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While many Lovecraft-inspired tales take us to gloomy northeastern US locales, Naughty Shinobi's upcoming will take us to sunny Georgia – though no less without its dark hidden secrets behind the bright facade. The year is 1984, and players assume the role of Ryan Kappel, a man asked by his aunt to farmsit the family […]

Blend a little Sherlock Holmes (Consulting Detective-style), Phoenix Wright, and Dashiell Hammett together, capped off by a Saul Bass poster art influence, and you've got The Wandering Ben's upcoming . In this story-driven adventure, players control a female private detective named PC Malone who must “uncover the truth in a mystery full of deception” in […]

It’s 1984, and Ryan Kappel is asked to return to Road End Estate to farm sit at the request of his Aunt, 17 years since he last visited. It didn’t take long to sense unease in the air. The nostalgic trip down memory lane ends abruptly as he discovers a mysterious chamber that laid dormant […]

You'd be forgiven for thinking Cloak and Dagger Games' upcoming is actually a sports title, but really it's a retro-styled point-and-click adventure due to arrive later this year. The game is set in 1987, and players take control of Tommy, the star high school quarterback (this is American football, not soccer). Life couldn't be better […]

Ever since blew the door (so to speak) off the physics puzzler sub-genre, there have been no shortage of games seeking to emulate its successful formula. The latest such contender is , a gravity-based sci-fi title coming this summer. is set in a facility in which a group of engineers were tasked with creating a […]

Janitors in spaceships have proven to be a winning combination in the adventure genre before, and indie developer Slow Bros. are hoping it will be again in their upcoming title, . The titular character is a janitor working aboard a massive spaceship when it crash lands on an “unknown planet made up of water.” Submerged […]

Magical books have long been transporting adventure gamers directly into fantastical worlds, and they’re poised to do so once again in indie Swedish developer Nellie Johansson’s upcoming . stars an unlikely hero, a poor librarian named Laura who tends to her comatose grandmother in the outskirts of London with her cat Scruffy above their book […]

Within a diverse community inside the wreck of a spaceship, stuck under sea on a distant water planet, a young janitor and lab assistant named Harold goes about his daily routine. This includes assisting Professor Jeanne Mareaux, one of the lead scientists on board, in her attempt to relaunch the ship. But their plan is […]