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Demo for Closer Than You Know is here now on Steam

Demo for Closer Than You Know is here now on Steam

Fantastical hand-painted adventure promises a cozy, family friendly point-and-click experience in 2024... Read more

Unboxing the Mind of a Cryptic Killer, Parallel Lab detected on Steam

Unboxing the Mind of a Cryptic Killer, Parallel Lab detected on Steam

Noir-styled, co-op timed escape mystery puzzlers coming in 2023 following browser-based developer launches... Read more

Maelström Legacy: The Tesla Mystery creating sparks on Kickstarter

Maelström Legacy: The Tesla Mystery creating sparks on Kickstarter

Demo available for upcoming hand-drawn mystery puzzler inspired by Professor Layton and Ace Attorney... Read more

James Peris returns in The Fountain of Eternal Drunkenness on Steam

James Peris returns in The Fountain of Eternal Drunkenness on Steam

Follow up to 2012 point-and-click cartoon spy adventure called available now for download on Windows PC... Read more

Station 117 unlocked on PC and mobile devices

Station 117 unlocked on PC and mobile devices

First-person mystery puzzler from Glitch Games set on the Pacific seafloor available now for purchase... Read more

illucid comes into focus on Kickstarter

illucid comes into focus on Kickstarter

New interactive FMV mystery from the creators of The 13th Doll targeting a summer 2024 release... Read more

The Game Maker revealed as next Carol Reed adventure

The Game Maker revealed as next Carol Reed adventure

Eighteenth installment in MDNA Games' indie mystery series coming to Windows and Mac on January 1st... Read more

First glimpse shown of Last Time I Saw You

First glimpse shown of Last Time I Saw You

Narrative adventure melding "a first love and a terrible curse" coming to PC and consoles in 2024... Read more

The Dumbing Down of the Adventure Genre

The Dumbing Down of the Adventure Genre

Adventure games are getting easier, but is that a good thing or bad? On this topic there's no easy answer, as our discussion this week will show. Bonus top fives: franchises that would make good adventure games... Read more

RE:CALL to be distributed on Steam for PC

RE:CALL to be distributed on Steam for PC

Demo available for time-altering visual novel-style adventure from the creator of Evan's Remains... Read more

Christmas Quest freeware trilogy - The gift that keeps on giving

Christmas Quest freeware trilogy - The gift that keeps on giving

Download and play not one, not two, but three free fun-filled holiday-themed games from Hotspot co-creator Jack Allin and the staff of Adventure Gamers... Read more

Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island on horizon for PC in 2023

Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island on horizon for PC in 2023

Sandbox “friend ’em up” adventure game on a sun-drenched island of Greek gods unveiled by the creators of Röki... Read more

The Isle Tide Hotel set to open in spring 2023

The Isle Tide Hotel set to open in spring 2023

Live-action interactive mystery from Interflix Media and Wales Interactive revealed for PC, consoles and mobile devices... Read more

Listen up: Evidence 111 ready for collecting on mobile devices

Listen up: Evidence 111 ready for collecting on mobile devices

Interactive audio mystery with voice cast led by Rosamund Pike available for iOS and Android... Read more

The Stone Cutter and the Mountain Spirit lands on Steam

The Stone Cutter and the Mountain Spirit lands on Steam

Isometric hand-drawn interactive fairy tale available now for download on Windows PC... Read more