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RE: Community Top 10 adventure games 2020-2025 - BobVP - 12-17-2025
I didn't play adventure games for a good three to four years. Good excuse to see what I've been missing, but it's going to take a while.
Are we talking commercial titles only? Do narrative-driven escape room games count? I'm specifically thinking of the Eleven Puzzles games, I really enjoyed playing those with one of my brothers.
RE: Community Top 10 adventure games 2020-2025 - Joe - 12-17-2025
(12-15-2025, 12:40 PM)Joe Wrote: Q: I don't know if X is an adventure game or a different genre.
A: If you think it's an adventure game, then it is an adventure game.
Since adventure genre is not easily defined, there are no strict rules about what you can or cannot put on your list.
So, if you truly believe that they are adventure games, then no one will stop you.
(12-17-2025, 01:21 PM)Kapa Wrote: My list:
1. Lost In Play
2. Rosewater
3. Old Skies
I WANT TO PLAY MORE GAMES .·°՞(¯□¯)՞°·.
Well, you're the first person to include Rosewater in their top 10 list!
RE: Community Top 10 adventure games 2020-2025 - kamineko - 12-17-2025
The list:
1. Old Skies
2. Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer
3. The Hand of Glory
4. The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
5. Chants of Sennaar
6. The Legend of Skye
7. Sable
8. Monolith
9. Slice of Sea
10. NAIRI: Rising Tide
Honourable mentions:
Backbone (a.k.a. Tails Noir)
Beyond a Steel Sky
Foolish Mortals
Harold Halibut
It Takes Two to Tangle
Lake
Lucy Dreaming
Near-Mage
NORCO
Strangeland
Syberia: The World Before
Dishonourable mentions:
Return to Monkey Island (for a very subjective reason - I hate this art style)
RE: Community Top 10 adventure games 2020-2025 - Geisterfaust - 12-18-2025
1. Perfect Tides
2. NORCO
3. Kathy Rain 2
4. Loco Motive
5. Return to Monkey Island
6. The Longing
7. Dreams in the Witch House
8. Midnight Margo
9. Old Skies
10. Strange Horticulture
Honorable mentions:
Rosewater
The Drifter
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
Tell Me Why
Case of the Golden Idol
Excavation of Hob's Barrow
Chants of Sennaar
The Crimson Diamond
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
Mundaun
Stray
Röki
Pilgrims
The Abandoned Planet
Backbone
Dishonorable mentions:
The Suicide of Rachel Foster
Life is Strange: Double Exposure
The Sundew
New Tales from the Borderlands
Goetia 2
Owned, but haven't played yet:
Slender Threads
Foolish Mortals
An English Haunting
Lucy Dreaming
The Beekeepers Picnic
Midnight Scenes (all of them)
RE: Community Top 10 adventure games 2020-2025 - Karlok - 12-18-2025
(12-17-2025, 03:43 PM)Zane Wrote: Allright i believe my list looks like this:
6. Blue prince
You and I discussed and criticized(!) Blue Prince at the old AG forums, but when all is said and done it ends up in your Top Ten and it's definitely my GOtY.
I even played Dare mode and Curse mode several times, couldn't get enough.
RE: Community Top 10 adventure games 2020-2025 - Zane - 12-18-2025
(12-18-2025, 12:33 PM)Karlok Wrote:(12-17-2025, 03:43 PM)Zane Wrote: Allright i believe my list looks like this:
6. Blue prince
You and I discussed and criticized(!) Blue Prince at the old AG forums, but when all is said and done it ends up in your Top Ten and it's definitely my GOtY.
Indeed! I saw it on the top of your list! And it is deserving. Its a very clever blend of exploration and will no doubt stay memorable. Im still dizzy about the narrative. Maybe multiple mode playthroughs helps any?
RE: Community Top 10 adventure games 2020-2025 - Karlok - 12-18-2025
No, multiple mode playthroughs only make it much harder to reach Room 46. I guess some details of the story will always remain a mystery.
BTW, I sent you a PM.
RE: Community Top 10 adventure games 2020-2025 - Joe - 12-23-2025
There have been few surprises so far.
There is a lot more love for The Legend of Skye. I thought it was a rather low profile game.
There are also not so many listings of Return to Monkey Island, despite it winning every single adventure award.
It also looks like Kathy Rain 2 has won the hearts of many, despite her rather off-putting personality
RE: Community Top 10 adventure games 2020-2025 - Piero - 12-23-2025
Great idea!
I haven't played enough to collate 10 that I really enjoyed (there are quite a few I didn't rate much) but I can probably manage 5:
1. Carol Reed: Dead Drop - just can't fault them for immersion and plain old lovely Scandinavian weirdness
2. Perfect Tides - wonderful characters and richly poignant story
3. Hob’s Barrow - great setting and spooky atmosphere
4. Foolish Mortals - slick and very amusing
5. Stasis: Bone Totem - technically amazing but needed some editing
Hon mention: Chants of Sennaar - I absolutely loved it and gave it 5 stars on the old site, but it's not really what I consider an adventure game.
Dishonourable mention: Life is Strange: True Colours - I loved Life is Strange 1, but this was a stupid story with achingly dull gameplay and characters
RE: Community Top 10 adventure games 2020-2025 - Dryade - 12-23-2025
(12-23-2025, 10:25 AM)Joe Wrote: There have been few surprises so far.
There is a lot more love for The Legend of Skye. I thought it was a rather low profile game.
There are also not so many listings of Return to Monkey Island, despite it winning every single adventure award.
It also looks like Kathy Rain 2 has won the hearts of many, despite her rather off-putting personality
I struggled not to put Return to Monkey Island in my dishonorable mentions... As someone already mentioned, the art was atrocious, and the whole thing is kind of a slap in the face to the franchise lovers who should "all grow up and move on" in Gilbert's opinion. Plus the game is so dumbed down, you can't try to use everything on everything and get witty remarks from Guybrush, as it should be. It won all the awards because of Disney's huge marketing budget.