Adventure game articles for Xbox page 8
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan review
Supermassive's first cross-platform release launches the new horror series with a splash, once again favouring fright-filled atmosphere over a deeper gameplay experience.
Night Call review
This noir-tinged Parisian visual novel provides an intriguing conversational character study, but fares worse in its resource management and murder mystery investigation.
DARQ review
It's short in length and narratively incoherent, but this atmospheric side-scroller is a dream come true for fans of surreal environmental puzzlers.
Telling Lies review
The new FMV database investigation from the creator of Her Story is bigger and bolder, though honestly it loses a little something in its over-reaching ambition.
Sea of Solitude review
Beneath the shallow gameplay of this gorgeous EA Original is a captivating metaphorical tale of struggling with personal demons.
Outer Wilds review
This unique time-looping, death-defying space odyssey makes for fascinating exploration, though you'll need an endless amount of patience to fully appreciate it.
The Sinking City review
Frogwares' Lovecraftian action-adventure is somewhat dragged down by its own ambition, but ultimately emerges as an enjoyably atmospheric thriller.
Layers of Fear 2 review
The horror sequel gets a slick new setting but feels like more of the same house of horrors experience with little story clarity and even less gameplay.
Sumatra: Fate of Yandi review
It may be a jungle out there, but within this tropical island adventure is a fun, nostalgia-filled experience that is destined to be compared to early '90s Sierra.
Draugen review
Red Thread's "fjord noir" adventure is a gorgeous yet haunting exploratory mystery that's undermined by disappointingly few answers.
Close to the Sun review
An otherwise decent Tesla-inspired thriller is held back somewhat by watered-down gameplay and horror elements.
Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love review
This point-and-click political satire pulls out all the stops in delivering a highly polished and thoroughly entertaining experience.
Elea: Episode 1 review
This first-person sci-fi series begins a voyage of discovery that leads nowhere fast in its debut installment.
Guard Duty review
Those on the lookout for a classic-styled comic adventure will find much to like in this sci-fi fantasy journey through two vastly different timelines.
The Walking Dead: The Final Season review
Revived from the grave itself, the four-part series by Telltale and Skybound is a welcome send-off that provides a worthy closure for its beloved protagonist's story.
