Gabriel Knight (Series)

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Point-and-click adventure games with supernatural mystery investigations, storytelling, characters, humor, and historical lore integration by Sierra.

What is Gabriel Knight (Series)?

The Gabriel Knight series is a trio of point-and-click adventure games developed and published by Sierra. The games follow Gabriel Knight, a struggling writer and owner of a rare bookshop in New Orleans who investigates mysterious and supernatural crimes as they intersect with regional history and folklore.

The first game, Sins of the Fathers (1993), has Gabriel researching the origins of voodoo to explain a series of ritual killings in New Orleans based on the historical case of the Voodoo Murders of 1810-1820. The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery (1995) has Gabriel pursuing his family's lycanthropic roots in Bavaria to solve a romantic werewolf legend. Finally, Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned (1999) links the myth of the Holy Grail to the history of the Templar Knights during Gabriel's investigation of vampire killings in 1930's France.

The games feature real historical settings and events, integrating supernatural twists into regional lore in a style described as Southern Gothic meets magical realism. Known for their storytelling, the series has a cinematic style with immersive sound, music, characters, and humor that balances drama with lightness. The games were critically acclaimed during their release, praised for advancing graphic adventure gameplay and narrative through use of rotoscoping, 3D rendering, motion capture, and more to achieve film quality presentation on 90s hardware.

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