I had a chance to review another point-and-click adventure off of Steam, and I took full advantage of that, let me tell you. Gabriel Knight: Sins of our Fathers, was released about 20 years ago from Sierra On-Line. If you aren’t familiar with Sierra On-Line, they created some of the best point and clicks with the King’s Quest series. If you haven’t heard of those, I can’t help you.

Just to let you know, my usual schtick for reviewing a video game is to play it for a few hours and then write about it. This one, I have been playing all week, and I honestly don’t want to quit until I solve the mystery.

Gabriel Knight is about a struggling author who lives in New Orleans. I can relate to the first part, but the game spends a lot of time immersing the player in New Orleans mysticism. The game is a lot of history into voodoo, and you need it to solve these voodoo-related murders.

The game is the usual wandering around, collecting items, and then using them to gain more puzzles. What makes Gabriel Knight different is there a lot of subtlety involved. You really have to pay attention and ask a lot of questions to get points. At times, the dialogue can get tedious, but I respected that there is a lot that I didn’t know about the history of voodoo that I learned here. Not that I really wanted to know, but let’s just say that I have more more knowledge if I ever encountered the dark side of voodoo before.

I really enjoyed playing this game, and it can be purchased on Steam for about $19.99 as well as the Phoenix Online Store.