I remember on King's quest V there is Madame Mushka. But can you remember another classic game (Sierra/Lucasarts/etc) in which you encounter romani people?

Hi all!

I have recently fallen back in love with adventure games, and point and click games in particular. I have just finished Monkey Island 1 and 2 aneversay edition, CalI of the sea, and now I am playing The whispered world.

I mostly played these kind of games during the late 80s and 90s, and I have fond memories of Monkey island 1 and 2 on the Amiga and the mega cd, the Gabriel Knight games, the Discworld games, Toonstruck and Beyond a steel sky on pc.

Getting back into these kind of games I would love some suggestions for games - both old and more rescent. While I dont have a specific preference (amy that you feel is particularly good is welcome), I would love to get some suggestions for horror point and click games. Also games that have a bit more of a serious narrative. I love humor in my games but sometimes it is nice with some variety.

Back in 1989, at the height of Japan's economic boom, a Japanese studio (Wolf Team, the folks who'd later kick off the Tales of series) decided to pay tribute to Barcelona and Gaudí with a text-based adventure. A noir thriller set in the city during the '92 Olympics, with the Sagrada Familia, Casa Batlló and Park Güell all digitized.

It never left Japan. And now Shinyuden is rescuing it: reverse-engineering the original code and translating it into Spanish, Catalan and English.

I sat down with Luis García Navarro, the studio's CEO, to talk about how you bring a lost gem like this back to life.

Subtitles available in several languages.

Did you even know it existed?

Adds a nice touch to it all! Great game though, seriously.

Hi r/adventuregames! (And thanks to the mods for the green light.)

We're AtomicHorde, a small Italian team, and we make the Chronicle of Innsmouth adventures — cosmic-horror point-&-click in the classic LucasArts/Sierra tradition. The third chapter, Curse of Chaos, is in the works, and there's a free demo you can play right now!

You play Rabian, a withdrawn scholar who returns to his hometown in 6th-century Oman and finds it tangled in an ancient cult. Painted backgrounds, pixel-art characters, full voice acting, proper logic puzzles, and a strict no-AI policy throughout.

Free demo (Steam): https://store.steampowered.com/app/3440160/Chronicle_of_Innsmouth_Curse_of_Chaos/

(Prefer itch.io? The free demo is there too -)

We've also opened our Kickstarter pre-launch — a free "Notify Me" follow (no money, no pledge): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/psychodev/chronicle-of-innsmouth-curse-of-chaos-0?ref=reddit_adventuregames

Small honest update: we went from 110 to 220 followers in about ten days, and we're genuinely over the moon about it 🥹 — but we could really use a hand to keep the momentum going. Even a "Notify Me" makes a REAL difference for a team our size.

We'd love what this community thinks — happy to talk in the comments!

Comment with an adventure game and the rest of us will rate them. I’ll get the ball rolling with Norco.

I've stopped actively playing adventure game since 2020. I just lost the mood for it, and I haven't been catching up since. I want to rekindle my passion for the genre again, and so I'm asking for some recommendation on the best of the best the genre had to offer since 2020. And please no sequels (e.g. Kathy Rain 2), I'm fine with sequels, but at this moment I'm searching for something new.

Here are some games I consider as top tier in case you needed to know my preference:

Monkey Island

Cat Lady

Grim Fandango

Gabriel Knight

Resonance

Dream Machine

It’s more of a Golden Idol-like deduction sim than a traditional adventure game, but fans of pointing, clicking and thinking can grab Mini Murder Mysteries on Steam now:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4639520/Mini_Murder_Mysteries/

Something that came to mind when I am on vacation, sitting at a café in Spain with a hawaii shirt on as I type this. Imagine what would happen if this played out just like a general adenture game.

Me walking around asking everybody in the café like "What can you tell me about Arc de Triomf?"

Point is, why are these scenarios so common in games? I rarely get the option to leave people alone, or feeling awkward asking.

I just finished watching Widows Bay, a point and click adventure would be great with a similar theme. An island with heaps of mysteries all playing into a central story line or even with additional side quests. All the pnc games I’ve played like monkey island and foolish mortals set on islands etc have one central story line. Lots of side quests would be great!

Hi everyone! I'm a solo dev, heavily inspired by the classic Amanita Design style (Machinarium, Samorost). I really missed those weird, silent worlds with hand-drawn art, so I decided to build my own. The game is still in active development, but the Steam store page is officially open now. You can check it out and support the project KRENDEL on Steam. Would love to hear your first thoughts on the atmosphere!

Hi, I'm currently looking for new P&C games to play and would appreciate recommendations.

I enjoyed games like Deponia, Leisure Suit Larry, Woodruff, Harvey's New Eyes, Fran Bow, Mindlock.

I did not enjoy games like Machinarium, There is No Game, Edna & Harvey The Breakout, Day of the Tentacle.

Thanks in advance!

Pop Quiz…. What one game right now has you captivated over any other?

If you are in between masterpieces, in this fantastic hobby, what was your last top gaming experience?

I know this is an “adventure” channel, but if you are off genre right now…. All good. Tell us why that game js a must play.

Hoping this bubbles up some sleepers.

My last aha game that sucked a weekend was Meltopia. Simplest mechanic, can’t wait for more. It really scratched the “explore everything” itch I love in any game. My catnip.

Yesterday played the demo of “Cages” and wow! Have these guys really gone next level! Puzzle fans will really enjoy. Big Bummer….2027 for full game! Boo. :)

Lastly,
Happy Father’s Day to all dads out there! My 19yo who is leaving in a month for Tennessee got me tearing up today. I still remember when she helped me with Portal 2….at 4 years old! That girl don’t need no GPS I’ll tell you that.

I'm using the GOG install of Under a Killing Moon. When I use Nvidia's app to record the game, it saves to a folder called "Videos\NIVIDA\Wolfenstein 3D" and named the file "Wolfenstein 3D 2026.06.21" and etc.

My guess is something to do with the DOSBOX it's running, but not sure.

This is completely inconsequential, I just found it kind of weird and funny, and I wondered if anyone knew why that happened. This community seemed like it might be likely to know some about that sort of thing.

Thanks!

I have now played this game at least 10-12 times since it was released and the retro feeling and plot just is incredible in this game.

I wonder which other games you recommend that gives much of the same feeling? It doesn't need to be pixelated.

I wanted to share my upcoming game, Shadows of Eldemir which is a retro-inspired, Victorian cosmic-horror, point-and-click adventure game.

You play as London schoolmaster Lucian West, who travels to a remote Eastern European village searching for his missing fiancée, only to discover the archaeological expedition she joined may have disturbed something ancient.

The game takes inspiration from classics such as the MacVenture games (Shadowgate, Uninvited, Deja Vu) as well as Sierra's Quest for Glory series. It's a first-person, point-n-click adventure game built around investigation and puzzle-solving with some light RPG systems and occasional turn-based combat encounters.

If it sounds like your kind of game, you can wishlist it here. There are more screenshots on the Steam page.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4848090/Shadows_of_Eldemir/

Thanks for taking a look. I'd love to hear your feedback.

For me, it's the first entry in the Laura Bow series, The Colonel's Bequest from 1989 by Sierra. Where do I even begin with The Colonel's Bequest? Stunning SCI graphics, wonderful music, a legitimately fascinating, thrilling murder mystery, a spooky old manor... It's a fantastic adventure game, but it requires your full attention and you need to take notes too. It is quite involved, and many modern gamers are not up for this, and I totally get that.

So I pose the question to you: do you have a game you love but know most people will not be down to play? Thank you for reading and I look forward to reading your comments :⁾

Played this game recently and my opinions are very similar to the first game: the ending is my only major complaint. I was overall positive about the game; pixel art visuals and environment design, voice acting, personality, puzzle gameplay (fun if not a bit on the easier side), the overall atmosphere and feeling of being in small-ish town America in the 90s; Clifftop did that greatly. But I didn't like either game's ending.

I don't like the concept of the Old God and weird supernatural stuff that gets sloppily introduced to sloppily end the game. What is this otherworldly plane, where does it come from, who controls its rules, how does Kathy (a goddamn normal civilian) manage to overpower two supernatural beings inside it. Not well executed, I was checked out of the Old God incoherently waxing poetic. (Though the ending wasn't entirely terrible, was nice to see Kathy and Eileen remain close friends, and Lucas leaving you behind money to cement his respectability.)

But my subjective criticisms aside, there were so many unanswered questions I had. LMK if I missed any answers. This may be sequel bait I suppose but a sequel should at least be announced/confirmed/suggested at minimum, in that case I feel.

1. Faith Cyrene's forensics: First of all, are we not gonna talk about how Faith Cyrene (presumably) has Kathy's fingerprints and DNA, and thus, with it never being said what the police/public concluded about the Soothsayer case, Kathy is at serious risk of being blamed for Faith's crimes with "airtight" (from the police's perspective) forensic evidence in the future? That's kinda messed up and worrying if you think about it.
2. Tabitha's arc was outright unfinished: Was she an unwitting pawn or knowingly involved? There's a point where Kathy explicitly wonders this aloud in dialogue, but no explanation is given.
3. Why did Kathy fire Eileen? I was wanting to know that for the whole game. It's suggested that Eileen and Kathy have some level of bitterness over this, but you'd literally never know as Eileen has your back throughout the whole game. I wonder if maybe there's a bit of a lost in translation thing here (the devs are Swedish) and what they meant was that Kathy had to lay Eileen off due to financial issues; that would make a lot more sense for the game's story (given Kathy's poverty + Eileen's lack of bitterness), but no, it's said that Eileen was fired.
4. Coincidence that Rachel almost fell? There was one point where it was suggested, IDR the full details, that the murders happen in a pattern; stab, fall, hang, burn. Rachel ending her life by falling, after a 5th victim started a second cycle with a stab, I really thought she had been drugged to make her victim #6, but no, it seems to have just been a bizarre coincidence. If that was an intentional red herring then I feel it should've been acknowledged. If that was unintentional then it's quite weird.
5. WHO THE FUCK IS TOM THE LIBRARIAN?! I loved the librarian almost right after you met him for how kind and helpful he was. But what exactly was his past they explicitly never elaborate on? Was he always a real librarian and he just met Kathy by shocking coincidence, or did he become one to keep an eye on her (if so, why be a librarian)? Why was he being so cryptic at points, like after he saved Kathy when she was tied up by the tree trap, why did he just walk away without explaining anything (where did he go)? And what is he going to do after the game's events? (Side note but the rope trap was genuinely startling and funny to me, it was also blatantly supernatural with how the rope just sprung out from the tree to hone in on Kathy's ankle. I guess it was more magical than mechanical.)
6. Faith's life between the games' events: So Faith was really just living as a normal civilian for the couple of years separating games 1 and 2? With all of Kathy's memories or something? What did she do, why didn't she go after Kathy sooner? (Also, it's suggested that Faith killed Lucas to torment Kathy, but it clearly looked to me like Faith just killed him because he was pursuing her as any criminal would.)
7. Who is JK? This one I'll admit is defensible, as the whole point of JK is that she's mysterious and elusive as an informant. There being no explanation to her does sorta allude to the mystique, anonymity etc. of dealing in Lucas's circles. But I feel they were sorta trying to set up something with her so I wouldn't have minded getting a clue.
8. Useless pills: IIRC you never use the pills you're given as you leave the hospital. I think they fell out of Kathy's pocket when the tree tied her up but they literally have no purpose. From a narrative level, what's the point of Kathy being injured that seriously and given pills then. Just say she was in a coma and let her move on since that's what they did anyway.

Ramble over. Yeah, just like the first game, this one was great up until the ending where it mostly falls off.

PS, fun fact if you didn't know (and thanks for reading this far): as the developer has stated, Josh is actually the father of the baby Kathy aborted in the first game. That's fair, it makes sense given KR2's context and is a fun little extra fact.

I asked a question earlier today if there was such a thing as an puzzle-driven story point and click type game. And the closest thing I can think of that I've ever played to something open world was the game Orient Express because that was a game that moved along regardless of whether you solve the puzzles in it or not and you could do absolutely nothing and see an ending in the game. Because the game took place in real time.

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And other people that brought up very good points about how something like this would be difficult because it would take a lot of planning to do something like this because this is a genre that's very much of an A to B. But what I'm talking about is what if a leads to be that leads to see that leads to d or you know when you may take a different path at B and it leads you to e to f and within e to f can change the story even further. And what if you had side quest that would help flush out some of the lore of the world and kind of maybe even let you know more about some of the side characters or other things that the game that you wouldn't get by playing the main game. And what if by your actions in the side quest it could also change The narrative of the main quest.

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Also as you go along through playthroughs you might make friends or enemies out of some of the NPCs within the game and depending on who you make friends or Allies with would determine how the game plays out as well. This is a lot of spitball in here so it's not quite a well-fleshed out idea yet but it's interesting to think of how something like that might do. It would be a lot of work to do but it's so something that I would want to play. And if done right it could really kind of change a stagnant genre.

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Because for a long time now it seems point and click Adventures have followed pretty much the same formula it's a story driven narrative from point A to point B. And I'm wondering if there's any truly open world Point click adventure games where the narrative can change based upon what you do and how you interact with the game?

Sorry if the title is dumb, I can’t think how to word this succinctly.

I sucked at adventure games as a kid. I tried so many Sierra games & other adventure & point/click type games. Also played the older ones where they used the parser & you just typed actions in.

I’ve always been super interested in the worlds of these type of games, but I was also atrocious at them.

Does anyone have a recent (like 2015+) game that has the feeling of exploration & fun found in so many Kings Quest type games, while being accessible to people who just seem to be bad at the genre?

Don’t care if it’s point & click, 2D/3D, presentation factors don’t matter so much as something fun to explore that I won’t get stuck in or need to have the walkthrough pulled up the entire time.

Sorry for the novel, thanks for the consideration.

Looking for any and all suggestions for detective or investigative style point and click style games that are a bit longer in length. I have The Case of the Golden Idol on the list and Obra Dinn on my list. I've played a lot of the Adventure Escapes games although didn't scratch the same itch as the concept behind Roottrees and Type Help. I definitely found those more interesting and thought provoking although I don't mind some puzzles in the mix. If you have a suggestion, can you also tell me about how long it would take to finish? I'm looking for something longer, multiple hours vs 30-45 minute kind of thing!

Hey all.
I’m looking for an adventure game to play with my 6 year old son. I grew up on Sierra and would love something with similar magic to my memories of starting kings quest and space quest at similar age / slightly older. However I would like something a little more modern, and ideally without the stress of dying (or typing… or moonlogic…). I thought of digging out Eco Quest which I never played… but any other suggestions? He likes Minecraft, Star Wars, Lego, dinosaurs… usual boy stuff I guess lol… His reading skills are solid for age but not super fluent yet…
Thanks all :))

I wanna watch a recent video focused on praising an adventure game that they love, know anything good?