Not exact matches
It's a relatively easy point - and -
click adventure game that won't
take much to complete in a few sittings.
Full of pop culture references and with tons of humour, Randal's Monday
takes the concept of Groundhog Day and turns it into a quite enjoyable point and
click adventure game.
Remembered as one of the best
adventure games to come out of LucasArts during the point &
click adventure genre's heyday in the 1990's, Full Throttle was the first
game that Tim Schafer
took the lead on during his tenure at the company.
Tormentum — Dark Sorrow is a point - and -
click adventure game that literally
takes the «Dark» in its title to portray a twisted story.
Instantly it becomes clear that Armikrog gets confused in its attempt at a modern
take on the point - and -
click adventure and ends up with just plain archaic
game design.
If you pay attention to the world of
games at all, Double Fine's Broken Age will be a familiar name — the modern
take on the point and
click adventure genre was funded through Kickstarter a few years back — at the time, one of Kickstarter's first massive successes, and one that served as a gateway for many into the crowd - funding service itself.
Heart Machine's sci - fi
adventure Hyper Light Drifter
took the Jury Choice Award, and the Trailblazer Award went to Rand Miller, one of the men behind the original PC point - and -
click puzzle
game Myst.
Taking its influences from the classic point &
click adventures of old and bringing new things from
games developed by Telltale, The Council has the potential to be something familiar but with an original twist and bringing new ideas to the genre.
What is also true, and a strong trend, is that many video
games projects on Kickstarter are
games that, by their nature, don't have a lot of replayability (like, say, Point - and -
Click adventure games) or immediate accessibility and audience appeal, making Early Access a path they can not
take.
It turns out the
game is like a super updated, modern
take on those old PC point and
click adventure games.
Which is why it's no surprise the
game takes on a point and
click adventure genre, similar to classic Sierra and Lucasarts titles.
Platforms Windows, Mac, Linux Developer Prologue Games Genre Point and
Click Adventure Platform Played On Mac Curtains rise for the last time as the final installment of Knee Deep, the episodic adventure game from Prologue Games, takes t
Adventure Platform Played On Mac Curtains rise for the last time as the final installment of Knee Deep, the episodic
adventure game from Prologue Games, takes t
adventure game from Prologue Games,
takes the stage!
I'd also like to mention frustration doesn't happen often, but the nature of a point and
click adventure game is that it may
take a lot of trial and error to complete tasks.
The independent Majestic Studios used locales from existing
games for their own
game, Limbo of the Lost - 3D areas translated into 2D
click and point
adventure backdrops, presumably by simply
taking screenshots.
With The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav, Daedalic
took on a darker bent with its point - and -
click adventure game style.
Anyway, Primordia is an old - school point and
click adventure game that imagines such a scenario, wherein robots of various levels of technological sophistication exist in a post-human society where man
takes the role of divine creator whose existence is disputed.
Daedalic Entertainment's new point &
click adventure game Memoria
takes you straight to the fantastic realm of Aventuria.
Researching
adventure games requires going through all types of
games: interactive fiction (such as Zork, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), point - and -
click adventure games (such as King's Quest, Myst), and
games that
take advantage of new types of controls, such as Hotel Dusk: Room 215, or Indigo Prophecy (also known as Fahrenheit).
While the
games are both point and
click adventure games that
take jabs at a specific subgenre of crime shows, they're completely different experiences and handle a well - tread path using different strides.
Developed by Double Fine Productions (Psychonauts, Brutal Legend) and directed by industry legend Tim Schafer (Grim Fandango, Full Throttle)- Broken Age is a modern and critically - praised
take on the point - and -
click adventure game genre.
From the developers of Gods Will Be Watching, The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk point - and -
click adventure game that has you engaging in social engineering to
take down a sinister megacorp, impersonating its employees on phone calls and mixing drinks at the bar to squeeze them for the information you need.
It's worth
taking a look, but it doesn't have the same reach that some other point and
click adventure games have to offer.
A modern
take on the old point - and -
click adventure game genre from the masterminds at Double Fine Productions, Broken Age is about as far away from Super Meat Boy as you can get.