Point-And-Click Adventure Games

[gangweedfan]

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

 

[GenociderSyo]

I just remembered another one I wasted some time with - John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles: An Adventure In Terror.
Dear lord it was bad. Almost interesting but...not, somehow.

It was based on a book, but I don't remember the book reading at all like the game.

Just remembered some others:
Treasure Quest old game with the lady who played Dax from DS9.
Temujin pretty good museum puzzle game
Qin Kinda like myst but based around a asian area.

 

[Dancing Jouster]

Tex Murphy -- although the series is slightly more loose with the point-and-click aspect. I replayed Mean Streets and Under a Killing Moon again recently and both hold up well.

 

[Skeletor]

I used to love the Sierra Online and LucasArts games as a kid. One game that never got enough love was Colonel's Bequest, this was one of the last of the classic Sierra adventure games. The art style and storytelling are possibly the best of the pre-P&C games, the environments are legitimately spooky. And of course you can die in hilariously stupid ways like all Sierra games. Go ahead and take a shower in the spoopy mystery house, see what happens.

This thread made me so nostalgic that I want out and bought Fate of Atlantis on Steam, which I never got around to playing. The Room looks interesting too.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I used to love the Sierra Online and LucasArts games as a kid. One game that never got enough love was Colonel's Bequest, this was one of the last of the classic Sierra adventure games. The art style and storytelling are possibly the best of the pre-P&C games, the environments are legitimately spooky. And of course you can die in hilariously stupid ways like all Sierra games. Go ahead and take a shower in the spoopy mystery house, see what happens.

For those that like games like The Colonel's Bequest there's The Crimson Diamond

It's not finished but there's a free demo on Steam and as a zip on the website https://www.thecrimsondiamond.com/
It seems that it's only recently that she's been able to put in more work, she might have gotten some canadian art money.

 

[AlexaAutismo]

Dagger of Amon Ra is pretty good.

Police quest series is really difficult, but very fun to figure out.

Anything Johnathan Boakes related is always welcomed(The Lost Crown, Dark Fall). Also his friend Matt Clark, makes great games as well(Barrow Hill).

I've found some Russian P&C games to be quite great such as: Sublustrum and Phobos: 1953.

 

[JektheDumbass]

I've tried to get into this genre and while I have a few under my belt I've not played all the ones I want to play yet.

The trouble is I'm not great at the puzzles and having to check a guide is just lame.

But so far I've beaten Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken, Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis, Myst, Full Throttle, Leisure Suit Larry Reloaded and Thimbleweed Park.

There's more that I've played but not beaten like Sam and Max, Day of The Tentacle and Grim Fandango.



Full Throttle is really great, I don't think I ever had to use a guide because the puzzles are so well designed.

I wish the sequel hadn't been canceled and wish we could still get a sequel, as it'd be a perfect setting for an open world game.

I was not so lucky. I still haven't beaten either the Destruction Derby (I started mashing the keyboard in frustration and found the skip cheat) or that stupid kick puzzle (I just keep spamming kick on ramdom sections of the wall until it lets me progress).

 

[Stasi]

For people who want to see what the genre is all about without spending money Beneath a Steel Sky and Flight of the Amazon Queen are both free on GOG and both pretty good.

See lot of mentions for Full Throttle. It is a good game but I don't know if I'd recommend paying full price for the remaster. It is criminally short and for me at least it doesn't get by on style alone, there are better games in the genre and I don't know why it has such a good reputation. Go play Broken Sword instead.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Beneath a Steel Sky is great and as the name implies it's a sci-fi game. Hard as balls in places if I remember it right. The same developer went on to make the Broken Sword series and like @Stasi says they're really good. A bit different from LucasArt games but there's still some humor. Broken Sword 3 went full 3D and direct controls which enabled them to have a new type of puzzles in addition to the old-school kind. Really liked that one, it's on Windows but it's from 2003 so it might have weird problems.
As always with old games on modern systems, check pcgamingwiki:

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Broken_Sword_3:_The_Sleeping_Dragon

I'll repost remaster this from another thread:

A largely unknown and overlooked game is "Hopkins, FBI" released in 1998.

It's a traditional point-and-click adventure game:

As expected it has an inventory (and hot Paint Shop Pro graphics):

There are lightly animated cutscenes:

You play as an FBI agent so the thread of the game is centered around doing FBI things:

It becomes incredibly violent(wait what?)

There's a bunch of gory nudity
(ok this is not how games like these used to be)

Spoiler

aaaand halfway through the game you're actually killed trying to defuse a bomb(IIRC) and now you're adventuring in heaven

I was pretty surprised by the direction the game took.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Back when I was a kid in the late 90's when big-ass white IBM computers with WIndows 95 were a thing, I played a game called Torin's Passage. It came with a binder full of software that came with the computer. It took a month or two for my tiny dumb kid brain to finish the game but going back at it as an adult it only took like an hour or two.

Latest point-and-clicks I've played were Sam & Max (the 3D ones), Strong Bad's Cool Games For Attractive People, and Wallace & Gromit.

 

[AlexaAutismo]

Back when I was a kid in the late 90's when big-ass white IBM computers with WIndows 95 were a thing, I played a game called Torin's Passage. It came with a binder full of software that came with the computer. It took a month or two for my tiny dumb kid brain to finish the game but going back at it as an adult it only took like an hour or two.

Latest point-and-clicks I've played were Sam & Max (the 3D ones), Strong Bad's Cool Games For Attractive People, and Wallace & Gromit.

What did you think of the Tell Tale S&M games? Also thoughts on Wallace & Gromit?

 

[Celebrate Nite]

What did you think of the Tell Tale S&M games? Also thoughts on Wallace & Gromit?

They are about what you'd expect with the TellTale games, if you've played one, you've pretty much played them all. Short stories that only feel long because you'll wind up kinda stuck on a certain part wile backtracking to see if you "clicked" and "activated" everything you were supposed to do. Both also have a lot of references from past shows/movies/etc...

Regarding Sam & Max, it took a while to get used to Sam's voice, as I was used to the one from the 90's cartoon (the one in the game makes him a bit "too calm" whereas in the cartoon, he was more energetic). The snappy comebacks between the characters are a hit and miss and I did have to look up a walkthrough at a few points, but definitely not as hard as Sam & Max Hit The Road. Definitely play this on PC though, don't get the collection for the Wii, as just like the first episode of SBCG4AP, it has a few bugs in them that make the game freeze (like the cutscenes don't continue but the music/background noises still loops).

Overall, I enjoyed them. Made me want to re-visit the old shows after I played them.

 

[AmarettoPie]

I like point and clicks, but only when they make sense. It's annoying that I bought a lot of 'em on a publisher Steam sale (Daedalic Entertainment) a while back, only to play two of them and realize:
-one is completely nonsensical in its "logic" right out the gate, and has no way to make the slow-ass main character move faster, or interact with things while he's taking forever to walk into position
-the other waited until the last chapter to turn tedious (especially with this fucker and his sword poses)

I got like three others (one being a complete series, so more like six or seven others) because they were dirt cheap, but I was so bummed that I completely forgot about them until I saw this thread. I'll give'em another shot, but I'm in the middle of Okami and Alliance Alive.

Unrelated to that publisher, but Puzzle Agent was a blast. Highly recommend, if it hasn't been already. And Little Misfortune wasn't challenging, but it's definitely amusing.

 

[GenociderSyo]

I like point and clicks, but only when they make sense. It's annoying that I bought a lot of 'em on a publisher Steam sale (Daedalic Entertainment) a while back, only to play two of them and realize:
-one is completely nonsensical in its "logic" right out the gate, and has no way to make the slow-ass main character move faster, or interact with things while he's taking forever to walk into position
-the other waited until the last chapter to turn tedious (especially with this fucker and his sword poses)

I got like three others (one being a complete series, so more like six or seven others) because they were dirt cheap, but I was so bummed that I completely forgot about them until I saw this thread. I'll give'em another shot, but I'm in the middle of Okami and Alliance Alive.

Unrelated to that publisher, but Puzzle Agent was a blast. Highly recommend, if it hasn't been already. And Little Misfortune wasn't challenging, but it's definitely amusing.

If you liked Little Misfortune have you tried Sally Face, Fran Bow or the Edna and Harvey games? Same kinda morbid type humor.

 

[AmarettoPie]

If you liked Little Misfortune have you tried Sally Face, Fran Bow or the Edna and Harvey games? Same kinda morbid type humor.

I actually do have Fran Bow and the Harvey games in my library, now that I look. I honestly don't remember when I bought them, but I'll put them next in my que.

I've watched people play Sally Face. Not bad, but it kinda bored me. Probably because it had that episodic thing going on and wasn't fully out at the time. I hate when games do that. Ugh.

 

[GenociderSyo]

I actually do have Fran Bow and the Harvey games in my library, now that I look. I honestly don't remember when I bought them, but I'll put them next in my que.

I've watched people play Sally Face. Not bad, but it kinda bored me. Probably because it had that episodic thing going on and wasn't fully out at the time. I hate when games do that. Ugh.

Yea I refuse to buy til the entire season is out usually. I'm on a beating point and click spree cause of this thread just finished Oknytt.

 

[AlexaAutismo]

Anyone here like Harvester?

 

[Skeletor]

LOL, when will girl detectives ever learn not to take a shower in the creepy murder house?

 

[Shield Breaker]

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.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Completely forgot this game, McPixel, it's a point and click in the style of WarioWare with absurd 10-15 second scenarios to solve. It's really funny and have that Samorost quality where you click on things just to see what happens.