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We all remember what Gabriel Knight said when you tried to combine two incompatible items: “Nope, those don’t work together.” There was a time when combining ‘adventure games’ and ‘PlayStation’ would elicit just that response. But ever since released as a PlayStation exclusive, more and more adventure games have come out on Sony’s consoles, and […]

When I was in high school we studied Shakespeare all four years, starting out with the star-crossed lovers, moving on to and and finally tackling the notoriously dark and dreary , in which a melancholy prince rages against his mother and stepfather, questions whether life is worth living, and finds himself paralyzed by indecision. (It […]

Loading up a new game, you find yourself in an unfamiliar place, in the body of a character whose backstory you don’t know. Your task is to explore this place and figure out what’s going on, solving some puzzles along the way. Sound familiar? This is the basic premise of any number of adventure games, […]

More than thirty years ago, a skinny guy with yellow-tinged skin and a feather in his cap strolled into the forest of Daventry on the hunt for three stolen treasures. The game was Roberta Williams’ and the man, Sir Graham, would soon be king. With eight installments and one enhanced remake released between 1983 and […]

2014 was a year of big changes for Dave Grossman. Over the summer he left Telltale Games after a decade as the company’s design director, having contributed to every series from and to and . He also became a dad to a baby boy named Max (named after a relative, not everyone’s favorite lagomorph). “‘Why’ […]

Three years later, To the Moon remains one of my most memorable gaming experiences—not thanks to flashy graphics, innovative gameplay, or big budget production values, but because of its unassuming, emotional story. In the 2011 release from indie developer Freebird Games, two doctors manipulate a dying man’s memories from within to fulfill his lifelong wish. […]

Daedalic’s 2010 game The Whispered World was celebrated by many players for its return to “classic” adventure elements: 2D cartoon graphics, an epic fantasy storyline, and an abundance of clever puzzles. When I sat down with Daedalic’s Claas Wolter to get a first look at the upcoming sequel, , I wasn’t sure if I was […]

Nearly eight years after a comatose Zoë Castillo imparted these words near the end of , we can finally breathe easy. Zoë isn’t dead. For a long time, any return to the twin worlds of Stark and Arcadia—first introduced in 1999’s and later expanded upon in 2006’s —seemed like a pipe dream. Then in November […]