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Well, Pendulo’s first game was Igor: Objective Uikokahonia, which is in fact considered the first adventure game ever made in Spain (1994).

Hollywood Monsters was the second one. I didn’t recommend it because if you ask Siri or Alexa about “moon logic”, they would answer “Hollywood Monsters” haha

More interesting Spanish adventure games?

-The Abbey (based on Umberto Eco’s masterpiece “The Name of the Rose”)

-Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today (although it’s only half of the game, we are still wating for the second part…)

-Randal’s Monday (with many references to other games, movies, tv series, comics, some people think that too much references…)

-Call of the Sea: beautiful game with a Lovecraft touch.

-Mutropolis: best adventure game of 2021 for Adventure Games staff.

if you like the Wadjet Eye sci-fi games, play Whispers of a Machine. it’s the best of the bunch so far, with Technobabylon on a solid second place. 

edit: i just saw the game mentioned earlier in the thread! so adding to that choir, for whoever still hasn’t played the game.

if you like a thorough investigation of tragedy with beautiful semi-realistic graphics (as if shot through gauze), try The Painscreek Killings.

for a more comic/graphical novel approach to investigation, Tangle Tower is clever in it’s design and the way it captures the characters, visually, audibly and in writing. It’s predecessor, Detective Grimoire, even if it’s more of a stepping stone to the second title, is quite enjoyable as well.

if you can a stomach the bleak and 90% sepia-toned horror of Bad Dream: Coma and Bad Dream: Fever, both games are very good at delivering some psych horror in their own right, but the second one blew me away.

if you’re looking for a relatively small and very affordable game and you don’t mind the diy (& charming!) graphical style i’d really like to mention The Epsilon Outcome. just straight up classic adventure with true to the genre puzzles, easy to fit into your schedule and spending limits, a little gem.

These threads always drift away from what the OP asks for (good 2D graphics, 3rd person, hard puzzles, comedic, lengthy) into “recommend whatever the hell you want as long as you like it”

Sorry, never mind me - carry on

Charophycean - 25 January 2023 05:15 PM

These threads always drift away from what the OP asks for (good 2D graphics, 3rd person, hard puzzles, comedic, lengthy) into “recommend whatever the hell you want as long as you like it”

Yes, some pretty wild recommendations. I’d like to warn the OP that Call of the Sea, Contradiction, and the Painscreek Killings don’t meet any of his or her requirements.

Curses. You are right about Call of the Sea, I allowed myself to be carried away by patriotism…

I like your “curses”.
I’m probably going to use “hogwash” a lot from now on. 

Karlok - 25 January 2023 07:00 PM

I like your “curses”.
I’m probably going to use “hogwash” a lot from now on. 

Capital!

I hope you don’t mind me suggesting me own game, but from your description I think you would enjoy Captain Disaster in: Death Has A Million Stomping Boots.

I’m sure you would also very much enjoy these three excellent games (can’t remember if they’ve have been mentioned, and even if they have it’s worth mentioning them again):

Feria d’Arles

Lucy Dreaming

Beyond The Edge Of Owlsgard

Well, I haven’t played the other two games, but I definetely recommend Captain Disaster in: Death Has A Million Stomping Boots.

And Feria D’Arles, we have just translated into Spanish. It’s short, and it’s great.

I would add Toffe Trouble in Creamville, short and charming. And it’s free.

here are two more suggestions, games that might touch your heart:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1172800/Perfect_Tides/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1201270/A_Space_for_the_Unbound/
the latter is the most 2D of all games mentioned, i guess, but it’s not cursor-driven.