Jackal

Early in my playthrough of SilverPlay's bayou mystery , the main character Katie had a long conversation with a lamp post named Allison about sneaking into a highly-exclusive soiree to spy on a plantation owner. A little while later, Katie hatched a plan to break a storm grate named Janitor out of prison. I don't […]

We have journeyed through the mazes of the undead. We have come in search of the Scrolls of the First Blood. We have wandered a thousand years among the lost souls. Rest now. For tonight we play in Gothos.

Knut Müller’s RHEM series is one of the last survivors of the nearly-extinct breed of game we once called Myst clones. As new mainstream titles make their way to the top, Myst, once the best-selling PC game of all time, has now been eclipsed many times over. Back in the day, though, developers rushed to […]

The popular Dream Chronicles casual games have always been something of a Myst-lite adventure experience, but now the series has pushed the meaning of “lite” to a whole new level, both literally and figuratively. Perhaps that’s fitting for a game called The Book of Air, but the fourth installment is such a short and easy […]