Games like Mystery Isles

The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor is an award-winning interactive horror from Stefan Vogt, the acclaimed author of Hibernated and The Curse of Rabenstein. Take on the role of novelist Thomas King and his wife Cora as they move into a remote Scottish manor house, just days before Christmas 1986. Seeking inspiration for his next book, Thomas begins to explore the history of Blackwood Manor, only to unc…

Have you ever dreamed about a journey far beyond the known regions of the universe? Close to Alpha Centauri, Olivia Lund is on the trail of one of mankind's greatest secrets and a thousand-year-old mystery. After nearly 20 years in hypersleep, she wakes up alone on her stranded ship, the Polaris-7. The artificial intelligence Io seems to be her only remaining friend now. Hibernated 1 - This Place…

"Do you ever get a feeling of deja vu?" asked Sam. "I feel like we've told this story before." "Don't worry Sam things have changed since we first told your story. For a start, we have both grown older and with the distance of time we found a few errors." "Like what?" asked Sam indignantly.  "Well, we left some players stranded in a jail cell with no way out, other players stranded in the back of …

"Will you stop doing that!" snapped Sam. "Stop what?" I asked. "Re-releasing the same cases all over again." "But Sam, we covered this last time. There have been significant changes since we first told the tale. I know you are going to ask what so here is a list. 1st.  We are now using DAAD instead of PAWS which means we can reach a wider audience. 2nd.  We freed up some memory, and as a result, w…

After crashing your plane at sea, you end up drifting to a small island, with not much to survive. You explore, and find out the island was inhabited, years ago. But why did the people leave? And why is there a fence around the white house at the top of the hill? "Sizzler! [...] Outstanding, one of the best modern text adventures to date." -- ZZap!64"The game's density is very satisfying. More th…

A modern creation for retro Macintosh. Detect and translate the supernatural!   What is MacGhost? The purpose of MacGhost is to create a channel for ghosts and other paranormal entities to communicate with us. MacGhost will search for supernatural messages and translate them to English. It'll speak the messages using spooky 1980's speech synthesis! Try it out on a real 80's Macintosh! It'…

StarGiraf is an Atari 2600 space shooter featuring a mutant Giraffe with an incredibly long neck and the ability to shoot lasers. So it's definitively the "perfect beast" for space! How to play - Use arrow keys to move around, and avoid getting hit by the flying enemies.- Press "X" to shoot lasers (you can hold down the button for continuous fire) Looking for a challenge? My best score is…

73%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

graphics, music

73% User Score Based on 71 reviews

Command four space vessels and a band of revolutionary pirates into an all-consuming battle against impossible odds, because there just isn't enough Space for everyone!

78%Game Brain Score

story, graphics

replayability, grinding

76% User Score Based on 318 reviews

Critic Score 87%Based on 1 reviews

Join intrepid sailor and recent island castaway Mina as she explores the hidden secrets within the Jules Verne classic inspired Mysterious Island. Gather key articles left from the island's previous inhabitants and combine them in unique and interesting ways to stay alive and stay hopeful for rescue. Surviving means more than living off this lush land, but also fending off the haunting resident sp…

94%Game Brain Score

graphics, gameplay

music, story

94% User Score Based on 338 reviews

Rogue is a dungeon crawling video game first developed by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman around 1980. It was a favorite on college Unix systems in the early to mid-1980s, in part due to the procedural generation of game content.