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Cosmo D Studios’ is a hybrid role-playing adventure game. It uses tabletop role-playing mechanics to offer many choices and customization, allowing the player to become the central figure in a short, straightforward rescue mission. The choices offer replayability, but the dice introduce a degree of randomness that may frustrate some gamers. offers striking 3D environments […]

Adventure games, like all art, should evoke emotion in their players. Published through Wadjet Eye Games,  by Cloak and Dagger Games successfully blends exceptional writing, graphics, music, and voice acting. It delivers a frightening experience to players, an expectant fear that a mouse may feel when it sees a hungry cat outside its hole. It […]

Gerda: A Flame in Winter is a mesmerizing jewel of an adventure. It transports the player to Nazi-occupied, Tinglev Denmark during World War II. The war’s tragedy bleeds through this gem’s every facet: from the dark, impressionistic-style graphics to the sparse, well-chosen music and expert voice acting. These polished facets are yoked together using an interface […]

by Atom Brain Games, published through Bonus Stage Publishing, is a rich interactive experience. The narrative, sound, graphics, and interface are united in one purpose — inducing fear. Adding role-playing elements imbues the game with empathy and replayability and gives the player a terrifying experience. The interface features a third-person perspective. Left-clicking interacts with the […]

Adventurers should consider buying a ticket for Robust Games’ Loco Motive. The purchase rewards the player with a superb experience. Published through Chucklefish, this point-and click whodunit moves through a world of handsomely drawn graphics and expertly composed sound design with the speed of a bullet train. The player helps three main protagonists clear their […]

Italic’s Midnight Girl unites lovely, detailed graphics and haunting music to present an interactive heist story, in much the same vein as the movie Ocean's Eleven. A simple interface lets the player call the shots as they help Monique, a Parisian cat burglar, meet her idol and learn to live independently in the present rather than […]

An entertaining, point-and-click paranormal romp, The Phantom Fellows by developer Paul Korman is self-published through Strummer Games. Minimalist pixel-art graphics, combined with music and sound effects, transport players to the fictional town of Elderberry. Here they participate in a hilarious, enjoyable, and expertly written adventure. It features diverse gameplay, which includes fetch quests and a […]

In adventure games, sometimes even the simplest things can be complicated by unexpected challenges.  The titular protagonist of Nezhysoft's Alexey’s Winter: Night Adventure, living in the post-soviet Ukraine, desperately wants to get back inside his apartment from the freezing cold and relax in front of his TV, but nothing is destined to go his way […]

Passion oozes from every pore of by Tall Story Games. I played a beta version, in which timed puzzles and distracting background music negligibly hampered the experience. Despite that, I found it to be a reverently built shrine to its adventure game predecessors. Tall Story Games have made a delightful game using beautiful pixel art […]

Developed by Anate Studio, validates F. Scott Fitzgerald’s opinion: “Show me a hero, and I’ll write you a tragedy.” The game uses a proven third-person point-and-click interface to weave together exceptional writing, graphics, music and voice acting, creating a compelling and tragic story. Although there are slight flaws, such as a lack of item labels […]