Firstly sorry if this isn’t the right place for a “to of my joystick” post, but couldn’t find a suitable community with a quick glance.
The game I’m looking for the name of is an adventure game from the last 10 years (might be point and click), screen by screen with photographic backgrounds sort of isometric. Story is the protagonists friend has gone missing and there’s a quarantine event happening, I seem to remember the setting being in London, there was a pub where you have to speak to a woman at the back.
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I also remember a scene on the street outside the missing friends flat (apartment) and the protagonist talking up to a woman hanging out an upstairs window. Think he convinces her to throw down the spare key for his friends flat.
I FOUND IT! I ACTUALLY FOUND IT! I had exhausted all my more targeted ways of finding it and resorted to Google images searching for “point and click game bar” and found a screenshot I recognised.
The game is Mudlarks.
Sorry for the couple of details I misremembered, and thank you to everyone trying to help.
I find AI to be really good at this kind of stuff. If you give it as much detail as you can, including random tidbits, it can often find exactly what you’re looking for. I’ve done it a few times, and it’s always found it with, what I believe, was not very good information. If it doesn’t give it to you, just keep adding random pieces of information.
What you’ve provided doesn’t quite seem like enough, because I tried it and didn’t get much luck. The best it came up with was The Silent Age. Try answering these questions:
It’s not The Silent Age.
I’ve never played it, but perhaps Mask of the Rose?
It’s not this one’s sorry.
What about The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker?
No it wasn’t fmv, interesting game though.
Unlikely to be it since it’s nowhere near from the last 10 years, but CITY 2000 seems like it could be similar at least artistically?
I think the best I can recommend is looking through Steam, searching for “London” and the mystery genre. I didn’t quite catch anything there that fit at a glance, but maybe you will. Similarly could be done on GOG, since it sounds like it could potentially be an older game? Or itch, but maybe the best way to search for that would be by googling
london missing friend mystery site:itch.io
.I’m assuming a modern setting, with no supernatural elements and the mystery genre, so that’s the best I could do. It’s going to be very hard to find something without some details being fixed. Point and click? Photos or isometric? Is the player character visible? Do they have any identifying details? Does the pub have a name? Anything like that could do a lot.
You say you watched someone play it on youtube then you might be able to search your youtube viewing history?
Looked though stream and itch.io with the filters and can’t see anything that’s jogging my memory. Also it’s not CITY 2000, sorry.
Is there any other information you can recall about the game? Platform, character design, art style, etc?
PC only I think, the at style was interesting it was photo/high quality drawn. I remember seeing it on YouTube but can’t remember whose channel I was watching it on.
Are you sure it was London? Or was it just a city you thought was London?
My very first thought was Syberia, but that game is much older than 10 years old.
Do you recall the platform(s)?
Just PC as far as I know.