Latest Adventure Games News

It's not often that Xbox 360 owners can lord adventure game supremacy over everyone else, but for the next few weeks they'll be able to do just that after the release of . Created by Swedish film director Josef Fares and developer Starbreeze Studios, tells an “epic fairy tale” of two sons desperate to save […]

What's better then confirmation of a brand new Professor Layton adventure in English speaking territories? How about confirmation of TWO? And what's still better than that? That the second one sees the top-hatted archeologist joined by everyone's favourite spikey-haired defense attorney, Phoenix Wright! The latest Nintendo Direct presentation confirmed that two games previously released only […]

Despite the fanfare surrounding the return of creator Jim Walls to adventure gaming, it was becoming apparent that the Kickstarter campaign for was not going to meet its necessary goal. Rather than simply give up, however, the developers have now launched a unique new “staged funding” campaign. Unlike Indiegogo and Kickstarter, the new campaign for […]

No need to pinch yourself. It's true, the long-awaited fourth episode of has recently been released, along with news that there are now TWO more chapters still to come. It's been nearly two years since we last saw Victor Neff trapped inside an increasingly nightmarish dream of his wife Alicia. But then, it takes a […]

Before there was , there was Walk Thru Walls' , and the head-banging, brain-eating comic indie zombie series is rising again next year in . Once a year, the normally quiet seaside village of Rodeo plays host to the Hoofs and Horns heavy metal festival that “rolls in and makes a hell of a lot […]

Cockroaches may be the most universally despised insect, but they make pretty good adventure game protagonists. Just ask 's Roger Samms. Or ask Daedalic Entertainment, who will be publishing late this year. It's the end of the world as we know it, but naturally the indestructible roaches are still alive. Two such bugs, named Jim […]

Neil Gaiman is renowned worldwide for his books and graphic novels, but at long last the acclaimed author is applying his craft to a videogame — and an adventure, no less! — in the upcoming . The titular manor is a “1920s Victorian Gothic pastoral estate” in New England that is home to a ghost […]

Nina Kalenkov and Max Gruber may have run out of secret files to expose for now, but a secondary player from is stepping into her own starring role in the upcoming spin-off adventure . Sam Peters is a journalist chasing her next big scoop, as “scientists in Africa have discovered changes in the genetic codes […]

Adventure gamers are used to picking up everything they can get their hands on, but what if you had a candle for a hand? This is just one of the many challenges to overcome in , a stylish new indie adventure now seeking crowdfunding through Kickstarter. casts players in the role of the “inexperienced and […]

It's been a good week for film noir fans. Even as one pulp mystery adventure is released (), now word out of Argentina is that a new episodic indie mystery called is currently in production.  stars Ray Hammond, a “private eye with a gritty past and unorthodox methods” who finds that a simple case soon […]