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“Are You Afraid of the Dark” is based on the Nickelodeon television series about a club of kids called The Midnight Society. The members of this club entertain each other with ghost stories around a campfire. The premise of this game is that you, the game player, are attempting to gain entrance into the society […]

This is the worst game that I’ve totally enjoyed. It’s a traditional third-person point-and-click adventure in which our hero, a dippy journalist named Richard, is chasing all over the globe to find a scientist who went missing in his search for Atlantis. The game starts with a wonderfully retro-cheesy cutscene of the scientist and his […]

One of the nice things about playing adventure games is the chance to vicariously visit locations that are far away, exotic, dangerous, lost in time, or simply nonexistent. Ancient Egypt, Central America, Antarctica, Atlantis, Easter Island, Stonehenge, Mesopotamia, Mars, El Dorado, Shangri-La – you name it, you can probably travel there in a good adventure […]

Anyone who has been playing adventure games for more than five minutes is familiar with the term “Myst clone.” It referred, at first, to the gaggle of games that were released specifically to capitalize on that wildly influential 1992 game. Gradually the term evolved to refer to any games in that now-firmly-established subgenre of first-person […]

Interplay’s Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster is a mixed bag. It’s a solid Myst clone with good graphics, story, and puzzles, marred by bad voiceover acting and a designer obsessed with mazes. This first person point-and-click title opens promisingly: you awake on a slab in Frankenstein’s laboratory, with Tim Curry as the mad […]

Liath is definitely one of those good news / bad news titles. Whether or not it’s for you will depend on how important the areas of strengths and weakness are. First things first. Liath is (superficially at least) a fairly traditional third-person point and click adventure. The most unusual thing about it is that it […]

Modesty. Sometimes it’s a bad thing. Say, if you’re Brad Pitt or Cindy Crawford. But sometimes it can be a very good thing. The same is true for conformity. Inherent Evil: The Haunted Hotel, the first game from Eclipse (and published by Head Games, a division of Activision), is a textbook example of when embracing […]

This is a pleasant, breezy, pretty game that I enjoyed very much. It’s not ground-breaking; it will start no new trends; it will be on very few player’s Best I’ve Ever Played lists (mine, either). But I’m very glad I played it. The setup is very simple. You’ve been invited to peruse a mysterious museum. […]

A haunted hotel? A creepy mission to fight a sinister evil force? The first chapter in a much longer story? No, no . . . I’m not reviewing Activision’s Inherent Evil again. This is a new game called The Forgotten: It Begins from Ransom Studios and DreamCatcher Interactive. It’s a shame, actually, that these two […]

There is a game company out there who for some reason has not abandoned the pure adventure genre. It’s called Cryo. I know, I know, many people became irrationally violent while suffering through Atlantis: The Lost Tales, but I for one am extremely glad that these crazy Frenchman are still in love with the concept […]