Adventure game flashback review
Scratches: Director’s Cut Flashback Review
Sometimes the old ones are the best, but in the case of horror games it could be argued that the genre has made major leaps forward in terms of quality, quantity and sheer scariness over the past two decades. The development of faster processors and graphics cards, along with the increased amounts of memory on […]
Vampire: the Masquerade — Bloodlines Flashback Review
With the recent release of Baldur’s Gate 3 in late 2023, the translation of tabletop RPGs into videogame format is fresh in my mind as of late. Pen-and-paper role-playing games have been a part of the gaming scene for over a few decades, but the late 90s and early 2000s saw the release of many […]
Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy Flashback Review
Our original September 2002 review for summarises, “This is a fun, puzzle-intensive, good-looking game that satisfies in almost every respect.” Nearly 22 years later, this game can be purchased from the usual outlets or even as an original boxed game for reasonable money. Is it worth the outlay today? Released just a few years before […]
FRAMED Flashback Review
Developed by Loveshack Entertainment and published by FellowTraveller in 2014, blends varied elements from action–adventures, interactive comics, and physics-based games. The premise involves delivering a mysterious bag across the city while avoiding the police officers who are scattered along the way. There is a short introduction, but then the game cuts right to the chase. […]
Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet Flashback Review
Way back in our February 2004 review, we declared Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet to be, ‘the greatest horror adventure game ever created’. Two decades on from this, how does Infogrames’ 1993 Lovecraftian point-and-click hold up? It seems to me that over the past ten years or so the horror genre in general […]
Infidel Flashback Review
Although I am just about old enough to have played the Infocom text adventure games the first time around, I didn’t. I can clearly remember the striking adverts for games like and in the computer magazines I read, but for whatever reason, I did not investigate them further. My sensibilities as a young computer user […]
The Dark Crystal Flashback Review
The Dark Crystal was arguably master puppeteer Jim Henson’s greatest achievement in filmmaking, telling a deep story that took the Gelfling characters Jen and his friend Kira on a journey that pit them against the evil Skeksis. Their quest was to find the missing fragment of the titular crystal, whose restoration would return peace to […]
Adventure in Serenia Flashback Review
As the unnamed protagonist of Adventure in Serenia, you’ve been tasked with rescuing the Princess Priscilla and return her to safety in the titular village. She has been kidnapped by the evil wizard Harlin, who is holding her captive in his castle beyond the mountains to the north. You must journey through the land to find […]
Return of the Phantom Flashback Review
With the recent announcement of the return of MicroProse, the time seems right to revisit one of their games from the adventure genre’s golden age, particularly as it has just been relaunched digitally. The third-person point-and-click was easy to initially overlook among its many contemporaries in its day, but it’s fitting to look back at […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation – A Final Unity Flashback Review
With the return of legendary Starfleet Captain Jean-Luc Picard in his own new television series, it seems a fitting time to flash back to s heyday and Spectrum Holobyte’s 1995 point-and-click adventure, . This entry into the franchise gaming library remains faithful in most ways to the series it’s based on, for (mostly) better and […]
