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This review originally appeared when the game was self-published by the developer. With Dark Fall now getting its overdue full retail release, we are returning it to the spotlight by running the article once again. It’s clear that we’re in an era where publishers are refusing to give adventure games a chance. This does not […]

(1893 can be purchased for $19.99 plus S&H at the Illuminated Lantern website.) Traveling is not an opportunity I have had much in my lifetime. Other than visiting the site of the Battle of Gettysburg, the most famous battle ever on American soil, I really haven’t been to many famous places; time and money haven’t […]

Magnetic is the second independently developed adventure from Australian Peter Hewitt, the creator of Xiama–and just like his previous game, this time the tag of “adventure” may be stretching it just a bit. Xiama was a puzzlefest, pure and simple, and if you loved tons of puzzles of great variety strung together with little to […]

The debate continues to rage regarding how best to push the adventure gaming genre into the new millenium. Many are saying that the only way for adventures to “catch up” with the appeal of the more mainstream genres is to innovate, to brainstorm brilliant new things that adventures can do. Maybe, though, the answer is […]

There's something special in the air anytime a new indie studio releases their first commercial project, but there's a particular significance to the launch of the first episode of from Phoenix Online Studios. Not only does it come from the same team that spent the better part of a decade seeing its unofficial fan-made sequel […]

For American adventure gamers, Runaway has been a constant source of intrigue and drama, and not because of the actual content of the game. For almost two years, we’ve heard all about it, how beautiful it is, how well it plays, what an instant classic it is. But it’s only been hearsay, as the game […]

Last year when we handed out the first annual Adventure Gamers Underground Awards, we talked about how excited we were that the strength of the field led to so much lengthy debate to settle on our nominees and our eventual winners. We certainly couldn’t have foreseen how much stronger the field would be this year—a […]