A community for fans, devs, and general aficionados of the adventure game genre. This includes IF/parser games, point-and-click games, puzzle games, walking simulators, and whatever else you want to call these. To us, they're simply adventure games.
What's that one adventure game you can just boot up and have a great chill time with? Mine would probably be Day of the Tentacle. It's such a wonderful, colorful world to inhabit, and all the characters are lively and oozing with personality (no Sludge-o-Matic pun intended). I could spend hours just walking around talking to characters and not even think about solving any puzzles.
What's the one game you'd boot up to just relax with?
Probably the Quest for Glory series for me. Played them so many times that I can just pick up any one them with any character and get sucked right back in to the game. I've had an itch lately to do a full playthrough of all 5 games after not touching them for a long time but I have little free time and too much backlog...
Yep, that's my choice as well.
To make this reply more interesting, I guess I will also add Hypnospace Outlaw. There's so many bonus pages that aren't required for completing the game that I can just spend plenty of time hopping around an alternate 90s internet and having fun
I enjoy coming back to "Loom" once in a while! 🙂
The combination of some of the most beautiful EGA graphics I have ever seen with the wonderful Tchaikovsky soundtrack still mesmerizes me to this day. 🥰
Monkey Island/Grim Fandango/Leisure Suit Larry
I sometimes boot up Curse of Monkey Island. It was my first proper adventure game. The voice acting, dialogue, music and art is still charming to this day.
they could just republish it as is for modern platforms like the ipad, it doesn't even really need remastering
I feel like I could...like I could...TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
Probably Curse of the monkey island, the very pinnacle of adventure gaming
The Sam and Max games scratch that itch for me. If I'm in a funk and don't have the energy to play a new thing, I can fire up one of those games and have a laugh for a while without even thinking about whether I'm going to finish this particular playthrough. They're the very best kind of absurd in everything from the art to the dialog to the puzzle solutions!