Can’t believe no one has mentioned Quicktime Events. That’s what the gameplay in your standard post-Walking Dead Telltale game was. Personally, I felt that by the time Batman came along, they were doing a pretty good job with them. But a lot of people just naturally chafe against them, for a variety of reasons, I think. For what these games were I don’t think they are the wrong approach–particularly for Batman where cinematic action sequences are a requirement–but but I think they needed to find something unique in each game in addition to their standard formula, and for the most part I don’t think they did.
Batman did have a kind of detective mode where you’d “link” related elements of a crime scene together to deduce what happened. But maybe that already felt stale by that time?
Did Minecraft have a special interaction for building things?