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Highly Likely is not a fun game. And I struggle even to use the term “game” to describe it. I considered “interactive storybook,” but it's not a fun one of those either. It's a great showcase of art design and voice-over work. The 2D side-scrolling adventure by Mikola Games is hand-drawn with a unique Eastern-European […]

For a quiet, somber indie game, Embracelet has a lot going on. The second game from Machineboy’s Mattis Folkestad is quite a bit different than his debut release, Milkmaid of the Milky Way. This short, low-poly 3D point-and-click adventure is a coming-of-age story. It is a tale of awkward teenage romance. It is a saga […]

What happens to dreams that don't come true? Do they repeat on an endless loop until they fizzle out and die? Or do some unresolved dreams have the ability to take on a life of their own, and, through their own grit and determination, fight their way out into the world and come to fruition […]

Amanita Design's influence on the adventure genre runs deep these days. Where LucasArts, Sierra, and Cyan helped form the templates that would define most point-and-click games for years, relatively recent hits like Machinarium and Samorost from the indie Czech developer were bound to inspire imitators as well. One such game is TOHU, a cute and […]

I'm going to throw out some words and you think about how they make you feel: Narrative Exploration Art Game Amateur Psychology Freudian Dream Analysis Good. Now if you're still with me, you may just like The Dreamcatcher, a game about dreams and the psychological significance they may have in our waking lives, and vice-versa. […]

After getting my VR headset, I messed around with a few games and was still trying to wrap my head around the basics of virtual reality: the way that any direction I looked, I was surrounded by a room that wasn't my own. If I looked down at my hands, there was a pair of […]

The art of the text adventure seems to be a thing of the past, at least commercially, the days of words on a blank screen and “Doors are to the Left, North, and South” long since relegated to the distant DOS era. But unmemory is a game that dares to imagine: What would a text […]

Any adventure gamer who was on the internet in the early 2000s remembers Flash games. Certain websites would host massive troves of simple games created in Adobe Flash, often using MS Paint-style graphics. Early on, point-and-click adventures featuring silly, crude humor dominated these sites. I couldn't help but reminisce on this strange era when I […]