Adventure Game Hotspot Community - Adventure Games

TOP 5 ADVENTURE GAME COVER ARTS ? ILLUSTRATION LEGENDS who painted VIDEOGAMES

Tue, 26 May 2026 12:05:02 -0700

One cover painted in oil. Another by an Oscar winner. Another that looks signed by the man behind the Star Wars posters. And two more I'm not going to spoil.

Put together a personal top 5 with five adventure game covers signed by illustrators who are absolute legends of their craft — not just inside the videogame medium. Worth noting: cover quality and game quality don't always go hand in hand.

There are masterpieces with bland covers, and forgettable games with museum-grade artwork.

Subtitles available in several languages.

What's yours? The one that made you walk into a store and walk out with the game tucked under your arm without thinking twice.

Broken Sword’ Movie in the Works From Live-Action ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Screenwriter

Tue, 19 May 2026 11:50:16 -0700

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/br...236753695/

Black Mirror 1 (Steam version) Help needed

Sun, 17 May 2026 16:30:37 -0700

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping someone can help me with a rather unusual problem with Black Mirror 1 (Steam version).

A long time ago I installed a complete savegame pack to get past the star puzzle. Ever since then, all those chapter saves have been permanently stuck in my game — they reappear after every reinstall, on every hard drive, no matter what I do.

After extensive debugging with Process Monitor, I finally found the cause: the saves are embedded directly in data.adb. The engine reads this file on startup and reconstructs the save slots from it every single time. Steam's file verification doesn't help because it considers the file valid.

I would really appreciate it if someone with a clean, unmodified Steam installation of Black Mirror 1 could share their data.adb file with me. The file should be around 2.1 MB and located in the game's main folder:

SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Black Mirror\data.adb

If you're willing to help, please either upload it here or send me a private message. Thank you so much!

Asking for a Recommendation: Mid-to-late 2000s Style Games

Sat, 16 May 2026 11:15:10 -0700

I'm looking for a recommendation for point and click games with visuals and vibe that seem to be prevalent in the mid-to-late 2000s. I've played The Moment of Silence, Overclocked: A History of Violence, and Alternativa. I'm interested in games with a similar visual style and general vibe.

Releasing May 29: Solis, a hand drawn adventure

Wed, 13 May 2026 10:05:06 -0700

Hi everybody,

I know, i know... I'm new here.
Just wanted to drop in saying I'm releasing Solis May 29 on Steam. A game I've worked on for years.

Wishlist now on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/3382310/Solis/

Solis is a narrative driven hand drawn side scrolling adventure. I know, a mouthful.
It's also a breeze, you can finish it in an evening.

Some info:

The city of Solis never sleeps — and tonight, neither will you. Elixer, the company you've dedicated yourself to, has gathered its people for an end-of-year celebration with a staggering promise at its heart: eternal life. But as the night wears on, the curtain slowly pulls back — and what lies behind it will change everything.
Solis is yours to explore at your own pace. Wander its streets, ride the metro across the city, investigate your surroundings, and speak with the inhabitants and colleagues you meet along the way. Every corner holds a clue. Every conversation shapes your understanding of the world around you.
Nothing you do goes unnoticed. Decisions carry weight, rippling forward into the events that follow. Through a fluid, story-driven dialogue system powered by Ink, your choices feel natural — and their consequences, real.

Release date: May 29 (PC | MAC | Linux)

Demo (PC) Available

Would love to hear what you think!

NEW RELEASE: Luna's Room ? A small, brief... and devastating Adventure Game

Tue, 12 May 2026 12:36:36 -0700

Luna's Room releases on May 14 — a Spanish indie point & click by DonutDroid that runs about an hour.
What starts as the story of a young girl locked in a room with her cat (who suddenly starts talking) ends up somewhere much darker than you'd expect.

Put together a review covering everything worth knowing without spoiling it. Small game, sure, but it stays with you.

Subtitles available in several languages.

Toonstruck turns 30 this year — what do you remember?

Thu, 07 May 2026 13:06:21 -0700

Toonstruck turns 30 this year, and it's been on my mind a lot lately.

For a game with Christopher Lloyd, Tim Curry and Dan Castellaneta in the cast, and animation work that still holds up today, it's strange how rarely it comes up in conversations about the great nineties point & clicks.

Curious what people here remember. Did you finish it back in the day? Did the second half land for you, or did the difficulty spike kill the momentum? And does anyone still hold out hope for the unreleased sequel material the fan community has been chasing for years?

I put together an in-depth video on it recently digging into the production story too, in case anyone wants to go down that rabbit hole afterwards — but mostly I'd love to hear what you remember.

Impossible Crimes Unit – A Point-and-Click Mystery Adventure (Free Full Game)

Thu, 07 May 2026 10:03:55 -0700

Hi everyone,

Adventure games have been a huge part of my life for years, so creating one myself has been a dream come true. After a long development journey, I’m finally ready to share it.

Crimes that defy logic. Evidence that should not exist. A third-person point-and-click adventure about a special police unit investigating seemingly impossible cases - where the key question is not who did it, but how it could possibly have happened.

The game is completely free to play.

You can find a full description, screenshots, trailer, and download link below.

Link to Impossible Crimes Unit page

The RECORD MONTH for POINT & CLICK Adventures ? MAY 2026 Releases

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:52:16 -0700

After a fairly quiet first quarter, May 2026 has arrived absolutely loaded with adventure game releases. From what I've been able to gather, it's the busiest month for point & click so far this year, and by a clear margin. Almost a new release every week.

I put together a rundown of all 13 upcoming titles, with quite a bit of variety: visual novels, (mostly) classic point & clicks, a couple of Spanish releases, and some small indie projects flying way under the radar.

Leaving it here in case it helps anyone plan their month or discover something new. The video has subtitles available in several languages, so feel free to switch them on if you need to. Curious to hear which ones caught your eye — I'm convinced there's at least one that deserves more attention than it's getting.

Gobliiins - community playthrough

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:31:09 -0700

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Now that's a proposition. Welcome to the (mostly) leaderless Gobliiins community playthrough! To keep things going, I'm making and updating the thread. Anyone can join at any point, feel free to discuss and ask for hints. When giving a hint, please use spoiler tags. We'll be moving on to the next screen after three days - you can still jump in and catch up, but the focus will be on the screen where we are at the time.

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The story follows three goblins on a quest to aid their king, who has had some mysterious mental health issues as of late. They wizard Niak claims he can cure the king's madness, if the goblins bring him three items. This is where we come in.

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Asgard/BoBo (Fighter): Physical strength, punches, climbs, general physical interaction with the environment.

Ignatius/Hooter (Wizard): Uses magic, often in unpredictable ways.

Oups/Dwayne (Technician): The most classic AG hero of the three, able to pick up, combine, and use items found in the environment.

You can click on the character you wish to control, or on the crystal ball in the bottom centre of the screen.

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Here's the first screen! A lot of this game is based on trying things and seeing what happens. Be careful, though.. some things cause harm. It is one of the tricky elements of this game, but it's also part of the fun.

New release: Who the F*** Ate Grandma?

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:55:34 -0700

Just found this indie point & click and the premise alone sold me: Grandma's 93rd birthday dinner, the whole dysfunctional family shows up, and at some point Grandma ends up served as the main course. Your job is to find out which relative ate her.

Developed entirely solo by LeJeanPatrick, hand-drawn pixel art, pitch-black humor straight out of the 90s classics.

I recorded a video showing the opening in case anyone's curious — Spanish audio, subtitles in English and other languages.

Has anyone played it yet? Any other solo-dev point & clicks worth checking out right now?

Missing file in "My Father Lied"

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:54:26 -0700

Hi all, after playing the game for quite a while, it wouldn't run. I got an error message from STEAM:

An error occurred while launching this game: missing game executable - C:\PROGRAMFILES (X86)\Steam\Steamapps\common\MY FATHER LIED\TheSearchFM291\Binaries\Win64\Binaries\Win64\ TheSearchFM291-Win64-Shipping.exe

The game ran smoothly until now. I inspected the installed files through STEAM. It stated that there's something wrong with 154 files. I uninstalled the game, restarted my machine and re-installed it - to no avail.

Any possible solution?

Solving The Kobayashi Alternative [MSDOS - 1987]

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:01:40 -0700

Hello everyone,

I am on a quest to try and solve Star Trek - The Kobayashi Alternative, a 1985 and 1987 adventure game. The 1985 version is super buggy garbage, and they released a 1987 version with improvements, which ... is still kind of buggy garbage. Also the MS-DOS version is way different from the Apple II version. This post is about the MSDos version.

I am interested in hammering out a walkthrough that can actually bring you to the completion screen. Ive gotten stuck however, and so I am coming here to enlist anyone who might be interested.

You can get the game as part of the pack from https://collectionchamber.blogspot.com/p...ntact.html

Here is my current command guide:
[f10, f1, f1], kirk to scott, lower screens, orbit planet 2, scan ornacraft
kirk to renner, prepare landing party, , deck 7,

[f4, f1], renner, beam us down, , can you help us,
[f5, f2], kirk to renner, beam us up, , bridge, up,

set course 2567.23762.24312, , lock torpedos on klingon, fire, lock phasers, fire, fire, fire
, deck 7, , [f2, f1, f1, f1], renner, prepare landing party, set coordinates 7000.7400, beam us down,

At this point the Rirder alien is correctly placed, and you can talk to him. However, all attempts to have Renner beam the Rirder out result in him not being able to find the object. I also cant seem to find a way past the fire of the spacecraft, not sure if I have to.

Another note, this is the bare minimum, its very possible that one of the other planets sets a flag thats needed for me to be able to beam him up. I am going to continue to try to do some of the other planets and see if that may be the issue, but I somewhat doubt it.

I welcome anyone that might have ideas or gumption to try and help solve!

Space Missions in Adventure Games

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:04:48 -0700

Has anyone else noticed that space missions in adventure games ALWAYS go wrong?

I've been thinking about this a lot lately, especially with Artemis II literally flying around the Moon right now. In real life we're finally going back after 54 years... but in point & click adventures, every single mission ends in disaster. The Dig, Mission Critical, Observation, Tacoma, Event[0], Analogue: A Hate Story — nobody comes home safe.

I ended up going down a rabbit hole connecting this pattern to Kubrick, Tarkovsky, Ridley Scott, and even Joseph Conrad, and it turned into a full video essay exploring why games have spent 30 years rehearsing space disasters while humanity couldn't even get back to the Moon.

The video is in Spanish but has subtitles in English, French, Portuguese and more.

Would love to hear what this community thinks — especially if there are space-themed adventure games I missed.

stuck in "My Father Lied"

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:22:21 -0700

Hello all I'm playing "My Father Lied". I'm currently stuck in a green room, which contains a desk, two filing cabinets, and four idols, one of them is tipped on its side. There is what seems to be a light-matching puzzle on one of the walls. I've checked every hotspot, but could not find any clue to the puzzle. The door is locked from the outside, which, according to a note on the table, is a logical possibility. I Have this nagging feeling that I've missed some essential info, or overlooked an important inventory item which could have helped me out.

Any suggestions?