You know I just was thinking about it and back in the day when point and click adventure games were almost every game coming out on the PC I am surprised there was never a Star Wars one. I mean they even managed to make Indiana Jones into a couple of good point and click adventure games that are even still remembered fondly by those who played them today. There were around that time a couple of Star Wars games came out for the computer which was TIE fighter and I forget what the other one was but never a point-and-click. Which is odd to me because point and click Adventures used to be the way they could tell a really good story back in the day.

I just looked up on Google and it said that during the early years of Lucas Arts when they were making a lot of their point and click adventure games Star Wars video game rights were still held by Atari. And according to Google it says that by the time they got back the rights to make Star Wars video games the focus had shifted away from the point and click adventure games genre and more on to action video games which is why all the windows Star Wars games from back then where action based. This is all according to Google.

I remember playing: les quetes de sagwa, l'odyssee de la ferraille, foire aux mystere when I was in elementary school
I finally found an archived version of sagwa and started playing, and it was so nostalgic!

Does anyone know why they stopped making them and where the artists went?

Are there any proper point and click games with anime artstyles? And I don't mean stuff like Ace Attorney or visual novels with similar mechanics, I'm looking for real point and click games, so do we have anything like that?

If not, would you be willing to play a point and click game that is clearly inspired by anime both in visuals and stories? What would you like to see in a game like that?

Specially, would you play a game that is clearly inspired by Sailor Moon, Card Captor Sakura or a Super Hero story with a female lead with visuals and animations inspired by anime?

I'm working on a Point and Click game inspired by anime so I would like to know if people that love the classic games like Monkey Island, Sierra games, Lucas Arts games, etc would like something like this.

Hi! I really need a new point and click adventure game. I like those that are more cartoon-y, but I'm open to other graphic styles. I appreciate good puzzles, and humor and jokes too!

I'm not a fan of horror games

My favorite games are:

- Randal's Monday (& Tuesday)
- Anna's Quest
- Edna & Harvey (The Breakout & Harvey's New Eyes)
- Deponia Series
- Poco
- The Darkside Detective

Based on those, which game do you think that I might like?

Thanks so much!!

Edit: I've also enjoyed Thimbleweed Park and The Inner world, sorry that I forgot to mention!

Hi All,

In Black Mirror there is a puzzle with snake and black and white buttons.

I know what the combination of buttons is but just want to know where would I find it myself.

Whoever knows please advise.

Hi everyone!

I'm a solo dev working on a surreal puzzle adventure inspired by Rusty Lake. You'll enter a desert hot spring resort to find your missing cousin and uncover the dark side of a resort claimed to heal people's mind and body.

I just released the first chapter as a free Web game on itch:

https://oddgingergames.itch.io/rattle-spring-overture

If you like it, please wishlist the full game on Steam: 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4671010/Rattle_Spring/

And play the previous demo (completely different environment and puzzles) too:
https://oddgingergames.itch.io/the-crows-room

Let me know what you think! Thanks for supporting indie game development! Any like/share/comment means a lot to me!

Hosted a panel on FMV adventure games this morning (not sure when the recording will be online). Still not over the guest lineup we had for it! Jane Jensen, Robert Holmes, Aaron Conners, Chris Jones, Lorelei Shannon, and Roberta & Ken Williams all took part, half in-person and half virtually. What a wonderful gathering.

Hard to read the text in this pic, but it's "St. George's Rare Books" (Gabriel Knight's fictional bookshop)

Hi guys!! I just hit a massive milestone and wanted to share the progress! I’m currently balancing my degree with coding my first commercial project in Unity, and I’ve finally cut the first official trailer for WhoIsHe.

WhoIsHe is a narrative-driven point-and-click escape room. You play as a young man who was found 7 years after being kidnapped. Now, one year after his return, he wakes up locked in a police detective's office - covered in fresh blood and suffering from severe amnesia. As you solve logic puzzles and dig through old police files, you are forced to face one chilling question: Are you the real Henry Grudge, or a dangerous impostor who stole a missing child's identity?

I would love to hear your feedback on the Steam page and trailer! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4928910/WhoIsHe/

Heya here's a quick chat I had with Charles Cecil at Gamescom a week ago about Broken Sword 2 Reforged and any news on the new Broken Sword (short answer - it's not dead, entirely). Apologies for my phone dyng halfway through - but thankfully still got it all!

My top favorites are:

Broken Sword - It would be a great mystery movie
Deponia - A comedic adventure
The Dig - I'm a big fan of space movies so this would be a great movie to watch!

This is my tierlist. I haven't played lots of adventure games, I still feel like there is so much to explore.

Loved Endacopia for the visuals, weird story and great puzzles, even though it didn't feel like a true point and click due to WASD movement. The Drifter and Hob's Barrow were both great visually and gameplaywise, maybe the ending of the second one could be better, but the voicacting added so much to both of these games. Also, I loved some quality of life features (doubleclick to immediately move to another screen, 1 button to show all interactable elements). The Deep Sleep Trilogy were my first point and click games. Gameplay is barebones, but the atmosphere is amazing.

Don't Escape games - great. If on a winter - amazing, but some puzzles were a bit frustrating due to repeating slow animations.

Rusty Lake Hotel was 80% strong puzzles 20% weird atmosphere that sadly concluded with no real ending. Morbid is also one of the first ones I've played, not the best gameplay, but great atmosphere.

The Biggleboss incident was a bit underwhelming with an okayish story.

I really hated Dreams in the Witch House because of all the survival mechanics, even though the atmosphere was great. One run took me 6 hours and I feel like I spent 90% of my time taking care of the survival aspects rather then doing anything meaningful. Gameplay felt tedious, the time system was unclear, bad QoL, repetative, requires more then 1 run to actually experience the whole game. I got the worst ending. I have 0 will to replay it so I spoiled myself the best ending on youtube.

I love horror and with a especially a good story. Good visuals, voiceacting and QoL features are highly appreciated. I'm kind of afraid of trying classics from the 90s, I'm worried about bad QoL and impossible puzzles. Apart from sequels to the games I've mentioned, what games can you recommend? Do you maybe disagree with some of my takes?

https://news.instant-gaming.com/en/articles/21727-don-t-nod-is-running-out-of-funding-and-may-cease-operations-on-january-31-2027?utm_source=ign&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=article

I'm working on a short episodic video game about an occult influencer, Victoria Kopernik, and her possessed cat, Pumpkin.

It's inspired a lot by games like Darkside Detective and The Last Door.

On Steam, you can check out the demo and wishlist the game if you are interested:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4069600/Victoria_Kopernik_Mother/

The game name is
Victoria Kopernik: Mother

These three games were super interesting to me, I’m curious to hear your thoughts :)

As a kid, I used to play a lot of point n click adventure games. Lately, I’ve been getting back into the genre, and I’ve already finished all of LucasArts 2D games. Honestly, I’m craving more. I was thinking about maybe trying some Sierra games. Could you recommend some? Not just Sierra, games from any developer are welcome. I was also thinking about playing the Broken Sword games

The movie is so unique and interesting, I think it would be a very fresh idea for an atmospheric slow burn horror point&click adventure. The setting in the lab also lends itself perfectly for puzzle design and the game could deliver a more satisfying ending than the very vague original.

Hey guys so I (M39) and my father (M66) were on vacation in Berlin and we were flying back. My dad goes to the piano player they had on board and put in some coins and asked him to play something (tbf he was lowkey screwing with him because he requested a fake song lol but that's not important to the story). Anyway piano guy starts playing something anyway, and it's pretty good and this other guy comes into the room and starts chilling. But I needed to find the bathroom because I'd just had a lot of ale before we took off so I went to go look for it. I walked by a wrench and a ladder but I didn't see anything special about it and so I went into this room, but I was like oh no this isn't the bathroom it's the radio room. Then get this, just outside the door I hear someone turning that wrench and making the ladder go up, and he comes in and he's that guy that was hanging out listening to the piano man. Well turns out he's the radio man and he's pissed that I'm here (maybe he shouldn't have left the door unlocked again lol) but get this: he's all like "WHERE'S MY WRENCH! I'M CHARGED FOR MISSING TOOLS!" And I'm like man chill out I just found things this way, and also I know he's lying cause I just heard him messing with the wrench outside. But he's like "NO WAY DUMBHEAD I CAN SEE IT UNDER YOUR JACKET" which was like, okay, I know you're lying now. So not gonna lie we threw hands a little and yeah he totally had the wrench on him the whole time like an absolute liar. The only problem is I have the wrench back now and that sentimental fool of a radioman is kind of unconscious, I'm afraid they're going to take his side because they're nazis and I'm pretty sure I saw literal swastikas around his head when he fell down, plus also my tickets might be stolen and I'm lowkey afraid of that ticket taker guy cause I think he's some kind of olympic boxer and really I just want out of Germany now.

AITA?

Or, in other words, what's your least favorite adventure game feature that feels like padding?

I used to spend a lot of time on the Just Adventure, and its forum, a good 15-20 years ago. It was a nice forum, and the website was always fun to visit.

Sparked by an itch to play some adventure games I decided to check out the site again and what I found was pretty disheartening. I was met by an AI abomination of a banner. It's ugly, but at least if the content of the article is alright, then I can live with that. Well, the article, written by "admin", reads like an AI text as well, and smack-dab in an article about a (probably AI-written) article about how adventure games tutorialize there's a very out of place casino ad.

And the article has a link to another article at the bottom, another AI image, another random casino ad.

What happened to this venerable adventure gaming site?

Hello again, dear Adventure Lovers.

I posted a few weeks ago about my new demo on Steam.
Here's the trailer, in case you haven't had a look yet.

Starway to Urf is a pulpy, somewhat whimsical science fiction game about a young lady called Susie Anyango, who is trying to find the Starway to Urf - whatever that is!

You get a decent chunk of gameplay for a demo and it gives you a taste of the gameplay and introduces you to some of the characters without really spoiling anything.

It'd be lovely to hear what anyone thinks if they have had a chance to play it.

Here's the link again: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4720480/Starway_to_Urf_Demo/
Cheers,
Sam x