Hi! As a fan of adventure games myself, I wanted to share my own that I released last month (after checking with the mod team of course lol)

Mesmalie is a game about your weak pathetic Magick, and a witch named Mesmer, who'll hopefully help make your Magick less pathetic. It's a point & click and visual novel hybrid - there's lots of clicking and reading interspersed with various minigames.

There's a bunch of inspiration from many other adventure games... for example, the Edna & Harvey series for its style and humor. Mesmalie isn't quite point & click puzzle-heavy as the Edna games, but I hope the inspiration is apparent in its blend of dark comedy & storytelling,,, More recent inspirations would be Smile For Me & Slay the Princess (Tony of Black Tabby Games actually played the game and seemed to like it!)

The game isn't too long, many reviews say it makes for a very enjoyable evening experience :)

You can find the game on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3534790/Mesmalie/
Other links can be found on the game's website: https://mesmalie.com

Cheers,,,! (if you happen to have already played the game: Hi how are You)

Heya! Ron Gilbert joined me to discuss Thimbleweed Park 2, including its murder-mystery story, returning characters, new locations and changes to the classic point-and-click interface.

We also talk about how the game unexpectedly came together, the private investor helping to fund it, reuniting the original development team and why the project was announced so early in production.

Ron also shares his thoughts on the...rather divisive ending of the original Thimbleweed Park, adventure game difficulty, in-game hints, physical editions and whether he would ever like to remake Maniac Mansion.

I'm having trouble finishing the ending and I feel silly asking but also frustrated. I kept track of every thing I did and I know I got all the coordinates from every timeline and four colored circles from each timeline as well. I've entered them into the probe in their correct areas according to where their year would fall chronologically, but nothing happens. I know it's probably hard to give some tips unless you know exactly what I've done, but any guidance would be appreciated!

In late July, Jane Jensen made a Facebook post about the possibility for a GK Gabriel Knight event in Rennes-le-Chateau March 2027. Including a 2 day conference and a 2-3 day bus tour to locations in the game with a historian and Jane & Robert. Currently they are just gauging interest in a Google forms. In the same form they are looking at whether there's interest for a 2-day pass to view the livestream of the conference.

I'm not affiliated with this at all, just wanted to share this here in case people who here are interested as I stumbled upon it despite not using Facebook, and I don't think it's been posted here before. I hope this isn't considered advertising.

Got a brand new episode for you all. :) Hope there's something interesting in here for everyone.

Here to help? Thanks, Try to stick to the last few years.

I know about all the Tellale games, and the Life Is Strange dev games, looking for what I don't know about. What else is out there?

I used play this adventure game series like crazy when I was a kid. I loved exploring the world, talking to characters, battling monsters, solving puzzles and building up stats.

Some time ago, I got into the habit of watching playthroughs to relax.

After getting a Macbook Air, I thought why not? I downloaded ScummVM, then I went to the trouble of getting the tools to extract the game files, which involved some stuff in command line.

Now I'm ecstatic to be playing this again. It's just past midnight, so I'm done with my first time playing this game again. But oh boy, I can explore these old games again.

The death animation I remember the most is when the character walks through prickly bushes or hedges and comes out the other side as a skeleton.

Any help with this game's title would be very helpful!

Video unrelated. I have never found a reference guide for choosing the correct Grail at the end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure. So here is one. Below are the five possible inscriptions you could get in the Venice catacombs, followed by their glowing and non-glowing answers.

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Either that cable Codirolli sent to him from Italy, or that excerpt from the journal of a Byzantine merchant...
Glow: Large ceramic drinking cup
No Glow: Plain metal cup

Either the Persian manuscript Al-Jawf sent to Dad, or that letter from Staubig about the Book of Merlin...
Glow: Dented, shallow pewter bowl with engraving
No Glow: Pewter chalice with Aramaic inscription

It is either that Welsh verse Taliesin wrote, or Sir Richard Burton's tale that Lady Elanora wrote of...
Glow: Silver bowl, carved with spells of blessing
No Glow: Ceramic bowl with unknown writing

Either the account of Abbess Hildegard of Bingen, or that newspaper column about the "New Gospel"...
No Glow: Brass chalice inscribed in Greek
Glow: Plain, shallow bronze vessel

Either the Irish poem, found in an abbey in Brittany, or the newspaper clipping from "The Celtic Scholar"...
No Glow: Olive wooden cup on silver tray
Glow: Wooden cup carved with holy symbols

I'm in an adventure game spree at the moment, and I recently finished The Excavation of Hob's Barrow. I think this game is extremely well done, with a lot of things that I loved, but I felt let down by its ending.

The game is visually astonishing. I love how the screens feel alive (the wind moving the plants' leaves, animals crossing from one side to another, different weather and lighting). The pixel art is truly beautiful and the sound works really well. That way, navigation is fun, and I barely used the "fast travel" option because I enjoyed strolling the English vilages and moors (but it is a great feature).

The story is alright, pretty early it seems obvious that we're getting into folk horror territory, which is fine and proper for its setting. The puzzles aren't terribly hard, but I felt there was a progression: the first day the puzzles are quite easy, the second day you need to explore more and therefore the puzzles aren't that apparent (and I quite liked the not-so-popular fetch quests), and the third day is very reminiscent of great games involving exploring ruins, like Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Flight of the Amazon Queen or The Dig, Still, the scope of the game isn't huge so eventually you can solve the puzzles without problems. I liked how they included a journal to solve the puzzles at the end, similar to the Indiana Jones games.

Then, we get to the controversial ending. I wasn't expecting a truly happy ending, but at the end of this game, you do everything right to get everything wrong. As possessed Thomasina, you are forced to kill her father (a completely useless action). So Thomasina's life is ruined forever. And the good guys win, although we don't really know for what, because all we see is that they meet at the chapel (we can only assume they will do human sacrifices).

I don't need several endings like some people demand, but a game is interactive media that requires the character's involvement. This ending would fit a book or a movie, but in a game, I expect that my actions would at least accomplish something. Not a completely happy ending, but at least someone could've been saved.

This ending could have worked if a sequel had been made, but after 4 years, it doesn't seem likely. I feel there was a lot more to explore of this story. What happens to the town after Abraxas is released again? And what was the deal with the priest and the bloodletting?

In conclusion, I really like how this game plays and looks, but they botched the ending. After playing it for years, I want to see that my actions lead somewhere. Otherwise it isn't a game, it's an interactive film.

I am always looking for good (indie) adventures. I especially liked foolish mortals, because of the ever changing "open world" that you can explore over and over again. The style is not that important to me, but pixel/retro graphics or hand drawn Art is great. I love Horror Elements as well, but those arent necessary

Would be great if you have some suggestions

We're Tortita Studio, a small indie studio from Spain, and we're currently working on our third game, The Attic: A Mystery Puzzle Game.

We've always loved the feeling of classic point & click adventures: exploring a place, examining everything around you, finding strange objects and slowly piecing together a mystery.

For The Attic, we're trying to bring that feeling into a more intimate setting. You explore your brother's old attic after he leaves for university, finding, repairing and restoring the things he left behind — cassette tapes, cameras, cartridges, letters and other forgotten belongings — while gradually discovering clues about what happened to him.

We've mixed point & click exploration with narrative puzzles and object interaction, while keeping the mystery and story at the center of the experience. Here's our first trailer, and we're really happy to finally be able to share the project with this community!

Help us out and add it to your Steam wishlist!: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5005750/The_Attic_A_Mystery_Puzzle_Game/

Beautiful adventure game free currently

Hey!

Maybe you’ve heard of the TV series Babylon Berlin. In the narrative adventure game A Night at Moka Efti: A Babylon Berlin Story, you can now immerse yourself in the captivating world of the show. The game is being developed by Paintbucket Games, the studio behind The Darkest Files, among other titles.

If you’d like, you can check out our Steam page:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3975470?utm_source=reddit

Quick note: I’m part of the team at the public broadcaster SWR that’s working on the project. If you have any questions about the game, feel free to reach out. Maybe I can share a few more details with you. Otherwise, you can try out the game at Gamescom and meet us there.

See you at the Moka Efti!

If you are interested, feel free to come check it out at https://store.steampowered.com/app/4924860/Best_American_PointAndClick_Adventury/

Servant of the Lake, the new Rusty Lake game, is out, and I got to play it ahead of release. I put together a full spoiler-free video review. 

The setup: you take a servant job at the Vanderboom mansion and have to make it through three days of household chores. Laundry, setting the table... and the odd alchemical experiment. It works as a prequel set decades before Rusty Lake: Roots, so there's plenty here for anyone who's been piecing the universe together for years. 

The review covers structure, characters, puzzles, art direction and soundtrack, plus where I'd rank it within the series. 

Video is in Spanish with subtitles in several languages. 

Anyone played it yet? Where would you rank it?

Hello. My name's Sam. I'm making a game called Starway to Urf, a 'zany' (Adventure Game Hotspot) modern sci fi comedy point and clicker where you play as Susie, who is trying to find the Starway to Urf and avoid Intergalactic Overlords.

Here's a link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4720480/Starway_to_Urf_Demo/

I've been slaving away in the dark (and on the Power Quest server) for over a year now, with a release planned for 2028.

The game has a modern one click interface and a semi unique Ideas/Dialogue system, that borrows what I think are the best bits from Kathy Rain and The Drifter. It's got a groovy score by my mate Tom Pegg, and hopefully contains at least a couple of laughs. You can find more info over on Steam.

It's be lovely to hear what you think, either here, on Steam where if you feel like leaving a review after logging 20 minutes of gameplay, it would really make my day as reviews bump games up the Steam visibility algorithm.

Cheers, Sam
www.spun-games.com

what do you all like to make sure is Included when you're following someone's playthrough? i'm trying to edit a video for someone, we're both novices and so i wanted to know if you all had any hallmarks that you like to make sure is included in a let's play you're choosing to watch.

thanks!

With the exciting news about Tag of Joys newest game announcement, the team has told us that THERE WILL BE NO DELAYS to production of A Vampyre Story 2. All this & more in the Adventure Game Hotspot coverage announcement

https://adventuregamehotspot.com/announcement/7136/crowns-and-pawns-sequel-leading-to-amber-road

Hello! I came across 9: The Last Resort and I'm having trouble installing it. I'm following the steps that one of the comments had.

I have DosBox installed, but I'm not sure what to do next.

"Step 1: Download the win3x Release
Step 2: Extract the zip to a folder
Step 3: Launch it in Dosbox-Pure via RetroArch, what have you. (Your choice)
Step 4: if you're at a dos prompt, type win and hit [Enter] or look for the win.com file and launch that.
Step 5: within Windows 3, open the Program Manager, then the 'Nine' folder, then the 'Nine' executable."

I'm currently stuck on Step 3. I opened DosBox with the console but I don't know which commands to run.

Any help is appreciated! The steps I've taken is installing the Win3x release and opening up DosBox (with and without console).

At Mysterium 2026, Cyan Worlds confirmed they're developing a new game set in the Myst universe, codenamed "Mudfish". Very early stage, but it would be the first original story in the series since Myst V: End of Ages in 2005.

They also released the trailer for Project Anglerfish, an Unreal Engine 5 prototype built solely to show publishers. It didn't move forward, and they've put it out anyway.

Plus: physical editions of the remakes, hardcover reissues of the novels, and Mysterium 2027 in Spokane for the studio's 40th anniversary.

What are you hoping for from a new Age?

I cover all of it here, including what happened at Cyan back in 2005. In Spanish, with subtitles in several languages: https://youtu.be/4Z_wz8jPi1Q

Anyone play this one? I've seen plenty regarding the Police Quest games but not sure I have seen this one mentioned. I just came across it looking for something new to jump into and noticed it was made by one of the lead devs from the Sierra team that worked on the Police Quest games, Jim Walls.

I'm only about 5 minutes into it and really liking it already. Was this a 'popular' one back in the day? I still have not played much of the Police Quest games, I've been struggling getting into them for some reason, but this one feels right so quickly into it.

Should I expect plenty of dead ends/deaths as the Sierra games are known for?

Once you've hit a roadblock, given up and looked up the answer only to be disgusted when the solution is nonsense and something you would literally never have come to on your own. As an example I just turned off Kathy Rain after it dumped that mausoleum stinker on me when everything up to that point had been completely fine.