A number of them have remasters and mechanically play as well as they did when released. The major LucasArts games are worth starting with. Great story and puzzles, without ever getting to obscure. Even though it's a recent entry this is maybe the best example of the classic point and click genre, and is developed by the creators of Maniac Mansion. Thimbleweed Park - a throwback to the good old days of LucasArts, while building in a lot of modern sensibilities that we've grown accustomed to in the intervening period. The puzzles (mostly) make sense, and especially in the case of DotT, there are several story/puzzle threads you can alternate between if you're getting stuck on one. The fun of these games is the satisfaction you get from solving a puzzle on your own, and it's more satisfying when you solve the harder puzzles and move forward again.ĭay of the Tentacle and Monkey Island 2 - LucasArts was the best developer of point and clicks back in the day, and these two are probably the best examples of their craft. Well designed adventure games generally have one or more clues somewhere in the environment, so it pays to just wander round talking to people and clicking on things if you get stuck. I'd recommend only using a hint system when you really get stuck. Getting stuck & frustrated because you didn't realize that you can click the rope in Grim Fandango at two seperate points is no fun. Point & Click games for me are all about getting through the story. Oh and given that point & click games are still very much about you doing the exact thing that the dev wants you to do, there's no shame having a guide at the ready.
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It also lets you draw crazy lines on a map to uncover ancient temples which feels like you're on some Da Vinci code shit. Like Gabriel Knight 3 might not be the best game, but it's among my favorites because i love how it's grounded in reality and how it gives me that french vacation vibe. I find that picking a point & click game is like 70% a gut feeling of 'hey i think this game has a neat style and i like the environment it plays out in'. Quite a neat niche they found for themselves in the genre. These games are often wordless and revolve around clicking objects on the screen a whole bunch to progress the story and solve puzzles while the characters are bugs, or robots or strange creatures instead of humans. Samorost, Botanicula, Machinarium, Chuchel. I'm about to play Kelvin & The Infamous Machine, so that might be worth giving a look as well.Īlso a shoutout to the Anamita games. I also heard some good things about Jenny LeClue - Detectivu. Oh and if you like horror, try The Last Door. Same goes for the Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav & The Dark Eye: Memoria. The two Book of Unwritten Tales games are quite good and have a fantasy setting. Wadjet Eye makes a ton of excellent pixel-based point & click games with relatively mature stories (Gemini Rue, A New Beginning, Shardlight, Technobabylon, Unavowed, The Blackwell games). The Raven has a good old timey Agatha Christie vibe to it. Double Fine's Broken Age was a decently fun game as well. The Next Big Thing is a more current game that's worthwhile. Grim Fandango has a fantastic style (A few puzzle annoyances though).
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I quite like the Gabriel Knight series especially 2 & 3. Westwood's Blade Runner is a cool game Vinny is currently playing through. The Monkey island games are evergreen with it's silly characters and humor.
If you use the Epic Game Store, you might have grabbed Thimbleweed Park for free. So i found that often the best way to see that stuff is by just watching a silent playthrough on youtube. I don't think Space Quest, Police Quest & Tex Murphy hold up all that well from a playing perspective (given that point & click games often require you to do the 1 exact thing that the game wants you to do and these games tend to have some annoying failstates) but those series are still worth seeing through.
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