#7
The Last Door is the game I recommend when someone says their PC cannot run anything made after 2010. It will run this. Victorian gothic, point-and-click pacing, and a sound design that compensates entirely for the pixel-level visuals. The Poe and Lovecraft influence is not subtle, but it is handled with more intelligence than most games wearing those influences on their sleeve. Replay value is the honest weakness here: once you have worked through each chapter, the narrative mystery loses its pull. But as a first run, the atmosphere and music are doing something genuinely affecting. One of the most accessible entries on the whole list.