Technobabylon

Publishers Wadjet Eye have steadily elevated themselves to the position of modern monarchs of the point-and-click adventure genre. Every Wadjet Eye release since 2006's The Shivah has been worthwhile to play, even the ones they did not create themselves. All three books in the Blackwell series—Gemini Rue, Shardlight, and Primordia—are modern masterpieces, but Technobabylon by Technocrat is, in our opinion, the best of the lot.

The city of Newton is governed by Central, an AI that sees and manages everything with an unknowable goal in the year 2087. The internet has developed into the trance, an intoxicating virtual realm. The Mindjacker is a serial killer who kills inexplicably and with no consequences. Charlie Regis, Max Lao, and Trance junkie Latha Sesame are all assigned to the Mindjacker case. Each sheds light on a different aspect of the narrative, which brilliantly develops in this terrifyingly plausible universe.

Technobabylon is raised to the high echelons of the best adventure games by its riddles. Every answer to a conundrum makes enlightening common sense. Not sure of an address? Google it using your in-game phone. Can't get a door open? Ask the all-seeing, all-controlling Central to open it for you, call the person who holds the key, or simply kick it down. Also, it is cyberpunk, which is a plus in our book.

Website: https://store.steampowered.com/app/307580/Technobabylon/