Posted December 29, 2012
Indie games that keep the classic flame burning.
Two decades ago adventure games set the standard for the whole gaming industry. Sierra Entertainment, LucasArts, Cyan Worlds produced biggest and best-selling titles of the early 90s. And then it stopped. Was it the difficult switch to 3D games or pressure from action-oriented shooters and story-driven RPGs or maybe the rise of multiplayer-oriented games--can't really tell. The truth is, a lot of gamers stopped caring about adventures, even more publishers stopped releasing adventures, and millions of fans (like yourself) were left without new titles to enjoy. Today, however, adventures are making a comeback--big style--thanks to small independent studios that share the passion for point-and-clicks. For the next 24 hours, you can get seven fantastic adventures 75% off for only $19.93 in today's [url=http://www.gog.com/promo/assorted_indie_adventures]Assorted Indie Adventures bundle.
To the Moon is an indie adventure with lots of original puzzles and nostalgic SNES-era RPG aesthetics. The gameplay focuses on exploration of a vast world supported only by a dying man's fading memories. All of the interaction focuses on restoring and altering those pale fragments, filtering out the false ones, and--ultimately--allowing the patient to re-live a perfected version his live in his mind.
Stacking is a unique multi-layered and puzzle-packed adventure from Double Fine Productions--company founded by one of the greatest story-tellers of the gaming world, designer of Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, Psychonauts and co-designer of the early classics The Secret of Monkey Island, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge and Day of the Tentacle--Tim Schafer. And that's enough of a recommendation.
Wadjet Eye Games is a publisher that specializes in classic point-and-click adventures--so you can expect a well-written story, pixelated graphics, and this special feel that takes you back to the Golden Age of Adventures.The Blackwell Bundle is a fantastic collection of four old-school point-and-click investigative adventures with a supernatural twist. Gemini Rue takes you to a dark, bleak, and dirty futuristic noir world. Finally, Resonance is an atmospheric thriller in which four characters try to find a dead particle physicist’s hidden vault and prevent the new terrifying technology he’s discovered from getting into the hands of a dangerous organization.
Alternatively, if you're looking for something different, but artistically unique, brilliantly crafted, imaginatively realised, and fascinating to play, you should add Botanicula--probably the closest thing to that dream you once had you never wanted to forget because it was so creative and fun.
There's no better place for classic adventure fans than GOG.com, especially today, when
Assorted Indie Adventures are available 75% off.
Two decades ago adventure games set the standard for the whole gaming industry. Sierra Entertainment, LucasArts, Cyan Worlds produced biggest and best-selling titles of the early 90s. And then it stopped. Was it the difficult switch to 3D games or pressure from action-oriented shooters and story-driven RPGs or maybe the rise of multiplayer-oriented games--can't really tell. The truth is, a lot of gamers stopped caring about adventures, even more publishers stopped releasing adventures, and millions of fans (like yourself) were left without new titles to enjoy. Today, however, adventures are making a comeback--big style--thanks to small independent studios that share the passion for point-and-clicks. For the next 24 hours, you can get seven fantastic adventures 75% off for only $19.93 in today's [url=http://www.gog.com/promo/assorted_indie_adventures]Assorted Indie Adventures bundle.
To the Moon is an indie adventure with lots of original puzzles and nostalgic SNES-era RPG aesthetics. The gameplay focuses on exploration of a vast world supported only by a dying man's fading memories. All of the interaction focuses on restoring and altering those pale fragments, filtering out the false ones, and--ultimately--allowing the patient to re-live a perfected version his live in his mind.
Stacking is a unique multi-layered and puzzle-packed adventure from Double Fine Productions--company founded by one of the greatest story-tellers of the gaming world, designer of Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, Psychonauts and co-designer of the early classics The Secret of Monkey Island, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge and Day of the Tentacle--Tim Schafer. And that's enough of a recommendation.
Wadjet Eye Games is a publisher that specializes in classic point-and-click adventures--so you can expect a well-written story, pixelated graphics, and this special feel that takes you back to the Golden Age of Adventures.The Blackwell Bundle is a fantastic collection of four old-school point-and-click investigative adventures with a supernatural twist. Gemini Rue takes you to a dark, bleak, and dirty futuristic noir world. Finally, Resonance is an atmospheric thriller in which four characters try to find a dead particle physicist’s hidden vault and prevent the new terrifying technology he’s discovered from getting into the hands of a dangerous organization.
Alternatively, if you're looking for something different, but artistically unique, brilliantly crafted, imaginatively realised, and fascinating to play, you should add Botanicula--probably the closest thing to that dream you once had you never wanted to forget because it was so creative and fun.
There's no better place for classic adventure fans than GOG.com, especially today, when
Assorted Indie Adventures are available 75% off.
