When I’m not copy editing high-tech research (yes, that’s about as exciting as it sounds) or relaxing with my wonderful family, I love whiling away a rainy afternoon playing adventure games (the spookier, the better). Now that my daughter is a toddler and possessed with an all-consuming desire to rearrange Tupperware and pots and pans, my life has essentially become one big adventure game. Let’s see, what combination of items will best soothe a crying baby? Hm...there’s a Curious George here, but he’s missing his hat. And, the logical place for that hat would be, ah ha, right here inside the sauce pot under the counter. Click hat on monkey, click monkey with hat on baby, and voila . . . happy baby!
These days, when everything seems chaotic and out of our control, it can be satisfying to set reality aside and immerse ourselves in deviously intricate mechanical puzzle solving. Blue Brain Games once again delivers on this desire in their second deep dive into the . The sequel to the 2017 first-person puzzler sees players leave […]
Bear With Me: The Lost Robots joins Flint, the brother whose mysterious disappearance is key to Bear With Me’s central episodes, for a journey where he encounters new and memorable characters and unveils locales distinct from the rest of the series. The events of Lost Robots lead into the episodes 1-3 and will shed light […]
She’s cute. She’s precocious. She carries around glitter wherever she goes. And eight-year-old Misfortune Ramirez Hernandez doesn’t give a flying f@$% about monsters in her closet. From the creators of comes the super cutesy yet grimdark , Killmonday Games’ poisonously sweet adventure that takes players on a very grown-up journey as our intrepid protagonist explores […]
In Orchid Games’ casual adventure sequel , wacky lovebirds Loreen and Nathaniel are at it again. They’re about to embark on what they believe will be a charming, festival-filled honeymoon, but a strange set of circumstances soon has them plotting an escape instead of their next beach-side activity. Following them on their zany point-and-click adventure […]
Do you ever pad around in your bathrobe on a sleepy Sunday morning imagining that your medicine cabinet is actually the access panel to an uber-elaborate spy pad, or that your morning crossword pen is really a super-slim spy gun? Well, that’s probably not going to happen in real life, but if you’re hankering […]