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Games with at least 11 points:

Chants of Sennaar - 28.5 points.
Loco Motive - 25 points.
Immortality - 24 points.
Blue Prince - 23  points.
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension - 22 points.
Lost in Play - 20  points.
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark - 17  points.
The Crimson Diamond - 16.5 points.
NORCO - 15 points.
Syberia: The World Before - 13.5 points.
Call of the Sea - 13 points.
Stasis: Bone Totem - 12 points.
Rosewater - 11 points.
The Forgotten City - 11 points.

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Over five years ago, we welcomed 2020 - the year of cyberpunk.

At the time, we had no idea how numerous the releases of adventure games would be over the next few years.

Now, join us as we try to determine the best adventure games released over the past half decade.

Some of you with a good grasp of maths may have noticed that the years 2020-2025 are actually six years, not five. But 2020–2025 looks better than 2021-2025, so don't be such a nerd and let's begin.

The rules:
Choose 10 adventure games released in the years 2020-2025 and rank them. Depending on their position, they will gain a different number of points:

1st place: 10 points
2nd place: 9 points
3rd place: 8 points
4th place: 7 points
5th place: 6 points
6th place: 5 points
7th place: 4 points
8th place: 3 points
9th place: 2 points
10th place: 1 point

Honourable mentions: You can list games that didn't make your top 10 but are too good to not acknowledge. Every honourable mention gets 0.5 points.

Dishonourable mentions: You can also list games that were so bad or so disappointing that you just need to talk about them. They won't receive any negative points, but it's a good way to voice your grievances. Hot takes and unpopular opinions are more than welcome.

In January next year, I will count up all the points for the games you posted and create a top 10 list.

Q&A:
Q: I'm new to adventure games/I don't play much nowadays/my tastes are way too refined for modern "games", so I don't have 10 games to put on the list.
A: Don't worry - you can list a fewer number of titles.

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.

Q: How many honourable mentions can I list?
A: As many as you like. But, since I'm the one who has to count all those points, please be merciful!

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My top 10 list:
1. Lucy Dreaming
2. The Legend of Skye
3. Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Dry Twice
4. The Case of the Golden Idol
5. The Drifter
6. The Will of Arthur Flabbington
7. Loco Motive
8. PRIM
9. Not Another Weekend
10. The Brilliant Coup

Honourable mentions:
Beyond the Edge of Owlsgard
Born Punk
Chants of Sennaar
Elroy and the Aliens
Mindlock -  The Apartment
Slender Threads
Strangeland
The Abandoned Planet
The Hand of Glory
Unusual Findings
VirtuaVerse
Voodoo Detective
Wildwood Down

Dishonourable mentions:
The Adventures of the Black Hawk – I rarely see a game that was intentionally sabotaged by the devs themselves. While I can understand and even respect the developers' wish to create a p'n'c game in the spirit of early '90s games, they went too far. Especially in their stubborn ways of trying to inconvenience and annoy the players. You need to enter a password from the manual every time you launch the game, no QOL so I hope you like pixel hunting and major clues in one-time dialogues that you can't listen to again. And my personal nemesis: puzzles that should be solved in a logical manner, but can't be because the developer said so.