r/adventuregames

I’m trying to replay all the old LucasArts P&Cs. Starting with Zack MacKraken, Maniac Mansion, and Loom. I no longer have my disks and cds tho. So I’m now trying to hunt down the “best” version of the games to replay. To clarify I’m not asking where to pirate games. I just wondering if there are versions that the community sees as most complete. Any thoughts?

Hi all. We just published the English version of the Norwegian GOTY of 2025. It’s called «The Monitors» and is a point and click adventure game in a contemporary office environment.

Trailer (English): https://youtu.be/G\_yMvz6qFdA

Steam-link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3567200/The\_Monitors/

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Hi! I’m trying to find an iPad game I played at school sometime between 2015 and 2017. The game itself may be older.

I posted about this game before, but I think I described it the wrong way. I previously focused too much on hidden-object and point-and-click games. I’m no longer sure it belonged to those genres.

What I remember is a game focused on exploration, observation, logic and puzzles. Sometimes you had to find something or solve a puzzle in order to unlock or access another place. I’m not even completely sure there was a traditional inventory system.

Here are my strongest memories:

• The game was probably in first person.

• The protagonist was an adult man. At some moments I remember seeing his arms or hands. I think his arms may have been bare, possibly because he was wearing something sleeveless, but I’m not 100% sure.

• At the beginning, or very early in the game, the protagonist was in a very dark underground place. I remember rock and wooden supports. For years I thought it was an old mine, possibly a coal or salt mine, but I now realize it could have been another kind of underground structure, tunnel system, ruins or old underground complex.

• I may remember rails, but I’m not certain enough to use this as a definite clue.

• One very specific scene I remember: the protagonist is holding onto metal bars and looking through them. It is raining outside. Two people are talking, and I remember an old car nearby.

• At another point, there are abandoned interiors with an “urbex” feeling. I remember an old, dusty room with a wooden floor. Pale light was coming through a window, almost like moonlight. There was also another room or area that reminded me of an attic, although I don’t think it actually was an attic.

• One of my strongest memories is a huge space, possibly underground. There was a bridge or walkway with a void below it, leading toward a massive wall and a very large, monumental-looking door.

The game was installed on our school iPads. Our teacher usually chose games that involved observation, reasoning and logic. Other games available to us included The Lost City, The Hidden World and Enigmatis. I’m mentioning these only for context — the game I’m looking for may be from a completely different genre or developer.

I’m certain that I’m remembering one game, not a mixture of several games.

I have already checked many common hidden-object adventure games and several suggestions from my previous posts, so suggestions outside the hidden-object genre are especially welcome.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I’ve been trying to find this game for years.

Wow, that was an unexpected journey. It's been a long time since I've played a humourous adventure game. I usually prefer darker, mysterious and more realistic adventures. However, this one really blew me away.

While it's quite short (3-5 hours depending on the player), it is very entertaining, it has some of the best music score I've heard in an adventure game in a long time and some really funny and unexpected moments. Also, the plot twist is amazing and creates a completely different atmosphere at one point.

The dialogues and atmosphere really make you feel you're playing something from the 90ies; maybe a Day of the Tentacle or Maniac Mansion clone :-) The puzzles are logical, involve a lot of items and human interactions.

I got really empathetic with the protagonist and was really sad to see the game end. I hope there is a second part. If the game was longer, had voice acting and a bit less flat graphics, it would be part of my top 10 of modern era pixel art graphic adventure games. It still remains a great piece of entertainment that I would recommend to everyone.

https://preview.redd.it/12j77bli8zah1.png?width=1438&format=png&auto=webp&s=63481dc53489bbf1c26f444c302bdf6eec3ad5d0

also, at 3.49€ it's a real bargain right now https://store.steampowered.com/app/1756100/Who_The_Fuck_Ate_Grandma/

Hi everyone, i really want to play ECC. However, i cannot buy it here in Poland. Can someone please walk me through how i can play? A way to legally buy it would be best. Alternatives are welcome.

Emerald City Confidential - Steam Page

I'm looking for adventure game recommendations where the game makes you feel like you are actually there living the story. Some come to mind that made me feel this way, probably because the passage of days and going back "home" to sleep and such: The Last Crown (maybe the sequels will come out before I die), Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, Rise of the Dragon (Sega CD), Dreamfall, Gabriel Knight Sins of the Fathers, Blade Runner - to name a few.

Has anyone played the point and click game Fable from 1996? I've been playing it on stream and once you get past some of the interface design issues, it is a very cool game. The pixel games look great, the voice acting is decent, the sound is good, the puzzles are what you expect from the era and remind me of Space Quest style puzzles (in the sense that they generally are direct reactions to problems instead of having to work around problems). If you haven't played it and you are looking for something new, maybe check it out.

This game literally haunts my dreams in the best way. Since my husband and I played it two years ago, one of us will randomly blurt out "remember painscreek killings?" and the other one of us will go "ughhhhhhhhhhh it was SO GOOOOD."

Hot take: There is no other detective/adventure/mystery/patient game out there like this. The story, the details, the foreboding sense of doom and always feeling like you are being watched, the sprawling town that you have to actually search every corner of...even *with* the glitches in the game, I feel it is flawless. A work of art. I actually emailed EQ studios after we finished it to find out if they were coming out with new games. They have Scene Investigators but I'm craving a full blown story that takes hours and hours of note taking and mystery solving and makes you feel like a literal real detective.

There have been lots of wonderful recommendations 'like' Painscreek Killings, but none of them truly compare.

I'm writing this post in hopes that somehow magically the fine folks at EQ studios will see this and say "hey, you know what, lets make this random persons day and announce that we are coming out with a new game thats EVEN BETTER than Painscreek Killings."

Anyway, big HUGE shout out to EQ Studios for creating a game that goes down in history as one of my most special core memories with my husband. You guys are awesome.