Thanks again, Fred! I put Diabolik into the PC/Non-Steam list as it was multiplatform on release, it seems. I've added the PS2 games to the list above and Dino Crisis 3... I believe that's a third person action adventure? (Checks) Oh, no, I'm wrong - what a weird sequel! Okay, much obliged!

Thanks Fred! Great contributions, I'll get on 'em!

Oh - to be clear, you could do an RPG or survival horror or racing game and be featured on this list, as long as it was mouse controlled and was primarily fixed multicam.

Fair question! The keyword in the title to distinguish a lot of these games from ordinary point-and-click graphic adventures is 'multicam', ie. that in each 'room' there should be multiple views triggered by the positioning of the character within that space.

It's been a while since I built this list, but I seem to recall spending a little time making sure each candidate above passed that criteria (see the comments column!) - differentiating them from something like The Last Journey or Monkey Island II (the best adventure game) where the camera mostly travels in a flat horizontal or vertical direction over a 2D background.

With fixed multicam, there's a greater emphasis on multiple angles with depth and perspective, underlining the three dimensional and cinematic nature of the games.

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Splitting hairs? Eh, sure, fine. I've certainly bent the rules a little for our main list (see Inside and Little Nightmares, though I think they do some fine 3D cam work). As I think I've said somewhere, it's probably best not to be overly strict regards definitions here. That said, I think the multicam distinction works for the games in this list.

Oh, and Grim Fandango is on the main game list and not on this one because it has direct control (as well as point-and-click, added in the Remastered edition).

Hope that helps! Let me know if there's an argument for tightening this up, or if you have other suggestions! And it's great to see you around! =D

Oi, Vash, long time, no hear-from. =) (Watches video) Oh my god, that looks incredibly sweet! And I LOVE the hand-painted backgrounds! Beautiful. Thanks for the reference.

JRPGs like Final Fantasy 7 (1997) or CRPGs like Planescape: Torment (1999) or adventures like Sanitarium (1998) - where there are minimal edits and most locations have only one, maybe two, fixed camera angles.

Abyss Boat (Win, 2002)[www.mobygames.com] - Only distributed to members of the Leaf Fan Club. Footage here![sp.nicovideo.jp]

Casanova: The Duel of the Black Rose[www.mobygames.com] 2001

Dark Earth[en.wikipedia.org] 1997

In Cold Blood[www.gog.com] -> GOG!

Ecstatica (&2!)[ecstatica.fandom.com] PC only, I think. Not currently available...! Weirdly enough, I found an Irish Times review[www.irishtimes.com] of the game from 1997 while trying to find a copy of this online...

Bioforge[www.gog.com] -> GOG!

Geisters[www.hardcoregaming101.net] - Apparently a Korean-only game for PC, the last game made by the team and... not very well known...! If I find more info on this, I'll update it.

Time Gate: Knight's Chase[www.gog.com] A post-Frederick Raynal fixed cam game from Infogrames!

Star Trek: Hidden Evil[www.gog.com]

International 3D Tennis

Hannah Montana: The Movie[www.pcgamingwiki.com]

Kabus 22[www.mobygames.com]

Blair Witch Volume I: Rusin Parr[en.wikipedia.org]

Lost and Damned

The Glass Staircase[puppetcombo.itch.io] An excellent mashing of Giallo horror films and residential evil! The control system is... questionable, but the atmosphere of the first two thirds are worth the price of admission alone!

Cyberia[en.wikipedia.org] 2 Dec 1994 - Two years after Alone in the Dark! Huh!

Diabolik: The Original Sin[en.wikipedia.org] June 26 2009

Syberia? The Longest Journey? These seem less like direct character control games...

Ooorgh. Now we're in the weeds. =D

Point-and-clicks (P&C) - I'm not totally certain multiple cameras per room ARE exactly part of the genre. Like the examples of FFVII you gave earlier, they'll often do one angle, maybe two per room, which is - even if you're using dutch/low/high/dramatic angles - a far cry from what I'd expect from something like Resi Remake, which usually has between three-to-nine separate shots per room (I'll include 'corridors' or 'halls' in the definition of a room in this case).

Basically I'll need to investigate how many shots-per-room those P&C games have.

Same for FFVII, really. =/ I dig the multiple cameras w/Aeris and Cloud that you posted, but that's still basically two overviews with a slight truck.

Regards pivot cams (or 'panning' the camera) - honestly, it's more my personal preference. It's a fairly easy-to-execute way to cover an entire environment with a single camera while ticking the box for 'fixed camera'. You lose the sense of intentionality and authorial control. I think key part of the Fixed Cam thing is multiple shots and cutting between them... but then that can really discombobulate the player. =(

Basically I don't have a solution for this yet. We might as well just continue to collect game names, but maybe provide some additional information.

I don't think Mystic Arc switched cameras per location that much, but for the moment let's allow it.

Cheers, Vash.

PS: Might be useful for thinking about this? https://blog.storyblocks.com/video-tutorials/7-basic-camera-movements/ I'm starting to really appreciate static camera angles, as they speak to very specific careful decisions made by the designer(s).