What are the best nonviolent games that have a storyline?

[noiseredux]

Does Snatcher for Sega CD count? It's technically a point and click game, though you do have a gun...

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[brunoafh]

^ Beat me to it.

[Retrozoa]

The Pheonix Wright and Professor Layton series are both great examples of this.

[Luke]

Well, it is at least a nonviolent game with a storyline.

[Nemoide]

The Myst series has a pretty amazing story and is entirely violence-free, outside of backstory.

Beyond Good & Evil, NiGHTS, and Child of Eden have an element of defeating enemies, so I personally wouldn't call those nonviolent (especially BG&E). And Phoenix Wright is so much about murder cases that I wouldn't count it.

[ZenErik]

The Myst series has a pretty amazing story and is entirely violence-free, outside of backstory.

Beyond Good & Evil, NiGHTS, and Child of Eden have an element of defeating enemies, so I personally wouldn't call those nonviolent (especially BG&E). And Phoenix Wright is so much about murder cases that I wouldn't count it.

In CoE you purify, not defeat.

[Jimmy Yakapucci]

I would throw Ribbit King into the mix. Yes it is a golf game, but it does have a story line and the only violence would be frogs eating flies and stuff like that.