Given your preferences, Outlast and Amnesia are obvious choices. Blood is a damn good classic horror-themed FPS. The Metro and Stalker games are more modern FPS that straddle those two categories to some degree. The Stalker games are some of the best FPS out there.

Chronicles of Riddick is another good, dark shooter.

Ones to avoid? Well Blood 2 for starters.

Why avoid Blood 2, if I may ask?

Congratulations! By the time the responses to this thread trickle to a halt, you will have had every single game in the GOG catalog recommended seven times over, including the ones you've also been recommended to stay far away from. Now get buying! ;-)

Planescape torment is an RPG but it's amazing. I reccomend it to everyone.
Now for horror we have Outlast and Amnesia.
For shooters there's lots of good choices like Shadow warrior, the classic doom games, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., System shock 1 and 2 and both Metro games.
Finally puzzle games: there's Her Story (haven't played it yet but the consensus is very positive), the Trine games and Mind Path to Thalamus.
Hope it helps and enjoy.

It's a buggy mess and doesn't have the... unique charm of the original. Instead it's mostly just comparatively bland urban environments that lacks the quality of level design of the original game. But mostly avoid it because it's borderline unplayable.

Okay. Thanks for the advice. I just finished looking at a review for the first Blood on YouTube. Looks great, to be honest.

It's amazing how well it still plays, really. The weapons. The level design. The one liners. Nothing else has really captured what it did since.

Given the Rise of the Triad remake though, maybe there's still hope...

The Easter Eggs.

Name one other game, any genre, where you can find Jack Torrance? :P

A couple different games:

Crimzon Clover: A bullet-hell shmup. Basically, the other type of game that could be called a shooter.

Elminage Gothic: A Wizardry-like. In other words, this game plays like the early Wizardry games (1-3), but with tons more content, and a much better difficulty scale (the difficulty starts fairly easy but grows from there). Be aware that this game does get rather brutal, with enemies instantly killing and level draining your characters. To put it another way, a challenging turn based RPG that focuses on the gameplay and combat instead of attempting to have a big plot.

Yeah, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Metro have been recommended several times. I guess those are very good.

There are a few you mentioned that I'm looking to get. Doom for one thing, since I played the third one and never got around to the others. The other is Her Story, since I heard it was made by the writer of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, which I really enjoyed.

Blood 1 was probably the best shareware experience I ever had back in the day, better than wolfenstein, doom, duke, etc for me anyway it was.

Buy Tower of Guns. Thank me later.



And Tri.

Case in point! :P

Hi Stranger! Welcome to Gog. Not mentioned yet are the http://www.gog.com/game/journeyman_project_1_pegasus_prime_the]The Journeyman Project Trilogy/url]. I found this to be similar to point and click adventures like the Myst Series, but with a SciFi twist and good humor.

A small bit of trivia: Presto Studios designed the games in this series, but was also known for developing Cyan's Myst III: Exile.