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Most story-driven exploration games like Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture deal with difficult subject matter, and Mike T’s Where Wind Becomes Quiet is no exception, touching on themes of addiction, depression, suicide, the tragic loss of a loved one, and the trials of dealing with memory loss. The premise is an intriguing […]

I consider myself a die-hard classic point-and-click adventure gamer, but every once in a while I encounter a game that challenges me to broaden my horizons, and Last Stop is one of them. The new title from the creators of has almost no inventory, no real puzzles to solve, and no consequences to your actions […]

I have always been a sucker for the film noir premise of a shady, hard-drinking, down-on-his luck, two-bit private detective looking for his next case in order to pay the bills. So I was delighted to assume the role of Philip Log, the protagonist of , the kind of classic gumshoe you would imagine except […]

Escape room-style PC games are not new, but they have been trending and gaining in popularity in recent years, and are now finding their way to VR. Flow Weaver is one of the first such games released on virtual reality platforms so far, but while it offers some fun challenges and a well-constructed plot, its […]

Here is a pop quiz for you: how many adventure games have been based on the lost city of Atlantis? If you guessed at least thirty, you would be right! Some have been truly great, such as , while many others have not. With all these past journeys to the same overused location, why should […]

Whether you are in the “Myst ruined adventure games” or “Myst revolutionized adventure games” camp, there is no denying the huge impact Cyan’s 1993 classic had on the gaming community. Nothing like it had come before, and the tagline “It will become your world” rang true as many players found themselves totally immersed in its […]

is the continuation of the adventures of Nova Dune, a space-based salvage operator who landed on a planet she thought would be an easy score but instead discovered the source of a major conflict between its inhabitants. As before, players will explore various locations both underground and on the surface to solve a variety of […]

There seems to be a dearth of traditional point-and-click adventures these days, especially those with interesting characters, locations, and a mystery to solve. Rarer still is one that reacts to the actions you take and changes the gameplay and offers different paths to multiple endings. To the rescue comes Falcon City, the latest release from […]

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you were deprived of your physical body and all you had was your “essence” left to inhabit inanimate objects to solve a wide variety of puzzles? Neither have I, but that is the premise of 7th Sector, the gritty sci-fi creation of indie developer Sergey […]

Whether you are a lover of or you think it was the worst thing to ever happen to the genre, there is no doubt it had a huge impact on the way adventure games were developed and played back in 1993, spawning many clones in the ensuing years (some good, most not so much). If […]