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There’s a reason why LucasArts and Sierra adventures are still held up as the gold standard of the genre even today. The unforgettable characters, challenging puzzles and well-crafted worlds have stood the test of time, often with a dose of humor or mystery to sweeten the deal. Looking at screenshots or reading a description of […]

First-person 3D horror adventure coming to Windows, Mac and Linux.

When Joel Staaf Hästö of Clifftop Games released his debut adventure in 2016, it turned quite a few heads, feeling like a reincarnation of the classic supernatural thrillers. So when the indie developer joined forces with Petter Ljungqvist’s Faravid Interactive, who earned acclaim with his own well-received first effort , to create a collaborative sophomore […]

It’s pretty telling that, when thinking of ways to introduce the VR puzzle adventure to the uninitiated, the concept of a train wreck is what overwhelmingly comes to mind. Every aspect of this “game”, to use the term loosely, is head-scratchingly disastrous, and playing it conveys the uncomfortable feeling of being disconnected from the human […]

Being a big fan of Spike Chunsoft’s previous visual novel puzzle games, I was on board their latest adventure pretty much sight unseen. With the series, the acclaimed Japanese developer – and particularly writer/director Kotaro Uchikoshi – set an impressive high-water mark for eclectic characters and extraordinary water-cooler moments, all in the context of engaging […]

is one of those games that by now requires little introduction; anyone with an interest in deep, emotionally powerful interactive narratives has at the very least heard of, if not played Freebird Games’ 2011 indie darling themselves. The tale that started with that game and continued with 2017’s (and to a lesser extent, 2014’s spin-off […]

DarkStone Digital’s is a game that manages to deliver what it says on the box – sci-fi horror about navigating a maze and solving logic puzzles – but unfortunately wastes an interesting narrative premise that could have lead to more than that. In the far future, the overcrowded prisoner population is handled as though they were […]

Its title may sound like a horror story, but there is something appealingly cute and childlike about . The playful execution of this PlayStation VR exclusive gives players full control over a dollhouse world that looks like it’s been pulled right out of the latest Pixar animated movie. But don’t let its charming aesthetic fool […]

Playing AMATA’s new VR thriller is highly reminiscent of Jitenshasougyou’s , for better or worse, though much more the latter than the former. Released almost a year earlier to the day, its predecessor was a similar escape-room scenario that took away your ability to interact with the environment, instead forcing you to rely on a […]

shouldn’t work half as well as it does. It’s a low-fi space adventure with little narrative, few puzzles, a shoestring budget, and a laughable runtime. And yet somehow, despite all this, there’s something undeniably charming about this brief exploration of a retro-styled alien world. It certainly can’t make grandiose claims to greatness, but I enjoyed […]