


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.
