Very unrelatd to the topic that draws us together, but I'm curious whether people here play sports or have any hobbies relating to physical activity. 

I ride a longboard and do some light skateboarding as well. I ride my bicycle a lot, though it's mostly for work. I do enjoy it quite a bit. I frequently do strenght training, bench press, curls, squats, stuff like that. I gained a decent amount of muscle mass the past four years.

I used to sprint - I was fast! I also took longer runs, two, two-and-a-half hours. I did some basic strenght training to go with it, push ups, pull ups and curls. I was mostly built for speed in my twenties. I still do sprints to keep my condition in order, but I don't push myself like I used to in this field.

I've been thinking about joining a team sport, but I'm not sure which one. I'm mostly interested in the social aspect. Maybe I'll join a gym.

I'm curious about the rest of you. Maybe you don't do anything physical, but you're quite good at chess, or bridge? Maybe you don't play, but you are an ardent fan? You have a favourite team?

 Share your sports-related hobbies here!

Inspired by the guilty pleasures thread!

In this case, we're talking about games that you actually enjoyed or even admired, while the general consensus was: this is trash.

Your positive outlook isn't something you know to be wrong in some way.  This isn't about ironic enjoyment, or "I know it's bad but I get some kick out of it anyway".  it's a genuine appreciation of a game that elicited the opposite response in (nearly) everyone else. This is a thread for challenging received wisdom and seeing value where it's underappreciated or even overlooked.

Maybe you see the good in a design decision that got universally panned by reviewers and consumers alike. A plot or an ending you gave a standing ovation, while others thought it was undercooked or overwrought. A game dismissed with some stock sentence like "show, don't tell!", "this leaves many plot points unresolved", something about characters being "unlikable" or the ultimate evil: pretentiousness.

Not sure if this will take off, I guess we'll see where this goes.

Hello All, I have been a dedicated adventure gamer for decades now, more than i want to count. I was in Just Adventure and then Adventure Gamers, tho I didnt post there as much but it is gone I found out sadly. I tracked you guys down here and will be happy to stay a while.

I have played and collected originals of most great games from the 80s, 90s, 2000s. and some from earlier. My all time favs are Anachronox (hoping still for part 2), Omikiron, The Longest Journey (tho the sequels I fear did not live up to my hopes), the Kyrandia series (have the original talkie verisions) Love Westwoods games all of them, Syberia, all of the Tomb Raider games (not the modern horrible remakes), all of the space quest games, well the list goes on and on. I have had wonderful AG friends over the years, hope to reconnect with some here, some we lost, like Karla Munger, and others may have passed on since i was in contact. I Ended up in some MMOs. still love all of the Myst games and was very active in URU and URU online, thru Game Tap and on to the current online Official Shard where we are now restoring the Descent content never completed in the online version. I hope to connect here and share, and hear and tell tales, and enjoy the fun we all love about the wonderful Adventures games past, present and future.

hello to any who remember me (was christopherger very early on) maybe other avatar names i dont recall i am 73 now and my memory has holes. thanks so much to the two founders here ..thank god you gave us a home again. And i am sorry the Adventure Gamers site got lost to jerks.

best regards to all
CrisGer

I tried to search the game database to get a list of all point 'n click controlled games with either pixel art OR stylized graphics. But there were no search results.

I DID get results when I searched for pixel art alone, or stylized graphics alone. So looks like my first query was changed from "OR" to "AND" or something, which of course doesn't deliver since a game can't be both...

Hello!
The latest (I think) video of Bellular News talks a good bit about adventuregamers forums and what's happened with it.  Fascinating and infuriating. I was digging into the old site and looking up Jack lead me here, and oh thank goodness the forums exist here so hopefully the community wasn't lost
video is here -
"Dead Internet Theory Is Real: Resident Evil Requiem Exposed It"

https://youtu.be/L-Vrhzqwr10?si=pRbqN_sKCbYiuZvN

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for feedback on artwork for part 2 and 3 of my game, Estória.

In the first game I had to learn everything from scratch (programming in Unity, 3D modeling in Blender, rigging of 3D models) and pull out every trick I’d ever learned in animation, illustration, painting, design, etc, so using AI to help with the backgrounds was the only way I could juggle all those tasks at one time. I like how the backgrounds look, but thanks to this awesome community, I’ve come to realize why it’s wrong to rely on it.

I’m planning on replacing part 1 with hand drawn art, but right now part 2 and 3 are forcing their way into my brain and I decided to get started on them while the story and puzzle idea juices are percolating.

Anyway, this is an early test to see if I can hit on a viable, cohesive style. I’m not convinced this is the right one just yet, so I’d like to get feedback from everyone here.

The scenes I’m posting here take place in the tower bedroom of the main character, and in a rundown part of the capital city of Estória, called The Bottoms.

Part 2 and 3 deal with some dark issues that I feel are more relevant than ever to speak out against, for example xenophobia and war, so hopefully I’ll be able to get these projects done.

Anyway, please let me know what you think works or doesn’t work. I’m really open to criticism, so let er rip! I need help! Thanks again, to everyone who has helped me along the way.

I don't know, I have no ulterior motive for starting this thread except I do want to talk about voodoo.

Hey all.

We teased the nominees a couple weeks back, and today we've unveiled the winners of the inaugural Hotshot Awards!

https://adventuregamehotspot.com/feature...hot-awards

I honestly can't recall a more competitive field, even dating back to my many years at the Aggies, so congrats to any and all devs who made the final list, whether a winner, runner-up, or deserving honorable mention, because 2025 was an outstanding year for adventure games.

Did we get our "Hotshots" right, get 'em wrong, or some combination of the two? Would love to hear other people's impressions before we turn our sights to 2026 and beyond for good!

Hi!

I want to share a small project I’ve been working on over the past year. It’s called Upstairs, a short classic point-and-click adventure that will be released soon.



It was developed in Spain by just one person  (me) during evenings and spare hours outside of my regular job. I used Unity together with Adventure Creator.

I studied Fine Arts a long time ago and currently work as a technical artist at a mobile game studio, so I had the experience and knowledge to approach this project properly. On top of that, I decided to keep everything as minimal as possible, from the art to the music, so I wouldn’t lose my mind during development and end up abandoning the project.

As a small confession, whenever I ran into design doubts during development, I often found myself going back to Octavi Navarro’s games to see how he handled similar problems. So in many ways, this project is quite indebted to his work. Not intentionally imitative, but definitely influenced by studying how he solves design challenges.

The game itself is short (around 40–90 minutes on a first run), with a lot of dark humor and some satanic vibes.



I just wanted to put it out there for anyone who might be interested in this kind of small, handmade adventure. You can find it in Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4352920/Upstairs/

Thank you!

Inspired by @Karlok's comment in the Moon Logic thread about Secret Files: Tunguska, those games that are kind of terrible and stupid but for whatever reason, you can't stop playing them. 

I'll go ahead and say Black Mirror 2 and 3. I didn't particularly like either and they felt kind of terribly designed with a confusing story, but for whatever reason I kind of enjoyed them for being terrible.