Tag: Adventure

A $5 Wikipedia-like mystery game consumed me for 2 straight hours as I dug for clues about a little town and its big weird tree

A $5 Wikipedia-like mystery…

Never trust a tree with a name like “Draken Oak”. That is the lesson I took away from Lost…
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…