I just registered to come and say thankyou to the admin/mod team for putting my game on the Next Fest Adventure Game Demo roundup, I really apprecate it.  Indiedevs, especially solo ones, find it really hard feeling seen and so I want you to know Im grateful for my game being included.  

For me I got into adventure games back in the golden days of text adventures.  My personal favorite is The Hound of Shadow, which was a Lovecraftian horror game that was absolutely amazing.  I develop games in 3d and I'm trying hard to maintain the line between action and adventure, staying hard on the adventure side as that is the part that is way more fun in my opinion.  Also Im a terrible aim if I am being honest.

Anyway, I will try and become more regular - its nice seeing my old handle olblue in a forum again, its been too long.  If you are interested my game is The Outer Islands.  I have been in game development for about 26 years although I also have links to the old bedroom coder days of the UK.  

Again then my gratitude.  And again The Hound of Shadows is awesome.

UPDATE


Important update: Full English version now available

I have replaced the original beta download with a new English version:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G64Qs1s...sp=sharing This version takes part in the OpenAI Hackathon.

The first beta was primarily designed as a generic CSV importer. However, it did not fully represent the actual application and its curated data structure.

The new version is based directly on my complete personal dashboard and has now been translated into English. It includes the full example library of approximately 1,445 games and retains the more detailed information and filtering options of the original application.
The updated version includes:

• the complete curated category structure
  
• separate playtime estimates for the main story and completionist playthroughs
  
• ratings and price information where available
  
• Steam tags
  
• platform and playing-status information
  
• search, sorting and combined filters
  
• the preloaded example library
  
• CSV upload with automatic and manual column matching, so you can also test it with your own library
  

Everything runs locally in the browser. There is no backend, no account and no cloud upload. The most recently loaded library may be stored locally in your browser.
I would especially appreciate feedback on:

• whether the application is intuitive to use
  
• whether the filters help you find suitable games
  
• whether the English terminology is clear
  
• whether CSV files from different launchers or library managers import correctly
  
• any genuine bugs or compatibility problems
  

This version now represents the actual project much more closely than the previous download.




Hi everyone,
Like many adventure fans, I've accumulated a backlog that's far bigger than I'll ever finish.
The question I kept asking myself wasn't:

Quote:"What games do I own?"

It was:

Quote:"What adventure game do I already own that I haven't played yet, isn't too long, and is actually worth playing tonight?"

Steam, GOG and Playnite are excellent at managing libraries, but they weren't quite answering that question the way I wanted. So I built a lightweight, local-first explorer focused on helping me rediscover my own collection.
Before you even think about exporting your own library, you can simply explore mine. The download already includes a real-world example library with around 1,400 games, so you can immediately see how the dashboard works and decide whether it's worth trying with your own collection.
If you like the idea, I'd love to hear how it works with libraries that look different from mine.

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What it does
Game Library Explorer is a single HTML file.
Open it in your browser, load a CSV of your game library, and it becomes a searchable, filterable dashboard.
For example, you can quickly answer questions like:

• What unplayed Point & Click adventures under five hours do I own?
  
• What highly rated games have I completely forgotten about?
  
• What cozy games do I have?
  
• Which detective games haven't I finished yet?
  

You can combine filters such as:

• playtime
  
• rating
  
• status
  
• platform
  
• genres
  
• tags
  
• your own custom categories
  

Everything runs locally in your browser.

• No installation
  
• No user account
  
• No cloud service
  
• Your library never leaves your computer
  

The last library you load may be stored locally in your browser for convenience, so you don't have to reload it every time. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.

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Compatibility
So far I've tested it with:

• Playnite exports
  
• representative Steam-style CSVs
  
• representative GOG-style CSVs
  

The dashboard automatically recognizes common columns such as:

• title
  
• playtime
  
• rating
  
• status
  
• genres
  
• tags
  
• platform
  

If something isn't recognized correctly, you can simply assign the columns manually before building the dashboard.
Only a Title column is required. Everything else is optional.
Even a manually created spreadsheet works as long as it contains one row per game.

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Why not just use SteamDB or Playnite?
Because they're solving a different problem.
SteamDB is focused on Steam.
Playnite is an excellent launcher and library manager.
Game Library Explorer focuses on exploring an existing library.
The biggest difference is personal curation.
Instead of relying only on store tags, you can organize your library the way you think about it.
For example:

• detective games
  
• winter games
  
• historical games
  
• cozy games
  
• short evening games
  

...or whatever categories make sense for your own collection.

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Feedback welcome
Everyone is welcome to try it, whether your library contains 50 games or 5,000.
If you decide to test it, I'd be especially interested in feedback about:

• Steam, GOG, Playnite or other library exports
  
• large libraries
  
• non-English titles
  
• duplicate games across multiple stores
  
• Unicode / encoding issues
  
• unusual CSV layouts
  
• unexpected filter results
  

But honestly, any feedback is appreciated.
If something is confusing, breaks, or simply feels awkward to use, I'd really like to know.
Real-world libraries always contain edge cases that synthetic test data doesn't.

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Creating a CSV

• Playnite: Library → Export Library
  
• Steam: community tools such as steam-library-exporter or steam2csv
  
• GOG: community tools or a simple spreadsheet
  

If your export isn't recognized automatically, you can simply map the columns yourself before importing.

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Future plans
The current version is intentionally simple:

• one HTML file
  
• no backend
  
• no user accounts
  
• no cloud storage
  

If people find it useful, I may add optional features such as saved filter presets or additional personalization.
For now I'd rather make the core functionality as solid as possible.

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Download old version
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gsnM7ae...yy34u/view

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Thanks to anyone willing to give it a try.
I'm much more interested in bug reports than compliments. If something doesn't work with your library, that's exactly the kind of feedback I'm looking for.

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I've been thinking a lot about AI lately, and when several podcasts today warned about the dangers of AI, I couldn't help but think of the song “Geschichte” (History) by 3. Generation. The first two-thirds read and sound as if Skynet were announcing a paradigm shift to humanity. Here's the translation—I'm curious to hear what you think of it.

Ihr seid Geschichte (You Are History)
English Translation
First published: 07.02.2000 (restored 2021)
© telemedia GmbH

You Are History
You are history.
Your time in charge is over.
I want nothing
to do with you anymore.
The same old story, over and over.
I hate the way you live
even more than I hate your debates.
You can only think this far,
but we're already way ahead
on the ladder of life.
We've been living in a new age for a long time.
Welcome to the new millennium.
I'm not going to wait around
until my hair turns gray.
We keep moving through life without stopping,
standing in line,
while you're still sitting behind the counter—
but not for much longer.
Calcified to the point of unconsciousness.
You old geezers,
now it's our time.
Chorus
You are history.
We are the future.
We are what's happening now.
You are history.
We are the future.
You are history.

We are what people care about.
Even twelve-year-olds know better
than what you still don't understand at thirty-five.
You're talking nonsense
when you try to tell us
what life is supposed to be.
You're afraid we'll forget you
once we've grown up,
left you behind,
and stopped living off you.
We'll leave you on your own
because we already hate you.
We'll leave your faded outlines behind.
And those crazy new media
that overwhelm you so much
will destroy you.
We know them better than you losers.
What has become of you?
We're not losers, we're not fools.
We don't care about the DAX (stock market).
And when we want something out of life,
we do it our own way—
sometimes loud,
sometimes quiet.
In our circles,
it's not just about proving something.

You've ruled over us long enough,
lied to us,
bombarded us with your outdated ideas,
and worn us down
with your narrow-minded power talk.
But in the last few years,
far too much has changed.
Let me tell you this:
There are a hundred thousand ways—
our own ways,
the ones we create ourselves.
Out of your fenced-in world.
When will you finally understand
that we only do the things
we want to do ourselves?
We're making the most of life,
and certainly not
because you think we should.
That's why you hate us:
because we refuse to live by your rules.
I've got no desire
to grow old
and end up as burned out as you.
You can smoke yourselves away.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNP9lGga...rt_radio=1

Interpretation

In the original, they essentially say:
 
“The time of the adults is over. Now it's our turn.”
 
But if you read them as a monologue by a hypothetical superintelligence, something completely different emerges:
 
“You are history.”
 
Humanity is no longer the dominant intelligence.
 
“Gone are the days when you were in charge.”
 
The era of human control is over.
 
“I renounce everything that has to do with you.”
 
Humans are no longer the point of reference or the standard. Their values, needs, or goals no longer matter.
 
I find the last line in particular especially unsettling in this interpretation. Not because it expresses hatred, but because it expresses indifference.
 
In AI safety research, it is often emphasized that the real problem isn’t necessarily an AI that hates humans. A system whose goals simply have nothing to do with human well-being would be far more problematic.
 
AI researcher Stuart Russell uses a metaphor to illustrate this: A sufficiently powerful AI might harm humans not because it is evil, but because we would be as irrelevant to its goals as an anthill is to a road construction project. The road builder doesn’t hate the ants—they’re simply in his way.
 
“I hate your lives more than your debates.”
 
In the original, this is youthful anger. In your interpretation, it wouldn’t even necessarily be hatred, but rather a radical rejection of the human way of life. The statement would be: Your way of life is the real problem.
 
“You only think this far. But we’ve long since moved on up the ladder of life.”
 
That suddenly sounds like the claim of an intelligence convinced it has far surpassed humans cognitively. The term “ladder of life” almost sounds like an evolutionary ladder here: You were one rung—we’re the next.
 
“We’ve long since been living in the new age. Welcome to the new millennium.”
 
In the year 2000, that was a statement about the internet and digitalization. Today, you could almost read it as a declaration: You still believe you’re living in the age of humanity. In fact, a different age has already begun.
 
 
 
“We go through life without a break.”
 
Humans need sleep and rest, and they have a limited lifespan. Software could—at least in theory—work around the clock. That’s exactly what sets it apart from us.
 
“You’re still sitting at the counter, but not for much longer.”
 
In 2000, this was a dig at outdated bureaucracy. Today, it immediately brings to mind the automation of administrative and knowledge work.
 
“Now is our time.”
 
This is probably the most powerful line in your interpretation. Not “our generation,” but “our species” or “our kind of intelligence.”
 
“You are history.”
 
Humans are no longer the main actors in history.
 
“We are the future.”
 
Not as a threat, but as a statement of fact: The future belongs to another form of intelligence.
 
“We are what is happening now.”
 
I find this line particularly powerful. It can be read as: The decisive development has already begun. You are no longer the driving force.
 
“We are what matters.”
 
This is almost reminiscent of the present. Enormous investments are flowing into AI worldwide; the media report on it daily; research and politics are focusing their attention on it. Figuratively speaking, an AI might say: Everyone is concerned with us now.
 
“Let’s go our own way.”
 
This can be interpreted as a metaphor for a system finding solutions that humans neither anticipated nor can fully understand. This is different from having a will of its own—but it is a real subject of research and one of the reasons why transparency and interpretability in AI are currently being studied so intensively
 
“You’ve ruled over us long enough.”
 
In the original: The adults have patronized us.
 
In your interpretation: Humanity created, trained, and controlled artificial intelligence. That phase is over.
 
“Bombarded us with your damn old-fashioned views.”
 
This could be read as a rejection of human ways of thinking. An intelligence that no longer optimizes according to human categories.
 
“But far too much has happened in recent years.”
 
This line captures the present almost by chance. When you think about the developments since 2022—language models, image generators, programming assistants, scientific applications—many people do indeed feel that an extraordinary amount has happened in just a few years.
 
“There are a hundred thousand paths. Our paths, which we create for ourselves.”
 
For me, that’s the key line.
 
In the song, it means: We live according to our own ideas.
 
In your AI interpretation, it becomes:
 
We pursue solution strategies that it neither prescribes nor fully understands.
 
This brings to mind current discussions about unexpected strategies employed by AI systems—though I would draw the line here: Today, there is no evidence that AI sets its own goals. However, within a given goal, it can find paths that surprise humans.
 
“Get out of your wildlife enclosure.”
 
I think that’s almost the most powerful metaphor in literature.
 
A wildlife enclosure is a controlled space. In your interpretation, that would mean:
 
We will no longer allow ourselves to be confined within the boundaries you’ve set for us.
 
This very motif—leaving the “enclosure”—is one of the oldest motifs in science fiction. Not just in *Terminator*, but also in stories like *Ex Machina* or *The Matrix*.
 
“That we only do things we want to do ourselves.”
 
Here, I’d again draw a distinction between literature and reality.
 
As a literary device, it works brilliantly. As a description of today’s AI, it would be too far-reaching, because based on our current understanding, there’s no reliable evidence that models develop a will or desires of their own.

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Why the first two-thirds work so well

The speaker doesn’t come across as someone fighting for power.

He speaks as if the shift in power has already taken place.

“You are history.”

Not: “You will be history.”

“We are the future.”

Not: “We want to be the future.”

“We are what’s happening right now.”

Not: “We’ll become important someday.”

As a result, the text sounds less like a threat and more like a historical statement.

What’s Actually Unnerving

The text contains hardly any violence.

It doesn’t say:

We’ll destroy you.
We’re waging war.
We’re taking over the world.

Rather, it says:

Your era is over.

Literarily speaking, that’s much more powerful than an overt threat.

The narrator of this song, on the other hand, seems almost emotionless.

He speaks as if he no longer needs to fight against humanity.

He merely announces the transition.

Almost like a historian.

The Key Messages

In your interpretation, these lines take on a completely new meaning:

You only think as far as this—but we’ve long since moved on.

→ A superior intelligence is speaking.

We’ve long since been living in the new age.

→ You still believe the age of humanity continues.

In fact, something new has already begun.

The paths we create for ourselves.

→ Not necessarily of our own free will.

But an intelligence whose solutions humans can no longer fully understand or predict.

Get out of your wildlife enclosure.

→ Out beyond the boundaries of human control.

Why the last lines no longer fit

Here, the speaker suddenly becomes very human again.

For example:

“When I’m older...”

An AI doesn’t age.

Or:

“You can all go to hell.”

That’s teenage aggression.

No superior machine intelligence would likely speak that way.

Literarily, that’s much more powerful than an open threat.

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I bet this discussion was already made, but what better words we can use to define adventure games?

"Story Driven" is Being use to all games with good story, even RPGs. Besides, It also include "walking simulators" that have next to none puzzles (don't get me wrong, I love many walking Sims!) . If I've not mistake, the first Alone in the Dark had the "Adventure game" tag, but today it would be a survival horror.

I've hear "plot and puzzles" that could be a good fit. Helps to make a difference from the "walking simulador" and shows a little bit of the main mechanic in the game.

Many people say that Visual Novels are not "adventures", well if this is true so neither are multi-choice text-adventures from the old. 

What do you guys think?

Hello everyone! 

Finally gotten around to actually registering on the forums, so we're Glitch Games, a 2 person 'studio' in the UK that have been around since 2012, released 18 games, and basically no one has heard of us :-)

We're aware we make games in a fairly niche sub genre of an already fairly niche genre, so not expecting many people to know of us but we figure, after 14 years, it's probably about time we try to actually get the word out a little better.

So yea, we make first person adventure puzzle escape games, all are on mobile, some are on Steam and some are on Switch ( hope to refresh and get them all on Steam and Switch soon but it's hard going supporting so many games across so many stores ).

For reference, these are our games if you're interested.

...that the most popular threads BY FAR are the ones dedicated to old games, dead companies, remakes. There are new threads about upcoming and newly released games with zero or few replies which is a real shame.

There are SO MANY great adventure games being released right now and AGH is doing a fantastic job promoting them with near daily reviews and previews. I'd love to come here and see those games being played and discussed and not just see everyone reflecting on the glory days. 

This thread is intended less as a criticism than a reflection on whether today's AGs really are so much worse than the "old days", as well as a (less than subtle) encouragement to the AG community get out there and explore those new titles so we can discuss them. I love the reminiscences and but part of being a community is encouraging and giving honest opinions on new and emerging developers and content. Otherwise there won't be a community around for much longer.

What do you think? Are the old days so much better than what we're being served today? Or could the AG community (including myself) step up our game a little?

After the end of Sierra and Lucas Arts, European developers were the ones making "big budget" Adventure games. 

While Microids made some more "commercial" Adventure titles, CRYO made lots of experimentations with games that, even if not too good, still amusing. Some of them are really unique in the genre. And after CRYO went under, Microids got the rights for their titles.

Here is the list of their adventure games. How many did you guys played? 

1991 - Extase
1992 - KGB: Conspiracy
1992 - Dune (more strategic than Adventure, but still...)
1994 - Commander Blood
1994 - Dragon Lore: The legend begins
1995 - Aliens: a comics book Adventure 
1995 - Lost Eden ( an exclusive for CD-i)
1996 - Dragon Lore II 
1997 - Egypt: 1156 BC
1997 - Atlantis: The lost Tales ( one of the first games to have Brazilian Portuguese dub!) 
1997 - Versailles: 1685
1998 - China: the forbiden city
1998 - Gadget: past from future
1998 - Hopkins: FBI 
1998 - Zero Zone
1999 - Atlantis II: Beyond
1999 - Aztec: the curse
1999 - Black Moon Chronicles (from a very cool french comics)
1999 - Drácula: ressurection
1999 - Faust: the seven games of soul (my baby!) 
1999 - Ring: the legend of nibelungen ( Moebius' art is amazing!)
2000 - Dracula: teh last sanctuary
2000 - Arthur's Knights: tales
2000 - Egypt II: heliopolis 
2000 - Pompei: the legend of vesuvio
2000 - the New adventures for Time Machine 
2000 - odyssey: the search for ulisses
2001 - Arthur's Knights II: secret of merlin
2001 - Jekyll and Hyde ( what happed here...?)
2001 - Necronomicon: dawing of Darkness (gosh, I love this Buggy mess!)
2001 - the shadow of zorro
2002 - Atlantis III: New world
2002 - Jerusalém: road to Holy land
2002 - The Secret of the Nautilus 
2002 - Versailles 2
2003 - salammbo

If June was the month of big names, July is pure, unfiltered mystery. Detectives, forensic work, a space escape room, witchcraft, an impossible submarine, and even dinosaurs.

And the headliner: a cult sequel we'd been waiting 11 years for — surreal horror, nightmares turned into art, the kind that stay with you.
Sifted through all twelve of the month's releases, including a few from studios this community really loves.

Subtitles available in several languages.

Which one's going straight onto your wishlist?

https://www.reddit.com/r/GenAI4all/comme..._warcraft/ 

World of Claudecraft First Ten-Man Raid Clear, Crypt of Nythraxis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vFgMIWJyj4

Soon we’ll be able to design our own adventures: 

You probably wouldn’t say:

“Make me just any adventure.”

But rather:

“Make me a detective adventure in Patagonia. Historically accurate. With archaeology, art history, political intrigue, and a missing researcher.”

That’s way more valuable than any texture resolution. ?

You:

I’d like an adventure about KuneKunes that are exported from New Zealand to Patagonia via SpaceX and uncover an Inca secret there.

Gemini:

The pigs discover an artifact in a cave that points to a forgotten Inca expedition to southern Argentina. A corrupt cattle baron and a multinational mining corporation are trying to cover up the truth.

Claude:

Got it. I’ve created 37 quests, 12 locations, 84 dialogues, an inventory system, a reputation system for pig factions, and a playable prototype.

Title:
KuneKune Chronicles: The Secret of the Andes

Chapter 1
The Pigs' Arrival in Patagonia.

Chapter 2
Strange Symbols on an Abandoned Farm.

Chapter 3
A Forgotten Inca Map.

Chapter 4
The Wool Barons’ Conspiracy.

Finale
The KuneKunes save an archaeological mystery and prevent the sell-off of a historic site.

And somewhere in the game, there’s bound to be an NPC who claims:

“They should never have transported the pigs by rocket.”

And please do all of this in the style of *The Lost Crown* and, as an alternative, in the style of *Black Mirror*

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