Beacon Pines is a lovely way to spend some hours in the company of some charming characters and a nicely emotional sequence of branching narratives.
Tag: adventure games
Review: The Plague Doctor of Wippra is a short, bitesize point-and-click hampered by some frustrating puzzles
It’s worth seeing for the unique setting, but its brevity, lack of character and worldbuilding leave The Plague Doctor of Wippra feeling rather underbaked.
Review: The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow is an atmospheric folk horror worth seeing
If you’re looking for a thoughtful horror story with plenty of worldbuilding, The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow has it in spades.
Review: Gerda: A Flame in Winter is a haunting, dramatic and involving story worth playing
Gerda: A Flame in Winter is a deeply emotive tale of love, loss and resistance set in the closing months of the Second World War.
Review: Stalking the mean, animal streets of Vancouver in Backbone
Backbone is an excellent adventure game, with a highly memorable setting and superb writing.
Review: Darkestville Castle brings truly evil point n’ click adventuring to consoles
Now this is what I’m talking about… real evil incarnate! Mwahahahaha! *cough*
Review: Come meet Willy Morgan and stay for a brief slice of the Curse of Bone Town
Willy Morgan and the Curse of Bone Town might be a short game, but it still delivers a fun and unobtrusive point ‘n click adventure worth checking out.
Luna is short and simple point-and-click adventuring done right
Short, simple, pleasant, heartfelt and beautiful, Luna The Shadow Dust is lovely in every way.
Guard Duty is a cheeky adventure game that doesn’t reinvent the wheel
Guard Duty as a whole is — for as cliché as it might sound — more than a sum of its parts, so I can easily overlook its weak presentation.
Episode 1: Austin is a problematic, but still promising start to Destination Primus Vita
Destination Primus Vita was touted as one big project made by ex Ubisoft developers, an FPS adventure series with an ambitious script. It revolves around saving humanity and restoring Earth’s most precious element that was stolen by an invading alien race. After having played its premiere episode, titled after the protagonist Austin, one of the […]