I caught up with Wadjet Eye’s Dave Gilbert for a quick Q&A about his next game: Old Skies. If you’re a fan of point-and-click adventure games, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of Wadjet Eye Games—and if you haven’t, do yourself a favour and look them up. They’ve been consistently …
Ah, the good old time paradox, bane of every temporal traveller and source of many a narrative twist. But what if time travel was so ordinary and so commodified that paradoxes were just a risk to be mitigated while making bank off people wanting to go back in time to …
As game developers go, Wadjet Eye founder Dave Gilbert is pretty open on social media about what he’s working on, sharing in-progress snippets, and whatnot, so the fact that he’s been developing a new project isn’t exactly a huge surprise. All the same, it’s nice to finally have a formal …
Primordia — originally released on PC in 2012, and now landing on Nintendo Switch — isn’t your typical post-apocalyptic adventure. Sure, it stays true to the genre’s bleak atmosphere and cataclysmic set design, it’s not really interested in questions about how the world died and the struggles of people continuing …
If you ask most people today what they like about adventure games, it’s almost always some echo of what Telltale brought to the genre: compelling characters, weighty themes, choice and consequence. Less so is it about the genre’s crunchier roots, from the likes of Monkey Island or King’s Quest to …
I didn’t really go into Strangeland with any preconceived notions, other than a fondness for Wormwood Studios previous game, Primordia. It’d be a strange, surreal ride regardless, but coming in with no expectations, knowing nothing about it other than the title, and letting it just overwhelm the senses is Strangeland …
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 …
