This month, you can become a female artist haunted by gruesome nightmares or a young girl trying to retrieve some stolen property. You could also attempt to repopulate the universe’s most delicate species, or try to unravel the mystery of a dead alien world. Alternatively, you might join a shark detective on a crime investigation […]
is perhaps the biggest franchise that Telltale has tackled yet – or at least the most enduring. The caped crusader spans generations and has appeared in every medium imaginable, undergoing multiple iterations over the years while retaining the same core characteristics. The developer, meanwhile, has become synonymous with a particular type of episodic interactive storytelling […]
Over two decades ago, a little developer named Cyan rocked the gaming world with the release of , a first-person puzzle-adventure that took full advantage of the burgeoning CD-ROM technology and broke PC sales records in the process. It was one of those extremely rare titles that truly revolutionized the genre, forever changing the way […]
This month you can investigate the deaths of three teenage girls, look into a boat accident, or deduce the hidden thoughts of a friend. You could also take on the role of a daring female pilot, a band roadie with a terrible hangover, or a famous psychiatrist pushed over the edge. Alternatively, you might aid […]
Whoa, okay… I hope the title of this article didn’t startle you! This isn't so much an announcement as it is an open letter — a way for us to share with you some things that are going on behind the scenes. While nothing is going to change for Adventure Gamers in the near term, […]
E3 is an experience that is so over-the-top it is hard to put into words, with all the sights, the sounds, the stagecraft that makes it look like you’ve just stumbled onto some movie set, and all the expensive visual publisher gimmicks vying for your attention left and right. Adventure games, historically not the flashiest […]
This month you can search for one professor on a remote island or guide another into a haunted swamp. You can also play a cupcake trying to protect his village made of sweets, a young man searching dark places for treasure, or an old woman on a quest to rescue a strange creature. Alternatively, you […]
In a lighter-than-usual month of indie adventures, spaghetti western fans can mosey on down to the Wild West to bring a fugitive to justice, while wannabe detectives can’t be chicken about solving the case of a poisoned parson in an old-timey fictional city. Party lovers will agonize along with one crazy mom whose last-minute preparations […]
This year’s Game Developers Conference felt like a whirlwind European tour as four developers took me from Victorian England to ancient Norway, through Scandinavia and finally up into the Austrian Alps. Whether you prefer complex mysteries, artsy interactive stories, or something in between, here are four possible additions to your itinerary. Sherlock Holmes: The […]
This month horror fans can experience a new take on the Dracula story, or visit an oddly familiar unsettling locale known as Rabbit Hill. Sequels abound, with a medieval cop starting a new investigation, a treasure-hunter exploring the cave of the bird men, a world of Caos resumes its new tale and an overweight superhero […]
