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Your favourite historical games
Riddle of Master Lu had a rather stiff protagonist but did fairly well in replicating an early 20th century cinematic adventuring atmosphere. Heart of China could go in the same category.
On the other side I really like Agon’s charming Victorian protagonist and seeing different parts of the world represented in that era.
Would Timequest be historical? I think so, in the same way that Journeyman Project was. Plus you got to go to interesting places, Peking, Baghdad, Cairo. Therefore the winner is Timequest!
Yes, TimeQuest! Rome, Caesar, Cleopatra, Arthur, Churchill, and many more. A game on the threshold between text adventures (no typing necessary) and graphical adventures. Highly recommended.
Now playing: ——-
Recently finished: don’t remember
Up next: Eh…
Looking forward to: Ithaka of the Clouds; The Last Crown; all the kickstarter adventure games I supported
Anglophile Adventure! I hope they really make it.
I like the Victorian era, Sherlock Holmes and Alter Ego and such. I don’t really feel that contemporary games which have history in them are really historical games but if they count here then I surely agree with GK trilogy.
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The Neverhood!!!
There’s plenty of HISTORY in the Hall of Records.
It could always be worse, remember that.
mjp
trust me, the last thing you want to see is a sobbing demon!
I thought that if you see a demon sobbing, that will literally be the last thing you see…
Also not really a historical adventure game but I also really like Lost Horizon. It had very good main characters and a nice story with some real history integrated in it. And it did very well convey the 30s mood and feeling.
^ This.
Otherwise I’d have NO favourite historical games. I haven’t played any of the titles mentioned in this thread, not even the Gabriel Knight games and The Last Express (but check my “next in line”-games in my signature ) and I never cared for the Broken Sword games…
The truth can’t hurt you, it’s just like the dark: it scares you witless but in time you see things clear and stark. - Elvis Costello
Maybe this time I can be strong, but since I know who I am, I’m probably wrong. Maybe this time I can go far, but thinking about where I’ve been ain’t helping me start. - Michael Kiwanuka
From a truly historical perspective I would have to nominate Qin. Unfortunately, it is possibly one of the most boring games I ever played.
precisely. Theres somthing very intriguing about qin, and it has a very nice atmosphere. But it is relentlessly boring.
Im going to go ahead and pick the tex murphy games, because we all know chris jones is a time traveler who came to us to make historical games about his time.
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