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Many adventure games provide text-based dialogue options to choose from; a few let you choose the mood you wish to convey. But only Who's Lila? lets you actually form your own facial expressions in solo Russian developer Garage Heathen's newly released "AI-powered reverse-detective adventure."

Any good treasure hunter knows to bring along the right maps and a good shovel, but according to solo Tasmanian developer Luke Webster's upcoming Bilkins' Folly, the most important key to success may just be one's favourite canine companion. 

Normally the words you least want to see on a screen are "your computer might be at risk," but there's one exception: when it's an upcoming first-person narrative puzzler by that name. 

If one of your new year's resolutions is to scare yourself senseless more often, there's a good chance you can fulfill that one this year – or at least help make it happen – with the upcoming Help Me!, a new psychological horror game by Black Rat Studio.

It's pretty rare for a game to feature a stone as a main character. But the little round protagonist of German solo developer Amir Matouk's upcoming Stone Mirth on Earth is no mere inanimate hunk of rock, but a volcanic visitor from Mars who has come to save the day. 

Many (fictional) tragedies have occurred in pursuit of eternal life, but rarely have so many happened to one family, as they do in The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story, a live-action Japanese mystery from h.a.n.d. and Square Enix that is due to arrive this spring. 

The yuletide season may have been more than a month ago, but Christmas at Donner Pass is just arriving in the sixth Miss Clue: Jane Austen Mysteries adventure available now for download.

Ever played an adventure where you’ve got the perfect tool for a job but aren’t allowed to use it? In Rendlike’s upcoming sci-fi adventure FixFox, that’s the very challenge you’ll need to overcome on a worldwide scale when it releases on PC at the end March. 

Our pre-teens are some of the most formative years of our lives. Not only are we discovering who we are, but we come to see those closest to us in a different light than ever before. Nowhere is this more true than in Polish developer Dead Cat Studio’s upcoming Bakö, about a boy uncovering the “deeply hidden secrets” that torment his family.

There isn't much good that's come out of the pandemic, but one silver lining is the formation of Team Dissonant, a group of young people from the UK who came together through the Kickstart scheme (not to be confused with Kickstarter) to create a "highly personal game project" called Whispers in the West, an upcoming point-and-click murder mystery for one to four players.

Besides visiting Adventure Gamers, most of us spend way too much time online. Breaking free from that trap and rediscovering the real world is the challenge in Land of Screens, a short new adventure from the creators of Half Past Fate that has just been released on PC and Switch.

It seems wherever humankind is destined to go, we'll have a hard time getting along. Even if it's a small colonized moon in a faraway solar system, as is the case in indie Italian developer Max Rudy Magni's upcoming sci-fi puzzle adventure, A Whisper in the Twilight, which is currently on Kickstarter in need of support.

Indie Turkish developer Tonguç Bodur has carved out quite a niche for himself with a variety of atmospheric exploratory adventures over the years, most notably the Drizzlepath series, but they've largely been limited to PC. Now, however, one of Bodur's other adventures is making its way onto consoles in the form of The Dead Tree of Ranchiuna.

Way back in 2007, Looky – The Adventure, a point-and-click game about a worm on a mission to save his planet, was first published as freeware. Now solo German developer Marcus Röckendorf of Basement Society plans to release a greatly expanded and overhauled commercial version of the game entitled Wormventures: Barrier 51.

Often supernatural mysteries involve spirits who continue to linger here in our realm even after their deaths due to some unfulfilled purpose. In Indigo Studios' upcoming Lucidus Mortem, however, it's we who must travel to the other side to rescue the soul of one dearly departed.