Point-And-Click Adventure Games

I loved point and clock adventures when I was a kid in the '90s and '00s. Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2, and Discworld 1 and 2 and Discworld Noir are good and funny ones, the item combinations make sense most of the time too. Simon the Sorcerer went a bit shit when it went 3D for the third one, it's still worth playing if you like the other two and it does have one of my favourite puzzles ever in a game
(there's a Tron parody section where you find a computer and need to open its CD-ROM drive but there's no controls on the computer, so you open your own computer's disc drive and it does the same in the game. I still don't know how they did that.)
, but it's ugly as hell, they were going to make another 2D one and had it almost ready but the publishers wanted 3D and they rushed it. Chris Barrie (Rimmer from Red Dwarf) does the voice of the first one, and Eric Idle (Monty Python) does the voices for Rincewind and a few other characters in Discworld, it's very much their style of humour too.

gangweedfan said:
I cannot recommend the submachine series high enough. all 10 games are 100% free online (some you may have to download now that flash is going away) and are made by a polish dude who makes comics for a living so the art is really good and unlike anything you have probably ever seen in a video game.

He also made a spinoff called submachine universe which unlike most point in click games you just explore shit for fun and there is no goal other than finding new locations. He has been updating it on and off for a decade and it has gotten really big.

TLDR: Play submachine you faggots
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The Rusty Lake series and Samsara Room series, the Deep Sleep series, Detective Di, and The Last Door are other good ones that started as free flash games.
Also Yahtzee's 5 Days A Stranger and 7 Days a Skeptic are decent, the plots can be a bit silly but they keep you engaged.
 
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Simon the Sorcerer also had that feature where holding tab(?) highlighted everything that could be clicked on to avoid pixel-hunting.

Not mentioned so far, Normality by Gremlin. It's a first person point-and-click that takes place in the future where fun isn't allowed. Pretty good actually, the novelty of a first person perspective livened things up and enabled some fun puzzles.

For those that want a more supernatural setting with a spooky mystery there's Realms of the Haunting from the same developer. Really good and it turns into a puzzling first-person Metroidvania of sorts(it has combat unlike Normality).
 
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Never really dug the genre, but liked games like Hotel Dusk. The one that really stood out for me in my tender years has to be Titanic for Windows 95, though.
 
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In loving memory of flash I present this excellent old classic. However, it may require a plugin you don't have, or a right click > view page info > save .swf, then open it in your local media player (e.g. MPC-HC). Make sure not to "seek bar" through it and ruin the fun!
 
Shield Breaker said:
My husband never realized you can put the hamster in the microwave in Maniac Mansion. I had to explain it to him when he was playing the DotT remake and didn't get what Ed was talking about.
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If he played the NES version, it was allowed at first, then later presses of the game had it removed due to pressure from Nintendo's nannying. I don't remember how to tell the cartridges/versions apart, but that's a thing.

  1. Earliest Police Quest games are fun but hard. I remember showering, failing to do a four-point check on tires on the car outside, and simply dying.
  2. Hugo's Haunted House is a classic, I regret not playing later games in the series(except for the weird shareware doom clone)
  3. I remember liking one of the Indiana Jones games but losing the manual that you needed to reference for copy protection every time you booted up.
  4. In recent games, the Blackwell series is pretty good; they're supernatural detective stories where a 1930's ghost haunts the women of the Blackwell family, so they go around solving murders as amateur detectives with Ghost Dick Tracy's help. They're cheap on Steam & on the easier side so you can expect to actually finish them if you try.
  5. Beneath a Steel Sky was pretty good, british sci-fi is a significantly different flavor than American. I played it in the 00's thanks to some magazine dedicated to point and clicks having a disc full of them, DRM-free. I really miss PCGamer in the late 90's for this reason, they were always advertising point and click demos on their discs and had some great stuff that I never ended up buying or pirating. Feels weird thinking of the articles when The Dig was considered new and avant-garde for the genre.
 
Cantercoin said:
we're finally getting an official follow-up to LeChuck's revenge with Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossmen coming back
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Now you made my day, frendo!

starborn427614 said:
I guess this makes the third game non-canon? Not that it really matters, these games are more like different books than anything else.
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Murray is here and he was introduced in Curse so I assume they are following the continuity.
 
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starborn427614 said:
Nice. I hope they put together a collection soon, Lucasarts back doing games and such gives me hope that they will.
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I already have them all, both on discs and on Steam.
But I wonder if they'll touch the cliffhanger from the end of TMI (not sure if you can still buy this one after TellTale went down) or stick to LucasArts made entries.
EDIT. OK, TMI is still available on Steam.
 
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It's a genre I love in theory. However, the nonsensical puzzles, tedious progression, and awful pacing makes me largely avoid the games. Simplified stuff like TellTale are among the very few exceptions, I love those.
 
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A grifter has to earn 2 million dollars to keep the IRS from murdering him. I remember it being loaded with pretty good humor, but that's it. Feel like I'm the only one that played it.
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Christ this one was an abortion. Capstone, the pinnacle of computer entertainment, does it again.
 
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The first three Pajama Sam games were amazing. The fourth can go fuck itself.

For some reason a lot of people think that Thunder and Lightning from the second game are lesbians

Also, fuck getting the flashlight in the mines in the first game, it took me years to figure it out, it wasn't until a youtube video that showed how to do it years later that I finally figured it out.

The other Humongous Entertainment games were good. I remember playing Putt Putt and Freddy Fish with the neighborhood girl until she moved away. She knew how to do everything though and made me feel quite dumb.

I had the spinoff Freddy Fish Maze Madness which is like a pacman inspired game, but with a lot of extra stuff added to it. I hated how the custom level creation didn't give you all the options for obstacles and enemies.
 
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Fialovy said:
The first three Pajama Sam games were amazing. The fourth can go fuck itself.

For some reason a lot of people think that Thunder and Lightning from the second game are lesbians

Also, fuck getting the flashlight in the mines in the first game, it took me years to figure it out, it wasn't until a youtube video that showed how to do it years later that I finally figured it out.

The other Humongous Entertainment games were good. I remember playing Putt Putt and Freddy Fish with the neighborhood girl until she moved away. She knew how to do everything though and made me feel quite dumb.

I had the spinoff Freddy Fish Maze Madness which is like a pacman inspired game, but with a lot of extra stuff added to it. I hated how the custom level creation didn't give you all the options for obstacles and enemies.
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based pajama sam/freddie fish enjoyer
 
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SSj_Ness said:
It's a genre I love in theory. However, the nonsensical puzzles, tedious progression, and awful pacing makes me largely avoid the games. Simplified stuff like TellTale are among the very few exceptions, I love those.
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I have probably made this post three times already in this thread, but if you feel that way I can recommend Shardlight. I really liked that one. It's in the style of classic point and click but the puzzles have a real world logic to them. You encounter a problem, if you have an item that would reasonably solve the problem it probably does. If you don't have the item you have an idea of what you are looking for. Real world logic also means that you have to know a little bit about how things work and react.

Another game I strongly recommend, but it has some of the obtuseness of old, is Book of Unwritten Tales 2. Gorgeous game, generally fun puzzles where discovering the solutions informs you about the world and setting, but towards the last third of it there will be "jesus fucking christ..." moments. My patience isn't what it was but I swear some of that was worse than the dog in Monkey Island 2 and doing the monkey wrench puzzle while not having enough grasp of the english language to understand what the pun was.
 
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I'm going to necrobump this thread so we can talk more about this genre, which in my opinion, is one of the best.

After watching Grim Beard review of Blair Witch Volume I: Rustin Parr, I'm hoping they release a remastered version of the game for modern hardware, also, if you never watched Grim Beard, I highly suggest.
 
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This game isn't great. The jokes aren't even funny, I remember seeing the cartoon series as a kid, but i don't remember them being as bland as this unless I just put up with a lot of shit back then as a kid. The movies are better, but that goes without saying at this point.
 
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