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From the surrealist puzzle adventures in to the fantastical slice-of-life vignettes in , CottonGame has been learning and growing with each game throughout its eight years of existence. is another important step in the evolution of this scrappy little Chinese studio. If you've played one of their games before, you will find familiarity in their […]

Imagine yourself in the coolest job in the world: opening boxes of alien technology and poking and prodding it all to figure out what everything does. What mysterious secrets might you find? What fun challenges could be locked inside each one? That's the position you find yourself in when playing Littlefield Studio's Machinika Museum. It's a […]

In the Paris Carnival, there is a tradition called the “Walk of Masks.” It's a time for the people of the city to don colorful, decorative masks and shed their daily realities, immersing themselves in a whimsical world while showcasing their creativity. InnerSpace's new virtual reality title Maskmaker smartly uses this setting as its backdrop, […]

Something weird is going on with the squirrels! It's a line you might expect to see in a trailer for some wacky platform game where you collect nuts and jump on the heads of evil vultures or something, not a review of a meditative first-person adventure game. But NUTS doesn't follow the standard set of […]

Combat in adventure games has been an extremely controversial subject since the very beginning of the genre. The debate has raged, making it a sort of “third rail” that many point-and-clicks try to avoid. says, “forget that noise!” and bursts full-on into what the advertising materials describe as “the first ever Punch & Click,” combining […]

Along with being an adventure gaming enthusiast, I love cartoons. I suspect this is the case for many of you as well. Because of my adoration for these two things, I was immediately drawn to Just Take Your Left, a hand-drawn 2D point-and-click graphic adventure by Mehrdad Rezaei. And it’s perhaps because of this fondness […]

The “Metroidvania” subgenre (so named for its origins in Metroid and Castlevania) is arguably more popular now than ever before, as developers continue to innovate on the concepts of side-scrolling action and puzzle solving by some charismatic little character double-jumping and dashing across expansive 2D open worlds, often gated by abilities you have yet to […]

There's something I always find inherently funny about escape-the-room games. Whenever I'm doing something like pulling a set of gears from a box to align in a clock so that it spits out the key to the kitchen, I can't help but think, “Does this person have to do this every time they want a […]

We've all heard the phrase “seize the day,” but what if that “day” happened to be the most important one of your entire life? And what if it were not just the most important day of your life, but your family's lives, for generations and generations? If only you knew exactly how to make the […]

Much like the term “art film,” sometimes I feel like the genre of “adventure game” gets shifted around to encompass anything that doesn't neatly fit in any other category. That's definitely the case with Australian developer Mountains' first game. Florence is like nothing I've played before. You could call it an adventure game or you […]