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Indie developers Jake Elliott and Tamas Kemenczy of Cardboard Computer haven't been letting the bluegrass grow under their feet since successfully crowdfunding their five-part adventure series Kentucky Route Zero, as the first episode is set to launch this December.

Odysseus visited plenty of exotic lands during his ten year trek home from Troy, and now his epic journey has finally landed him on Windows, Mac, Linux, and various mobile devices in The Odyssey HD.

Though games like Broken Sword: The Serpent's Curse may get all the headlines, not to be overlooked in the host of crowdfunding adventures these days are Papier and Montague's Mount. Papier

Following the success of the fantasy-themed Book of Unwritten Tales, developer KING Art Games is turning its attention a little closer to home for its upcoming 1960s crime caper, The Raven.

Sometimes it's good to be bad.  And sometimes it's good to be Vile.  At least, it is when you're the demonic star of Reincarnation: The Root of All Evil, the first commercial adventure in the long-running series from Christopher Gianelloni and B Group Productions.

A trio of new adventure games currently seeking crowd-funding are quickly approaching their deadlines, each with less than $5,000 to raise. Detective Grimoire

If you haven't yet played Botanicula, why not?... I mean, you now have the chance to try it out first, as a browser-based demo of Amanita's latest masterpiece is now available. 

Alice may have explored an alternate world through a looking-glass, but Lilly has her own special pair of goggles that open up a creative new fantasy adventure called Lilly Looking Through.

SkyGoblin's The Journey Down has certainly taken a roundabout route to get where it is, but today the journey finally reached its destination with the release of Chapter One.

The fans have spoken (at least, those who put their money where their mouths were), and the first game from Jane Jensen's Pinkerton Road Studio will be Moebius. As part of the ongoing "Community Supported Gaming" fundraising campaign at Kickstarter, Jensen gave early supporters the choice of three potential games as her next project.  Options included Gray Matter 2 and a 19th century historical mystery/romance with the working title Anglophile Adventure.  But Moebius came out the winner, as fans were lured by the promise of another "metaphysical sci-fi thriller in the vein of Dante’s Equation and Gabriel Knight." Moebius stars antiquities dealer Malachi Rector, a young, handsome man with "a knack for sensing 'the soul' of an object", who travels the world hunting for unique artifacts. When his "upscale Manhattan store is destroyed in a fire, Rector is hired by millionaire Amble Dexter to investigate a series of events and document them in his meticulous way." The first such indicent is the death of a lovely, talented woman in Venice whose death proves to have "great hidden significance. It appears that Amble Dexter and his associates are playing with the fabric of life in a way Rector never imagined possible". Even he is destined to play his part, so it's now up to him to discover the full truth and "decide whether to play his pre-scripted role or try to change the outcome." As you'd expect from a Jane Jensen adventure, Moebius will be a third-person, point-and-click title.  The game will feature a 2D graphic novel visual style and include two difficulty modes, with optional features like hints, hotspot highlighter, and a simplified interface if so desired. If Pinkerton Road's fundraising campaign is successful, the plan is for Moebius to be released sometime around March 2013.  When asked if the game would still be her first project regardless of the Kickstarter results, Jensen confirmed that it would be, though the need to reach out to other investors would obviously set back the projected timeline. 

If you've been anxious for news about Skygoblin's The Journey Down, don't worry... be happy... because the indie developer has just released the first trailer for its upcoming comic adventure that's quite unlike any other.

Some adventures are epic, and The Book of Unwritten Tales is no exception – and that was just to get released! For what seems like an age, KING Art’s much-anticipated fantasy has been awaiting its English language release, but today the wait is finally over as the game hits store shelves (in the UK at least).

The good news just keeps coming for The Book of Unwritten Tales these days, as Lace Mamba Global has just announced its plans to publish the game in the UK this fall.

If you dare to believe it at this point, there's new hope to finally see The Book of Unwritten Tales this fall, as the developers have announced plans to distribute the game themselves.

The Wii and "great hardware" are rarely used in the same sentence, but there will soon be some great hardware (of the robotic kind) coming to Nintendo's platform in the form of Amanita's acclaimed adventure Machinarium.