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“Slow burn” is the term I’d use for the plot of 2004’s . It’s also how I’d describe the start of lead writer Martin Ganteföhr’s new adventure , and for the same reasons. Sharing similar technological and societal themes and scenarios, the latter feels like a spiritual sequel of sorts, at least on the story […]

Complex characters and gripping plots are all well and good, but sometimes all a gamer wants is the challenge of a good puzzle. Or many puzzles! That’s exactly what Shifting Tides’ 3D first-person adventure provides. Alternating between the real world and a similar yet shadowy dark version, you will make use of mystic statues, harps […]

Palm Pioneer’s side-scrolling originally released in an unfinished state. Consisting of three chapters at the time, the developers vowed to release the fourth and final chapter as free DLC to conclude the story. A year later, that promised installment finally arrived, along with some welcome improvements to the extant content. Unfortunately, even now this is […]

Some adventures go the comedic route, some go serious, and then there are some that aim simply for the bizarre. La Poule Noire’s is one of the latter. With its variety of just-plain-weird situations and an eccentric cast of characters all seemingly reading from different scripts  – headed by Edgar, a squash farmer with a […]

I was fortunate enough to have the chance to play a preview copy of the upcoming by Francisco Gonzalez, creator of previous tales like and with Wadjet Eye. Gonzalez, publishing this time under his own Grundislav Games label, positions this retro-styled 2D point-and-click game with the unique elevator pitch of “a detective game where it’s […]

Adventure game protagonists have come in all manner of forms throughout the years. In Backwoods Entertainment’s upcoming , that form is the gangly shape of Harper Pendrell, a naïve, work-averse layabout (and occasional handyman). He’s an unlikely hero, but events conspire against him, as events are wont to do, to pull him into a plot […]

is a third-person 3D puzzle adventure by Savepoint Studios in which players assume the role of Solas, a young Celtic girl whose father has just passed away after her mother was taken and sacrificed by the druids. Yet despite being based on such dark events, the overall tone of the game is surprisingly light as […]