Adventure games are the b-movie of the gaming world. In an adventure game, I look for a good mix of story, traditional gaming feel and atmosphere. This is a list of adventure games I enjoy and I would like to recommend to my fellow gamers.
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My favourite of the Monkey Island series, the game designers resisted the doomed jump to 3D and decided to go with a quirky, yet beautiful 2D art style. While not as nostalgic as the first two parts of the series, the game is filled with the series' trademark humour and quirkyness. An amazing story that takes you all over the archipelago, meeting bizarre characters and going to the oddest length to solve all sorts of crazy puzzles. Like the other games in the series, Monkey Island feels like a playful children's ghost story, wonderfully entertaining and entrancing.
An incredible game by adventure masters Lucasarts. Quirky puzzles and an amazing (web of) stories make this game incredibly entertaining. This may very well be one of the few adventure games who pull of time travelling without becoming too confusing or ignoring the causal implications of timetravel which would make it interesting in a puzzle-adventure game in the first place. The puzzles are rewarding and not too difficult. If anything, the difficulty is thinking around the corner (or around the time bend), which is fine and a very unique approach to adventure gaming.
More of the same, which is not always a bad thing. AOTD2 revisits the haunted mansion of the first game adding a few more touches of nice graphics and animation. The story is a bit more like a surreal ghost story, which is primarily owned to the aspect of a kindapped child and an evil clown featured in the game. Especially the ending of the game is quite bizarre but fits well into the canon the game is based upon (HP Lovecraft).
One of the greatest adventure game of all time. No game has inspired more adventure games in tone and theme. The Secret of Monkey Island kickstarted a fantastic series, featuring an amazing game world, characters, story and the typical Lucasarts puzzles which might be too quiry for gritty players but very rewarding if you're into it.
Like the movie, the PC conversion of the Blade Runner film owns lots to its appeal to the art direction and the sound department. Unlike many other licensed games, the game designers painfully recreated the feel of the game and it is a joy to roam the dystopian cities of the android-ridden streets of the future. On top of the fantastic presentation lies neo-noir flatfoot game which nicely balances searching locations, talking to characters and investigating clues. Some of the game's locations and situations still give me the goosebumps and I highly recommend this game to fans of adventure games.
One of Lucasarts best adventures, an amazing story and a very fascinating game world. A futuristic sci-fi game at its core, the story and aspects of science fiction are highly original and should interest both sci-fi enthusiasts as well as genre newbies. Unlike many other Lucasarts games, The Dig lacks the usual humour and quirkyness and is a very dense and intense adventure experience from beginning to start.
The second part in the infamous Monkey Island Series is as good and brilliant as the rest of the series. It is slightly more eerie and more difficult than the first part. One should have played the first game in order to enjoy the reference and narrative continuity of the 2nd part.
An incredible game which features a few RPG elements and action sequences. Yet, the game world and story is so fascinating, diverse and thrilling, the game plays like an adventure game at its core, and players will be more concerned with the background stories and developings in the game world than stats and other secondary aspects of the game.
A classic adventure which made the "haunted house" motif famous. A place infested with luncatics and a gang of teenagers going in ! The game had some odd mechanics, you have to choose three our of multiple game characters and only the right combination makes it possible to solve the game at all. The puzzles are not too difficult, just right. The game is eerie in a strange sort of way, it might be the graphic and odd sound effects, but the game still gives me goosebumps sometimes.
Based on Lovecraft's fantastic literature. Alone in the Dark is an adventure game which, despite some fiddly arcade sequences is as creepy as the classics get. The pace of this game is very well executed. In between fighting (or running) from Zombies, the players reads diaries and letters telling of the unspeakable horrors which took place in the haunted mansion. Did I mention haunted mansion ? Amazing game.