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Adventure games are dead, goes the old (and very tired) adage. Yet here we are in 2020 with the release of The Hand of Glory, a point-and-click adventure game in the most traditional sense – or at least, the first half of it, with the remainder to follow shortly. And whilst there are some issues […]

Returning to Beyond a Steel Sky after my brief demonstration with Revolution’s CEO Charles Cecil at last year’s gamescom (which now seems like a lifetime ago), I was looking forward to finding out what more Union City and its colourful cast of reprobates and robots had to offer. At the start of this sequel to […]

Love can be many things, but the basis for a first-person recursive puzzle game is a new one. Yet that's how Maquette, from developers Graceful Decay, plays out. Like a more romantically focused Superliminal, you must overcome physical obstacles by manipulating model-sized components to affect their life-sized counterparts in beautiful 3D settings whilst also changing […]

As ever, AdventureX 2019 was a delightful place to frequent for a few rain-sodden days in London, not only for its setting in the comforting confines of the British Library but also for how welcome everyone from organisers to developers made me feel. The huge array of offerings on display, whether from first-time teams working […]

Whilst That Dreadful Disease forces us all to sing Happy Birthday to ourselves over and over again in the bathroom, I've been spending the last few days catching murder suspects by solving numerical puzzles with a robot. No, I haven't gone completely insane through isolation (yet) – I've just been playing Mediatonic's visual novel puzzler […]

If I could bottle the spirit that must go into making every Amanita Design game, I’d be very rich and happy. The Czech developers behind beloved indie titles like Machinarium, Samorost and the recent CHUCHEL have done it again with their latest title, Pilgrims, creating an infectiously joyful romp across a beautifully hand-drawn 2D kingdom of […]

Following Part 1 and Part 2 earlier this week, we wrap up our coverage with the third and final round-up of gamescom 2019’s bumper crop of upcoming adventure games – this time featuring impending comets, sullen detectives. and of course spore-ridden, giant technology-laden islands.   Brassheart In this traditional adventure set in an alternate 1920s […]

Our adventure game coverage of gamescom 2019 picks up where part one left off, featuring its fair share of detectives, comic books and memory lapses.   Blacksad: Under the Skin Scooping the Best Action / Adventure Game award at gamescom this year, Blacksad, based on the Spanish comic book series of the same name, was […]

Traditional point-and-clicks, comic book adaptations, VR voyages deep into the uncharted desert of the Internet’s lost data… For a fan of adventure titles, the tenth edition of the “world’s largest gaming event” certainly didn’t disappoint. Gamescom may not be the industry’s splashiest show compared to the likes of E3 (Keanu Reeves was sadly absent, at […]

It’s easy to dismiss Superliminal as just “Portal with perspective puzzles,” but by the time you've used a slice of cheese as a nifty ramp or a tiny fan to blow away a giant block of jenga, you'll realise that there's more than meets the eye to this first-person adventure that explores the world of […]