History Main / PointAndClickGame

Point-and-click games are both a popular past time for online enthusiasts and designers and officially produced product games available on the market. Rather than moving around a 2D or 3D character the player must use their sense of logic and their mouse to find and assemble various clues scattered around the scene in order to escape a locked area, uncover a mystery or complete a quest. Sometimes the adventure will be a heavily plot-based epic adventure; other times there will be little plot whatsoever. The games are usually (though not exclusively) first person games, and can be of various genres though the most popular appear to be horror and, naturally, mystery games. Surreal games are another popular genre. Many games strive to create vivid, highly atmospheric settings which the player will enjoy exploring.

* [[{{Ptitleswfyluia}} Nine Persons, Nine Hours, Nine Doors]]

* ''[[http://www.albartus.com/motas/ Motas]]'' (''Mystery of Time and Space'') is believed to be one of the earliest Point and Click games created and has been the blueprint for many of the games created since. It also invented the Escape The Room genre.

* ''TheWhiteChamber'', a horror/sci-fi themed game which stars a girl who finds herself in a coffin on a spaceship and [[NightmareFuel ARGH OH GOD]]

* TelltaleGames BackToTheFuture games.

* ''StarTrek:Borg'' is a memorable ''StarTrek'' tie-in example.

* ''Fogfall'' is a creepy escape-the-room (or rather escape-the=bomb-shelter) game set around a post atomic disaster.
* ''{{Exmortis}}'' and it's sequel is a Horror-based Point and Click game dealing with the end of the world and the rise of a demonic overlord. Warning:[[spoiler: There's a DownerEnding. Plus it's [[NightmareFuelUnleaded downright scary]].]]

* ''[[ElviraGames The Elvira games]]'' created by Horror Soft (now AdventureSoft). The player was a random guy, hired via an ad in the classifieds to save Elvira from some sort of supernatural menace. They were a hyrbid of adventure games and old-school RPGs, and featured [[TheManyDeathsOfYou more death scenes than any given Sierra game could dream of.]]

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* {{Adventure Game}}s, such as by {{Sierra}}, LucasArts etc. A mostly lost art. The game follows a storyline progression but the player must point and click through (with some dialog boxes) to solve problems and advance. Scripted in detail with elaborate stories, painted background graphics, and ChooseYourOwnAdventure side-plots. Their biggest heyday came in the '90s, followed by a bust in the wake of ''{{Doom}}'', although excellent variations continue to be made from time to time.

* Search and Mystery Games - The player must utilise their logical skills and exploration abilities to uncover a mystery, find a solution to a problem or even uncover a crime.
* Exploration Games - Such as MOTAS, are mainly a combination of Escape the Room games and Exploration games, requiring . Often these games contain higher levels of story-telling.

* Eduanimation products which were often endorsed by schools, or otherwise sold as external "fun and learning" activities such as the ''Logical Journey of the Zoombinis''.

* Exploration Games - Such as MOTAS, are mainly a combination of Escape the Roomn games and Exploration games, requiring . Often these games contain higher levels of story-telling.

* Room escape games - the player awakens (usually) to find themselves trapped in a locked room. These games usually involve little back story asides from what is necessary to get the player into the room in the first place.

* {{Adventure Game}}s, such as by {{Sierra}}, LucasArts etc. A mostly lost art. The game follows a storyline progression but the player must point and click through (with some dialog boxes) to solve problems and advance. Scripted in detail with ChooseYourOwnAdventure side-plots.

* Unexpectedly, Starcraft II. In the campaign mode, between each mission (which, as you would expect is RTS) you wander your flagship in point-and-click style.