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Not sure it’s planned to release this year but I hope so, have been anticipating Technobabylon 2 forever

Looking forward to the new star trek game and the new syberia too… the demo was great. Also it may never get released at this point since it has been so long but I’m still waiting for spaceventure lol. Here’s to hoping ;p

I’m REALLY excited about two games that are coming this year (well, at least one of them will most likely come out in 2022).

1. Cosmo D - creator of “Norwood Suite” and “Tales from Off-Peak City” has anoter game scheduled for summer release - Betrayal at Club Low.
Lovers of all things surrealism and great music rejoice!

2. This announcement from Wadjet:
https://www.facebook.com/11641449457/posts/10160071110259458/?sfnsn=mo

The credit for mentioning this game in this thread first actually goes to LittleRose (thank you!), but I’m happy to see they are moving along.

As far as April…

I’m interested in

Chinatown Detective Agency

I’ve tried the demo, and while it seemed a bit too restrictive on the player’s agency, I liked the real world “investigation” part - where you’d need to use internet etc. to find answers, and the overall look/feel of the game is very neat.

Overall though, it doesn’t seem like there’s a lot coming in April on the game front.
Please, share what are you looking forward to!

Adv_Lvr - 08 January 2022 07:25 AM

Believe it or not, Sony funds and helps to develop and publishes adventure games.

Detroit:Became Human, Until Dawn and In Cold Blood for example.

A major website has published the rumor that one of Sony’s first party developers is working on an AAA adventure game for the PS5.

Sony also has a first party developer that converts PlayStation games to the PC. So the odds are good that this game would eventually get a PC release.

More details to follow……..

Interesting… I just looked into this and it’s more than just a rumor. Spritefire, a Sony Studio in Liverpool best known for “The Persistence” has several job listings open for a “AAA Narrative Adventure Game.” If you scroll down to the Job Vacancies section you can get tidbits of information.

They’re using Unreal Engine, It’s going to feature a dark storyline, and from the descriptions it looks like they’re trying to make something that exceeds QD.

So that’ll be an interesting thing to look out for. I’ve got no experience with the devs prior work, and no sense of how it will actually pan out. But it makes sense that Sony would want another studio making exclusive games in this space after QD went independent.

Detroit was a big hit selling over 6 million and Sony is the only big publisher besides Square Enix with eyes on the adventure genre. Promising news after QD has moved on with the Star Wars game.

Even though we’re already in May, wanted to post two games I’m really looking forward to this month.
Sometimes “looking forward to” means I’m excited about a game in general, but not necessarily will buy it right away, more like - will follow it closely and get it, if upon release and general feedback it seems like something I’d enjoy, but sometimes, it means “first day buy”, and I’ve got two of those coming up.

1.  Voodoo Detective

I don’t know if people here have a certain game tag that will make them buy it regardless of how little they know about the game, but I have a few of those, and one of them is “noir”. Love noir adventures, can’t help it. This one combines not just noir, but also voodoo theme (I’ve always been fascinated with that), what looks like (“hears” like) great voice acting and comedy. Plus, it looks stunning. No demo is available for this game, but I’ll be getting it upon release - it just seems too cool not to give it a try as soon as it comes out.

2. Acolyte

This is a mix of investigation, AI and interactive fiction. The main shtick is that you get a digital assistant that you can directly talk to, as it doesn’t have predetermined dialogue scenarios, so it feels like a natural converaton. There is some giant cyber-punk-ish conspiracy going on (because, of course, there is), and you’re working to figure it out, but I’m mostly interested in rather novel concept of freely corresponding with AI in-game.  I understand that the execution of this idea will be flawed. It’s in its infancy still, so there will be many things that won’t be as “free” as they can be one day, but I enjoyed the demo (that doesn’t seem to be available any longer, unfortunately), nonetheless. Acolyte definitely won’t be for everyone, but I’m really looking forward it.

Have you seen? The release date for Nightmare Frames has been announced. It’s June 16th. I can’t wait to play it.

LittleRose - 17 May 2022 03:35 PM

Have you seen? The release date for Nightmare Frames has been announced. It’s June 16th. I can’t wait to play it.

I like that there’s less than a month to wait. If the writing is as good as Urban Witch Story it’s going to be great!

There are a number of interesting ones in the pipeline.

I’ll keep it straight and simple: I’m excited about The Return to Monkey Island.

I’m interested in the game as well as in the drama, just in case somethings goes terribly wrong, like, being to casual, not everyone admiring the presentation, a pc story leaving you with a(nother) secret, lots of progressive injokes, state of the art NFTs, in an episodic format only available on the epic store, shipping with a virus even Bill Gates has overseen, you know, things you might expect from a Rom Gilbert game.

Maybe I had the SCA virus in mind. Maybe then the altruistic honest non profit oriented role of Bill Gates. Maybe then the monkeypox as the next big thing, some would love to expand too. Disney (sorry Gilbert, no rights) could come up with a logo real quick. Get a three-headed monkey and add some Talespox. Btw. I’m glad Guybrush got his hand back.

To complete this to three too: I get some adventure vibes by thinking about Blow’s Sokoban Puzzler and Bonelab (a.o. having fun with limbs).