

During the heyday of the graphic adventure genre in the early 90s, there was an outright deluge of weird, more mature themed titles, the worst of which heavily featured one of 90s video games worst sins in full motion video (FMV) sequences. Those were usually adventure games for older people, for more adult audiences, that deemed themselves too grown up, too mature to deal with the kiddie stuff of the popular, cartoonish adventures. Ever since then, every show, movie, book or video game that featured some sort of supernatural element, that was a bit spooky without being outright horror, was classified as just that: Mystery.Īlso, in the 1990s, there were a ton of adventure games that ended up populating the mystery genre. It all started in the 1990s when nobody had any idea what genre to stick the X-Files TV show into. That hard to define, catch all genre for titles that feature plots in which something is strangely… off. #18 Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in DisguiseĪh, mystery.
