From Dev of Lair of the Clockwork God and Gentleman Time Please



[b]Earth Must Die[/b] is the story of my glorious rise to power (off the back of my adored father’s passing), my subsequent accidental surrender to the Terranoids, and my infamous revenge against Earth and everything it stands for.
Apparently the story is retold in the form of one of those old point and click adventure games that people gave a sh*t about in the 1990s, I wanna say? But in 2025. Doesn’t sound like a good idea to me, but what do I know – I’m just a benevolent, terrifying leader of worlds who everyone loves and also super respects.
I’m also not sure what the phrase “British comedy royalty” is supposed to mean, but I guess they got a bunch of “funny” f*ckwits to dub over my glorious voyage to feed the Terranoids their own bumholes? Let me just copy/paste the list here so I don’t have to give them any more time and effort than they deserve:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/36397..._Must_Die/

The annual Halloween adventure game tourney is coming soon.  For anyone who's interested, here's a link to the announcement poster:
https://www.mysterymanor.net/forum/viewt...96#p201396

There's SO MUCH good stuff coming out this Fall and Winter! I don't know if I can choose. I think I'm torn between Pokemon Legends Z-A, Mina the Hollower and Winter Burrow. GHOST TRAVELLER: Adventures in Edo also looks good, and Moves of the Diamond Hand is also supposed to come out before the end of the year (by the same dev who did the Off-Peak adventure game series). 

What's everyone else looking forward to? Best of each genre coming out?

-DC

What's everyone's most anticipated game for the upcoming fall/winter season? 

I'm looking forward to playing Strange Antiquities, but for games not yet released, I'm REALLY looking forward to The Seance of Blake Manor, by the same team who did the Darkside Detective games, which I love. But also, spooky games, Ireland as a setting and a detective with a mystery to solve? Sign me up! 

-DC

I realize that a lot (if not most) adventure games play best on PC, but what is everyone's preferred platform? I love my Switch's dual docked/mobile capabilities, but I think most of my favorite things are all on PS4. I also just had to get a specific Ikea stand to fit my PS5 so I'm not loving on that lately, hence going back a generation. 

-DC

Anyone started playing Hades II yet? Or finished? What are everyone's thoughts?

Also to anyone reading this who has not played the original, highly recommended, even if you do need to play it on God Mode.

-DC

This is sure a weird one. If I'm not logged into the site, when I view a thread, I see all the replies just as I would expect to.


When I'm logged in, it seems like that part of the page simply isn't rendered. I don't get the link to Page 1, Page 2 etc. and after the first post, I just get the footer part (where it says "View printable version", "Send this thread to a friend", and "Users browsing this thread").  



This doesn't change if I try a different browser or turn off Firefox's tracking protection and uBlock (I doubted either of those could be the culprit, but it's usually the first thing I try). Logging in simply seems to mean I can't see the whole thread. It's bizarre.

Are there any adventues with settings in south or latin america? The language should be English or German.

What have we all been reading this year? I've been playing a bit of catch up here in 2025; I read Neuromancer and Burning Chrome from William Gibson and, sticking to the cyberpunk genre, I was gifted a copy Snow Crash that I still have to get to. Enjoyed those a lot! 

I also read the first two Redwall books for a podcast I'm doing that hasn't been released yet. They're cute books, if ultimately children's books. There's two adventure games out based on the series actually: a Telltale style one based around the first book and a text adventure based on the second.  I was planning to get to those with my co-host later on.

In the horror genre, I got around to The Haunting of Hill House. It's probably the best book I've read so far this year- I was crying at the end, and that's very rare for me. It's one I'll definitely be re-reading many times over the years. I'm currently working on Joe Hill's first short story collection, 20th Century Ghosts. It's my first time reading Joe Hill and I'm enjoying the prose. I think I liked the first story in the collection the most so far, fun to read as both a critique and love letter to the horror genre at the time (early aughts).

Oh yeah, I also have been occasionally throwing on some Sherlock Holmes audio books while I'm at work. So far, I've done some of the first stories and The Hound of the Baskervilles. It's surprising how many of the stories still hold up, though of course, there's a few that really, really haven't.

What about you all? What has the AGH community been reading this year? What do you recommend?

do you have any old games you can't remember?

there was an old free adventure game site in the shockwave/early flash days where this guy published his first-person adventure games that i can never remember these days who made an adventure game about waking up on easter island that you had to escape... i daydream about it semi-regularly, because there were a ton of fun ones he made and i wish i could remember and replay em