Yes. Much like Tales of Monkey Island it has a good dose of puzzles and the humor is nice too, esp. if you like the duo.
EDIT: Edith Finch is too atmospheric for me @_@
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Point & Click Adventure Thread 2017 - Pixels Walk With Me
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EDIT: Edith Finch is too atmospheric for me @_@
Culpa Innata says hello (but great game as i heard, still only played 20 minutes so far)
Hi Tizoc! I watched the Ross's dungeon videos - good stuff. Unfortunately the sequel to Still Life (which was a nosedive in every way from the first game) reveals the killer's identity and it was a disappointing game in every sense.
This is probably very much the right thread to ask bro! Here are some recommendations of adventure games that are more adventure-oriented with a good amount of puzzle solving and plot! Below you will find a lost of every single good adventure game I can remember from the PS4 - there are even more probably, but here are the 30+ that stand out the most. Enjoy and ask any questions you may have! By the way, at first I added a video for each game but then I found out you can only insert two videos per post haha. Sorry if it's overkill!
Grim Fandango remastered is a remake of one of the better received adventure games from the 90s. I heard this has hard puzzles but the game is known to be a major gem.
Broken Age is a new IP adventure game from Double Fine and it sure looks wonderful.
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is a first person adventure game, slow paced with a unique plot apparently
There are a few games based on licensed properties that you may be interested in checking out based on your interest in the IP, such as Back to the Future: The Game (it's quite fun if you're into the series and it serves as a great 4th part!), the Batman adventure games (2 seasons - a must if you're a Batman fan), The Walking Dead games (3 seasons and a spinoff - an excellent series to play even if you don't care about the show or know nothing of it), Game of Thrones (1 season - only play if you're a super GoT fan), Guardians of the Galaxy (1 season) and Tales from the Borderlands (1 season).
Gone Home is a first person short story-oriented adventure title that won many awards.
Firewatch is another first person adventure game that won awards and wowed adventure gamers.
Layers of Fear is a well reviewed horror adventure
The ABC Murders - if you're into Agatha Christie's stories, you may enjoy this
Day of the Tentacle Remastered is a remake of one of the better adventure games from the early 90s
The Little Acre is a decently reviewed adventure title that is quite short but certainly looks wonderful
Danganronpa 1+2 reload is a Japanese adventure game based that is very well received and quite unique. Very text heavy though. If you like this, you can pick up the sequel.
Dreamfall Chapters: The Lost Journey is the third part in a much loved series, you may read up summaries on the previous two if you like (Dreamfall, and the Longest Journey)
Last Day of June seems to be a heartwarming adventure game with a bitter
Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a prequel to life is strange, you guys will likely love it since you enjoyed LiS.
There a couple of Sherlock Holmes games that are quite good! Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments and Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
The Wolf Among Us is one of the best reviewed games from Telltale.
The Witness is one of the best reviewed adventure games from last year, heavy, heavy emphasis on puzzles
Oxenfree seems like a must play adventure game, reviewed so well, with a very unique plot, great writing and gameplay based on what many adventure fans said
Virginia is a first person interactive drama
Yesterday Origins is a point and click adventure game centered on a murder mystery
Broken Sword: The Serpent's Curse is the latest chapter in the long running adventure franchise, looks lovely
Night in the Woods is a very, very well reviewed story-focused exploration adventure where you play as a cat!
Zero Escape: The Nonary Games is a compilation of two wonderful Japanese "room escape" adventures with a loooooot of story - good if you're into sci-fi in particular. If you enjoyed this, a third game called Zero Time Dilemma can be played as well.
The Sexy Brutale is a puzzle adventure game where your'e stuck in a time loop as your guests are being killed off one by one.
The Town of Light is a first person adventure game that deals with mental illness, wasn't that well received but it certainly seems decent.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a short murder mystery in first person
Armikrog is a clay-mation traditional adventure game from folks behind The Neverhood
Silence is another good looking traditional adventure game
Steins;Gate is a Japanese sci-fi visual novel that is well loved. If you enjoyed this, there's a prequel to enjoy (Steins;Gate 0) and another great game from the developer (Chaos;Child)
What Remains of Edith FInch is a short atmospheric adventure game that is cinematic and dark
Observer is a first person sci-fi horror adventure
Thimbleweed Park is an excellent looking traditional point and click adventure game from the folks behind the Monkey Island series
Precisely Zweisy - the more games they made, the less interactions and puzzles there seemed to be?? Tales of Monkey Island is indeed one of their very best for me if not the best, and it is certainly a highlight. Their Sam and Max games are excellent too and is loaded with memorable scenes and puzzles.
I tried it haha! My question is - am I the only guy here who played their Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People and/or Back to the Future?
Back when Telltale were making Tales, Sam and Max and Wallace and Gromit, they were on a roll.
For Edith Finch, i hear it is worth finishing!! I plan to some day. I hear it's quite short anyway.
Jurassic Park had so much potential! They really should have done better with it IMO. Back to the Future was very well written!! Sam and Max is among their best and most funny! I never tried their Law and Order game though as it never hit the consoles I mainly play.
Still have so much to catch up to though: Tales from the Borderland, Wolf Among Us, Batman Season One and Two, Minecraft story mode, Game of Thrones, Guardians of the Galaxy and the Walking Dead seasons two and three :0!
1 hour into G. Matter and I am not enjoying it.
I know some of the usual peeps here liked it, but it is too slow for me to play through :/ I'll prob. go back to it in the future.
Anyways next on the list is Dog Mendoza, this shouldn't take me long to finish...
I know some of the usual peeps here liked it, but it is too slow for me to play through :/ I'll prob. go back to it in the future.
Anyways next on the list is Dog Mendoza, this shouldn't take me long to finish...
Any adventure fans here into the Phoenix Wright series? It's this Japanese courtroom drama/visual novel series from Capcom with some wacky and fun writing. It's on the DS/3DS and iOS too. Beat the first game like 13 years ago. Good times.
Grey Matter has some good talent behind it, shame it didn't seem to blossom into what it could have been.
Grey Matter has some good talent behind it, shame it didn't seem to blossom into what it could have been.
Black Mirror 1-3.
And there's a new BM game coming this month (not point&click though :( )
Phoenix Wright and the Ace Attorney series at their best are fantastic Adventure games. Great humor and when done right, good trials. Capcom need to release these games on Steam already =_=
Dog Mendonca is very short and pretty easy. Essentially every hot spot is used for a puzzle of some sort so rooms can be pretty bare in terms of what to look at. The graphics were nice though.
It's too bad you didn't like Gray Matter. I would be one of those usual peeps who did enjoy it. :p
I finished The Walking Dead yesterday. I was playing with my partner since she likes the show, and she enjoyed it much more than I did since she wants to play the sequels now. I just wish there was some type of challenge in the game other than the annoying QTE shoot zombies part.
I read that SOMA will now have a safe mode. I started playing it earlier this year and I was really enjoying it until I started dying all the time from the monsters so if I can continue my progress in safe mode it might be a good time to get back into this game.
Also Gorogoa which was one of my most anticipated games is still planned to be released this year according to the developer's twitter. The same for Finding Paradise (the sequel to To the Moon). So this year still has at least a couple of potential great games left for us.
EDIT: A little over a day left for the kickstarter for K'NOSSOS. It's at 81% so it would be great to see it funded. We funded the beautiful looking Trüberbrook surprisingly quickly, but I also like the art style in this game too.
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Posting my quick impressions on Dog Mendonca
Didn't enjoy this PnC adventure game as much as I'd hoped, but at least it got me interested in the comic, and the game was short thankfully.
This is one game with wonky English localization, as there were a handful of typos and the overall dialog could've been better translated, but it gets the job done at least.
One of my biggest issues with the game is that the mouse controls were rather wonky. Basically left clicking lets you interact with an object and right clicking will highlight objects. There are times when I am not on an intractable item and the interact icon pops up at a nearby location. The right clicking doesn't highlight stuff sometimes too.
It's a servicable PnC otherwise I guess, so if you're a fan of the series give it a play, esp. if you understand Spanish, German or Portuguese.
Next on my list is Memento Mori.
Didn't enjoy this PnC adventure game as much as I'd hoped, but at least it got me interested in the comic, and the game was short thankfully.
This is one game with wonky English localization, as there were a handful of typos and the overall dialog could've been better translated, but it gets the job done at least.
One of my biggest issues with the game is that the mouse controls were rather wonky. Basically left clicking lets you interact with an object and right clicking will highlight objects. There are times when I am not on an intractable item and the interact icon pops up at a nearby location. The right clicking doesn't highlight stuff sometimes too.
It's a servicable PnC otherwise I guess, so if you're a fan of the series give it a play, esp. if you understand Spanish, German or Portuguese.
Next on my list is Memento Mori.
I have beaten the first four - Trials and Tribulations was pretty special! Not sure why Capcom is insistent on this series being Nintendo/mobile-only. Other consoles and Steam are a haven for adventure games now.
Thats it,their Sam and Max games were enjoyable, the third season in particular. The puzzle agent games were fun and solid puzzlers too.
I don't really like what Telltale has become.. but then they get a lot more attention and are far more successful financially doing these interactive story games than when they did straight up adventure games.
I loved Gray Matter myself, didn't quite live up to the Gabriel Knight series but a very memorable and enjoyable game to me. But then I do have a thing for Jane Jensens games.. even enjoyed Moebius.. I mean, I could tell it was a flawed game with questionable technical execution but I couldn't put the damn thing down.
Me too. Really liked Gray Matter, finally got around to it last month. I can see where Tizoc is coming from though, I certainly wasn't in love with it in the first few hours. And don't know if I ever really fell in love with it. But it was a great one to play in October with its somewhat light-hearted spooky edge.
Didn't hurt that it reminded me of GK from the start either, probably my favorite P&C of all time. Reminds me I need to get to Cognition and Moebius.
Yes, I absolutely loved the Sam and Max: The Devil's Playhouse - lovely swan song to the series (since I don't expect any more games in the series, unfortunately).
It is a shame seeing how Telltale started with some big interactive hitters like the Sam and Max games, Tales of Monkey Island and to an extent (interactivity wise that is) the first season of the Walking Dead...and now ended up with cinematic adventures with a lot less interaction than before.
Not too bad - the devs behind it don't tend to make graphically amazing games, so I expected some sub-par looking graphics - the characters' faces look a bit rough but here's hoping the overall game will be good!
I don't know if Telltale's Wallace & Gromit is even available for sale anymore but I really liked the 2nd and 3rd episodes at the time. (I worked there and did user interface and menu design on them so I'm biased though.)
The most terrifying news in my career was hearing we were getting the Monkey Island license. I still have mixed feelings about it but am proud of a lot of the work we did on Tales of MI. That game targeted the WiiWare download store which made sense at the time because the Wii was a huge deal, but it meant some very not-great technical things, like the download size of each episode had to be tiny. Led to some disappointing things like the character model reuse.
One of our goals that I'm proud of, was to try and leave the Monkey Island characters in a better place than we found them. For instance in the original games, I neber thoight Guybrush was an actual buffoon all the time, I think he's actually pretty competent and determined, and just everyone ELSE thinks he's dumb. By the later games it seems he'd been rewritten to actually just be a blundering clown. Really wanted Tales, by the end, to put him back in the role of a genuinely determined and passionate adventurer who is misunderstood by a world who doesn't get him. Similarly with LeChuck - by the end we really wanted him to seem dangerous again. At the end of MI2 in the tunnels he's so scary, but he got slowly de-fanged over the sequels. Elaine we wanted to try and return to a position of being self confident and secretly in control of the situation even if enacting her plans put her on the razors edge of harm. I don't think we pulled Elaine off as well as Guybrush and LeChuck at the end, but I'm glad in the end
she was ultimately the one to kill LeChuck in Tales, and the plan was technically all hers, instead of Guybrush.
(My background: I was a fairly junior designer on Tales of Monkey Island, but I got to direct episode 3, and co-design and direct episode 5. Worked at telltale from 2006-2012 starting as a forum mod and web designer, ended my time there as creative director on Walking Dead season 1. Before that I was a news writer at Adventure Gamers, ran Mixnmojo.com from the late 90s to mid 00s and also used to run samandmax.net RIP that site.)
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Gameplay is my main concern too, here's hoping ^^
Wow, Jake, it's awesome to see you here man. Tales of Monkey Island is not just my favorite Telltale game, but one of my favorite adventure games, period. You and your team did a fantastic job with the game and as a result the game feels, and to me will always be, a 100% legit Monkey Island game. It was meaty, lengthy, hilarious, well written, sounded good and had memorable puzzles. Oh how I wish you guys got to make more of them!! Furthermore, the last episode of Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse was a gem, as was the whole season, but it ended with a bang. Much love to you man. I purchased Firewatch and I hope to play it sometime in the very near future.
Edit - You also worked on the first season of the Walking Dead? You're a legend. You were heavily involved in the three best Telltale games IMO.
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Let's not forget Indigo Prophecy, Heavy Rain and Beyond! Looking forward to Detroit!
Sorry ;P Loved Firewatch!
So after not being impressed by a few handful PnC games, I've settled on Oxenfree and am playing through it. I'll see if I can beat it in one sitting if not by tomorrow.
Following that I've got
Randal's Monday
Samaritan Paradox
Shivah
Shopkeeper
SnarfQuest Tales Ep. 1
Song of Seven Overture
Space Quest series
Supreme League of Patriots
Tales
Tesla Effect
A Vampyre Story
Wheels of Aurelia
Once these are beaten I'll move onto my GOG backlog again.
Following that I've got
Randal's Monday
Samaritan Paradox
Shivah
Shopkeeper
SnarfQuest Tales Ep. 1
Song of Seven Overture
Space Quest series
Supreme League of Patriots
Tales
Tesla Effect
A Vampyre Story
Wheels of Aurelia
Once these are beaten I'll move onto my GOG backlog again.
Where is the classic soundtrack?
Man, that does not look good. I'm still a huge fan of the first three games so I'm going to buy it anyways.
Any idea how long Black Mirror is supposed to be? I'm not sure if I'll like it, so I'm curious about what I'd be looking at going in blind. I know it hasn't released yet, but sometimes devs will give an average and I haven't found anything.
omg is this an oblique reference to me being bald like David Cage? Good. Hi this thread.
Haha I think the reason I said - the dumb aesthetic similarity I allegedly have to David Cage - is why that became a joke on Idle Thumbs.
I know this year has been pretty great for adventure games, but I'm still a bit bummed that we're not getting a new Wadjeteye game. Just look at this animation in the upcoming Unavowed.
That gif got me so hyped. The establishing shot is a lost art in point and clicks I think. When I think back to Loom and the first two Monkey Island games (and Full Throttle come to think of it!), some of the most striking moments are when it will cut to an epic painting to establish the next scene.
Related to establishing shots are cutaways - another lost art I think. It was so damn cool that Thimbleweed Park just bathed itself in ominous and enigmatic cutaway shots.
Oh, when I was checking games, it reminded me of the existance of Icon Architect 1.0
Looks like it's still going:
https://twitter.com/IconArchitect10
Last screens are from April:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=51693.msg636557536#msg636557536
Pixel art and colour cycling (the rain effect) really hits the spot for me.
Neil Cicierega was a long time member of the AGS scene in the late 90s/early 00s and it warmed my heart to see he was going to work on a new game project after so many years away doing music and videos. I hope he finishes this. The mood in what little has been shown is great.
Haha cheers, that post is all too nice :) I never really saw this thread's equivalent back on GAF, really happy to know this one exists here.
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Hi Fady! Great list of recommendations you've given here. I'm glad you're spending more time in this thread. I always appreciated your posts in the Vita thread at the old place, but I didn't realize you were such an adventure game advocate as well. I really enjoyed playing the LucasArts remasters on the Vita. I picked up a Switch and it seems to be continuing the tradition of portable point and click games. I think I will pick up Night in the Woods and Kentucky Route Zero on it next year.
Wow Ja2ke, it's a real honor to have you in this thread. I used to read Mixnmojo all the time during the later part of that time period. It was when I still had hope that LucasArts would do something useful with their IP and being disappointed with every statement made by Jim Ward. I was so excited when Telltale got the Sam and Max and Monkey Island licenses. It's so cool that you got to direct Episode 3 of Tales of Monkey Island. It was definitely my favorite episode of the season and the part with the giant manatee was one of the parts that I remember thinking hit the highs of the previous games.
Tizoc, you have my two of my favorite games of 2014 in that list: The Samaritan Paradox and Tesla Effect. I really liked the puzzles and the Sweden setting of the Samaritan Paradox. I think it is a really underrated game. Also, Tesla Effect is one of the funniest games I've played in the past few years, but I am very partial to puns and dad jokes. I think I might play through it again to try to get another ending when The Poisoned Pawn is going to be released. I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
Finally, Finding Paradise (To the Moon 2) has a release date of December 14th. Here's the new trailer:
Broken sword 5?
Yeah it is ok altho i prefered ep 1 more than 2
Little Nightmares sure looks lovely. For those interested, there's a newly released retail version for PS4/XB1 subtitled "The Complete Edition"
Most welcome ja2ke! You really are a legend mate, thanks for pouring your passion into creating wonderful adventures for us. I look forward to hearing about your next game someday. It really is nice to see an adventure thread in here with such a kind and friendly community!
Hi thelongestj - thanks for the kind words! It's incredible to bump into frequent visitors of the Vita thread I had back on GAF. I am actually a huge, huge adventure game fan! Long story short, it all started back in the early 90s when a friend randomly lent me his copy of The Secret of Monkey Island. Again, your kind words are very humbling - thank you! It was such a great pleasure seeing remade Lucasarts adventures on the Vita, and I love what the Switch is doing too - I really, really hope the next Playstation has a similar mechanic where we can play near-PS5 quality games in portable mode as well! Both Night in the Woods and Kentucky Route Zero look delicious!! Wasn't Episode 3 of Tales of Monkey Island
the one inside the whale?
Haven't played any BS games other than the first two but, man, the remastered versions of the 1st two are absolutely wonderful. Beautiful atmosphere in those games!!
Why is one of the best point and click games ever not on there? I'm talking about Deponia. The game that single handedly made me fall back in love with P+C
By the way folks, adventuregamer has put up a nice write-up of some of the adventure games shown at the recent AdventureX event. Enjoy https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/34049
I only played the first one and liked it a lot - need to get on the sequels.
I like the first one, was disappointed by the second one, and the less said about the third game, the better. They should have stuck to their original plan of making it all one game. There really isn't much story left by the time they reach the last one, and 30 hours is just too long for a shallow character like Rufus.
I do agree, although I'd say split between two games would be ideal for me. Still, without it, I wouldn't have bothered with P+C. I'll go through this thread and see what's on PS4 to add to my collection. Hoping for more humour based P+C
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Because Deponia was not released in 2017.
I don't like it anyway, bad script, poor humour and unlikeable main character. Puzzles aren't that great either.
There's a way to make an obnoxious main character who is simultaneously engaging (see : Ransome in Thimbleweed Park), but Rufus is not it for me.
i certainly preferred rufus over a character like ransome, but he did feel a bit paint-by-the-numbers wisecracking egomaniac that is pretty common for adventure game protagonists, not to mention a low bar. it can work, but in this case it was one of those knows the lyrics but not the music type of deals.
ultimately i think the deponia series still had to be successful on some level because at the end i actually felt bad about the way it ended for the main characters, so there is at least that. did not play the fourth game though, and that's probably for the best.
ultimately i think the deponia series still had to be successful on some level because at the end i actually felt bad about the way it ended for the main characters, so there is at least that. did not play the fourth game though, and that's probably for the best.
That's a really interesting read Jake, thank you.
At the risk of sounding like a complete suck up I gotta say you did some amazing work on Tales of Monkey Island. IIRC Episode 3 was probably my most favourite part of the game as well, that's the one where Guybrush is stuck inside the giant manatee, right? Been a while since I played the game.
I found both Curse of Monkey Island and Escape from Monkey Island a bit too lighthearted, as good as especially Curse is, it's a lovely adventure game thats well designed with gorgeous art and music..but Monkey 1 & 2, despite being mainly comedy adventures had this kind of a more serious and even dark side to them from time to time.. hard to explain. I feel Tales brought a lot of that back being closer to the Ron Gilbert directed games tonally than either Curse and Escape. Glad to hear it was conscious effort to make LeChuck seem more dangerous again for example. Also really liked some of the new characters like Morgan le Flay and the Marquis.
Yeah that's the manatee one. I think it wasn't the best choice to have a manatee in a Monkey Island game - wish it was just a giant sea monster if we had to go there - but the whole team made the most of our own ridiculous early-on decision haha. It's also the first game I worked on with Sean Vanaman, who wrote that episode. (After that we did episode 5 and Puzzle Agent with Mark Darin, then Walking Dead S1 and Firewatch together.)