Results tagged “Point-and-click”

I want to bring your attention to this small jewel I just found and got through, The McCarthy Chronicles, an adventure-game divided into various short chapters (about 2 hours of gameplay each?), the first one being the only available at the moment.

Remigiusz Michalski is some short of weird idol for me. His only previous appearance in this blog was when I spoke about his previous game, Downfall, that horrible, horrible game (in a good? way) still giving me nightmares. 

Great news for all the adventure-lovers out there! Darkling Room just announced that the third episode of the well-known Dark Fall series has gone gold, and the announcement comes with 6 new screenshots!


• A brand new (and final) Dark Fall horror adventure.
• From the pen of Jonathan Boakes, author of The Lost Crown.
• Explore a derelict train station & hotel, abandoned since World War 2.
• A new game engine allows full exploration and movement.
• Physically interact with the eerie setting, to really 'feel' the place.
• Use light as your weapon and ally, to fight the darkness.
• Use Detective skills to solve an urban mystery.
• A hauntingly creepy stereo score that will chill and terrify.
• Explore the memories of the dead, in their own 'nightmares'.
• Discover the true identity, and power behind, the Dark Fall itself.

Definitely a good gift for these Christmas. The perfect game for a cold and rainy winter evening!


Source: JustAventure

Today I'd like to point you all to a nice article I found on A Hardy Developer's Journal (Igor Hardy's blog). It's actually the first submission by Joshua Nuernberger (La Croix Pan, Boryokudan Rue), and totally oriented towards Point-and-click adventure game developers. However, some of the hints and tricks may also be used in games where there is some sort of exploration, or puzzles.

It's worth a look. You can find it here.

Because some people need more than dungeon crawling to live, I'm bringing you another 100% awesomesauce made free game. This time, it's an adventure: The Marionette, by Team Effigy.

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The game was created using Adventure Game Studio and features a first person camera (though static) with some great art and quite a complex plot that plays some sensitive themes.

You can get the game from Team Effigy's webpage. Being a ~90MB download, free, and awesome, you probably should, if you like adventures.

Note: The game also features a couple of bugs that can basically freeze the action, so, save often.

I was reading through some articles at Just Adventure and found an interesting Top 10 about Horror-themed adventure games. While I knew most of the titles, I found, placed the third, a game which I never had heard about, Downfall, by Harvester Games.

The game seems to be a classic point-and-click adventure with some very special graphics, hand-drawn style, but of course, the weird way, as if the artist was a total psycho. Considering that the author, Remigiusz Michalski, wrote the script while working as a nighttime care assistant at a mental health institution, it might as well be the case.

The story is as hardcore as an axe shower. If you ever have the guts to play this game, be prepared to see some of the most gruesome scenes ever portrayed in a videogame. Gore, nudity, nudity PLUS gore, violence, and a disturbing, wicked storyline that will be the source for the nightmares you'll have the rest of your life.

If you think you can deal with it, check the video below. I must warn you, however, that it does contain ingame footage, so don't watch it right after lunch.



If you're a weirdo and want to know more about this game, check the Harvester Indie Games website, but don't tell them I sent you. You may also purchase the game there for only $9.99.

I like weird games, and "Trauma" surely looks like some really wicked stuff I could enjoy. In this point and click adventure we will play a young woman who has been in a car accident and is now recovering in the hospital, while having dreams about her past life.

Apart from the kind of different graphics to what the genre is used to, the gameplay will also be "special", requiring the use of mouse gestures (like those ones from Opera).

The game will be released near the end of this year. Probably a great game suggestion for a cold, rainy, winter night.

I just finished my way through Machinarium, the latest work from the Czech Indie Studio Amanita Design (Samorost series). This short but entertaining adventure brought some freshness to a genre that is, more than ever, struggling to come with new ideas.

For those who don't know Charles Cecil, he's the man behind some of the greatest point and click adventures of all time, such as the Broken Sword series or Toonstruck (one of my favourites, at least). Dave Gibbons is just the artist for that almost unknown and non-prizewinner comic called Watchmen. These two guys worked together in the early 90's to bring us the fabled Beneath a Steel Sky (which is now free to download and play, get it here now if you didn't play it yet!), and, from what this short entry from Eurogamer seems to say, they are going to work together, again. For those of you who are too lazy to click on links to external sites, these were Cecil's words:

"All I can say is, I am working with Dave Gibbons and we're working on a new adventure game. We have a number of ideas for premises and we honestly haven't decided which road we're going to go down. But I love writing and playing adventure games and that is what I'm going to stick to."

He didn't underline his own words, mostly because of the physical laws, but I wanted to emphasize that last sentence. After so many years of "meh" adventure games (although there were quite some glorious exceptions), might this be the moment for a new awesomely epic point-and-click adventure? Or maybe we're talking about a totally different approach now (considering the latest Broken Sword titles)? I guess time will have the final word ;)