Need more games like this

[WildlifeMarshal]

This was a sweet game. Can anyone recommend similar games? Strong focus on story, not too hard puzzles, well written. Point and Click or otherwise. Thanks.

[Artur Ditu]

Snatcher, game this is a tribute to. Really good and still holds up really well. The sega saturn version is the best and is easily and well emulated on pc. 10/10

[DreamerDream]

Gemini Rue? Pixel (but very good looking style) point and click game with very interesting story without strange things that you can find in typical point and click game for example hiding ladder into your pocket ....
The only problem for some people are shooting sections but they are pretty good for making some variety to gameplay from time to time. Worth to check it.

[WildlifeMarshal]

Yes I've played that. The shooting put me off. But maybe I should give it another chance.

[Garlic Jr.]

Aside from Kojima's Snatcher and Policenauts there really aren't a ton of games that live up to that standard like R.O.M. has done. The very few that are pretty close are fairly obscure and untranslated Japanese original games like Dead of Brain. Illusion City is somewhat close.

Some other old stuff on PC-98 PC-Engine and Sharp X68000 that once again you need to know Japanese to understand. You could maybe go with something like Deja Vu series, Uninvited or Shadowgate, although they're more puzzle oriented and not cyber-punky at all.

There are alot of bad doujin games that were released in the 80's an early 90's of this type of genre. You do have Rise of the Dragon which I think was released on PC and Sega CD. Space Adventure Cobra another Sega CD title. Although netiher of those are nearly as good as R.O.M. or Kojima's games.

Technobabylon is a fairly good cyberpunkish type of tale however. Although mechanically it's more traditional SCUMM style point an click affair.

[WildlifeMarshal]

Thanks Mickey for your comment. Doesn't seem like I'll be able to find anything like it I can play. Hopefully the game does well and the devs can make a follow - up of sorts.

[Garlic Jr.]

Oh hey, I did just end up editing my post to throw in Technobabylon as a recomendation. It doesn't quite capture the humor of a game like this but it is a fairly good cyberpunk dystopia setting story. Probably better than Gemini Rue an no shoothing moments.

[Garlic Jr.]

Originally posted by WildlifeMarshal:

Thanks Mickey for your comment. Doesn't seem like I'll be able to find anything like it I can play. Hopefully the game does well and the devs can make a follow - up of sorts.

Yeah you really kind of have to back to go back to play some fairly crude archaic pre Windows games to find something close to this in English. Maybe 1988's dos game Neuromancer.

[Artur Ditu]

Well i played Snatcher half a year ago, it was amazingly easy to emulate and still holds up (i mean ROM has exactly the same graphics) so to "not play it" can only be laziness. Every game recommended here is really really good. Gemini Rue is by far one of the best cyberpunk games out there with one of the best stories and very "noir" Technobabylon was great also. I have yet to try Orion - A Sci-Fi Visual Novel

[*^SaoSin^*]

It will be a long shot but I recommend you Tex Murphy - Tesla Effect.
You will know why once you see it despite difficulty with finding some objects it is brilliant game :D

[WildlifeMarshal]

Already played that one :)

[Amadan]

The puzzles are a bit trickier, but the one game I kept thinking about while playing ROM is one of my favorites- Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective for iOS and the Nintendo DS. Mystery, humor, and wheels within wheels within wheels...

[SilentStorm]

Well, i would like to recommend this one:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/274350/

[WildlifeMarshal]

Dropsy was great!

[SilentStorm]

Originally posted by WildlifeMarshal:

Dropsy was great!

Oh you already knew about it, then how about the Blackwell series?

An mystery series where you play with women who can see and talk to ghosts and see themselves involved in cases.

Samorost is also good.

This one is different, but Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok is also good...but it has rpg elements like combats and classes, with each class having their own solutions for puzzles and some puzzles of their own for replay value, it is free and on Steam though, and an excellent example that good games can be free so you have nothing to lose getting it.

[WildlifeMarshal]

Thanks I will look them up.

Blackwell added to wishlist.