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Adventure games have almost exclusively been single-player experiences to date, but there are signs that this trend is beginning to change. One of the pioneers for multiplayer is a group of students from the Netherlands, who banded together to produce a co-op adventure, We Were Here. The game was designed to be played online between […]

Amanita Design are known for their off-the-wall productions like the Samorost series and Machinarium, where real-world logic and spoken language take a back seat to delightful visuals and inventive gameplay. Their latest adventure, CHUCHEL, is no different, though it more closely resembles Botanicula among the indie Czech studio’s previous releases, which should come as no […]

Darkestville Castle is the first adventure game from developer EPIC LLama, though you wouldn’t necessarily be able to tell. This is an accomplished genre debut that, while it doesn’t bring anything new to the table, offers up an enticing premise and often very funny story as you take control of a demon progressing from prankster […]

The Riddler has returned to terrorize Gotham City, but his gruesome puzzles merely foreshadow an even greater crisis. With the arrival of a ruthless federal agent and the return of a still nascent Joker, Batman must navigate uneasy alliances while Bruce Wayne undertakes a perilous series of deceptions. Which of Batman’s new allies will you […]

During the Second World War, more than five million citizens were killed when Poland was occupied by the Nazis. Despite the unrelenting bleakness of the situation, people fought back and protected one another in the face of cruelty. It’s these events that My Memory of Us is based upon, though in a more childlike, symbolic […]

Murder! Sap everywhere! Yes, sap, as it’s rare plants that are being brutally destroyed and there’s only one wise-cracking anthropomorphised rooster who can investigate this fowl play. Created by little indie Italian studio Footprints Games, Detective Gallo is a comic-noir adventure inspired by the classics and successfully crowdfunded a couple of years ago. The result […]

is perhaps the biggest franchise that Telltale has tackled yet – or at least the most enduring. The caped crusader spans generations and has appeared in every medium imaginable, undergoing multiple iterations over the years while retaining the same core characteristics. The developer, meanwhile, has become synonymous with a particular type of episodic interactive storytelling […]

I’m a sucker for traditional hand-drawn 2D animation. It’s becoming increasingly rare these days due to how time-consuming it is to produce, but seeing it always makes me feel comfortably nostalgic for the classic cartoons I grew up watching. So I was excited to play LUNA: The Shadow Dust, the successfully crowdfunded debut by a […]