Tag: Adventure

Dispatch doesn’t let you derail conversations with blank, vacant stares because ‘less than 1%’ of players ever chose to stay silent in Telltale games

Dispatch doesn’t let you…

Aaron Paul’s performance as Dispatch’s Robert “Mecha Man” Robertson III could hit a lot of notes. Robert could be…
‘We are definitely not doing QTEs’, said Dispatch’s creative director before doing QTEs: ‘We just needed it to not suck’

‘We are definitely not…

With the games we used to make , we were so conditioned to gameplay being a thing you…
Making Dispatch was motivated by ‘a mix of arrogance and stupidity,’ its creative directors say

Making Dispatch was motivated…

By just about any metric, Dispatch was a wild success. After launching at the tail end of October 2025,…
One of my favorite Daedalic point-and-click adventures is free on Steam, and a pile of others have been marked way down

One of my favorite…

Daedalic was widely viewed as the inheritor of LucasArts’ point-and-click adventure crown a decade or so ago, back when…
Peak releases a ‘temporary solution to the fall damage bug’ in the latest patch, but doesn’t have any new features: ‘Let us cook’

Peak releases a ‘temporary…

Developers Landfall and Aggro Crab are still shipping out minor and major fixes for the much-loved co-op climbing game…
Copyright trolling kept evidence of Japanese cult classic Cookie’s Bustle offline, until now

Copyright trolling kept evidence…

You may not have heard of Cookie’s Bustle. That’s partly because it’s an obscure Japanese point-and-click released by a…
More than 800 gamers took an exam to prove they could complete an ’80s adventure game without peeking at a walkthrough—and only 2 passed

More than 800 gamers…

There’s a good feeling when you earn an achievement in a game and see that fewer than 1% of…
The Drifter review

The Drifter review

Need to know What is it? A point ‘n’ click “pulp adventure thriller” with true grit.Release date July 18,…
Shadow Labyrinth review

Shadow Labyrinth review

Need to Know What is it? A Pac-Man Metroidvania, for some reason. Release date July 17, 2025Expect to pay…
‘Hi modders

‘Hi modders <3’: Peak…

They say the peak Peak experience is reaching the titular peak, but I’d argue peak Peak is falling from…