Ever since then, every show, movie, book or video game that featured some sort of supernatural element, that was a bit spooky without being outright horror, was classified as just that: Mystery.Īlso, in the 1990s, there were a ton of adventure games that ended up populating the mystery genre. It all started in the 1990s when nobody had any idea what genre to stick the X-Files TV show into. That hard to define, catch all genre for titles that feature plots in which something is strangely… off. #18 Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in DisguiseĪh, mystery.