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I think this is soon getting confusing to know which Portal is being discussed, 1986 or 2007 game.
Both have been listed in this thread, so when someone says Portal is or isn’t something, it might be helpful to specify which one you are referring to.
I think this is soon getting confusing to know which Portal is being discussed, 1986 or 2007 game.
Both have been listed in this thread, so when someone says Portal is or isn’t something, it might be helpful to specify which one you are referring to.
I was talking about Valve’s 2007 game and its sequel. Didn’t even know there was a 1986 Portal.
I just wanted to mention that the inclusion of games in the AG database here don’t necessarily mean that they qualify for this 100 list as the database does include games that Lady kestrel has requested that you exclude within this post. I.e. just because a game is covered by this site doesn’t qualify it be included just on the basis of that…just saying.
Chrissie is correct that not every game in the database fits the list. I think that stealth-heavy and action-heavy do describe most survival horror games, so they shouldn’t be included.
Right now I’m compiling the lists carefully to make sure I include everything. If a game isn’t familiar to me, I will check it out later and bring it up if I have any doubts about whether it should be included or not. If you spot something doubtful, like the few games that have been mentioned already, feel free to mention them but please refrain from haranging each other about them. 
Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.
Also I’ve seem some people added SOMA to their lists. Now that is definitely not an adventure game imo. It’s survival horror, big difference.
I don’t see it. I’d call it a stealth adventure or walking simulator if anything. If Journey and Amnesia and What Remains Of Edith Finch are allowed, SOMA should be.
I’ve only played SOMA out of those and imo it’s 100% survival horror. Might as well now allow games like Alien Isolation, Silent Hill etc.
Hmm. Don’t those games have combat? Management of ammo and weapons? Health bars? Everywhere I’ve looked describe them as action-adventures.
Besides, I’m not sure survival horror is actually a genre because it doesn’t describe the gameplay. As a subgenre of action-adventure or pure adventure perhaps. The important part is SOMA has no action.
\ IDK about SOMA but if the game has routine combat, management of scarce consumable resources, and high emphasis on maneuverability, then yeah I’d consider it survival horror.
It doesn’t have any of those.
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Also I’ve seem some people added SOMA to their lists. Now that is definitely not an adventure game imo. It’s survival horror, big difference.
I don’t see it. I’d call it a stealth adventure or walking simulator if anything. If Journey and Amnesia and What Remains Of Edith Finch are allowed, SOMA should be.
I’ve only played SOMA out of those and imo it’s 100% survival horror. Might as well now allow games like Alien Isolation, Silent Hill etc.
Hmm. Don’t those games have combat? Management of ammo and weapons? Health bars? Everywhere I’ve looked describe them as action-adventures.
Besides, I’m not sure survival horror is actually a genre because it doesn’t describe the gameplay. As a subgenre of action-adventure or pure adventure perhaps. The important part is SOMA has no action.
\ IDK about SOMA but if the game has routine combat, management of scarce consumable resources, and high emphasis on maneuverability, then yeah I’d consider it survival horror.
It doesn’t have any of those.
Not all survival/survival horror games have combat, crafting etc. Go look at almost any list of the best survival horror games and you will most likely find SOMA and even other games from Frictional Games on there.
And it’s not true that there’s no action in SOMA. While you can’t fight, there are still monsters that can chase and kill and you have to be stealthy or run and hide to survive which makes it survival horror.
there are still monsters that can chase and kill and you have to be stealthy or run and hide to survive which makes it survival horror.
Yeah, by definition survival horror must have some risks, and the point is to survive somehow.
If the player isn’t in any risk of dying, what is the player surviving from then, boredom?
In some games the concept is a bit different. Like you are out in the wilderness, and must find food and water. No monsters, no guns, but survival with food and horror with being lost.
In some games food is involved even though they are not survival horror.
Like in Garfield: Big, Fat, Hairy Deal Garfield has an energy meter, and he must eat to keep going. As an interesting design choice, Garfield has one inventory slot, which is his mouth, and he will eat whatever object he is carrying when the meter goes to zero.
If you eat “just an item”, the game will keep on going on, but you can also eat some critical item, in which case you actually cause a dead-end in the game!
I managed to make it 90 and might have included a few games I’m currently playing and really enjoying.
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery (Gabriel Knight 2)
Beneath a Steel Sky
Beyond a Steel Sky
The Blackwell Deception
The Blackwell Epiphany
Blade Runner
Broken Age
Broken Reality
Broken Sword
Clarevoyance
Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller
Contradiction
The Curse of Monkey Island
The Darkside Detective
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
Day of the Tentacle
Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders
The Dig
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Eric the Unready
Full Throttle
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
Gemini Rue
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Gone Home
Gorogoa
Gray Matter
Grim Fandango
Heaven’s Vault
Her Story
Hugo II: Whodunit?
Hypnospace Outlaw
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
The Journey Down
J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars
Kathy Rain
Ken Follet’s: The Pillars of the Earth
Lair of the Clockwork God
The Last Express
Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out!
Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail!
Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don’t Dry
Life is Strange
Life is Strange 2
The Longest Journey
Loom
Memoria
Milkmaid of the Milky Way
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
A New Beginning
Nightmare Frames
Norco
Paradigm
Paradise Killer
Pedro’s Adventures in Spanish
Primordia
Resonance
Return of the Obra Dinn
The Rewinder
Rivals
Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space
Sam & Max: Hit the Road
Sam & Max: Save the World
The Samaritan Paradox
Sanitarium
The Secret of Monkey Island
Shardlight
Strangeland
Sumatra: Fate of Yandi
Syberia
Syberia II
Technobabylon
Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive
There is No Game: Wrong Dimension
Thimbleweed Park
To the Moon
Tux and Fanny
Under a Killing Moon
Urban Witch Story
VirtuaVerse
What Remains of Edith Finch
The Whispered World
Whispers of a Machine
The Witness (2016)
Zero Escape: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (999)
Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward
Zork: Grand Inquisitor
A list of favourites:
The Colonel’s Bequest
Lost Chronicles of Zerzura
Black Mirror 1, 2 en 3
The Book of Unwritten Tales 1 en 2
Broken Sword, 1, 2, en 3
Cognition: an Erica Reed Thriller
Edna and Harvey: the Breakout
Emerald City Confedential
Gabriel Knight: the Beast within
Gray Matter
The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
Heaven’s Vault
Kathy Rain
The Last Campfire
The Longest Journey
Obduction
Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney
The Raven: Legacy of a Master’s Thief
Röki
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One
Syberia 1
Syberia The World Before
Tales of Monkey Island
Thimbleweed Park
The Whispered World
Yesterday
I did not inclue any Nancy Drew’s, because they always contain minigames, which I think should not be in a really good adventure.
I really like these lists. I’ve come up with at least 10 games I’d like to include to my own, as well as games I might want to revisit.
More games to add to my list (because I really want to make it to 100 haha):
- 80 Days
- Beneath A Steel Sky
- Book of Unwritten Tales: Critter Chronicles
- Experience 112
- Full Throttle
- Gilbert Goodmate
- Lost Horizon
- Machinarium
- Minecraft Story Mode
- Minecraft Story Mode 2
- Moment of Silence
- A New Beginning
- Quest for Glory 1 VGA
- Quest for Glory 2
- Sam & Max Hit the Road
- Uru: Ages Beyond Myst
- Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures
I’m now at 84 games if I counted correctly.
here’s my list:
the Abbey
Alpha Polaris
Alter Ego
Ankh
Anna’s Quest
Art of Murder: FBI Confidential
Art of Murder: the Hunt for the Puppeteer
Back to the Future
the Black Mirror (original)
Black Mirror 2
Black Mirror 3
Beneath a Steel Sky
the Blackwell Deception
the Blackwell Epiphany
Blackwell Unbound
the Book of Unwritten Tales 1
the Book of Unwritten Tales 2
the Book of Unwritten Tales: the Critter Chronicles
Boken Sword: the Shadow of the Templars
Broken Sword 2: the Smoking Mirror
Broken Sword 2.5
Broken Sword 3: the Sleeping Dragon
Broken Sword 4: the Angel of Death
Broken Sword 5: the Serpent’s Curse
Captain Morgane and the Golden Turtle
Ceville
Chronicles of Mystery: the Secret Tree of Life
Cognition: an Erica Reed Thriller
the Curse of Monkey Island
the Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav
Day of the Tentacle
Detective Grimoire
Doctor Who: the Lonely Assassins
Dreamfall: Chapters
Dreamfall: the Longest Journey
Edna & Harvey: the Breakout
Escape from Monkey Island
Face Noir
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Gabriel Knight: the Beast Within
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father
Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom of Phungoria
Gray Matter
the Hand of Glory
Heaven’s Hope
Hector: Badge of Carnage
Indiana Jones an the Fate of Atlantis
the Inner World
the Inner World: the Last Wind Monk
Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love
the Journey Down
Kathy Rain
Kelvin and the Infamous Machine
Life is strange
the Longest Journey
Lost Chronicles of Zerzura
Lost Horizon
Memento Mori
Memento Mori 2: Guardians of Immortality
Memoria
Monkey Island 2: Lechuck’s Revenge
A New Beginning
the Next Big Thing
Nibiru: Age of Secrets
the Night of the Rabbit
Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals
the Perils of Men
Puzzle Agent 1
Puzzle Agent 2
the Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief
Resonance
Return of the Obra Dinn
Runaway: A Road Adventure
Runaway: A Twist of Fate
Runaway: the Dream of the Turtle
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Secret Files: Puritas Cordis
Secret Files: Tunguska
Secret Files 3
the Secret of Monkey Island
Shardlight
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishment
Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis
Silence
Sinking Island
So Blonde
Still Life
Syberia 1
Syberia 2
Tales of Monkey Island
Tangle Tower
Thimbleweed Park
To the Moon
A Vampyre Story
the Walking Dead
the Whispered World
Whispers of a Machine
the Wolf Among Us
Yesterday
Yesterday Origins
Please note that if your list includes 80 Days, I need to know whether it’s Inkle’s game or the 3D game from Frogwares. I’ve already contacted some of you via PM regarding this but thought I’d give a heads up to everyone else. 
Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.
I need some clarity on the Portal games since I haven’t played any version of them. So far I have Portal, Portal 2, Portal (1986), and Portal (2007). Please give me more info so I know how to group them or if each one should stand alone.
Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.
I need some clarity on the Portal games since I haven’t played any version of them. So far I have Portal, Portal 2, Portal (1986), and Portal (2007). Please give me more info so I know how to group them or if each one should stand alone.
I think it would be fair to assume that if someone does not include the date then they mean the 2007 game when they just write Portal since that one is much more famous.
There are three different games:
Portal (1986) MobyGames
Portal (2007) MobyGames
Portal 2 (2011) MobyGames
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