The Mystery of Rennes-Le-Château, Part 1: The Priest's Treasure

Also of Xenosaga, and for the same reasons. Although, that's perhaps a more obscure reference (and is a PS2, rather than PC game series.)

Man I wish the Xenosaga games would get a rerelease for a modern console.

And things get even crazier in Part 2 [1].

[1]: https://www.filfre.net/2026/03/the-mystery-of-rennes-le-chat...

I click on this because of Gabriel Knight 3, and sure enough, there is in the first paragraph.

Same here. My brain lit up with nostalgia when I saw Rennes-Le-Château mentioned.

I am among those who love GK3, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite in the series. It does have a great ambience, and really makes you feel like a tourist in rural France.

> For a really good sinister conspiracy theory is counterintuitively cozy, what with the way it collapses the amorphous mass of real history, where cause and effect are as muddled as are heroes and villains, into a comforting clockwork mechanism of cogs in cogs. Small wonder that pseudo-history tends to thrive best when real life seems most vexed and confusing.

I really liked how this was written.