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Help an Old Adventurer's Soul - sneaky - 09-30-2025

I'm a middle age adventure game lover. Grew up playing adventure games on an brand new 286.
80's and 90's were some of the best times of my life. Loved adventure games.

I was there at the beginning of Troel's Space Quest faq, fell in love with Ron Gilbert when Monkey Island 1 was released, the rise and fall of Sierra, dreading Space Quest 7 3D, usenet, newsgroups and IRC. From 14.4k to break neck speeds of 56k. Waiting for PC Gamer to show up each month. Wanting to be Tex Murphy. Grim Fandango - IMO the peak of adventure game story telling. 3DFX. Man the 90's were a wild time. 

I stopped playing games for probably 10 plus years. I would revisit the classics every couple year but never kept up after the decline.

Here is my ask.... please let me know what the best adventure games I should purchase from the last 10 years. I'm a point and click whore but open to anything. I've been on a Steam/GOG buying spree but let me know friends... what is the best of the best in the Adventure Game realm. The one's the everyone should have in their virtual libraries. 

Please... Make me feel young again.

note: please don't say Broken Sword for the love God. Sorry Joshua, love you dude but I just couldn't get into them. 

One last word. Thank you. Thank you too all the dev's, the programmers, artists, musicians, writers, voice actors, journalists that brought your idea and passion to life to share with us. The game companies; LucasArts, Sierra and all the greats that were lost from the many acquisitions and take overs. The one's that are in our hearts forever. Thanks to the podcasters that bring this world back to life. Thanks to my hero's like Troels, Jess Morrisette, Anna, Paul, Joshua, Jack, all the adventure game website designers on GeoCities, Ron Gilbert, Tim Schafer, Aaron Conners, Chris Jones and all the countless other individuals that make this community absolutely amazing. And a special thank you to Roberta Vaughan for the being the glue and sharing your love with some many. 

-sneaky

RE: Help an Old Adventurer's Soul - MenhirMike - 09-30-2025

It's obviously depending on your exact taste, and you can check the AGH reviews for their review scores, but my choices would be:

* Lucy Dreaming
* Loco Motive
* Old Skies

RE: Help an Old Adventurer's Soul - LeftHandedGuitarist - 09-30-2025

The past 10 years have been a golden age for adventure games, so you're in luck. I'll recommend my favourites from a variety of styles: traditional, 3D, walking sim, FMV, narrative, etc.

The Darkside Detective
Loco Motive
Call of the Sea
Immortality
Cleo - A Pirate’s Tale
The Forgotten City
Life is Strange
Thimbleweed Park
The Drifter
Tales from the Borderlands

I'm still catching up myself, so there are many big titles I'm still excited to try (Crimson Diamond, Return to Monkey Island, Case of the Golden Idol, Riven remake, Excavation of Hob's Barrow).

As mentioned above, I'd also recommend looking at the best of year lists from the AGH website.

RE: Help an Old Adventurer's Soul - Geisterfaust - 09-30-2025

Well, one of the absolute top p&c adventure games released the last couple of years for me has definitely been Perfect Tides by Meredith Gran. Just the most perfect slice-of-life, coming-of-age story, with charming graphics, great music and amazing writing. Loved it to bits.

And yeah, predictable answer, but everything developed/published by Wadjet Eye Games is worth playing, so if we're talking favorites of theirs from the last 10 years, I would say: Technobabylon, Shardlight, Unavowed, The Excavation of Hob's Barrow and Old Skies.

Other recommendations (not just point & click, but adventure games in a broader sense):
Norco
Lamplight City
Rosewater
Loco Motive
Kathy Rain (the remaster!)
Kathy Rain 2
Midnight Margo
Whispers of a Machine
Thimbleweed Park
The Abandoned Planet
Sumatra: Fate of Yandi
Unforseen Incidents
Night in the Woods
Return of the Obra Dinn
Firewatch
Life is Strange 1 & 2
The Journey Down
Chants of Sennaar

RE: Help an Old Adventurer's Soul - BobVP - 09-30-2025

A lot of great titles already mentioned..

Tangle Tower! And if you like it, check out its predecessor Detective Grimoire.

J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars.

If you try and like The Darkside Detective, you might enjoy Inspector Waffles as well.

 Milo and the Magpies, cute game, great art.

Check out  the Rusty Lake games as well! Quite a few titles, it's a whole universe.

RE: Help an Old Adventurer's Soul - Joe - 09-30-2025

In the past ten years, literally hundreds of adventure games have been released. You can freely choose from any theme, tone, setting, gameplay type or art style. So we can bombard you with titles.
But perhaps it would be better if you told us what interests you or which games you liked most in the past That way, we can more accurately recommend some games to you.

Right now, I would recommend Lucy Dreaming, which, in my opinion, is a game that every AG fan should play.

RE: Help an Old Adventurer's Soul - namtabmai - 09-30-2025

While there are a lot of modern adventure games I love, if you haven't already maybe start with Return to Monkey Island?

Otherwise it becomes a little more difficult as the games I love might not tick all the traditional p&c boxes someone returning would look for straight off.

RE: Help an Old Adventurer's Soul - srnickolas - 09-30-2025

So from 2015 to 2025, well i can add some that are not mentioned:
Gorogoa
Strangeland
Yuppie Psycho
Candle
Lair of the Clockwork God
Urban Witch Story
Bulb Boy
The Legend of Skye
You're Watching Icebox!
The Inner World: The Last Wind Monk
Barrow Hill: The Dark Path
Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit
Goetia
The House of Da Vinci
Stay
Not Another Weekend
The Brilliant Coup
Detention
Samorost 3
Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love
OneShot
Quern: Undying Thoughts
Stasis
AI: The Somnium Files
Superliminal
I'll stop here, there are just so many (sorry if i repeated something someone already suggested), tried to include different styles

RE: Help an Old Adventurer's Soul - sneaky - 09-30-2025

Thank you for all the suggestions. i figured I would be bombarded, which i was hoping to be. I held off with my style just because I wanted other peoples takes.

i bought lucy dreaming last night. actually all of the wadjet eye games. big sale right now. my last new title i bought was Kathy Rain and did purchase kathy Rain 2 but have not played.

My first love was space quest, all lucasarts adventure games from the late 80s 90s0, enjoyed kathy rain. I really enjoyed classic point and click style. was never a kings quest fan.

RE: Help an Old Adventurer's Soul - Joe - 09-30-2025

(09-30-2025, 06:23 PM)sneaky Wrote:  all lucasarts adventure games.

Then I would also recommend The Legend of Skye, which is basically a spiritual successor to Monkey Island.
It looks like it, feels like it and plays like it. The only difference is that it's about druids, not pirates.

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