My lamest obsession is that I like to watch complete playthroughs or do complete playthroughs myself a lot of FMV-based video games mostly from the 90s. I adore them no matter how badly written and acted so many of them are, probably that’s part of the reason I DO love them, and seeing the character actors who pop up or sometimes they are just performed by the production team themselves.
Some favorites include Harvester, Dark Seed, Phantasmagoria, Ripper, Night Trap.
This one isn’t FMV, but The Town With No Name is the greatest game to watch anyone play.
It’s Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, which is probably my favorite adventure game period.
Also if you enjoy FMV adventure games maybe stay tuned to my YouTube channel for something that might interest you very soon.
I absolutely love Under A Killing Moon and The Pandora Directive.
It still fucking hurts that The Tesla Effect successfully crowdfunded and released, only to have a shitty transphobic joke in the early game that made me drop it so fast.
FMV games are a favorite of mine, dating back to the arcade days of Laserdisc. Astron Belt, Firefox (based on the movie, not the browser), Us Vs. Them, and— of course— Dragon’s Lair.
Dragon’s Lair was the first arcade game that I ever “beat”. I did it in 1983 at just 11 years old. I had a crowd watching, too. Good times.
My favorite FMV game gameplay-wise is Road Blaster/Avenger. There’s not much in the cheese department if I remember correctly, but it’s a neat anime car chase scene with QTEs. I remember liking the iOS port, which doesn’t appear to be available any more.
A newer FMV I really like is The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker. You take over for a psychiatrist who was murdered by one of his patients & you have to figure out which one did it, and murdered doctor aside, nothing else is wrong. Certainly nothing of an eldritch nature.
Time Gal is amazing! And Braindead 13 is also cool!
Modern FMV games are cool too, like Dark Nights with Poe and Munroe, from the same people who made Doctor Dekker
Without a doubt gotta give it to Fox Hunt which has a surprisingly stacked cast, is published by Capcom and is genuinely bonkers as hell. Rob Lowe showing up to play an absolute cartoon of a man is hands down one of the best parts of the entire experience.
I think Dragon’s Lair is the only FMV game I’ve ever played - and I don’t get it. I’ve played it several times and always die about 20 seconds in. 
Burn: Cycle, The 7th Guest, Her Story, and The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker are some of my favorites.
I have a massive soft spot for Night Trap. Got multiple versions of it (Mega CD, 3DO, 25th Anniversary PC, Switch).
Yes, it isn’t the greatest game ever, but it’s good old fashioned cheesy fun!
I love Night Trap! It’s just too hard for its own good.
It absolutely is, the modern remake for PC and PS4 and stuff does a decent job easing the difficulty some and of course the fidelity of the video is as high as you’re gonna get now.
Command and Conquer.
I rest my case.
The FMV game that stands out for me has to be “Contradiction: Spot The Liar!” Then you start seeing the same actors popping up again and again in subsequent FMV games you play: YouTube
I discovered Contradiction off the back of “At Dead of Night”, another pretty good FMV game that I haven’t beaten yet because my nerves are too delicate to handle it 
Both were done by Baggy Cat Entertainment, and on checking their website I have seen they have made a start on “At Dead of Night 2: The Great Hugo”! I need put on my brave girl pants and beat the first one.
Edit 1: I realise I may be thinking of FMV games from a different era, oops.
Edit 2: One day I will figure out how to embed a video properly.
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Yes that’s actually what the game’s called lol i had to put this bit because of the minimum character limit
The link needs to be on its own line.
Another all time favorite that isn’t an FMV adventure strictly speaking but integrates FMVs wonderfully is Realms of the Haunting. Really would like this one to get a modern port, because its default controls and UI are atrocious.
Ah thank you! 
I would also love to see Realms of the Haunting get a modern port.
from the older days I absolutely loved TOONSTRUCK with Christopher Llody.
one game that doesn’t quite fit the FMV universe but is still remarkably great combining film and with games is Remedies Quantum Break which was basically a full TV miniseries. I mean the fact that they had several people from The Wire cast did carry it a lot, but like many of Remedies projects its just great in terms of embracing video games as storytelling medium.
Also played some of the more recent full FMV games The Complex and Dead Reset which were not so great. The Complex especially is really trash, but on the entertaining end. During pt of Dead Reset I had to do some cooking and my girlfriend took over and made what I would say the worst choices possible until the very end so I got probably the worst experience out of it 
