at the end, and there's only one gameish puzzle and then it's not really much of one. The second one is good as well; it just has a few problems and things I don't think are that great (a very disconnected first act, occasional bugs where you get trapped in the taxicabs, chorish game mechanics for crossing the street, etc). On the other hand, you need to pay more attention in the second one, I think, to figure out what's really going on; the first at the end kind of gives you too many clues.

 

[SCO]

murders in space/murders in venice

look carefully at the scanned manual.

 

[circ]

Planetfall and Stationfall. They're a little more puzzle-y than some Infocom games like say Suspended, which is pretty much just typing variations of the same keywords at the right time.

Also, later and possibly with voices depending on the version and pretty mysterious: Mission Critical from Legend.

 

[Ion Prothon II]

What about Shivers?

 

[Guido Fawkes]

The Gabriel Knight games are pretty solid mystery thrillers. They also have points system/optional content that rewards investigating more than is required to advance the game.

 

[Guido Fawkes]

Also, check "The Last Express", pretty original mistery adventure.

 

[Redlands]

What about Shivers?

Have you even PLAYED Shivers? It's gamey with a capital G (and A and M and E and Y but whatever).