Heidi

It’s hard to compare what amounts to one man’s five-year labour of love, with hours of obvious passion invested in it, to a slick, commercially-produced adventure game. Some may feel that this level of dedication should automatically give an independent project a certain cachet, but in a very competitive market, such games still need to […]

While being dead doesn’t sound like much fun, being a ghost has a lot of possibilities. Unless, of course, you’re forced to wear a sheet to hold together the ghostly bits of yourself and facing an afterlife of civil service. In the aptly named Ghost in the Sheet, you play as just such a character. […]

I like the kind of gumption it takes to say, “what the heck, let’s create an adventure game ourselves.” Be honest, most of you have thought about it. But have you done it? Exactly. We are not talking about something that you can whip together over one crazy weekend of Mickey D’s and a bottle […]

If you like Myst-style puzzle games then I can state up front that RHEM 3 is for you. But then if you are planning to play RHEM 3, you most likely have already played its predecessors, or at least other games of its type, so the contents of this game should not come as a […]

Playing Sterling’s Gift was something of an experience for me. Being Canadian, the only thing I really know about General George Armstrong Custer was that it didn’t go too well for him at the battle of the Little Big Horn. Nor can I say that I had ever been that interested in finding out more. […]

Set against the backdrop of the second world war, Black Dahlia is an ambitious game that takes its cue from such classic movies as The Maltese Falcon and Touch of Evil. Although the premise of this game is not new — think Raiders of the Lost Ark — the game uses largely historic facts to […]

I dig first-person adventure games. In fact, I am a Myst lover. There is no use denying it, though I know lots of people aren't. Yet even though I enjoy these games, and the better ones have many great aspects to appreciate, sometimes the Myst-iness of them gets to be too overpowering. Too much of […]

I just recently finished playing Sanitarium and though I liked the game I would hardly say that it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Well, that can’t be said for Amber: Journeys Beyond. Amber is an acronym for a cutting edge piece of psychic detection equipment that the player employs […]

The year is 2012 and due to catastrophic upheavals on the earth’s surface billions have died. Natural disasters have claimed the planet making it inhabitable. The last remnants of humanity live in orbiting space stations, this however, is not a permanent solution and a desperate plan is hatched. A three man crew will be sent […]

There is a company based in France that has for years toiled away to create games that intertwine history, game play and technology. If you have no clue what company I am talking about you are missing out on a library of interesting and satisfying games. Unfortunately for us North Americans, Cryo does not publish […]