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Feb 27, 2024 · Explore the top adventure games on PC, from point-and-click classics to modern interactive stories. Find out the best titles for puzzles, narratives, and characters, such as Batman, Bugsnax, and Stray.
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- Stories Untold. Release date: 2017 | Developer: No Code | GOG, Steam, Humble Store. For those who lust after old hardware—the satisfying click of mechanical keyboards, the magnetic buzz and whirs of a CRT, the hot breath of a stranger standing right behind you in an empty house—then Stories Untold is a must.
- Life is Strange. Release date: 2015 | Developer: Dontnod Entertainment | Steam. Life is Strange was one of the biggest surprises of the last few years—a Telltale style episodic game that stood alone, and a clever gimmick backed up by tremendous heart.
- Soma. Release date: 2015 | Developer: Frictional Games | GOG, Steam. Any time you create something as notable as Amnesia: The Dark Descent (aka “Screaming YouTube Payday”), there’s going to be the lingering question—OK, so what else have you got?
- Her Story. Release date: 2015 | Developer: Sam Barlow | GOG, Steam, Humble Store. Her Story has now won enough awards for creator Sam Barlow to melt them all down and create some kind of towering super-award, and not without reason.
Mar 22, 2024 · From Baldur's Gate 3 to Far Cry, the best adventure games are for the daring. Comments. (Image credit: Rockstar Games) The best adventure games out there take us to a myriad of different...
- Grim Fandango
- Return to Monkey Island
- Broken Sword: Shadow of The Templars
- Day of The Tentacle
- Beneath A Steel Sky
- The Walking Dead: Season One
- Night in The Woods
- Kentucky Route Zero
- Life Is Strange
- Chuchel
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Dialogue, character, world, and imagination cement Grim Fandango among the best adventure games. Set in the Mexican Land of the Dead, where everyone’s a skeleton or a demon, the recently deceased have to work off any crimes they may have committed before taking the treacherous four-year journey to get into the Ninth Underworld. It’s a cleverly-real...
While The Secret of Monkey Island changed the genre and Monkey Island 2 improved on the original in nearly every way, cementing LucasArts’ place on the Adventure Game Throne, Return to Monkey Island is the perfect modern love letter to the point-and-click genre. We’ve long known just how endearing Guybrush Threepwood is. His burning desire to becom...
Imagine Uncharted without the jumping and shooting, sporting a plot that hints at what a good Dan Brown novel might be like, and you will have a reasonable picture of Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars. Like the Monkey Island series, it isn’t easy to decide which of the first two titles is best, but, in this case, the first game edges it. Easygoi...
Adventure games are notorious for weird puzzles, so when it comes to finding one with decent puzzles to solve, Day of the Tentacle is one of the best adventure games you can play. There are never any bizarre leaps in logic, and that is all the more impressive when you consider the player is expected to manage three characters over three different p...
If there is one button that any game can push to make us pay attention, it is ‘cyberpunk’. Combine that with a great original story, the finest UK adventure game studio, and art by legendary comic artist Dave Gibbons (Watchmen), and we are putty in anyone’s hands. Thankfully, Beneath a Steel Sky already exists, and it’s one of the best PC games aro...
The stellar first season of Telltale’s most popular series remains its best despite fierce competition. Tales From The Borderlands and The Wolf Among Us come close, but neither has the magnetism of The Walking Dead’s Lee and Clementine. Good-hearted lawbreaker Lee and recently orphaned Clementine establish a fiercely loyal bond as they weather an o...
It is hard not to fall for Night in the Woods. Developer Infinite Fall packed personal experience, humor, small-town Americana, a creepy conspiracy, stylish visuals, a fantastic soundtrack, and some of the most affectingly real scenes in videogames into one of the best adventure games ever made. Night in the Woods tackles many themes: depression, d...
Kentucky Route Zero’s meandering plot, weird sights, and pleasant country music make it one of the most relaxing gameson PC. If you’re a fan of just about anything directed by David Lynch, mainly his surrealist Americana and detective mystery, Twin Peaks, then you’re sure to find something to love in this magical realist journey. Although it’s not ...
Developers Dontnod managed the seemingly impossible with Life is Strange: they out Telltale’ed Telltale. Life is Strange boasts consequential choices, a better-looking and more expressive graphics engine, and, most importantly, an entirely original setting. The main character, Max Caulfield, is a photography senior working with classic Polaroid cam...
Chuchel is as much a slapstick comedy as it is a point-and-click indie game. From the developers behind Machinarium and Samorost, Chuchel’s eponymous protagonist is a rotund, hairy, but lovable speck that looks like a bright yellow upside-down acorn. Alongside an equally goofy and colorful cast of blobs and everyday objects, you match your childlik...
A list of the best adventure games on PC, from classics like Grim Fandango and Monkey Island to modern gems like Life Is Strange and Night in the Woods. Find out why these games are worth playing and how they stand out in the genre.
An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story, driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media, such as literature and film, encompassing a wide variety of genres.
Dec 7, 2022 · IGN's staff picks the best action-adventure game of 2022, a genre that combines deep stories and breath-taking fights. Find out why God of War Ragnarok won the award and see the other nominees, including Elden Ring, Horizon Forbidden West, and more.
Dec 15, 2021 · Metroid Dread is the best action-adventure game of 2021, according to IGN, with Hitman 3, It Takes Two, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, and Resident Evil Village as runners-up. See why these games combined the best elements of two beloved genres and how they stood out from the competition.
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