Tokyo Dark is a game about a cursed mask and ritualistic murder, but under the surface, it’s also a game about hurt people hurting people. Its complex writing and unique take on a sanity meter make it easy to care about the characters trapped in its tragic, bloody world.
Have you ever wanted to be a chef or a warrior, but couldn’t decide which one? In Tree of Life, you can be both!
Takume is a very short (like, 5 mins) adventure game with some very nice pixel art. You can get it here.
Paradigm looks bonkers and it is. Released on PC early last week, it pokes fun at the systems we’re all constrained by, inspired by classic point-and-click games.
Indiana Jones And The Fate of Atlantis is one of the great point and click adventure games. Now, a fan remake has stopped production after being contacted by Lucasfilms.
I’m a staunch defender of Telltale’s The Walking Dead’s less popular second season. It served as a sort of zombie bildungsroman for Clementine, a coming of age story after the end. But for all the season’s strong character beats, it lacked a sense of forward momentum. The third season, A New Frontier, breathes some…
Artist Jacob Janerka, who is working on the 2D adventure game Paradigm, has also been working on something else: mock-ups of a 2D Seinfeld adventure game.
One of the conceits of adventure games that made them so strong in the 90s was their flexibility. By focusing on plot and puzzles, the range of subject material appropriate to cover expanded immensely. In that respect, Ether One is very much a 90s Adventure game.
Steins;Gate, the popular video game, already has manga, anime, and novel adaptations. The game has had different spinoffs and side stories, including multiple games and a movie (Note to fans: the blu-ray version of the movie, coming in December, will have English subtitles). Now, Steins;Gate is getting a stage…
Many years ago, the creepy alternate-reality adventure game Missing: Since January (called In Memoriam outside of the US) tried to blur the lines between its fiction and our world. In pursuing the trail of the fictional Jack Lorski and Karen Volker, players wind through real-world history and geography, as well as…
I would never have expected 2012 to turn out to be such a phenomenal year to be an adventure game fan. And yet, here we are.
Regular readers may have noticed that I have rather an addiction to classic point-and-click style adventure games. Those same astute readers may also have noticed I have a wee bit of an obsession with Mass Effect. This fan project that puts the two together, making a Mass Effect point-and-click adventure game, is…
Slow jazz? Check. Disheveled office? Check. Intimations that someone will walk through the door at any moment? Check. All the signs of a classic film noir-inspired game are well in play.
Except our detective seems awfully young. And grabby. And in fact not detective-like at all. Really, the whole opening of the game…
Despite my oft-professed love for classic adventure games and new iterations on the genre, The Journey Down slipped completely under my radar until this week.
