Old 90's Mac Game Murder Mystery

#15 Heavy Rain
  • Developer: Quantic Dream
  • Publisher: Sony Computer Interactive Entertainment
  • Platforms: PS3, PS4
  • Release: February 23, 2010

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Oh what a game this could have been. David Cage’s masterpiece. A long time before the game was anywhere close to going gold, the developers started showcasing their – admittedly astounding – technology. It was supposed to allow for truly emotional performances by the digital actors.

The final product didn’t prove to be too convincing for a lot of people, however the multi-protagonist hunt for the Origami Killer succeeded in finding a lot of fans nonetheless. Overall, the mystery players are left to solve is the identity of the Origami Killer. This mass murderer is ruthless as he kidnaps children and drowns them through means of rising rain water. For the most part, this game feels like a cinematic experience with not only exploration being a key to solving the mystery but a slew of choices presented for the player. Depending on your actions will determine just what ending your receive and if enjoyed the more recently released Quantic Dream’s title, Detroit: Become Human, then chances are you will definitely want to check this game out.

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#14 7th Guest
  • Developer: Trilobyte
  • Publisher: Virgin Interactive Entertainment
  • Platforms: PC
  • Release: April 1, 1993

Starting off the big era of CD-ROM games, this creepy adventure game tasks the player with solving an array of twenty one puzzles in a mysterious old mansion, unveiling the secrets the place holds. Revolutionary at the time, 7th Guest featured intricately rendered graphics and real actors in full motion video sequences that told the story of the mansion. Likewise, the game proved to be a big factor in boosting the sale of CD-ROM drives, and kicked off the FMV driven interactive movie adventure game genre of the early 90s.

#13 Phantasmagoria
  • Developer: Sierra On-Line
  • Publisher: Sierra On-Line
  • Platforms: PC, Sega Saturn
  • Release: August 24, 1995

Delivered on no less than seven CD-ROMs, Phantasmagoria was the embodiment of the mid-90s interactive movie fad. Controversial due to its sexually loaded horror content, the game stirred a lot of discussions about harsher age restrictions when it was released in 1995. Launched with a lot of surrounding hype, Phantasmagoria proved to be a best-seller.

Experienced today though, almost twenty years later, it has aged quite badly, the script being rather weak, the acting wooden and the gameplay not very inspired. Nonetheless, the game was one of the biggest success stories of Sierra’s star designer Roberta Williams.

#12 Gemini Rue

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  • Developer: Wadjey Eye Games
  • Publisher: Wadjet Eye Games
  • Platforms: PC, iOS, Android
  • Release: February 24, 2011

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Heralded by many critics as a return to form of the venerated graphic adventure genre, this noir cyberpunk story should prove a breakthrough success for indie developer Wadjet Eye Games. Released in 2011, Gemini Rue features a deliberately retro style throughout, from environments to gameplay mechanics. The game tells an expansive science fiction story with a lot of twists and turns, set in the 23rd century.

The game was not only beloved for its gameplay but the narrative storyline and graphics that looked as if it could have been a classic retro adventure title. Gamers will be going through the title as a point-and-click adventure where you’ll navigate your character throughout the map, collect items, speak with NPCs and solve puzzles.

#11 The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery

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  • Developer: Sierra On-Line
  • Publisher: Sierra On-Line
  • Platforms: PC
  • Release: 1995

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Another Sierra FMV title, this second entry to the Gabriel Knight series sets the eponymous investigator of the supernatural on the tracks of a werewolf, that is on the prowl in quaint Bavaria. The game delves in Bavarian history and folklore, featuring locations as Neuschwanstein castle along with its plot revolving around a lost opera from German composer Richard Wagner and the famed Bavarian King Ludwig II. Gameplay takes place with actors filmed on a set, performing all the actions, which required the game to take up a whopping six CD-ROMs, making it an enormously huge title at its time of release in 1995. However, gamers can today get it as a single download through GoG and Steam.