When The Past Was Around is bittersweet, haunting, beautiful. A tale of love, loss, and grief, it delves into memories of a young woman coming to terms with the passing of the love of her life. It’s a short, powerful adventure—one that you’ll complete in a little over an hour, …
Cowcat Games, the studio behind Demetrios: The Big Cynical Adventure, has announced its latest project: Brok the InvestiGator, a game that combines classic point-and-click adventure game puzzles with beat-’em-up action. Inspired by classic cartoons of the ’80s and ’90s—The Disney Afternoon in particular—Brok the InvestiGator transports you to a “light …
Röki is something beautiful. It’s a tale of grand adventure through a stunning Scandinavian wilderness home to trolls and giants, but also an intimate, personal story of coping with grief. It’s an enchanting original fairy tale that wouldn’t feel at all out of place alongside the works of Hans Christian …
Lewis Denby, one half of the two-person team behind the poignant adventure game Richard & Alice, has a new game on the way called Reality Falls, and those interested will soon be able to check out an alpha demo. Due out in 2019, Reality Falls follows the journey of Adrian Watts through the …
Francisco González has a way of building worlds that are at once familiar and unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. Whether it’s the 1920s Miami of A Golden Wake or the post-apocalyptic dystopia of Shardlight, González creates worlds that could easily be cliche in the hands of a less-skilled writer, …
Wadjet Eye consistently puts out some of the best modern point and click adventure games. You can always rely on them to weave a gripping and insightful story, whether it’s the post-apocalyptic musings of Shardlight and Primordia or the ghostly escapades of the Blackwell series. They always deliver classic adventure …
In the early 2000s, French developer Microids released Syberia and Syberia II to much acclaim. Long before the resurgence of adventure games that we’ve seen in the last 5-odd years, here was a pair of games that combined that old point-and-click cell with graphics that were state-of-the-art (for their time), …
Content warning: This game and, by extension, this review addresses themes of domestic violence and child abuse. Spoiler warning: In order to fairly explain what makes Resette’s Prescription as good as it is, I’ve had to talk about some significant plot details. They’re not things I think would detract from …
