When I’m not copy editing high-tech research (yes, that’s about as exciting as it sounds) or relaxing with my wonderful family, I love whiling away a rainy afternoon playing adventure games (the spookier, the better). Now that my daughter is a toddler and possessed with an all-consuming desire to rearrange Tupperware and pots and pans, my life has essentially become one big adventure game. Let’s see, what combination of items will best soothe a crying baby? Hm...there’s a Curious George here, but he’s missing his hat. And, the logical place for that hat would be, ah ha, right here inside the sauce pot under the counter. Click hat on monkey, click monkey with hat on baby, and voila . . . happy baby!
It’s the 16th century, and the townsfolk in a small village in the Netherlands are mostly content going about their business. Except, that is, for the crazed creatures oozing dark paint that are haunting the artwork of the wealthy and even coming out to kill them. In Aspectus: Rinascimento Chronicles, players have just one night […]
What could stop a dashing knight intent on saving a damsel in distress? A slobbering monster? Fire? Axes? How about a glass of water or a pair of scissors? White Birds’ side-scrolling lite adventure Cardboard Castle, as its name implies, takes you through a hand-drawn land made entirely out of paper, cardboard, and pieces of […]
Adventure gamers relish engaging stories and worlds to explore, but they also love puzzles and great gameplay to fully flesh them out. Chris Tolworthy’s fifth installment of his ongoing Enter The Story series, The Count Of Monte Cristo, certainly has a great adventure tale and allows you to explore a wide variety of places, but […]
“He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension preternatural.” So the narrator of Edgar Allan Poe’s Murders in the Rue Morgue describes the qualities of one with an analytical mind, as perfectly embodied by the story’s brilliant detective, […]