Ghost stories, time travel, murder mysteries, and magic curses… Yep, sounds the adventure genre, all right. Only this time it’s the casual variety, as another month of hidden object hybrids offers up a smorgasbord of popular themes and lite adventure gameplay. We’ve sampled them all, so read on to find out which new releases are […]
With the 2010 Aggie Awards almost upon us, it’s time for you to put your hanging chads where your mouth is! You’ve seen our own final nominees, but any developer will tell you that it’s the Readers’ Choice awards that mean the most to them. (Of course, they say the same to us about the […]
Ladies and gentlemen… it’s that time of year again: February! What, you thought maybe we were going to say Aggie Award season? Well, hey – it’s that time, too! Yes, Adventure Gamers’ third annual awards presentation is almost upon us, as we prepare once again to recognize the best adventures of the past year. At […]
Welcome to Adventure Gamers’ second installment of Eye on iOS, in which we brave the App Store’s so-called “adventure” category to identify the actual adventure games hidden in its depths (so you don’t have to). Today we bring you a few oldies-but-goodies that have recently made their way to iPhone / iPod touch, along with […]
If you’re into gritty sci-fi adventures set in bleak, dystopian futures, you’ll want to keep an eye out for the upcoming Gemini Rue. The first commercial game by UCLA undergraduate student Joshua Nuernberger following several freeware adventures, Gemini Rue was an Independent Game Festival Student Showcase winner in 2010. Since then, the game has been […]
This month you can venture out into the dark or try to free yourself from the darkness that can lurk in your memories. You could also experience varying futures where Earth has fallen to an alien race, being a genetic engineer for the police is not a happy job and vast spaceships are full of […]
Baron Wittard: Nemesis of Ragnarok is an upcoming point-and-click adventure by Wax Lyrical Games, a cooperation between writer/programmer/artist Alan Thorpe (whose two earlier freeware adventures are available on his personal website, and graphic designer Marlies Maalderink. Baron Wittard is their first commercial game together, and with the game nearing its scheduled February release, we were […]
Our ongoing search for memorable puzzling challenges beyond the traditional adventure genre has unearthed some unique experiences so far. We’ve manipulated matter, time, and space and explored dream worlds, children’s books, and pie-ravaged nightmares. This latest sojourn took us even farther outside our genre comfort zone, delving deep underground and into the grim realm beyond […]
This month you can visit a manor house in 1928, a city in biblical times or Vegas in the 1930s. You can also travel to the depths of hell in a quest to overthrow Satan, ascend to a space station in the infinite ocean of the stars or simply head out to a rather unusual […]
