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I mean this year has been pretty terrible for adventure gamers. Besides Thimbleweed Park there were no big releases. Today adventure games are either horrible “pixel art” wannabes, boring interactive movies like the ones from Telltale Games or boring dark and gritty horrors. What happened to comedy adventure games with beautiful graphics like Deponia, Monkey Island, Broken Sword or even Book of Unwritten Tales? I really miss this type of games in the genre. Are adventure games finally dead? Are there any good games on the horizon?

Basically the money, time and talent for amazing graphics is gone. The comedy, great stories and great puzzles are still there.

But adventure games were never just about pretty pictures. If that is all you want, visit an art gallery. Everything else about the genre is as alive as it always was.

For me the graphic was always one of the main factors of adventure games. If I want just good story I’d rather read a book. What are the new AGs you recommend that was released in 2017?

From 2017, Paradigm and The Dream Machine should be up your alley. Also perhaps the soon to be released The Inner World: The Last Wind Monk.

diego - 04 August 2017 11:56 AM

Just pick something and imagine it’s a brand new game.

I seem to remember a certain forum member praising Four Last Things as the best thing since the invention of the wheel.

Also.. Ankh, Gilbert Goodmate and Torin’s Passage as examples of funny games? Really?

tom - 04 August 2017 11:40 AM

What are the new AGs you recommend that was released in 2017?

Darkside Detective is hysterical. Way funnier than LSL or anything else Sierra ever did. Same goes for Paradigm and Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet.

Oh yeah, and Deponia isn’t funny. By the way. 

tom - 04 August 2017 11:24 AM

Today adventure games are either horrible “pixel art” wannabes. What happened to comedy adventure games with beautiful graphics like Deponia, Monkey Island, Broken Sword or even Book of Unwritten Tales? I really miss this type of games in the genre.

I know pixel art is not up your alley, and I am in the same boat as you, but please give The Darkside Detective a shot. It is a traditional,pixel art adventure game that is really easy, but still, it is one of the funniest games I played recently. Right next to LucasArts games in terms of humor I think.

So, adventure games are dead threads are not dead! Yay

Plenty of recomendations already - paradigm , Darkside Detective, Her Majesty Spiffing, Demetrios and more

The various Kickstarter games of the past few years have shown, pretty much beyond doubt, that traditional adventure games are not commercially viable (unless they’re made on a shoestring budget). So yeah, they’re pretty much dead.

There’ll be a few exceptions now and then, but don’t hold your breath.

New releases . Just click the point and click tag

Concerning the examples, there’s a good chance Revolution is working on BS6, KingArts will finish the BoUT trilogy. Daedalic is more difficult to predict now but they did drop Deponia last year. Lucasarts is dead dead but Gilbert did just release a new adventure…

I wouldnt use the word dead. We continue to get very nice gems here and there. But the market share that the genre symbolized is not what it was and probably never will be. In part because the video game market is much much larger now.
So youve got a game like the KQ revival.. everyone talked about it. People on my social media who arent gamers talked about it. It got celebrity mentions and headlines. The first episode rolls out and its *beautiful* with top notch visuals, voices and design. It was reminiscent of 90s productions. And it commercially was not successful. Debatably episodes after that took some hits in quality. It made the case easily that this is a different era.
But the genre is not dead.. only different. And finds itself into many commercial borderline-action releases, and tell-tale-likes, with smaller budget classic-like releases popping up here and there. For example i am confident mage’s initiation will release this year. That is sure to be another treat like thimbleweed.