Top 20 Adventure Games of All-Time!!1!

#10: The Orion Conspiracy

Domark – 1995

We’ve had many debates about the important attributes of adventure games, and what makes an adventure game great, and what things an adventure game needs to be great, and what is considered greatness to be in a game that is an adventure, and similar debates. Story, puzzles, graphics, sound, who even knows anymore!

But there’s one aspect of adventures that has always been very badly underrated. And yes, you already know what I’m talking about: profanity. Adventure games have tried, and failed (or usually just not tried), for years to really make use of profanity. But no game really succeeded in that aspect as much as The Orion Conspiracy.

Just like Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes was dripping with story and dialogue…just like Grim Fandango was chock-full of atmosphere…just as Syberia was a technical marvel…Orion Conspiracy is all of those things, except lots of cussing instead! Profanity runs in and around each sentence, as a punctuation mark, as an adjective, even as a f***ing participle!

So take your graphics and your story. I’ll take a game that can use the phrase “hung like a horse” with a straight face any day, mother****er.

Singapore.

(E.D.)