Dark half, the

The Dark half is an adventure game based on the horror novel of the same name by Stephen King. You play the part of Thad Beaumont who has an undeveloped twin inside him as the intro shows you. Years later Thad is a succesful novelist writing…

Igor: objective Uikokahonia

After the success of the Lucasarts adventures there were sure to be game that (tried) to follow in it's footsteps. Igor: object Uikokahonia is such a game and altough it's not a direct clone you cannot deny it's influence once you see the game…

Police quest 1

Anyone remotely interesting in games should instantly recognize the Sierra name and altough they make diverse game these days in the beginning it seems like they made only adventure games. Police quest is one of their adventure series and unlike…

Conquest of the longbow

Sierra was very famous in their early years for adventure games starting with King's Quest in 1984. By the time this game was released in 1991 their game engine had grown to a userfriendly point and click one with great music and graphics. In…

Return to Ringworld

Return to Ringworld is a sequel to Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch which was based on the bestselling novel by Larry Niven. In that game you, Quinn and a Kzin named Seeker of Vengeance and Miranda Rees, saved the puppeteers from extermination…

Jack the Ripper

If you're talking about adventures you usually think about a character walking around with a easy to use point and click interface and solving all manner weird and fantastic problems. Jack the Ripper is a very serious game though, you are the…

Once upon a forest

Lots of games are made from movies and also movies made from games, neither often turn out very well in the translation though. Once upon a forest was first made as a movie but I never saw it so I can't really judge it. The game is about a number…

Flight of the amazon queen

After all these years I still keep coming back to the old adventure games and flight of the amazon queen ranks among the good ones. Anyone who's played a lucasarts adventure like monkey island should feel right at home with the interface as…

Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of fate

The first legend of Kyrandia put you in the shoes of Brandon who was to be king. This time Kyrandia itself is dissapearing piece by piece and Zanthia, a young sorceress, is chosen to get the anchor from the center of the world to stop it from…

Zombi

George Romero is the creator of some of the most succesfull and wellknown zombie movies of all time. The most famous of which is probably dawn of the dead which was recently remade (very badly in my opinion!). This game has no official license…