What is a still screen game called?

[kianti]

I'm not a lover of the moving screen games and much prefer the still screen ones - can anyone tell me if these have a name?

 

[exdeath]

Point and click adventure or some variant.

 

[Rakehellion]

What is a still screen game?

 

[cmdrdredd]

Do you mean like Myst and Riven style of games? Where you click on the scene to get an action?

 

[American Gunner]

What you are looking for is a thing called a puzzle. Enjoy!

 

[Wingznut]

Maybe like Pac-Man is a single screen game?

 

[Sulaco]

Graphic Adventures or Point and Click games.

Although I'm not sure why you'd be asking in the console game forum. They are much more a PC style game (hence, point and "click"), and are usually older.

There are many classics though (not Myst) that are worth checking out.

 

[HeXen]

Graphic Adventures or Point and Click games.

Although I'm not sure why you'd be asking in the console game forum. They are much more a PC style game (hence, point and "click"), and are usually older.

There are many classics though (not Myst) that are worth checking out.

Nowadays they are more common and popular on Tablets. Even Myst and Riven got Tablet ports. I really got into the "hidden object" style adventure games a while back, some of them are really good plus they are more relaxing and often not a dead end if you can't figure out a specific puzzle like classic adventures often are.

 

[Dumac]

Are you talking about pac-man or pong?

 

[Chapbass]

I really thought OP meant something like this:

 

[Rakehellion]

I really thought OP meant something like this:

That's what I had in mind too.