Horror puzzle games

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My girlfriend is desperately looking for a specific type of game that she simply can't find :(

She has just got into PC gaming after I bought and built a new PC. Specs are:

i5 4430 @ 3.60
8GB 1600 RAM
GTX 750ti
120GB SSD + 1TB HDD

It's a fairly decent little rig, all built on a micro board (H81 micro ATX) in a micro case. So there isn't much worry of playing modern games at least at high setting (plays at 1600x1200).

She is looking for horror style games, zombies, ghosts, demons etc, but focused on puzzles, not a typical 'hack 'n slash' game. Something that takes thought and time to progress to the next area. If you can't complete the puzzle, no progress.

Story is pretty important too.

Other than that, I've been trying to think of games she will like that don't meet the above criteria, I showed her Dragon Age last night due to it being on the steam midweek madness deal and it's one of my favorite games. She loved the look of it so I bought it as a gift for her. Not sure if she has played it yet.

She just doesn't like the idea of modern shoot first ask questions later type of games, stuff that isn't focused on killing all the time. Not because of the killing, she feels it just detracts from other aspects in games.

As I'm writing this, I'm thinking of Legend of Grimrock... It's a fairly decent dungeon crawler. I really enjoyed having a crack at it. And the puzzles get fairly tough!
 
Off the top of my head......

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11th Hour

Older Sierra games like Police Quest and Gabriel Knight and I think there has been a decent series of Dracula inspired point and clicks recently.

Maybe one of the iterations of Myst, Riven etc

And for something more modern and social....The Secret World while it has combat elements some of the investigation quests are old school research tasks.

All of the above have a pretty strong story element.
 
Sounds like she's into the Silent Hill/Resident Evil type games, I loved these back in the day but unfortunately that genre of game has gone into decline that's why she cant find any.
 
Buy her a Dreamcast and a Wii/Gamecube and get Resident Evil Zero (GC), REmake (GC), 2 (DC), 3 (DC) and Code Veronica and she'll be all set.

Maybe Dark Souls? Not exactly what she's after but it's certainly no hack and slash and you really do have to think to progress.
 
Buy her a Dreamcast and a Wii/Gamecube and get Resident Evil Zero (GC), REmake (GC), 2 (DC), 3 (DC) and Code Veronica and she'll be all set.

Maybe Dark Souls? Not exactly what she's after but it's certainly no hack and slash and you really do have to think to progress.

Consoles are out of the question due to limited space and stuff.

Thanks for the input though! As they are good ideas.

I am playing through Dark Souls at the moment and she watches me play, she likes it but only because I get angry at it lol.

She isn't so good at controlling the camera with a controller at all. Yet... Mouse and keyboard, she is good at. So if DS2 has fixed that, I will try and get her to try DS2.
 
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